Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-30
RIOTOuS STRIKERS.

The Street Railway Strike ut st. Louis
4 Causes Serious Kiot-One Man Fatally
stabbed and Many Others Badly Injured
Further Trouble Feared.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct. 9.-Late last night
some strcet-car strikers tried to stop a Blue
Line car on Pine street, near Eighth. A
| general row followed their attempt, in
| which the passengers, conductor and driver
were forced to act on the defensive, and
in the free-for-all fight which ensGed
| James Mackey, II of the striking driy-
ers, living at 2727 Ohio avenue, was fatally
stabbed in the abdomen. NO one appeared
to know just who did the cutting. This
occurrence seems to have caused a panic
among the street-car managers, for no
sooner was it reported than all cars were
run into the different stables, and the im-
mense crowd which wished to come down
town to see the parade was forced to walk.
Several accidents occurred during the day
N the Cass avenue line owing to the awS-
wardness and lack of presence of mind on
the part of new drivers. One car collided
with a hanson OH Cass avenue, but without
car collided with a heavy rock-wagon and
had the front platform demolished. Two
passengers were injured in the collision,
but not seriously. At 1870 O'Clock
another Cass avenue car, crowded
with passengers. was going at a
rapid rate north on Seventh, when,
Just before it reached Morgan street, a car
of the Citizens railway started to cross
Seventh. The driver of the Cass avenue
car lost his head and pulled in his horses,
but forgot to put on the brake, and the two
cars anne together with immense force,
both being thrown from the track. The
Cass avenue car was badly damaged, and
the otter car somewhat used up. The man
ayers of the lines are doing the best they
can under the circumstances, and are ell
gaging all of the men they can get to run
cars. no
The riot lasted fully twenty minutes, the
police with rare self-control and presence
of mind not using their pistols, but depend
ing solely on their muscle and their clubs.
The result at the end of the shindy was
that seventeen of the strikers were landed
penSary with cracked skulls and serious
scalp wounds, while probably fifty were
sent home with painful Commissions and sore
heads.
A little before midnight another riot oc-
CURED on the lire OF the B%ellefontaine
Street Railroad. The company had got
fifteen cars down town and loaded them
wifi people anxious to get home from the
center of the town, where they had wit
messed the trades pageant. A mob stopped
the cars, detached the horses, compelled
the people to get out, and then ditched the
cars. Most Of the cars We're badly dam
aged. The crowd scattered before the po-
lice reached the scene.
There is a feeling OF uneasiness in police
and official circles, and it seems to te the
general belief that there will be more
serious trouble before the affair is settled.
The disorderly element among the strikers
is coming to the surface, and the strikers
themselves are very ill-tempered.
At a conference Of the city authorities
last night it was decided to swear in two
hundred special police for duty to-day at
dangerous points. The committee of the
knights of Labor say the strikers had nc
hand in to-day's riot. that the railroad Off
Gals provoked an attack from some hood
lums to win public sympathy and throw
O6ium on tho S1ril,arc