The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-19
MORE RIOTING IN ST. LOUIS
SEVERAL CONDUCTORS AND MOTOR
MEN WERE WOUNDED.


Rocks Thrown and shots Fired at
the Street Cars--AH Sorts of OBJ
structions Were Piled Up on the
Tracks-Even a Dead Horse Was
Used to stop the Running of Cars.
Conductor Richardson Was Prob
ably Fatally Wounded.
St. Louis. May 1s.-Rioting broke out
afresh to-day in various parts of the city,
and several casualties of a severe nature
resulted
AT noon a crowd of 400 or more men.
women and boys congregated along La.
Clede avenue between Grand and Theresa
avenues. and piled distractions on the
street car tracks. AS the cars came to a
standstill. rioting began. persons in the
crowd throwing rocks and some shots
were fired. One of the bullets struck j.
r. Richardson, a conductor IN the head.
A special officer on one of the cars was
dragged off and badly beaten, his club
and revolver were taken from him. and
several other motormen and conductors
were assaulted.
While the turmoil was at it's hight. a
detail of police came dashing up and
charged into the crowd. They struck
right and left, but they had no clew os
to who was responsible for the shooting
Richardson is probably fatally wounded
On the Belefontein line obstructions
were numerous, and when the men left
the cars to remove the BARRIERS, they were
made the targets for rocks, broken bricks
and pieces of iron.
BIockaded the Track.
The employees on the Eastern avenue cars
had another rough day of II. Their cars
were stoned at street corners near tho
western terminus and also along Franklin
avenue and Morgan street.
In one place the strike sympathizers
blockaded the track with dead horse. No
sooner did the street car employees removed
the carcass than hundred willing hands
grabbed IL and dragged 1t back TO The
track. Traffic was obstructed until the
police arrived and made the crowd dis
perse. Distractions were numerous along
the California avenue and Tower Grove
lines and the cars passed several showers
of stones and of bricks. Traffic was prac-
tically impede by lumber, etc, along the
Market street and Chateau avenue lines
and every now and then a stray rock wa
hurled at the passing cars.
Two imported employees of the ST. Louis
Traction Company were shot to-day VIII lie
is the assailant known.
Guy Fickes Of Decatur, ILL.,, was shot
through the thigh at Twenty-frst street
and Morgan streets. Fickes was employ
ed as guard on cars. He said a large
crowd on the sidewalk hooted and jeered
at the car. At Twenty-first street he was
shot and he says the flash came from n
corner house near by. His condition Is not
serious.
The federal grand jury was in session
all day to-day taking evidence regarding
the hndrances and distractions to the
| United States mail caused by the present
car strike
Shortly after noon three cable cars
started east from the power house of the
Fourth street railway on Eighteenth
street and Parke avenue, but some one
cut all the strands of the cable. presum-
| ably by a steel saw and the cars were
hauled back to the power house by horses,
A Second Serious Riot.
John Kenna, a saloonkeeper, was prob
| ably fatally wounded, and Robert Nelson,
a negro. and Emergency officer Jacob
Hollingsworth, slightly wounded tonight
in a riot at the South End. A special
officer fired at Kenna and the other two
were shot supposedly by Kenna. Kenna
| had been drinking and shot at a motor
man on a passing car
| Patrolman Henry e. Barton, a guard on
a car, was shot and painfully wounded to-
| day on jefferson avenue. The car was
stoned and then shot at. riot call dis
persed the crowd.
The House Of Delegates to-day passed
the Kelly ordinance annulling the fran
! chise of all the street railways in st.
| Louis unless they run their cars in COM
| pliance with the terms of the city ordi-
| nance.