The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-05-25
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st. Louis, May 20. There was no
formal conference yesterday between
representatives Of the striking street
car employees and the st. Louis Tran
sit company, although President Haws,
Of the board of police commissioners,
tried to get the two parties to the
strike controversy together in still an
other meeting. He consulted with T.
B. Edwards, chairman Of the griev-
ance committee and with BENJAMIN
f. Clark. the attorney of the strikers,
In the morning. And as a result Mr..
Edwards sent letter to William
Whitaker suggesting conference. In
response Mr.. Whitaker said he was
willing to meet the committee at any
time. Mr.. Edwards then suggested
that the next proposition come from
the company, and the response was in
effect that the company had no further
proposition to make, standing on the
| offer of Thursday rejected by the
strikers.
Rioting broke out afresh yesterday
in various parts of the city and
Several Cnsualties
of severe nature were recorded on
the books of the police department.
At noon crowd of 400 or more men,
women and boys congregated along
Laclede between Grand and Theresa
avenues. and stopped the cars as they
approached by means of distractions
piled or: the tracks. AS the cars came
to a standstill rioting began, persons
In the crowd commenced throwing
rocks and some shots were fired. One
OF the bullets struck ]. Richardson. a
conductor. in the head. A special Of
hcer ON one Of the cars was dragged
off and badly beaten, his club and re-
volver taken from him. and several
other motormen and conductors as
saulted. While the turmoil was at it's
height a detail Of police came DASH
Ing up and charged the crowd. They
struck right and left, but they had
no clcw as to who was responsible for
the shooting. Richardson is probably
Fatally Wounded.
On the Bellfontaine line distractions
were numerous. and when the men
left the cars to remove the barriers
they were made the targets of the
strike sympathizers who peltet1 them
from windows. and housetops with
rocks. broken bricks and pieces Of iron.
The employees on the Easton avenue
cars had another rough day Of it.
Their cars were pelted at street cor.
ners near the western terminus and
also along franklin avenue and Nor
gan street. In one place the strike
sympathze2s blocked the track with a
dead horse. No sooner did the street
car employees remove the carcas than a
hundred willing hands grabbed it and
dragged it back to the track. Traffic
was INSTRUCTED until the police ar
rived and made the crowd dispense.
distractions were numerous along
the California avenue and Tower
Grove lines and the cars passed
through several showers of stones and
bricks.
Traffic Impeded.
Traffic was frequently impeded by.
piles Of rocks. lumber, etc., along the
Market street and Chouteau avenue
lines and every now and then stray
rock was hurled at the passing cars,
Two imported employees of the Transit
&C pany were shot while in charge Of
street cars. In neither case is the as
sailant known. Guy Fickes of De-
catur. ILL.,. was shot through the thigh
at Twenty-tirst and Morgan streets, att
1:3O o'clock yesterday afternoon. He
was employed as special guard by
the company, and was on one of the
Easton avenue cars at the time the
shooting occurred. Shortly after noon
three cable cars started east from the
power house of the Fourth street rail-
way on Eighteenth and Park avenue.
At Fourth street and Choteau avenue
the cars stopped and upon investiga-
ton it was found that the cable had
been cut.
sympathetic Strike Likely,
At a meeting Of 100 heads of labor
unioEs. called last night. it was re-
solved to recommend to the controlling
central bodies that a sympathetic
strike be inaugurated to-day Of all the
labor unions in st. Louis.
Escaping Prisoner Killed.