The age-herald., 1900-05-30
ST. LOUIS IS NOW
 4 SEAT OF WAR Three Riots Occur and Many Persons Are Shot SITUATION GROWS ALARMING The Casualty List From the Days Battles Shows Eleven Persons
 Shot and Others Injured
 By Missiles.
SITUATION GROWS ALARMING

6r. LOUIS, May ZS.-ln d Tiollii6 SShSo io- days developments were the worst exper-
 fenced since the strike on the lines of the St. Louis Transit company was inaugura- | ted over three weeks ago. The rioting was confined entirely to three places in the southern section of the city, and by night | fall the police record showed that fully | dozen persons had either received bullet l wounds or had been hurt by flying missiles. 1 Three of those hit by bullets received prob- | ably fatal wounds. Two of the riots oc- | cured in South Broadway as the result of | the attempt of the Transit company to run | its cars.
 The first disturbance occurred at the in- tersection of Broadway and Miller street. Bonfres had been started during the night and the tracks were found encountered
 with debris by the crew of the first car. A big crowd composed of men, women and children was gathered and they hooted the crew as it attempted to remove the ob- structions Almost immediately shooting commenced from the car and the crowd scattered, A school girl named Dollie Mitchell was shot through the arm Will jam Grannemann, who was standing some distance away was struck in the left knee and seriously hurt.
 James McCalley, who was also some dis tance from the crowd received a ball in
 the left leg. Both Grannemann's and Mo Calley's injury may necessitate amputa- tion.
 Thirty or Forty Shots Fired
 There were probably thirty or forty shots
 fired. Windows were smashed, boards
 splintered and numerous fluctuations of
 bullets are to be found on the walls of the
 buildings in the vicinity. The second riot occurred at Broadway and Pestalozzi streets. A large crowd was gathered at the alley through which the railroad switch to the Anheuser- Busch brewery runs. As a car passed the crowd
 first began to jeer at the crew and then
 began to pelt the car with stones and other
 missels.
 Then firing began. In all, twenty-five or thirty shots were fired. Herman Pescnke, a boy employed at the
 Anheuser- Busch brewery was shot in the
 back and his recovery is thought impossi- ble.
 George Lascosten, man employed at the brewery, and Albert Wackwitz, a painter,
 were shot, the former in the left arm and the latter in the head. Neither is serosuly injured.
 As soon as the trouble began riot call was sent in, and twenty-five policemen re- sponded. Edward J. Bresner the conductor on the car, was arrested and locked up, charged with shooting Peschke. The three wounded men denied that they had taken any part in the attack on the car The Casualty List The following casualties are reported as result of today's rioting Herman Pestchke shot in the back, fatal. John T. Rica, shot through chest, fatal. R. H. Stilson, Cleveland, O., shot | through chest, fatal. John tMcCalley, shot in knee. | Dolly Mitchell, shot in arm. William Grannemann, shot in leg. George Lacastan, shot in arm. | Albert Wakwitz, shot in arm John Becker, shot in thigh. Frank Yeager, shot in hand. l Martin Burke, shot in hip A number of others suffered injury from | missiles thrown and in other ways incl | dental to the riotous developments of the | day.
 The worst of the riotous disturbances oc- | cured near the section of California ave- nue aud Keokeuk street. In this affray
 non-union motorman and another employe | on a car of the Transit company were | probably, fatally shot Battle waged Fierce The battle, while it ragged, was fierce, and | in view of the large number of shots fired, | estimated at 200, it is remarkable that there were not more injured. If there were they were removed before the police could get | to the scene of the trouble. As the car l approached the intersection named, Motor | man R. H. Stilson man imported from Cleveland, and Emergency Policeman Lof l ton, who were on the front platform, saw | that some Instructions had been piled high l and that the tracks were impossible A | big crowd of people were gathered to wit l ness the removal of the Instructions. | They began to hoot and jeer and to ap- | ply epithets to the crew of the car, daring 1 any one to get off the car to remove the | Instructions from the track. As Stilson | started to step from the car his action was | the signal for firing to begin from the | crowd Almost at the first shot Stilson | threw up his hands and fell to the front | platform with a bullet through his body. | In the fusilade that followed John T. Rice, who was on the car, was shot down as he l got from his seat inside, receiving a ball | through the chest. The police bodyguard | on the car opened fire on the mob at least | 200 shots being exchanged. The mob scat | tered and ran down side streets to get away.
 Another Riot l Another affair took place at the intersec- | tion of Gravois avenue and Victor street, 1 and during it's progress Martin Burke, a | striker, was shot in the left hip, and Elmer | Simmons, a guard, received an unmerciful | beating which might have terminated | fatally had not detachment of police | arrived and rescued him. | At late hour tonight it was learned | that John Decker and Frank Yeager were | both shot in the left thigh, and the latter in the left hand. Neither wound Is se- l rious.
 Street Car Track Blown Up At midnight tonight a terrific dynamite explosion at Fifteenth and Chambers | streets awoke residents living within mile. smashing windows in every direction ! and tore up big section of street car
 track. No one is reported injured.