New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-20
Women Hurt in Bat
tie of Strikers in
Broadway.
SUBWAY TRAINS
ARE BOMBARDED
Theatre Crowds Take Part
in Fight-Service
Halted.

Rioting BY strikers and their sym
pathizers became so serious last night
that at 10 o'clock the Third Avenue
Railway system stopped service on ITS
orosstown lines and ran all cars into
the barns. where they were placed un-
der heavy guard. Before this was done
the rioters had obtained such command
OF the situation that Captain Under
hill. of the West Forty-seventh Street
station, asked for additional reserves
to handle the mobs.
Seventy-fve patrolmen were rushed
by automobiles from districts in the
neighborhood Of Police Headquarters
making a total of 500 men on riot duty
in the district bounded by Sixth Ave
nue. and the North River and Forty
second and Fifty-ninth Streets.
Strikers Stone Passengers.
Five hundred strikers and sympa-
thizers, armed with bricks and clubs
attacked a Fifty-ninth Street cross
town car at Fifth Avenue. and broke
every window. The car was crowded
with passengers, who fought 10 get to
the street. Many were struck and
slightly injured D. bricks and stones
and crowds Of strikers boarded the car
snd tried to drag the conductor and
motorman from the platforms. Pa
,rolman Kcepler battled with tho mob
until reserves came to his assistance
and arrested George Mccarthy. Of lo5
Madison Street. a striking motorman.
Earlier in the evening crowd
boarded north-bound Lexington
Avenue car at Eighty-hrst Street.
During the excitement Miss Elsie
Brain. Of 3S7 Himrod Street, Brook
lvn. tainted. Police fought the strikers
Of. but another crowd attacked the
same car two blocks further north. In
this trouble Mary Lyers. of III East
Eighty-fourth Street, was hurled 70
the pavement ana cut her face.
The crews and patrolmen on the
last cars operating on the forty-sec-
ond and Fifty-ninth Street crosstown
lines had to fight their way through
,crowds OF strikes who hurled bricks,
iron bolts and stones. Miss Anna
Pollock. of 722 Park Avenue, Weehaw-
ken. y. j.. was struck by an iron bolt
hurled by one of the rioters. Patrol
man Murphy ordered the car run at
full speed TO the Tenth Avenue barns,
where the girl was removed TO the
Polyclinic Hospital. Her breast was
lacerated.
Paving Stones Hurled.
Stones from the subway excavation
were hurled through the windows Of
a car which was surrounded by strik,
ers at Broadway and Forty-second
Street. Paving blocks wrapped IN
newspapers were also hurled. Patrol
man Johnson, doing guard duty on one
of the cars, jumped into the crowd
beat back a hundred men with his
nightstick, and arrested Dennis Bren-
nan. Of 368 East Seventy eighth Street.
"A striking motorman.
Crowds emerging from the thea
tres. hotels and restaurants MIN
gled with the strikers, and for
half an hour the battle ragged
for bloCk on eltneI eIuc VI VI :?
second Street. Reserves from the
West Forty-seventh Street station
found Patrolman Johnson fighting a
crowd that surged back and forth and
swept him with hail Of bricks and
stones. backed up against subway
tiosk and holding TO his prisoner with
one hand while with the other be
cracked heads and shoulders with his
nightstick.
Police Club Rioters.
The rioters roamed throughout the
district between Third Avenue and
Eleventh Avenue and from forty-sec-
ond Street to Fifty-ninth Street. Re
serves from the West Forty.seventh
Street station were sent in quick sue
cession to Ninth Avenue and Fifty
sixth Street, Ninth Avenue and Fifty
ninth Street, Eighth Avenue and Fifty
third Street. Eleventh Avenue and
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