The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-22
ST. LOUIS STREET CAR STRIKE A..
sUMEs GRAvER ASPECT, DE-
SPITE INJUNCTION
HAL SHOT DEAD fUiIIG RIOT
THREE OTHERS ARE KNOWN To
HAVE BEEN WOUNDED BY
PISTOL BULLETS
WOMEN RUN FOR THEIR LIVES
Are Assnfled by Female sympa-
thizers of Strikers for Riding
on Cars-Many Riots and
Long List of Injured.

ST. LOUIS, May Zone boy was kill
ed and three men wounded today as a
result of the strike
The Dead-Martin Zika, eighteen years
old, struck in the left breast by bullet
hred from a street car Conductor Far
ley and Motorman Joseph Drake were
placed under arrest
The Wounded-Clarence E. Mullen mo-
torman, shot in upper portion of left arm
Home in Jacksonville, III. Wound not
serious. Minnie Kruger, eighteen wears
DID, struck in left thigh by a glancing
bullet Not serious. Two rioters, seen
to fall during a fight at Thirteenth and
herbert streets, between mob of $50 men
and the police, were carried away by
friends, and names not learned
Zika was shot late in the afternoon
While standing In the door Of his home.
at l2CO Geiner avenue. mob of several
hundred men had surrounded a car of tho
Tower Grove line and were threatening
the conductor and motorman A few
stones had been thrown, when shot was
hred from the car, the bullet striking
Zlka full in the breast. Conductor Far
ley and Motorman Drake were arrested
by the police, pending an investigation.
Both of them deny the shooting
SERIOUS RIOT.
The four people wounded were all in
jured near a fight. which occurred at
6:3O o'clock at the intersection of Thir-
teenth and Hebert streets. The riot was
lively while it lasted. fully 100 shots be-
ing fired, and, as the streets were crowd
ed. 1t is remarkable that the number in
jured was so small.
Four cars of Bellfontaine line were
running close together, and when the
first one turned the corner it plunged
into a crowd of over 200 men and women
who had gathered there No stop was
made, and the car was free OF the mob
before any damage could be done. Ths
mob was ready for the second car, how
ever, and 1t received warm reception,
/ Stones were rained upon it, and several
shots fired at the conductor and motor
man. The four police officers on the car
returned the fire, and the crew of the
first car, hearing the shots at once re-
Versed and ran back TO reinforce their
comrades. Two other cars, each carry
ing four officers, were close behind,
Police Captain Joyce being on the third
car.
For nearly minute a RAPID fire went
on from both sides, and then, led by
Capt. Joyce, the police made a rush or
the mob, which broke and scattered In
all directions. Conductor Chas. w. Scott
was shot through the arm, he being the
only one injured by the mob.
Two rioters were seen TO fall, hit by
bullets fired by the police, and several
officers, who took part in the scrimmage,
declared that f11llU half a
bers of the mob had been shot down.
| The best information and the evidence
of the officers is, however, to the effect
that two were shot by the police. They
were at once carried off by their friends,
and their names are not known.
WOMEN PASSENGERS ATTACKED,
The passengers on the cars made wild
scrambles for the open air when the
trouble began. Among them were three
women and the female sympathizers of
the strikers, who were present in large
numbers, at once attacked them. They
shOwered them with abuse, peIted them
with stones, clods and sticks, and made
them run for their lives. For several
squares the chase was kept up, the
three women finally leaving the street
and running across some vacant lots, still
hotly pursued by the crowd of women
behind VINO succeeded every now and
crowd was not distanced until the three
women had been raced fully a third Of
mile. The police had their hands fun
at the time in dealing with the mob at
the corner and were not able to afford
any protection to the women.
At o'clock a small riot occurred at
Eleventh street and Park avenue. A
mob of several hundred men and women
attacked the last car on the Park avenue
line as II was on the home trip. Sew
eraI stones were thrown, and a shot
was fired, but whether by the mob or by
one of the men on the car could not be
determined. A force of forty men was
at once dispatched from police head
quarters and the mob dispersed without
difficulty.
At the police station tonight Conductor
Owen admitted firing the shot which
killed zIka. He fired at a man who
was about to throw stone at him.
ANOTHER RIOT.
There was a riot at Twelfth street and
Chouteau avenue late in the afternoon,
when a Tower Grove car reached the
corner. A large crowd gathered and
blocked the track so that the car could
not move, while nearly a hundred men
climbed on top of the Shickle-H Harrison
iron foundry building and rained hail
of stones on the car. A rot call was
sent in, and Detectives Hagenman and
Finan and Policeman Flanagan were sent
to the scene Hagenman arrested Al
Brooks, of No. 632 South Broadway, for
throwing a rock at the car. II angered
the crowd, and seven men assaulted Ha-
genman, who had a hard time in beating
them off. After he had knocked down
three Of them they left him alone. Finan
arrested Peter Helfish. There was an
other tussle and Flanagan came to his
assistance. A passage was opened up
through the crowd, and both men were
taken to the wagon. Brooks had
his pockets full of rocks when he was
searched at the police station.