Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-04
St. Louis Citizen Guards Begin
Active Service Today.
WATCHING At POWER HOUSES
Mobs Assault Passengers Whenever
the Opportunity Occurs.
BOY ACCIDENTALLY SHOT

ST LOUIS. No. June 4.-The citizens
members Of the posse comitatus had their
first experience in active service today
when several companies were assigned for
guard duty at the Park avenue. Easton
avenue and southern electric power houses
of the transit company
While on guard duty the members of the
posse will be subject to strict military
discipline. Those not on guard will be held
in reserve at the different police stations
A barracks has been provided for those al
ready sworn in and there the men will eat
and sleep when off duty. None of the
deputies will be sent out to guard the cars
the police being retained for that service
The work of summoning and swearing in
additional deputies continues. All but two
or three divisions of the transit system
operated cars today
Interference with passengers in some Sec
tons OF the city by strike sympa.hiZer is
becoming serious. 1t Is much as a person 5
life is worth to get off a street car along
South Broadway. Men. women and children
join in the assault on any one caught rid
ing on the cars. sticks. stones and fists be-
ing used on all alike.
Mobs Assault Women.
Christine There, eighteen years old. was
set upon yesterday by crowd of about 2 600
men simply because she had ridden on a car
of the st. Louis Transit Company She was
on the way to spend the day with her
mother. When she alighted from a car at
9th street and Geyer avenue at pm. she
was approached by young man. who
called her a "scab." Others Joined in the
chorus. A young man tore off her Jacket
and another her hat. She was struck by
the fists of men and bruised about the face
and body. pocket book. which she car
RED in her hand. was snatched away and
mia L.r ,1o -,
ing was torn away while she appealed for
shelter at the nearest house The Occur
pants. however. We're afraid the mob would
tear down the building and refused her ad-
mittance. She succeeded in reaching an
alley. down which she ran. followed by the
hooting men. Finally she escaped by con-
cealng herself in a cellar.
In South 18th street another incident IF
the same kind occurred. Stella Broderick
got off a car only to be assailed and hooted
at by MODS Her jacket was torn from her
home of Mrs. Folke. The men surround led
the house and began throwing stones
through the windows. Mrs. Folke got a re-
yo!ver and opened fire on the mob from her
front window and the men scattered
Bystander Fatally Wounded.
A boy was fatally shot and a dynamite
bomb exploded yesterday
AS car OF the Tower Grove line of the
ST. Louis Transit Company was passing
eiC III iCA u A%tIi IdlnO1N streets a
crowd Of strike sympathizers began throw
ing stones at it An unknown man leaned
from the window of the car and fired a
revolver shot toward the crowd. The bull
let sped over the heads of the mob and
lodged in the breast of Peter Frank. aged
sixteen. who was sitting in the doorway
of his fathers house. A detachment Of
police dispersed the rioters and carried
young Frank to the city hospital where it
is said the wound will prove fatal
Late in the afternoon an explosion of dy-
namite shattered the cable conduit and
switches in the Olive street line at the in
tcrsection of Maryland and Boyle avenues.
No one was injured but traffic on that end
OF the line had to be suspended There Is
no clue to the perpetrators.
There were 228 additional deputies sworn
in Saturday. and about 300 yesterday
which. with the 465 already sworn in gives
the sheriff total force Of 900 men to e.s-
sign to active duty in response to the call
issued Saturday by President Hawes of the
police board.