The sun., 1909-06-29
PITISBURG STRIKE ENDED
MAYOR MAGEES THREAT TO
SEIZE LINES EFFECTIVE.

Company Grants All OF Mems Demands
Except the Privilege Of Drinking In
Uniform, and That Is to He Arbitrated
"A Day OF Rloting and Blootlshesi.
P1rTsBURa, June 28.-At 1890 tonight
through the efforts Of Mayor William A.
Maeee the strike OF the street car men
was adjusted and they will return to their
cars at 5 A. NJ. after having been Of Just
forty-eight hours.
1t is apparently complete victory for
the men. Every point was conceded by
the company save that Of drinking when in
uniform even though OF duty The sn77:.
had claimed that a man had the right to
drink If he saw fit after his days work
was done. but this was denied by the COM
pany, and a motorman caught drinking
after his days work was discharged.
This question will be submitted to
arbitration.
The company agrees to reimburse a
motorman laid oiI six days for not assist
ing in clearing a wrecked wagon Oh tho
track TO make better schedule. DO.
The streets are filed with jubilant street
car men rejoicing over the victory. 1t Is
conceded that the Mayors threat to seize
the street car lines caused the settlement.
This was a day Of disorder though no
effort was made to turn wheel. There
was succession of small riots. and one
at the Rankin barns proved serious. 1t
was battle between strikers and fourteen
county detectives who were conducting
strike breakers. Perhaps fifty shots
were fired. rocks thrown and clubs used
John Rondo. strike sympathizer, had
his right ear torn from his head by a
bullet. James Lappa. q striker. got a
bullet through his left arm that shattered
the bone. John s. Englert, county
detective, was clubbed and beaten by
strikers; his condition is serious. Richard
T. Brown, a county detective. was kicked
and beaten into insensibility by the
strikers; he is confined in the McKeesp ort
Hospital.
In addition to these another score OF
injured limped away or were helped away
by friends.
The battle occurred on a high bridge
spanning the tracks of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad at Rankin. eleven miles
from Pittsburg. Rankin is the head
quarters Of the river division Of the Pitts
burg street railways. Englert. who was
in charge OF the detectives and the strike
breakers. took them Off a Baltimore and
Ohio train and would have hurried them
into the car barns by the way OF the via
duct bridge. but he was stopped in the
middle Of the bridge by about 800 strikers
and sympathizers. while about 200 brought
up the rear. surrounding the detectives
party Of about fifty.
Throw thenovsr. irillthefn. kill theml'
howied = I'D Eas!ss* cs!lss! On
his men. who pulled their guns and held
them whsfe they could be seen.
.I'll blow the brains out Of the first man
who tries to touch any one Of this party!'
shouted the big detective just as he went
down, hit by half brick hurled over the
crowd. With the blood streaming from
a bad cut over his eye Englert was up
Just as his fellow detectives fred volley
over the heads Of the mob. This called
forth a yell OF Iderision and answering
shots from the mob in front. None Of the
detectives party was hurt by the shots.
but il is said that half a dozen OF the
strikers who formed the rear party were
hit.
The strike breakers who had come with
the detectives managed to break their
way through the crowd at the back while
the detectives fought their way through
a. l. t. f<,t tte,h ha
Nor was this the only demonstration
made by the strikers to-day. A crowded
car on the, Pittsburg, Harmony. Butler
and New Castle line was held up at the
city limits in broad daylight, the strikers
pi!ing logs ON the track to derail the car
il it did not stop. The strikers refused
to let the car, which does not belong to
the Pittsburg Railways Company, enter
the city over the tracks OF the Pittsburg
lines. Strikers piled on the car and made
all the passengers. about seventy-hve
in number. get of in the mud about eight
miles from the heart Of Pittsburg.
riot call was hurried into Pittsburg and
Capt. Ford OF the mounted police with
twenty officers galloped to the scene
and found only lot OF stranded pas
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car and brought 1t into Pittsburg them
selves. flying a white flag in order that 1t
might not be fired on by other strikers.
Strikers also attacked large wagon
loaded with lumber in the vicinity OF the
Homewood barns to-day under the belief
that the lumber was to be used In erect
ing quarters for strike breakers. They
unloaded the lumber and set fire to II In
the street after beating the driver badly.
Two deaths have been attributed TO
the strike. Late last night Mrs, Mary
yelling was overcome with nervousness
and fright while being hurried to her
home in an automobile to see her SICK
son and died an hour after being taken
from the automobile.
William B. Allen. aged 90 years. was
run down by q train at Coraopolis to-day
and killed while returning from taking
his sons dinner to the mills. For years
the old man had been taking his sons
dinner by the trolley line, but he had to
walk to-day and met death
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