Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-05-19
RI0TOUS STRIKERS
Shoot St. Louis Policemen and
Railway Employees.
The Mob Cuts Trolley Wires and
Tears Up The Tracks.
House Of Delegates Threat ems 10 Revoke Street
Railways Franchises.

st. Louis, Mo, May 1S.-At a mass
meeting of street car employees, last
night, at the West End Coliseum,
resolution was adopted calling on an
labor unions and sympathizers to qult
work in support of the street car men
strike and unionism, and a circular
was addressed to the public giving
history of the strike.
Last night, a riot call was turned III
from 2lst street and Franklin avenue
A crowd Of 1000 persons gathered III
the three blocks on Franklin avenue,
between 18th and 22d streets and ooo
men and boys who were at work cut
ting trolley wires and tearing up the
track and street They were cheered
on In the work by the others, many or
whom were women and girls.
Policemen charged the crowd ana
managed to disperse them. No Vio-
Ience was. offered the officers, though
Numerous threats were indulged in.
TAt a late hour as a car was passing
Grand avenue and Kossuth street. 1t
tvas stormed by a mob. Citizens on
the car opened fire with revolvers on
the mob. 1t could not be learned
whether any OF the bullets had taken
effect
Patrolman Burton was shot in the
head, today, by unknown persons while
rltIing on Jefferson avenue car. He
viii recover. Disturbances occurred at
d number of points along the lines of
the Transit Co.
j. Richards, q motorman who came
fere from Cleveland. was shot and
probably fatally wounded at Laclede
and Grand avenues. A policeman who
was on the front platform with Rich
ards when he was shot, was dragged
from the car and severely beaten.
The conductor suffered similar fate.
The mob, which numbered 1000 per-
sons, then stoned the car. John Ficks,
an employe of the Transit Co.. was
shot at Prairie and Easton avenues.
This afternoon, a crowd gathered at
Fourth and Morgan streets, upset a
wagon containing coffee and lunch for
the nom union men. There were no po-
lice in sight AS result of efforts to
open it's system under police protec-
tton, the Transit Co, at one time to-
day, was running 164 cars on it's vari-
ous lines.
The House of Delegates, this after
noon, passed the bill to revoke the
franchises of the various street rail-
way companies in St. Louis in case
they failed to run their cars in COM
pliance with the terms Of the city ordi-
nance.
Obstructions were numerous and
when the men left. the cars to remove
the barriers. they were made the tar
gets for stones. bricks and pieces of
iron The cable of the South street
railway was cut.
John Kenna. a saloon keeper in Gra-
toit street, was probably fatally
wounded, tonight, in a riot at the
south end of the Fourteenth street
bridge.
Kenna had been drinking hard and
as car approached, he drew a revolver
and attempted to shoot the motorman
but missed his mark. He then began
shooting at the conductor and Special
Officer Hollingsworth. The officer
jumped from the car and he and Ken
ma exchanged shots.
Patrolman Henry T.. Bartan was
shot on a jefferson avenue car while
acting as a guard. A few stones were
thrown and then several shots rang
out. The officer received scalp
wound from a bullet. A number of
men in houses near where the shooting
occurred were arrested
General Manager Baumhoff appeared
discouraged. today over the conditions
prevailing. 1T is very disheartening, -
said he ito see how little protection a
big corporation can obtain for it's prop
crty''
All negotiations between the strikers
and the Transit Co. have been termi-
mated for the present at least.