Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-15
FIRE UPON RIOTERS.
Sheritt.. Depr les Do Bloody Work
in St. Louis.
Clash with strikers and Their SYM
pathizers-Four Men Are Killed
and Several wounded-A
Very Riotous Sabbath.

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since the great strike on the st. Louis
transit began more than month ago.
There were numerous encounters be-
tween strikers and other riotous in
dividuals and the constituted authori-
ties, resulting in four deaths and, the
wounding of five or more persons,
mostly strikers. One of the latter will
die. The dead are:
The victims.
| c. Edward Thomas. striking conductor
| on the Choteau avenue line, shot in
breast by deputy sheriff, died on his
| way to the hospital.
George Rine striking motorman on Del
| mar avenue line. shot in abdomen by n
| deputy sheriff, died at city hospital.
Fred Boehm, aged citizen, shot and in
| stantly killed while standing in his front
yard, by a deputy sheriff.
Ed. Burkhart, striking conductor on
| Delmar avenue line, shot in the head,
lived until nearly midnight
| Wounded-Oscar Marvin, conductor on
| the Lee avenue line. shot in right hand
| and arm: serious.
Oscar Marvin. conductor on the Lee
| avenue line, shot in right hand and arm;
| serious.
August Smith, shot in right arm and
| breast: not serious.
Charles Ludwig, shot in hand; not seri-
| Gus.
Men Attack Chr.
The most serious trouble broke out
between six and seven o'clock in front
of the siX-story store building on
Washington avenue, between Broad
way and Sixth streets, occupied by
the sheriff's posse comitatus as a BAR
racks and headquarters. Several hun
dred striking street car men had gone
to East st. Louis earlier in the day to
attend picnic given for th cir benefit
at VOLTS grove. Toward evening
they began returning home singly, in
groups of two or three. and others in
companies of hundred or more. No
serious trouble occurred until one of
these companies, composed of nearly
$50 street car men il uniform and
headed by drum corps, came west on
Washington avenue.
just as they were passing the bar
racks, car of the Park avenue divi.
sion was going west. y number of the
men broke from the line and rushed
for the car with the intention, il is
said, of boarding it and taking a ride.
Another statement was made that it
was the intention of the strikers to
| assault the motorman and conductor
whose car was without the usual po-
lice guard. However that may be, the
trouble started here. \ brick was
thrown through the car window and Il
shot was fired by somebody not known.
sheriT's Posse Acts.
At the first intimation of trouble
members of the sheriff. posse swarmed
from the building and surrounded the
crowd of strikers about the car. call
ing upon them TO disperse. Other
shots were fired and then some of the
deputies turned loose their repeating
shotguns, loaded with bucksbot. AS
far as can be learned only four of the
men in the strikers ranks were hit.
Not a deputy was wounded even.
George Rine, striking motorman on
the Delmar avenue line. received a
terrible wound in the abdomen. He
was taken to the City hospital, but
died on the operating table. Another
of those hit by shots from the depu-
ties guns was Ed. Burkhart, a strik-
ing conductor, also of the Delmar av-
enue line. Several buckshot struck
him in the side of the head. causing a
wound from which he died. Oscar
Marvin, striking conductor on the
Lee avenue line, will probably lose his
right hand as result of the fusi" ade.
1t was badly torn.
Under the command of Col. Caven-
der the deputies arrested 90 of the
strikers and took them into the bar
racks. where they were searched,
Three revolvers and a number of pock-
ct knives were secured and the pris-
oners were taken to the Four Courts,
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 dispersed with,
out any further trouble.
Says Shooting Was Unprovoked.
Mack Missick, the secretary of the
strikers union, was seen at Walhalla
hall, where he was waiting for par
ticulars regarding the riot. Missich
said:
The men were marching along when as
accurately as was possible under the cir
. cumstances I remember that small boy
, marching beside the men threw rocl
at an approaching car. which had moi
yet reached Sixth street. There was
revolver shot. but 1 am positive thai
. 1T did not come from our side, as oul
men were unarmed. Instantly after th'
shot was fired there was a fusillade -o
shots from the deputies They swept th'
street from Fourth to Sixth and from
Sixth to Fourth. 1t was a miracle tina
there We're not so men shot. expected
a bullet momentarily. After the firing
b we tried to get at the men who wer'
lying in the street, but everywhere w
explained that we wished to assist then
we were driven away. and the men la!
there suffering until the ambulance came
b The shooting was unprovoked. 1t wa
. | one of the most objectionable outrage
ever perpetrated in the United States
The Hazelton riots do not compare witt
it."
At His Old Home.
Rochester, N. Y, June 11.-Gen. L
S, Otis, who is to be the city's CUES