, 1885-10-10
SHOT DEAD.
Street Car Strikers Having a
Time in st. Louis.
One of the Strikers Killed by a
Policeman.
Death of Cardinal McCloskey
This Morning.
SHOT DEAD.
The st. Louis Strike.


ST. LOUIS, Oct. 9.-Thc situation re-
garding the strike of the street car ,men,
present no marked changes from that of
yesterday, but there is a feeling of great
uncertainty, and expectation of further
violence. All of the lines are running
some cars and several of them doing full
service.
The quiet of the morning hours was
not continued long, as about noon the
strikers began to assemble in knots in
various parts OF the city, and things pre-
sented an ominous appearance. The first
riot occurred on Chouteau avenue road,
and several cars were dumped into the
gutter aud the drivers and conductors
severely handled. The next big crowd of
strikers attacked several cars at the Union
depot line, on Twelfth street bridge,
within a square of the four courts and
police headquarters. The drivers and
conductors were badly beaten, one conduc-
tor being rendered insensible. The strik-
ers were in such a hurry to tip over the
cars that passengers were not allowed
time to get of. and two ladies were badly
bruised, on the Twelfth street bridge,
while leapIng from a car which the strikers
bad already tilted in the air. Mayor
Francis, and Chief Of Police IIarrigan,
with a squad of police, arrived on the
bridge later and made some arrests, the
rioters dispensing suddenly.
About ? p m. a riot broke out on Cass
avenue, the crowd extending from Ninth
to Fourteenth street. At least a dozen
cars of Cass avenue line were laid in the
cutters between the streets named by the
mob. All conductors and drivers were
thumped pretty badly and the teams
turned loose on the streets. Shortly after
this, another riot occurred on the tracks of
the Union line, on O'Fallon street. near
Tenth, one block south of the location of
the Cass avenue route. Here the cars
were turned about and the widest excite
ment prevailed. The two crowds were in
close proximity and o united, some
two or three thousand people filling the
adjacent streets and preventing traffic. In
a few moments another mob began to
overturn the cars of the Lindell railroad
on Eighteenth street and Washington
avenue, and here, too, immense crowds
gathered. Up to $50 p. M, nobody was
reported very badly injured, but serious
tronble may occur at any time.
LATER PARTICULARS.
The first really serious event, and one
involving loss of life, occurred about 8
O'Clock this afternoon on Stoddard avenue.
One Of the cars of the Union depot line
was coming up the avenue in charge of
Policemen Grifiths and Harmon, and
when near Hickory street it was surround
ed by some fifty men who began to cut
the harness and make other demonstra-
tons. The officers twice ordered the men
to deslst, but they paid no attention to
the command and assaulted the officer
with sticks and rocks. Harmon was
struck with a rock. and Grifiths was
knocked down by John Hovey. While
the latter was beating Grii6ths Harmon
drew his pistol and shot him in the head,
killing him.
Avery bitter feeling exists among the
strikers on account of the killing of Hovey.
The act is denounced as a deliberate muir
der. The executive board of the Knights
Of Labor sent a committee of six men to
visit the president of The railroads, but
they reserve the result. The police board
at IN executive meeting tonight ordered
800 special policemen put on duty to-
morrow.