Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-06-20
FIRE ON STRIKERS.
Four Are kille d in an En- cOuntcr with
the SheriR's Posse-List Of
the Victims.


the Victims.
st. Louis, June 11.-Sunday was one,
of the. most eventful and bloody
since the great strike on the St. Louis
transit began more than month ago.
There were numerous encounters be-
tween strikers and other riotous in
dividuals and the constituted authori-
ties, resulting in four deaths and. the
."oundlng of five or more persons,
mostly strikers. One of the latter will
die. The dead are:
c. Edward Thomas, striking conductor
On the Choteau avenue line. shot in
breast by deputy sheriff. died on his
way to the hospital.
| george Rine, striking motorman on Del
mar avenue line, shot in abdomen by a
| oePuty sheriff, died at city hospital.
freo Boehm, aged citizen, shot and In
! stantly killed while standing in his front
yard' by a deputy sheriff.
| Ed. Burkhart, striking conductor on
Deimar avenue line, shot in the head
hveo until nearly midnight
| "ounded-Oscar Marvin, conductor on
the Lee avenue line, shot in right hand
and arm: serious.
August Smith, shot in right arm and
| breast: not serious
charles Ludwig, shot in hand; not seri-
Gus.
Inc most serious trouble broke out
between six and seven o'clock in front
OF the six-story store building on
washington avenue, between Broad
way and Sixth streets, occupied by
the sheriff's posse comitatus as bar
racks and headquarters. Several hun
dred striking street car men had gone
to East st. Louis earlier in the day to
attend picnic given for their benefit
at VOLTS grove. Toward evening
they began returning home singly, in
groups of two or three, and others in
companies of hundred or more. No
serious trouble occurred until one of
these companies, composed of nearly
$50 street car men IL uniform and
headed by drum corps, came west on
Washington avenue.
Just as they were passing the bar
racks, a car of the Park avenue divi-
sion was going west. A number of the
men broke from the line and rushed
for the car with the intention, it is
said, of boarding it and taking ride.
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was the Intention of the strikers to
assault the motorman and conduct or
whose car was without the usual Do
lice guard. However that may be. the
trouble started here. A brick was
thrown through the car window and Il
shot was fired by somebody not known.
At the first intimation of trouble
members of the sheriff's posse swarmed
from the building and surrounded the
crowd OF strikers about the car, call
ing upon them to dispense. Other
shots were fired and then some of the
deputies turned loose their repeating
shotguns. loaded with buckshot. As
far as can be learned only four of the
men in the strikers ranks were hit.
Not deputy was wounded even.
st. Louis, June 13.-There were no
important developments in the street
car strike situation Tuesday. The
Transit company claims to have the
situation practically under control by
reason of the protection afforded by
the police department and the sheriff's
posse comitatus. 1t was stated by the
companys officials that cars were
running on every line in the city. 60
ing above the regular schedule in some
cases, and in all meeting the de-
mands of traffic.
st. Louis, June IA. - During the
course of heated argument over
the strike, Sherman C. Patterson.
president of the local street rail-
way mems union, was stabbed in the
neck and mortally wounded at a
late hour Wednesday night by Ed
ward CAVITY. CAVITY was Arrested.
St. Louis, June 14.-Sheriff Pohlman
and Chief of Police Campbell are of the
opinion that the reign of terror that
has prevailed during the greater part
OF the past month or more as result
of the street railway strike is at an
end. They are confident that their
combined forces will be able to prevent
any further lawlessness. 1t seems to
be the general opinion that Sundays
riot was the elimination of these out
| breaks.