The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-05-25
THE ST. LOUIS STRIKE.
Not More Than One-Third of the
Cars Are in Operation.
A Policeman Shot and Killed and n
Little Boy Badly wounded
in st. Louis.

81. LOUIS, May E2.-One boy was
killed and three men and a girl were
wounded as a result of the strike
The dead is Martin Zika, IS years old
struck in the left breast by a bullet
fired from a street car.
The wounded are: Clarence E. Null
len, motorman, shot in upper portion
of left arm; Minnie Kruger, Is years
old, struck in left thigh by a CHANGING
bullet; two rioters, seen to fall dur
ing a fight at 18th and Herbert
streets between a mob of $50 men and
the police.
The four persons wounded were all
injured near a fight which occurred al
$3.50 o'clock at the intersection OF
18th and Herbert streets The riot
was lively while it lasted, fully 1OO
shots being fired.
st. Louis, May 23.-B. Z. Kilgore,
an old employe of the ST. Louis Tran
sit company, and non-union man,
was shot in the back by an unknown
assailant Tuesday forenoon, and seri-
ously hurt. 1t is expected he viii re-
cover. Kilgore, who has been a
switchman for the transit company
for some years, was walking on Arm
strong avenue, when two shots were
fired from behind him. One bullet
struck him in the back. He walked
to the pOwer-house of the road and
from there was sent in a buggy to
the hospital.
ST. Louis, May 24-Renewed riot
ing and another fatality marked the
progress of the strike on the ST.
Louis Transit Co.'S system.
a Cass avenue car was stopped at
the corner of Twenty-third and Cass
avenue in order that a barricade,
which had been placed across the
track, might be removed. During
the enforced halt a big crowd of
strike sympathizers attacked the car,
firing number of shots One of the
bullets struck Special Policeman Nc
Rae. who was riding on the front
platform with the motorman in the
left arm, passing through his body
and coming out on rhe right side. The
policeman sank unconscious to the
floor. Other patrOlmen who had been
stationed at the corner to protect
the cars then charged the crowd and
beat them back. \ riot call was sent
into the Ninth district station and a
dozen mounted policemen came at
full gallOp to the scene. The com
blned forces soon restored order.
McRae died later at the dispensarv.
Eddie MANI, years old, was shot
through the leg by man on Cass
avenue car. The little boy was sitting
on the front doorstep when some
small boys who had been throwing
stones at west-bound Cass avenue
car ran up the alley south of the
house. a man who is supposed to be
an emergency policeman leaned out
from the car and fired a shot at the
boys.
The first car which has been run at
night since the commencement of the
strike was sent over the Park avenue
line in charge of Is heavily armed
guards, and was run without lights.
The car attracted a crowd at the cor
ner of Park and Mississippi avenues,
and the men on board fired a number
of shots, slightly injuring two specta-
tors.
r. b. Hodge, a conductor on the
Tower Grove line, is a patient at St.
Johns hospital, suffering from iniu-
ries which, it is feared, will prove ia
tai. He was assaulted by a crowd of
men on his car at the crossing of Sa-
line street Tuesday afternoon. One of
them struck Hodge over the head with
a club, inficting an ugly wound. While
some of the crowd held him Others
seized the mOtOrman, II. L. Kobusch.
and stopped the car. Then Kobusch
was dragged from the car. Emerren-
cy Policeman Dunn, who was detailed
on the car, attempted TO interfere, but
four men surrounded and disarmed
him. Several of them struck him in
the face. The assailants knocked
Hodge down and kicked him until he
was unconscious. Kobusch and Dunn
eluded the crowd and ran across the
open field to the power house, two
blocks away, where they obtained the
aid of squad of police.