The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-06-16
ST LOUIS POSSE
FIRES ON RIOTERS
-Four Persons Are Killed Outright
and al Number Of Others Are
Seriously Wounded.
POUR BuCKsHoI INTO 4 MOB
shcrtn's Posse Uses Riot Rifles lol
The First Time Min Deadly
Enect---AIany strikers
Arrested.

st. Louis, June 12.-Sundny was one
of the-most eventful and bloody since
the strike on the st. Louis transit
lines begun. There were numerous ems
counters between strikers and other
riotous individuals and the author
tiles, resulting in four deaths and the
w%ounding of five or more persons,
mostly strikers. Ed Burkhart lived
until nearly midnight, when he died
from the effects of his wounds.
The dead:
&. EDWARD THOMAS, striking
conductor, shot in breast.
GEORGE RINE. striking motor
man, shot in the abdomen.
FRED BOEIIM, aged citizen, shot
and instantly killed by deputy sher-
ED BuRKHART, striking conduct.
or, shot in head.
Wounded:
Oscar Marvin, conductor, shot in
hand and arm; serious.
August Smith, shot in arm and
breast.
Charles Ludwig, shot In the hand.
Ed Barry, motorman, hit on the
head with a brick and badly injured.
James Mcclure and John MclGlroy,
severe scalp wounds.
Cars We're operating during the day
time on all the lines Of the transit
company except the Southwestern.
Last night cars We're run under POI
lice protection until midnight on the
Park avenue, Lindellz division and
Laclede avenue lines.
The most serious trouble broke out
between 6 and z O'clock in front of the
siX-story store building on Washing,
ton avenue, between Broadway and
Sixth streets, occupied by the sher..
IFS posse comitntus as n barracks
and headquarters. About $50 striking
street car men, in uniform, and head
eq by a drum corps, returning from
East St. Louis, where they had at
tended a picnic given for their benefit,
came west on Washington avenue. In
their caps some of them had cards
bearing these words: ''union or
Nothing; Liberty or Death"
Just ms they were passing the posse
barracks a car of tho 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 1t and taking a ride. Another
statement was made that it was the in-
tention of the strikers to assault the
motorman n conductor, whose car was
without the usual police guard. However.
that may be, the trouble started here. A
brick was thrown through the car win
dow and a shot was fired by somebody
not known.
AT the first intimation of trouble, mem
bers of the sheriff's posse swarmed from
the building and surrounded the crowd of
strikers about the car, calling 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 con be learned only
four of tbs men In the strikers ranks
were hit. Not a deputy was wounded.
G. Edward Thomas. a striking ndu
tor, was picked up and placed In IN am
bulance after the fight was over. He was
shot In the breast, the heavy load OF
bnckshot tearing a hole that soon let out
his LIES blood, and caused his death
while on the way to the city hospital.
George Rine. g striking motorman on
the Delmar avenue line, received a terri
BILE wound In the abdomen. He was. taken
to the city hospital, but died on the op-
Grating table.
Oscar Marvin. a striking conductor, will.
probably lose his right hand as a result
of the f~usiiade. It vas badly torn.
It is not known whether any others
were wounded or not.
Under the command of Colonel cuven-
der the deputies arrested twenty of the
strikers and took them into the barracks,
where they were searched. Three revole
Hers and a number of pocket knives were
secured, and the prisoners were takensto
the Fourscourts, where they were locked
up. pending an investigation.
The remainder of the strikers fled west,
followed by a squad OF mounted police
that had been summoned. They dis
persed without any further trouble.
At the time of the trouble Company
f, composed of some of the most prom
incnt people that have been summoned
for duty OH the posseScomitatus, was on
duty at the barracks. Headed by Colonel.
Lavender, formerly of the First Missouri
volunteers, they grasped their guns and
rushed for the street. where they behaved
with distinction. Among them were w,
I. kennett, ex-president OF the Mer-,
chants exchange: John F. Lee, a promi-
n~entElawyer; ex-Judge Chester II. Krum,
Hon. Charles Maggie, former candidate
on the republican ticket for y ex-
Judge John Fl. Overall, Hugh Il. Has
tung, a newspaper man who was acting
rs clerk at posse headquarters, and DR..
j. II. Woodworth.
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