Home / Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, April 20, 1900: "TWENTY-SIX ARRESTS. Military Authorities Busy in Vicinity of Strike. CROTON VALLEY'S LIVELY DAY. Sheriff Molloy Secures Thirty-Two Warrants—Houses Searched For Ammunition—Italians Quieter and Many Leaving Their Homes to Avoid Trouble." Public-domain newspaper dispatch from Croton Landing covering the mass-arrest operation that broke the 1900 New Croton Dam strike. Transcribed verbatim by Jeff Paine at https://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2023/01/twenty-six-striking-dam-workers.html / Passage

TWENTY-SIX ARRESTS — Military Authorities Busy in Vicinity of Strike

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, April 20, 1900: "TWENTY-SIX ARRESTS. Military Authorities Busy in Vicinity of Strike. CROTON VALLEY'S LIVELY DAY. Sheriff Molloy Secures Thirty-Two Warrants—Houses Searched For Ammunition—Italians Quieter and Many Leaving Their Homes to Avoid Trouble." Public-domain newspaper dispatch from Croton Landing covering the mass-arrest operation that broke the 1900 New Croton Dam strike. Transcribed verbatim by Jeff Paine at https://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2023/01/twenty-six-striking-dam-workers.html 334 words

The other 19 were marched into the Croton Landing depot, where they boarded a special train for Tarrytown, whence they were taken by trolley and lodged in the jail at White Plains, where they will have an examination today. They were escorted by the sheriff and his men surrounded by Separate Companies A and B of Yonkers and Mt. Vernon respectively under command of Major Denike.

The Mt. Vernon and Yonkers companies have broken camp. In addition to acting as an escort for the prisoners the men will attend the funeral of their late comrade, Sergeant Douglass, at Mt.

Vernon today. Shortly after the arrests were made on the Bowery four strangers appeared on the scene and visited the saloons, of which there are quite a large number in that quarter. They harangued the men gathered there and advised them not to return to work.

It was generally stated that the men were anarchists from New York. One of them who was on crutches stayed around the Bowery during the afternoon and the other three went to Little Italy, where they repeated their harangue. Just what effect their arrest will have on the other strikers remains to be seen, but that many of them have fled may influence the others to do likewise or else return to their work.

Very little work was accomplished at the dam, and only four additional laborers were working with the 30 which are quartered at the works. The troops still show a clean bill of health with the exception of a couple of cases of tonsillitis, and appeared to much better advantage owing to the change in the weather, as bright sunshine has taken the place of rainstorms of the two previous days. Ended in a Riot.

NEW YORK, April 20.--A meeting of 200 representative Italians held a meeting at the Hotel Colombo on Bleecker-st. last night for the purpose of discussing some reasonable methods of settling the Croton dam strike, but the meeting ended in a riot.