New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-10
RIOODSHED IN ST. LOUIS.
THE STRIKE UPHELD BY A VIOLENT MUD
osr R1orER KILLED BY PoLlCEMAN sl.N.'-,,,ne
PERSONS HURT-ARMiN' i''N
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CT Iou1s. Oct. 9.-Never SINCE inc uaSS oOt
o. 80, 81 Louis been in such state OF eNci,einGn'
Is" n"s o t,,o now The city is under moo ruio'
sno suS ' aontinped at intervals last nlgh- rn'S
INC -. 80 ware demolished At ten minutes P"' ,.
SUI ,,,s morning mob attacked htteen ca" y" S
" " ,r,aine une ditched them III Nut ,nns
,,,,u.aye and smashed the wihuo"s ""s ndorod
re aa. were turned completely over "nu na lines
80 ~ AZ 10 o'clock this morning SUM SUM ~ 80 -, tho
usei00' nm cars again. The entire pohce ioi'o -. "
began 10 r" .d On the business district to prevent
city va" :, bo riotous scenes Of last night "Hei t"o
ar'P' ,orred this they went 10 tho S'
biIA' -, % the cars were sent out seizeu '"'..
"D' o. ,hen, from tho tracks Four ours "" 80 ond
ui0" ,ro we're taken at the iTwet'h o'ree' sara
Dopos ~ aov. an embanknent Two large uou0IV
. cnonteau Avenue Line were trea'eu !"
manner TIE police pursuou INV
.,o in capturiug the leaders ot
eeeuou rl ira cedy of the day occurred al p n "'
Inc "''. "a stoddardave. Every car sent ou' ny 'no
~ ~Ii0AO -, lime was guarded by three poiloe'H0n
-. .'n,e mentloned car No. 46 han n'ieu WIN g.,
~, ~ ond guardcd by two policemen aPPio"e"'N =, =,
,,or NJ the above streets, going north' Wv"
arv men stood at the corner anu "no" i,oa ona
~ ls ,oc,,v opposite made an attack on tno 'uio aD
wa" w. ont the traces and were lashng the muies
,, omcer Griffith who was on the front pia''o'm
- ,rockcd down with stone. orhcer h"nuO"
oo op the rear platform, ran 10 tne ao,e -,
Crtn,h He saw q man standing over "ii''
~ ,he Ground Harmon placed the muzze Oh us ~ W.
yor against the back of the mans head anu ni0u
rioter fell dead. Griffith jumped up anu oo'A 49,
a,ied their reyolvers into the crowd wouhuihs WV
@ rhe hody of the dead man was taken tothe
,o where IL was Identified as tn"'
~ John Hevey abIicRlayer. io ""e
oaoa IoorIn, velldressed, young fellow, and never
,rorl ell ON street car, was he eohhecleu '"! '
with the strike The mOrgue was soon Surfounu'u ~
r,oh Of 900 people and threats of the most Viooh.
character were made against the police squ"N
notice nuder Sergeant Muller charged upon tno 0.o"1
-, s,a- us,ng their clubs indscrminateIy' tneS
oIaared the thoroughfares. Tho wounded men were
taten charge OF by their friends and their haSs 0'"
not be learned o,,,-,,o. .. rear
About l:3O D. NJ, mob gathered in OFaiions''' n."
Eleyenth-st, and stopped the first car Oh inc d
,nt went west in OFaon-st ordering the or'er an"
VS., ,o,or IN rot off This order promptly ooeyeu
Th GERS were given barely tiwe to get OH Mo
the car was upset six cars In succession sno @ 'H0
sou,e fate The scene in the neiShoorhoou VI
:, hstween Tenth aud Fifteenth SITS. was ono VI wa"
avcitement Women hung out OF all the "ih"o" u ~
houses before the wrecking began, shouting 10 the
:. ,b.v went along "Get off those cars, you uli'! '
and scabs" 49,. .,o,r ,ars ran
dawn IN. tracks aud warned the men who were
,,o not 10 90 up OFallOn-st or they "oulu Uo
As consequence. blockade OF cars occuIleu VI '0
Tp,ou Line in sxth-st, near Carr. Inc ponce "n"nS
arrived and arrested ten members o. 'he i4o' y" WV
charge OF roting. ~, ,.,. 1tno
,os hru,anv assaulted in the O'FalOn-st fight HIS
.,nI was bady fractured He was carried away 'hSeh
snIo in an ambulance and he is probably fatally ln
iured 49,, ,,,
william Jackson guest at the Southern Hotel, cniei
,er Of the Arlington Hotel, Hot Springs, was fdhs u
tb O. ~ friends
car this morning when the riot occurred lie was
struek in the Jaw with and had the bone Dau'y
fractured and the sido OF his face mashed.
p.tveen l and o'clock WashngtOnave., between
Seventh and Tenth sts was the scene OF great o1eo
ment. Amob formed in Ninth-st. Car No. o. oil the
Iiudcn Railroad. completely tulheu o'el uh ITO
sde There were several ladies in the car ana IL was
,od over so suddenly that one of them
cams near being thrown with II. Inc
conductor and driver managed TO escape from the car ID
time TO avoid injury. No less than ten cars "ee put "
the track and the police had all they cOuld 40 10 nun"
arrests The third district patrol wagon ares'eu Ioui
of the supposed strikers who overturned the cars Al
Sixth and Locust mob began 10 form arouhu "n0
Of the cars which about TO turn nor'h Dut lac
nrop work Of the officers prevented the car from Ocns
uolested Several were arrested.
Tue BeefOntanc LEe did not run any cars uhtll num-
all the morning having been spent IN getting Inc proAcn
cars TO the stables and repairing theu An alacA was
made on those which started anu t"o-hoISo O"i ~ "
the glass broken out OF side In several OF these
cars the ats were broken and III two the cash boxes
were broken open and the contents stolen car over
u,ed at Eleventh and Hubert sts. set on lire, hut
the flames we're extinguished by police ohcer before
much damage was done one Of the drivers received
two blows one face and the other III the back OF
the neck
At o'clock rumor spread through the
city that the various Socialist organizations
would Join the strikers. The Mayor Immediately sent
for Governor MarInaduke who in the city, and re-
0uesed him TO meet Board OF Police
at once at the Four Courts state Labor Commissioner
Kotchltszy, Adjutant eneral JaInson and lead
iug business men were also invited the conference,
which held with closed doors. II was decided TO
suppress the procession Of the Mackerel Brigade
night and a proclamation was issued calling for 800
volunteers special policemen 1t decided
not to call the militia because Of the fear that ts
would bOodshed. AL citizens who desired to re-
spond to the call for volunteers requested to meet
at the -Four Courts at tomorrow. The strikers
arc arming Tonight and not single car is rnning
the lines affected by the strike.
This morning meeting OF the representative mer
chants OF the city held at the OF the Merca-
tile Club for the purpose Of deyi:ng means to put an end
10 the strike and the rioting. Major e. G. Ranwater
presided, aud the sentiment Of the hundred men who
present that the blockade which doing con-
Siderable damage to the city should be raised once
committee was appointed TO lueet the knights Of
Labor tomorrow morning at 10 O'clock and hear toe
complaints OF the strikers, and then meet the railway
officials and hear their views. Tue committee was i-
structed TO Induce both sides make The
members Of the committee are Joseph FRANKLIN L. M
scrigcs. James specht y. o. Nelson, w. b. Thompson
Charles Bum A. g. Mermod, L. B. Ripley. Ii. ghady
Henry c. Yaoger, the best-known miller in in the
Southwest, hit by stone in tic O'Iallen.s fight
and his jaw was broken.
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