Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-07
WOMEN STRIPPED BY MOB
St. Louis Strikers Attack Help
less Passengers.
DYNAMITE BOMB SET OFF

cers Stoned by sympathizers of the strik-
ing street Railway Employees of St. Louis
.-Bfillionsirss Act as Deputy SheriIs to
Qusll Riets-A Day of Carnage.
St. Louis, June Anarchy is ram
pant in st. Louis.
Innocent parties are not safe. Even
weak womanhood is no protection
against the malice Of the lawless mob
Yesterday there were two outrages
upon young women.
Christine THREE, eighteen years Old,
was set upon by crowd, estimated to
be two thousand men, simply because
she had ridden on a car of the st.
Louis Transit Company. She was on
her way to spend the Sunday with her
mother. She worked far in the West
Ekd as a servant.
She could not afford to hire car
ridge to get to her home in South st.
LWuis. The distance was too far to
W9lk and get back to her employers
InStime for the evening. She took
the OILY method at her disposal--a
street car.
aWhen she alighted at Ninth and
GkYer avenue at p. NJ. from Chero-
keeT car she was approached by Il
Young man who called her Il "scab."
offers Joined in the chorus.
There was kissing and hooting,
which grew into a perfect storm as
tie mob closed in about her.
A young man grabbed at her cloth
ing, tore off her jacket; another tore
whyfher hat. She was struck by fists
of men and bruised about the face
ahd body. A pocketbook which she
Gafried In her hand was snatched
away and the money taken.
Fleece by piece her apparel was torn
away until she was perfectly nude eX-
1eEt her shoes, the centre of howl
Ing, jeering mob of men. She ran to
house on the corner and appealed for
Gdmittance, but the people were afraid
that the mob would tear down the
house and refused her admittance.
She went to the place next door. but
no one came.
She reached an alley and ran down
it, followed by the hooting men.
There was little window leading
into q cellar. She broke the glass and
Jumped in and covered in Il corner
In the darkness.
Finally her prosecutors went away.
Then she called for help. A little
child who had been left at home by
its mother came down and led the
frightened woman upstairs, where she
waited, clad in a shawl. until the wo-
man of the house came home and fur
nished her with dress.
At. No. 1876 South Twelfth street an
other incident of the kind occurred.
Stella Broderick got off car only TO
be assajled and hooted at by mob.
Her waist was torn from her by men.
She ran down an alley and into the
home of Mrs. Folke and the mob sur
Rounded the house and began throw
ing stones and rocks through the Win
lows.
Mrs. Folke, not realizing what it
was all about and considering her
home her castle, got a big revolver
and opened fire OH the mob from her
front window, and they scattered at
the first fire, towards who had attack
ed weak woman.
About dawn a heavy charge of dy
namite was exploded in the conduit
of the Olive street cable railway at
Maryland and Boyle avenues, an aris-
tocratic section of the West End, with
destructive results.
The cable was broken, the heavy
irQp ypkes were twisted together like
Mjrya q huge hole was torn in the
9EItre. of the street. The force Of the
4$GdHon shook buildings for blocks
8nWM8ked upseyery one in the neigh
Nfi3od: A sqGad of police hurried TO
{beI aNpeA but no one was seen plac-
Ing {tEe bomb and no arrests have
beenS made.
'TAiS afternoon mob stoned car
n,tfe Lower Grove division in South
StTt41iSJin a strike sympathizers'
4eit t6borHcod. A man on the rear
tlattFm, whether citizen or guard
is5HQt aknown, fred into the crowd
wtHya. a.retQIver. The bullet sped over
the lAeG3s sofIthe mob and lodged in
be, ,6t1dst o. Peter rank, aged sixteen,
VIII. .w4T TslftiRg in the doorway of his
fathers house. A detachment of po-
liceI Idistefsed the rioters and carried
yoNRg }Frapks to the City Hospital,
wHHfAsit is said the wound will prove
fatal,
The barracks of the citizens posse
on iWa1hipgtdn avenue was scene of
d9iMaNonI Iall day. On each of the
saveh doors Of the big building was
sWti6H6d a company of men, who
silent their day of rest in some of the
h&6est yexercise of their lives. They
were put through foot drill and man.
ospvres with their guns, and when
eveQit{g came they begged their su-
pat14r officers so eloquently to let them
&Gy home for sumner that laava vaS