The sun., 1919-08-08
CAR STRIKERS TURN
TO USE OF VIOLENCE
Policemen on Trolleys Stoned
and Loyal Employees "
Are Beaten.
SYMPATHIZERS ASSIST
Several Persons Seriously In
jured-Cars Wrecked and
Rails Distracted.
SYMPATHIZERS

Cars were wrecked. motormen and
conductors beaten and policemen stoned
by strikers and their syinpathizers yes
terday during day OF turbulence and
violence In which several persons were
seriously injured. The temper of many
Of the B. r. T. strikers was ugly, and
while most Of those who took part in
the violence contented themselves with
putting distractions on the track, others
went further.
The most serious disorder Of the day
occurred in the afternoon at Third ave-
nue. and Twenty-seventh street, Brook:
Ign. Here several hundred employees
Of James Shewan Sons. ship build
ers, gathered in sympathy with the
strikers. When a street car with two
policemen aboard It reached the crowd
sticks, stones and epithets were hurled
In riotous confusion. while the mob
swirled about the car. preventing Its
passage.
Realizing the danger the two police
men tried to rush the several B. r. T.
men into store, where they could
stand Off the mob. The motorman be-
came panic stricken under the shower
of missiles and tried to savo himself
by running. A shouting mob pursued
him toward Fourth avenue. He was
knocked down repeatedly, but climbed to
his feet again and again and dashed on,
wildly hunting for safety. Finally he
dashed into an apartment house, but
was pulled out into the street again.
beaten and left unconscious. Four men
later carried him away before his name
could be learned.
Firearms Are Discharged.
During the fighting several shots were
fired by members Of the mob. and
spectators assert one man was brought
down. No body has been found. One
of TIE B. r. T. men was taken to the
Samaritan Hospital in critical condi-
ton. This man, Henry Dorheimer, an
| inspector. Sc years old, was beaten and
struck repeatedly with stones. His
skull may be fractured, his nose is
broken and his body is gashed by
stones.
| A truck load Of steel Orders was cap
tured during the riotins and the girders
were laid across the tracks, stopping
the cars. After the fighting was over
wrecking crews cleared them away.
During the mixup the two policemen
| likewise suffered. but put up a hard
| fight Patrolman Salvatore Menucci was
hurt by stone and the left wrist OF
Patrolman Louis Nessan was broken.
| E, In another melee early in the after
noon six. Gates Avenue cars. which
started from the. Fresh Pond station
with two policemen apiece on board,
were attacked by mob OF strikers
The windows of the cars were smashed
and they7-were partly wrecked. They
were hauled back to the barns.
To tell the story OF the riots in de.
tail would be a monotonous repetition
of the general facts that cars came oui
of the barns, proceeded on their way til
wrecked, mobbed. or held up by OBJ
structions on the tracks. and then went
back again. At the Ninth avenue cal
barns three policemen declined to &c
out on cars, saying they had been or
duty thirty-slx hours straight and were
exhausted. AS the day progressed more
and more B. r. T. men yielded to the
threats or entreaties of the pickets anc
turned in their cars