Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-11
DAY WAS BLOODY
ST. LOUIS STRIKERS IN UNIFORM
CELEBRATE SUNDAY.
REPEATING SHOTGUNS USED.
Four of the Rioters Are Shot-Gov-
ernor Stephens Is Ready to Call
Out the State Militia.

st. Louis, Mo-, June 10.-The day just
ended has been one of the most event.
full AMI bloody since the great strike
on the Transit company's lines began
nearly a month ago. There was numer-
Gus encounters between strikers n
other riotous individuals and the con-
stituted authorities. resulting in three
deaths and the %wounding of five or
more persons. mostly strikers. One of
the latter will die.
The dead:
c. EDWARD THOMAS, striking con-
ductor on the Choteau Avenue line:
shot in breast by deputy sheriff; died
on the way to the hospital.
GEORGE RINE, striking motorman
on Delmar Avenue line; shot in abdo-
men by deputy sheriff; died at city hos
pital.
FRED BOEHM, aged citizen. shot
and instantly killed while standing in
his front yard, by deputy sheriff.
Wounded:
Ed Burkhardt. striking conductor on
Delmar Avenue line. shot in mead; may
die.
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
serious. .,
Ed Berry. motorman, hit on head with
brick: badly Injured.
James Mcclure and McElroy, severe
scalp wounds received in trouble with
the strike sympathizers.
Ed Burkehardt, died at midnight.
The day was quiet until this after-
noon, when the police We're taken OF a
number of street car lines for the pur-
pose of giving them a rest and to test
the ability of the Transit mpa 10
operate without friction. The most Sc
rious trouble broke out between 3 and Z
o'clock in front of the slx-story store
building on Washington avenue, pc
tween Broadway and Sixth streets. oc-
cupied by the sherif's posse comltatus
as a barracks and headquarters. Sew
eral hundred strikers had gone to East
st. Louis earlier in the day to attend
a picnic given for their benefit. ana To-
ward evening began eturnlng nome. -.
The trouble was precipitated when lou
strikers in uniform and headed by a
drum corps came on washington avenue.
In their a some OF them nao caruS
bearing these words: Union or Moth
ing: Liberty or Death" Just as they
were passing the barracks a car OF the
Park avenue division was going west.
A number of the men broke from the line
and rushed for the car, which was With
out the usual police guard. A brick was
thrown through the car window n a
shot was fired by somebody not known.
At the first intimation of the trouble
members of the sheriff's posse swarmed
from the building and the
crowd of strikers. calling on them to
dispense. Other shots We're fired. Then
several deputies turned loose their re-
peating shotguns. loaded with buckshot.
AS far as can be learned only four men
in the strikers ranks were hit. Not a
deputy was wounded. After the fight
conductor, was picked up. shot in the
breast. He died in an ambulance on the
way to the hospital.
Ed Burkhardt. a striking conductor,
received several buckshot in the side of
the head, causing a serious wound. He
may die.
Oscar Marvin, a striking conductor
will probably lose his right hand, which
was badly torn by a load of shot. 1t is
not known whether any others We're
wounded or not.
Under the command of Colonel Caven.
der, the deputies arrested 20 of the
strikers and took them to the barracks
where they were searched. Three re.
Volvers and a number of pocket knives
We're secured, and the prisoners were
taken to the four courts, where he,
We're locked up pending an Investigation
rms afternoon while a crowd of mel
on fankll avenue near Twelfth stree
were menacing a car of the Easton ave
nue. line, the motorman or policeman O,
board fired several shots from a revolver
august Smith was shot in the right arm
ana breast, but not seriously wounded
Charles Ludwig was wounded in tn,
hand. Both assert that they were mere
~ onlookers. A third man is said t,
nave also been wounded but his nav,
could not be learned.
IN a tracas at Tenth n FRANKLIN ave
nue. TINS evening a man was shot an,
II IS reported fatally injured, but hefor
ms name could be learned or the exten
": ms injuries determined he was hnr
req away by his friends. '
Fred Boehm, a respectable ..
ased % years, was this afternoon 81
from the u of a deputy sheriff IN.
Iatter had fired at "a crowd of svunn
rniHers Who were stoning a car on r.
nele1ontalne line. Death was instsn
About 9 o'clock onigh a two-bors
surrey, In which were a number of man
oIoVe up to the car sheds at Comntn,
ana manchester avenue. The men in tn
nuggy stopped and commenced to revii
v' nspu.y snerlfs on guard there wit
vulgar language. This became nnhe :,
aDle and Captain Hancock, in Gamma
VI the deputies, ordered the men to sto,
iney replied with several shots an
uroVe away. Captain Hancock ordera
snem to come back, and when they re
1used fired point blank at the b,ee
with his shotgun. killing one of f6
horses. The men jumped out of Nh
buggy n escaped unhurt. -
Ed Barry, a motorman, is laid I'D wit
a badly battered head. He was wounde
bv a brick thrown by somebody viii
his al was passing a crowd tonigh
Cars We're run freely during the day. IN
night they We're run under guard unit
midnight on half a dozen lines.
James Mcclure and John McElroy r,
celved serious injuries today while Ell
gagged in a dispute with a number
, strikers and strike sYmnathizers M