Evening star., 1916-09-12
"Green" Motorman Runs New
York Trolley Off Track; Two
Dead, Thirteen Hurt.
q" CARS ARE BOMBARDED
WITH BRICKS AND STONES
Union Leaders Claim Many Subway
Men Join Ranks-No General
Sympathetic Walkout.

NEW YORK, September 12.-
The first serious accident of the
street railway strike in this city
occurred early today when a troll
ley car of the Union Railways Com
pany in the Bronx, operated by
green motorman, got beyond
control on steep grade, and,
jumping the track at a curve,
crashed into two jitney busses,
killing two persons and severely
injuring thirteen others. Four OF
the injured may die. The car
crew was arrested pending inves-
tigation.
y Night Of Riot.
After a night of intermittent rioting,
motormen on the 6th and 9Th avenue
elevated roads reported to the police
that they had been fired upon by strik-
ers from roof tops. Third avenue ele-
waited trains were repeatedly lombard
ed with bricks and stones from build
ings. One passenger. a woman, was
struck on the head and seriously in
jured. Five arrests were made.
The congestion on the subways and
elevated roads today was even more
pronounced than yesterday, due to the
fact that there was little or no service
on the surface lines of Manhattan and
the Bronx. Not a car wheel moved in
the Westchester cities of Yonkers,
Mount Vernon and New Rochelle.
Union leaders claim hundreds of sub
way and elevated employees have joined
the union within the last twenty-four
hours. Traction officials maintain that
all their employees who signed the
master and servant" contract re-
manned loyal.
No General Strike Sought.
Hugh Frayne, state organizer of the
American Federation of Labor, insisted
today that general walkout by all la
Dor unions was not being considered.
He said the present plans of the leaders
contemplate calling out unions closely
allied to the striking railroad men.
John T. Riley. chairman of the Inter-
national Longshoremen's Union, de-
zation. numbering between 5000 and
10000. are voting on the advisability
of declaring a sympathetic strike.
Frayne said that if a sympathetic
not involve more than $4,000 workers
In this class he named engineers fire.
men, longshoremen and teamsters
Strike Not Mitigated.
In other respects the strike situation
today showed no mitigating features
Every trolley car in Manhattan and the
Bronx remained stationary last night
Service was resumed this morning on
only fraction of normal schedules
The Interhnrough Rapid Transit Com
pany maintains that subway and ele-
waited trains are running regularly
The strikers declare they have made
inroads in the ranks of the companys
motormen.
AS a result of limited service on sur
face lines. elevated and subway trains
are crowded. The suburban service of
the New York Central and the New
York. New Haven and Hartford rail-
way systems is congested.
Violence continued as the day went
on. Strikers and sympathizers halted
surface cars and set upon the crews
of trikebreakers when the latter re-
fused to desert their posts.
Strikebreakers Make Complaint.
Nearly one hundred strikebreakers
most of them from Chicago and Bos-
ton, appealed to Mayor Mitchell and
the public service commission, claim
ing that none of the promises made
when they were engaged had been
kept. and that they were virtually
prisoners in car barns. They alleged
that armed guards prevented them
from leaving and that wages due them
were not forthcoming.
The mayor promised them police pro-
lection in their efforts to collect wages
Engineers Indorse Strike.
NEWARK, N. j., September 12-The
International Union Of Steam and Oper-
ating Engineers, in biennial conyen-
ton here today. adopted a resolution
indorsing the transit strike In New
York city. Labor leaders active in the
situation there addressed the conven-
tion here yesterday.