Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — RIOT IN CLEVELAND. [ARTICLE]

RIOT IN CLEVELAND.

STREET CAR IS BLOWN UP WITH DYNAMITE. Nine Passengers Injured, Two of Whom May Die- Mobs Attack officers and the Nonunion Crews—State Militia Is Called Ont. Cleveland was quiet Monday morning after a riotous Sunday. Mob violence continued throughout the city from Saturday night to late Sunday night. Troops A, mounted; naval reserves, and several companies of the Fifth regiment, infantry, O. N. G., were kept busy scattering mobs. One missile throxver was shot while trying to escape from a policeman, but with all the rioting there was little harm done. Sunday night it became serious. The worst incident of the lawless night was. the blowing up of a Euclid avenue car in the far east end. Nine people were injured. It is believed nitroglycerin was used. Motorman Dreggers was blown from the ear, and one of his ears was blown off, but he managed to catch the car again and shut off the current. About twenty people were on the car. Women who were not hurt fainted. The car was badly damaged. Fred Smith was blown into the air, then fell into the holes made in the floor, and was dragged along a considerable distance. It is believed a couple of men who approached the spot in a buggy a few minutes before the explosion left the nitroglycerin on the track. A private detective saw them and said he knew them. Mob violence broke forth with great fury on Button street, near Trent street, Sunday morning. About 10 o’clock the mob, which numbered 2.500 people, attacked two cars with stones. The cars were incharge of Patrolmen Moore and Thorpe. The police left the cars and the mob closed in about them. The officers fought with their clubs. but the fury of the rioters was too much for them. They were badly bruised, when a Catholic priest was seen elbowing 'his way through the crowd. He finally reached the police, and standing before them and the mob. commanded the rioters in the name of the church to save the lives of the men. The flowing robes <>f the priest and his brave act awed the mob. The officers were then taken into St. I’rokops Church. Their brave rescuer was the Rev. Father Weuceslaus.