New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-02
Cars, Depots and B. r. T.
Employees Attacked in
Series of Fights, but
Few Arrests Are Made
POlicenen Hurt as
Trolleys Collide
Raiders Hurl Volleys of
Stones; Passengers Pro.
tected by Wire Screens

Strikers began to display an ugly
temper yesterday as the service on the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit lines improved
Cars, depots and B. R. T. employees
were attacked, boy was killed in the
course of riot in Coney Island and
several strikers were arrested.
The CoQey Island riot occurred about
2:3O p. m. A dozen or fifteen strikers
having learned that strike breakers
were quartered at the West End de-
pot, gathered In front Of the building
on Surf Avenue and began to stone it
Several windows had been broken
when the crowd Of spectators rushed
the strikers.
vigorous fight was in progress be-
tween the people who had been de-
prlved of their train service and the
men who had deprived them of it when
the reserves arrived from the Coney
Island police station. At sight OF
these reinforcements. the strikers
broke and ran, several of them nurs-
ing cuts and bruises.
Crowd Chases Fugitives
The crowd dispersed to chase the
fugitives, two of whom we're singled
out by detectives, who pursued them
into a photographers shop on the
Bowery and caught them. Both men
bore marks of having been in a fight
put there was nothing else to connect
them with the stone throwing, and
after questioning them the police let
them go.
A considerable crowd still remained
in front of the West End Depot and
man was pointed out to the police
as. one who had threatened a strike
breaker with revolver. Four detec-
tlves started for this individual. a
throng of one thousand or more surg
ing across Surf Avenue behind them.
In the onrush Of the crowd a bow
about thirteen Years old: was pushed
In front OF an automobile and knocked
Gown: He was taken to Coney Island
Hospital, where he died in half an
nour. The police believe that he lived
IN the neighborhood and are trying to
identify him.
The man who is said to have -four.
ished revolver escaped in the CON
fusion: Alexander Corsari, of 1902
New York Avenue, Brooklyn. owner and
driver OF car said to have run over
the boy, was arrested.
West End Trains Held Tn
Strikers stopped the West End
trains about 10 p. m. by stoning them
as they passed through cuts as they
mad done Tuesday night with the Sea
hcach line, when they injured two men
80 severely that their death is cx.
pected. No one was hurt by the stones
thrown last night. but the motormon
gantlet. '"'
:, Another trouble center was in the
"a cay Kidge district in the vicinity Of
harms at Third Avenue and Fiftv.
eighth Street. station of the Fourth
Avenue subway block away and onlv
q few blocks distant, at Fifty-frst
street and Fourth Avenue, is the head
quarters of the strikers for South
Brooklyn. 'O'"
"A motor truck crowded with strikers
drove up to the car barns early in tho
afternoon and it's occupants began a
.. rdment of the place. Patrolman
EDWARD Fltzsimmons, Of the Fourth
Avenue police station, tried to dispense
the attacking party singlc-handed, and
was MT on the head with stone.
Lawrence Ralcy, 1921 Forty-hrst Street.
f nrooKlyn' was arrested, charged with
ieionlous assault. His arrest was the
signal for renewal of the attack.
The strikers finally were driven off
many of them with cut heads. nv
strong arm squad under Sergeant Shcr-
idan. '00
Early in the evening about 400
strikers collected at the Fifty-eighth
Street station of the Fourth Avenue
subway. 1t was thought that they in
tended to rush some of the trains as
they pulled in, and two swift motor
cars titled with police fastened to the
spot. The strikers refused to disrcrsc
and the police charged them with night,
sticks swinging. Five of the strikers
required the attention Of an ambulance
surgeon. None was arrested.
The uproarious conduct of strikers