The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-20
Fall to Reach Agreement on
Terms Of Settlement.
EIGHTEEN RED
During the Rioting of the Past
Twenty-Four Hours.
One Girl Run Over and Decapi.
tated by q Car.


Cleveland, O., May 2o.-Continua-
tion< OF the unsettled conditions Of the
local street railway strike for at least
"a hours Is the result Of an all night
meeting OF the members of the state
board OF arbitration and the officials
OF the Municipal Street Railway COM
pany. together with the leaders of the
union. The conference adjourned
shortly after, o'clock this morning
without an hour for reassembling No
announcement was made on behalf of
either side of the controversy.
After night marked by the most
violent. conditions since the strike was
inaugurated, five days ago. the police
and county officers began prepara-
lions to protect the socalled nonunion
crews of cars and the public that had
the courage to ride.
What was reported to be the final
conference for peace Began in the
company's offices at 1 o'clock after
the members of the state board with
high labor officials had spent two
hours going over matters that devel-
oped at an earlier meeting. 1t was
hoped that an agreement might be
reached. The points of difference,
however, were too great. The discus
sion was extraordinary and animated,
being the question of seniority of po-
sition in the event the strikers should
return to work.
Because Of the riotous actions of
last night, wherein eighteen persons
were injured, some perhaps fatally,
the cars early this morning were lily
patroniZed. Buses and other vehicles
continued to ply on the various lines.
Daylight brought with 1t, however,
courage, and as the police force was
strengthened the people began to use
the cars.
The majority of the violence, so far
In the strike, has been done during
the night hours and consequently it is
believed by the authorities that, unless
something Is done to reach a settle
ment of the dispute today may witness
a repetition of the dynamiting out
RACES.
A patrolman found fully a hundred
big dynamite caps scattered along the
car tracks at Bridge avenue and West
Forty fifth street at o'clock this
morning. The caps were placed so
close together that they would have
struck them. Fifteen minutes later
he found a bottle of nitroglycerine ly-
ing in the gutter at Bridge avenue and
West Forty-third street.
Leaders of the street railway mems
strike opened their campaign, of pub
licity last night with three open air
meetings. These meetings are to- be
held for several nights in all parts of
the city and the public Is to be told
the strikers side Of the controversy.
era5 List of Injured.
Following is revised list of in
jured in yesterdays rioting:
Yetta watkins on, run over by car.
head severed from body. -
Shot at Lakewood riot:
j. M. Gray, motorman, Lima, Ohio,
shot in leg; p. c. Elsholz. Municipal
company guard, shot in back; Joseph
M,n
in back; George Alexander, Municipal
company guard. shot in chest; Harry
Burlingame, finger shot of; unknown
man shot in calf of leg; unknown
man, shot in leg, taken away from
crowd by friends.
Injured in other disorders:
E. H. Newman, Wade park, motor
man; attacked by ten men on Lake
view avenue and beaten about the
head, suffering conclusion Of brain
may die.
Alfred Musser, conductor OF car
which killed girl on Woodland avenue,
badly beaten about head by crowd.
Mrs Mary Chopinski accidentally
struck on head with club in hands of
policeman dispensing crowd.
Albert Stolder, jumped OFF Madison
avenue car when rioters threw stones
and fell under wheels and had right
| leg amputated.
Mildred Hurlburt, neck lacerated by
wadding from dynamite cartridge, ex-
ploded under Detroit avenue car at
Lake avenue
Charles Brady, conductor, badly
beaten by crowd which attacked
Woodland avenue car.
M F. Moore, jaw broken by stone
when crowd attacked woodland ave-
| nue. car
| The most serious violence occurred
persons were wounded by bullets, one
car was burned and another partly
| wrecked. Trouble had been antici-
pated and the first car run into Lake
wood on the Clifton avenue line car
| ried no passengers. When 1t stopped
| before a railway bridge a crowd which
| had been lying in wait leaped from
| behind the bridge and opened fire on
James and John Swanto returned the
! fire. Over thirty shots were ex-
| changed.
Car Burned on Track.
While the shooting was in progress
the crowd grew to nearly thousand
| Another car arrived and its crew and
| guards Joined in the fight. Gasoline
| was poured upon the second car and ii
was burned to the trucks. The Cleve-
| land police were notified and sixty
officers were sent to the rescue: The
frst car. riddled with bullets and win
dows broken, proceeded to the cal
harm. Motorman p. c. Elsholz was
shot in the leg, John Gray and George
\ ALEXANDER, guards on the second car
were shot in the chest and Mace Bur-
lingame, who was in the crowd which
made the attack, was shot in the hand
An earlier disturbance occurred in
the down town district when Yetta
/ Wilkinson. a little girl, was killed by
a woodland avenue car while she was
| attempting to cross the street. Her
death is said to be due to the inexper-
| fenced motorman being unable to con-
troll the car. AS soon as he realized
what had occurred he speeded the car
several blocks ahead where the police
were notified. The conductor had left
the car and sought refuge In nearby
i drug store. The crowd attempted tc
reach him while others attempted tc
catch the fleeing car and assault the
motorman. The police arrived just In