The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-06-08
WOMEN STRIPPED BY MOB
st. Louis Strikers Attack Help
less Passengers.
DYNAMITE BOMB SET OFF

Cars Stoned by Sympathizers Of the
Striking Street Railway Employees Of
st. Louis-MiIlionaires Act as Dep.
uty Sheriffs-A Day of Carnage.
st. Louis, June 6.-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 day with her
mother. She worked far in the West
End as a servant.
She could not afford to hire a car
riage to get to her home in South st.
Louis. The distance was too far TO
walk and get back to her employers
in time for the evening. She took
the only method at her disposal-a
street car.
When she alighted at Ninth and
Geyer avenue at . z. NJ from a Chero-
kee car she was approached by
young man who called her ''scab."
others joined in the chorus.
9Ehere was Kissing and hooting,
which grew into a perfect storm as
the mob closed in about her
\ young man grabbed at her cloth
ine1 tore off her jacket; another tore
way her hat. She was struck by fists
of men and bruised about the face
and bedy. A pocketbook which she
carried in her hand was snatched
away and the money taken.
Piece by piece her apparel was torn
away until she was perfectly nude ex-
cept her shoes, the centre of howl
ing, jeering mob of men. She ran to a
house on the corner and appealed for
admittance, 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 a little window leading
into a cellar. She broke the glass and
jumped in and covered in a 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 a dress.
At. No. 1876 South Twelfth street an
other incident of the kind occurred.
Stella Broderick got off a car only to
be assailed and hooted at by a mob.
Her waist was torn from her by men.
NE ran down an alley and into the
home Of Mrs. Felke and the mob sur.
rounded the house and began throw
ing stones and rocks through the win
dows.
Mrs. Folke, not realizing what it
was all about and considering her
home her castle, got big revolver
and opened fire on the mob from her
front window, and they scattered 1T
the first fire, towards who had attack
ed weak woman.
About dawn heavy charge of dy-
Mantle 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
iron yokes were twisted together like
wire and a huge hole was torn iu the
centre Of the street. The force of the
explosion shook buildings for blocks
and walked up every one In the neigh
berhood. A squad of police hurried TO
the scene, but 10 one was seen plac-
ing the bomb and no arrests have
been made.
This afternoon a mob stoned a car
on the Lower Grove division in South
st. Louis in strike sympathizers'
neighborhood A man on the rear
platform, whether a citizen or a guard
is not known, fired into the crowd
with revolver. The bullet sped over
sthe heads of the mob and lodged in
the breast of Peter rank, aged sixteen,
who was sitting in the doorway of his
fathers house. a detachment of po.
lice dispersed the rioters and curried
young Frank to the City Hospital,
where it is said the wound will prove
fatal.
The barracks of the citizens posse
on Washington avenue was scene of
animation all day. On each of the
seven floors of the big building was
stationed company Of men, who
spent their day OF rest in some Of the
hardest exercise OF their lives. They
were put through foot drill and man
oeuvres with their guns, and when
evening came they begged their SUI
perior officers so eloquently to let them
go home for supper that leave was
granted
Two more millionaire deputy sheriffs
were sworn in to-day-August A.
Busch, son Of the brewer, and Tony
Faust, jr.. one of the proprietOrs Of
a restaurant called the "Delmonico"
of st. Louis. They were welcomed
to the barracks with a loud cheer by