The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-07-17
STREET CAR DYNAMITED.
Four Passengers in the Car and
Two of Them Were Badly In
tured an st. Louis.

St. Louis, July 13-The citizens
committee, of which John t. Wilson
is chairman, is actively engaged pro-
curing signatures to a petition urg-
ing that the street railway strike be
settled By arbitration. Several hun
dred signatures have already been Sc
cured. Nearly every person approach
ed has expressed his preference for
settlement of the strike by arbitration.
Attorney General Crow, on behalf
of the minority stockholders of the
Southern Electric railroad, has filed
suit to annul the purchase of the
Southern Electric railway by the St.
Louis Transit Co. The case will be a
test one, and if it wins will break up
the entire deal by which the st. Louis
Transit Co. was organized. The suit
is brought in the interest of certain
minority stockholders.
ST. Louis, July 14.-General Man
ager George w. Baumhoff, of the st.
Louis Transit Co., gave out a signed
statement in reply to the published
charges made by the strikers in which
the latter charged that Baumhoff had
violated the agreement entered into
on July 2. General Manager Baum
hof denies that he violated in the
slightest degree the agreement be-
tween the strikers committee and the
Transit Co. He says he has strictly
adhered to that agreement and en-
deavored to act fairly with the strik-
ers at all times.
Two thousand solicitors, engaged
by the trades and labor unions to
canvass the city and collect funds for
the striking railway mems bus lines,
began work. Chairman Blackmore,
who is in charge of this work, re-
ports that contributions are coming
in rapidly, and he expects to have
busses enough in a few days to meet
the demands of the sympathizing pub
lie. Buses are now running on sched-
ule time over three divisions of the
Transit Co. line and are being well
patronized.
The imported men now at work for
the Transit Co. are becoming dissat-
ment have been made by them against
the company. Fifteen men who came
from Baltimore to st. Louis in May
left the city for their eastern homes.
Tney claim that they found conditions
in ST. Louis different from what had
been represented, and that the Tran
sit Co. failed to keep certain promises
made to them.
The executive committee reported
that a delegation of the present en-
ployes of the Transit Co. had waited
on it and stated that 1000 men would
quit at once if the union would pay
their transportation to their respect
i've homes.
ST. Louis, July 16.-As a Union line
car on the Lee avenue division of the
Transit Co. was passing the intersec-
ton of 22d street and Bremen avenue,
at IL o'clock at night, the wheels
struck charge of dynamite, which
exploded with terrific force. The car
was blown from the track, the floor
ing and sides were rent asunder and
all the windows demolished.
There were four passengers on the
car, two of whom, Edward English
and MOllis Shire, were so badly in
jured that they had to be taken to the
city dispensary. The others, although
badly shaken up, were able to go
home. The explosion was by far the
worst that has occurred on the St.
Louis Transit Co.'s line since the be-
ginning of the strike.