Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-09
Lively Riot i'm st. Louis.

Lively Riot i'm st. Louis.
STREET CARS HURLED FROM THE TRACK AND
DEMoL1sHED-BLooDY FIGHT BETWEEN THE
POLICE AND THE MOB.
violent crisis occurred in the st. Louis
street car strike last evening. A dispatch to
the New York Tribune says: "About O'Clock q
mob of 10000 people gathered in Pine street,
between 9th and 10th streets, and in less than
ten minutes twenty street cars were wrecked,
and the drivers and conductors fleeing for life.
Four lines of cars run in the Pine street tracks.
This afternoon an attempt was made to run
cars over them. Several hundred new men had
been engaged. The cars were sent out rapidly
! until Ave or six on each line reached the Pine
street termini. When the first car started on
the return trip and reached 9th street num-
Der of hoodlums stopped the mules, cut the
gai i off: The driver was Knocked
down, fell over the dashboard and was run over
the top Of an incline, was given a push and
sent flying toward the bottom. It jumped the
| track before it had gone half way and tumbled
| over into the ditch. The next car was treated
| in the same manner, except that the driver
and conductor escaped without injury. The
mob had by this time filled the streets so that
walking was impossible. The windows and
the fare registers were broken with flying
bricks Four more cars were treated in sim
struck one another with terrific force and
| ten of them were so badly telescoped that they
| are utterly useless. 1t was only by the greatest
effort that some of the crowd saved the 'scabs,"
as the strikers called the new man.
AS Superintendent Sculler, of the Union depot
line stepped ON one of his wrecked cars, small
man darted out of the crowd and struck him a
blow on the side OF the neck that feled him as
if he had been shot. Sergeant OF Police Ryan
saw the act and caught the man, who made
desperate resistance The sergeant was assisted
by two more officers, but the mob closed in on
them and bloody fight occurred. The prisoner
was knocked down three times and two of the
officers were hit with bricks. They fought their
way through the mob for a block, knocking men
down right and left, and finally got their pris-
tn a q
Another effort was made to rescue the prisoner
at the box, but after half q dozen heads had
been laid open the mob retreated.
Meanwhile the abandoned cars had been rid
died with rocks and several attempts had been
made to set them on fire. A platoon of police
arrived and tried to clear the streets, but found
the job difficult one. Hand to club fights oc-
arrests were made. The officers stood guard
over the cars and sent word to the stable to
have them taken away. A number of extra
teams were sent to the scene, but the men re-
fused to get on the cars, fearing violence Frank
+. Blair, jr., drew huge Colts revolver, jumped
on the front platform of the first car and, with
pistol In one hand and the lines in the other
Mayor Francis was on the scene and saw q
portion of the fight. He narrowly escaped
being hit with q brick, and issued orders for q
detail of two hundred policemen to patrol the
streets in the neighborhood. The plate-giass
windows in Mosers hotel were smashed and
The mob, driven from Pine street, scattered
along 7th street and dismantled two Cass ave-
nue. cars beating the drivers and conductors.
The police followed and arrested more men
than they could convey 10 the station. They
finally succeeded in dispensing the mob.