The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-10-10
Mobs Take Possession and Overturn
the Cars,

ST. LOUIS, October 9.-The quiet
of the morning hours has not con.
tinued: as about noon the strikers
began TO assemble in various parts of
the city and things presented au
ominous appearance.
First riot occurred on the Choteau
avenue road where several cars were
dumped in the gutter aud the drivers
and conductors severely handled.
Next big crowd of strikers at
tackled several cars of the Union De-
pot line on the Twelfth Street bridge
within square Of the Four-Coprts
and the police headquarters
The drivers and conductors were
badly beaten, one conductor being
rendered inscnsible. The rioters
were In such hurry to tip over the
cars that the passengers were not al
lowed time to get out, and two ladies
were badly bruised on the Twelfth
Street bridge while stepping from
car which the strikers had already
tilted in the air. Mayor Frarcis and
Chief OF Police Harrigan, with a
squad of police, arrived on the bridge
soon afterwards and made some ar
rests. The rioters dispersed sullenly.
About o'clock this afternoon a
riot broke out on the Cass avenue
line, the road extending from Ninth
to Fourteenth street, and at least q
dozen cars of tho Cass avenue line
were laid in the gutter, between the
streets named, by the mob. All the
conductors and drivers we're thump-
ed very roughly and the mules were
turned loose on the street.
Shortly after this another riot oc-
CURED on the tracks of the Union
lines on OFallen street near Tenth
Here the cars were tossed about and
the widest excitement prevailed.
The mobs were in close proximity and
the crowd soon united, some two or
three thousand people filling all the
adjacent streets and preventing traf-
fic.
Ina few minutes another mob be-
gan 10 oyertnrn the cars of the Lin
dell Railway company on both that
street and Washington avenue, and
here to an immense crowd gathered.
Up to 2:30 this exening nobody Is
reported as very badly hurt but Sc
rious trouble may occur at any time.
The first really serious, event and
one involving the loss of life, oc-
Cured about Q o'clock this evening
on Stoddard avenue. One of the
cars of the Union Depot line
was coming up the avenue In
charge of Policemen Gritiith aud
Harmon and when near Hickory
street was surrounded by some fifty
men, who began to cut the harness
and make other demonstrations,
The officers twice ordered the men
to dcsist, but they paid no attention
10 the command and assaulted the
officers with sticks and rocks. Han-
non was struck with a rock and
Griffith was knocked down by q man
named John Hovey. While the lat
ter was beating Griffith, Harmon
drew his pistol aud shot him In the
head, killing him. The body of
iiovcy was taken to the morgue and
Harmon went to the hcad-quar-
tiers and reported the affair,
aud was placed under ar
rest. There is a difference of
opinion AZ to whether the shooting
was justified, but the weight of the
ttbtlllbug bo ihi 10 Ia Ills iuNois ttoNtr
was q uricklayer but has been driving
car on the Lindell road of late.
Four of the rioters in the Twelfth
Street bridge affair; four of tho Chau-
teau avenue gang; five of those who
upset cars on Washington avenue,
aud six of those who stopped cars ON
OFallon street were arrested this
evening and locked up. The prisoners
were quite defiant, but when they
found they would be con-
fined in the hold-over and
not released on bail they cooled down
aud were IN no docile.
WIN. jackson, chief Clerk of the
Arlington Hotel at Hot Springs, while
going TO this fair grounds in Cas-
avenue car was struck by arock dur.
ing the riot and had his jaw badly
fractured.
Henry @. Yaeger, n prominent citi'
zen was also struck In the face with q
rock and received severe wound.
THR LATEST.
None of the reads involved In the
strike are running cars tonight, they
having suspended operations as d
precautionary measure. They viii
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