Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-28
DERAILED CAR KILLS
MAN, INJURIES EIGHT
IN NEW YORK STRIKE
Accident Results From Effort of
Union Railway Company to
Run Cars in Defiance
of Walk-out
CARS SENT DOWN HILL

NEW YORK July ga fatal accident
in which one man was killed and eight
injured resulted today from the efforts OF
the Union Railway Company to run trolley
cars in defiance Of the strike which has
crippled service in Westchester County and
spread down to the Bronx section of New
York city. car manned by strikebreak-
ers and guarded by policemen was derailed
on fremont avenue and crashed into an
IL" pillar near Boston road.
b. Horn, n strikebreaker whose address
Is unknown, was the motorman on the car.
He was crushed to death. The two police
men on the car were badly bruised and
two Of the other strikebreakers were taken
to Fordham Hospital in dying condition.
Just as the last injured man had been
taken from the cars debris, three other
runaway trolley cars plunged into the
wreckage They had been stopped on hill
when Horns car was derailed and in some
manner the brakes were released, permitting
them to run downward. The police suspect
strike sympathizers of having started the
cars
FEAR FURTHER RIOTS.
Anticipating fiercer rloting today than
marked the struggle of yesterday, police
officials sent additional men out on strike
duty today. They were instructed to pre-
vent any efforts to interfere with the cars
that the company tried to run.
In the meantime union leaders held n
the advisabitty of calling out all union men
in New York city. The radicals advocated
this move Immediately, but the c0nserva-
tives advised otherwise.
Ten thousand sympathizers of the strik-
ing troleymen blocked Third avenue near
10th street last night, greeting every pass
ing street car with a shower of stones and
bricks and spreading terror among the
strikebreakers.
SO great did the menace become that at
o'clock Sheriff ]. f. O'Brien. of Bronx
County ordered Harry Darlington, super
intendent of the Union Railways Company
to stop all traffic operations at o'clock
The Sheriff issued the orders at the West
Farms barns He said he would call out
900 deputies IL necessary to enforce them.
Captain Lantry, of the Morrisana police
station, had fifty reserves scattered along
Third avenue after o'clock last night, but
although they welded their clubs continu-
ously, they were of little avail in preventing
the strikers and their sympathizers from
wreclling half n dozen cars and smashing
the windows and pummeling the crews of as
many more. Twelve arrests were made.
Attempts of the railway company to
operate it's cars with strikebreakers resulted
late in the afternoon in the first serious
accidents of the strike, in which two men
one a patrolman and the other strike
breaking motorman--were so seriously in
jured that they may die
ELEVATED TlE-UP.
simultaneous tie-up of every elevated
surface and subway line in Greater New
York and parts of Long Island is the weapon
which organized labor let 1t be known to-
day it is determined to attempt to use to
enforce it's fair and reasonable" demands
against traction companies, should less radi-
cal measures prove Ineffective
With all surface car traffic in the Bronx
suspended by order of Sheriff O'Brien. the
traction strike situation suddenly leaped
as the result of series of closely related
developments yesterday, into one which was
generally regarded of utmost gravity to the
business and comfort of New York
Police Commissioner Woods notified both
strikers and employers in the Bronx strike
zone that they must Immediately dispense
with the services of gangsters. The police
fear that hiring of gunner of all sorts and
belonging to scores of different gangs" will
lead to a reign of terror.
Woods turned down a plea from the
Union Railways Company that uniformed
policemen be detailed to ride on the street
cars and protect the strike-breakers from
violence. He ordered two lieutenants, three
sergeants and 65 mounted patrolmen, with
squad of 13 motorcycle policemen detailed
TO travel alongside all street cars in the
strike zone, to preserve order.