The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-05-24
AT ST. LOUIS
SEVERAL CASUALTIES ROCKED BY
THE POLICE.

j 4 5
An Attempt to bring About Another
Conference Between the Company
and IFS Employees Fails Rocks
and Bricks Thrown by strikers
and sympathixers and q Number
of Shots Fired - Several Persons
Fatally Injured ~ BuIlets-Ob.
structiona Plnccd Upon the
Tracks Frequently, Impeding
Trailic.
st. Louis, May 20 There was no
formal conference yesterday between
representatives Of the striking street
car employees and the st. Louis Tran
sit company, although President Haws,
Of the board Of police commissioners,
! tried to get the two parties to the
strike controversy together in still am
other meeting. He consulted with c.
b. Edwards, chairman of the grieV-3
arce committee, and with Benjamin
IL. Clark. the attorney of the strikers,
in the morning. And as a result Mr..
Edwards sent q letter to Nv liam
Whitaker sllgg ggssting a conference. In
response Mr.. Whitaker said he was
willing to meet the committee at any
time. Mr.. Edwards then suggested
that the next proposition come from
the company, and the response was in
effect that the company had no3fufther
proposition to make, standing on the
offer Of Thursday rejected by the
Sstrik f Y
Rioting broke out afresh yesterday
in various parts Of the city and
Several Casualties
Of Il severe nature were recorded on
the books of the police department.
AT noon q crowd of 400 or more men.
women and boys congregated along
Iaclede between Grand and Theresa
SayenLes. and stopped the cars as they
approached by means of obstructions
piled or the tracks. AS the cars came
to a standstill rioting began, persons
in the crowd commenced throwing
rocks and some shots were fred. One
of tie bullets struck j. Richardson. a
conductor, in the head. A special Of
fcer on one of .he cars was dragged
off and badly beaten, his club and re-
YolYer taken from him, and several
other motornen and conductors as
saulted While the turmoil was at its
height a detail Of police came dash
ing up and charged the crowd. They
struck right and left but they had
no clcw as to who was responsible for
the shooting. " Richardson is probably
Fatally Wounded.
On the Bellfontaine line obstructions
Were numerous. and when the men
left the cars to remove the barriers
they were made the targets of the
strike sympathizers who pelted them
from windows and housetops with
rocks broken bricks and pieces Of iron.
The employees ON the Easton avenue
cars had another rough day of it.
Their cars were pelted at street cor
ners near the western terminus and
also along Franklin avenue and Nor &
gar street. In one place the strike
sympat athizers blocked the track with q \
dead horse No sooner did the street
car employees remove the carcas than q
hundred willing hands grabbed it and
dragged 1t back to the track, Traffic
was obstructed until the police ar
rived and made the crowd disDerse.
DISTINCTIONS were numerous along
The California avenue and Tower
Grove lines and the cars, passed
through several showers of stones and
bricks 8 IA
sS Traffic Impeded.
I Traffic wass frequently impeded by q
piles of rocks, lumber. etc, along the
Market street and Chouteau avenue
ines and every now and then stray
rock was hurled at the passing cars.
Two imported employees of the Transit /
celf pany We're shot while in charge Of
street cars. In neither case is the as
sailallt known. Guy Fickes OF De
,atur. Ill. was shot through the thigh
ii Twenty first and Morgan streets, at
30 O'Clock yesterday afternoon. He
was employed as "a special guard by
he company, and was on one of the
Easton avenue cars at the TIME the
shooting occurred. Shortly after noon
.hree cable cars started east from the
oower horse of the Fourth street rail-
way on Eighteenth and Park avenue. Il
Att Fourth street and Choteau avenue NJ
he cars stopped and upon investiga-
ion it was found that the cable had
been cut.
sympathetif Strike Likely.
AT d meeting Of 100 heads of labor
lnions, called last night, 1t was re-
solved to recommend to the controlling
central bodies that sympathetic
strike be inaugurated to-day Of all the
abor unions iii st. Louis.
Escaping Prisoner KILLED.
San Francisco, May 20.--A. G., Ber-
ylm. a military prisoner at the Pre-
;idio was shot and instantly killed
yesterday while trying to escape with
several other prisoners. The guards
,rdered the men to halt but Bergun
continued his run for clunlp Of
woods and was lust on the edge of the
hicket when he was shot. the bullet
,assing through his hand and another
through his lung.
May Cause Oscars Abdicatfon.
London. May 90 The Stockholm
of the Daily Press says:
run or is abroad here in Dro-Boer
ircies that King Oscars declaration