Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-06-01
A SERIOUS LABOR RIOT.
Men, Women and children Pile OBJ
structions ON street Car Tracks Ina
"a. Louis and PeIt tho Cars with
Stones mad urIcLs

ST. Louis. Mo-, May 1S.-Rioting broke
out afresh to-day i'm various parts OF
the city and several casualties of n
| severe nature resulted. At noon n crowd
or 400 or more men. women and boys
oongregated along LaClede avenue, be-
tween Grand and Theresa avenues, and
piled distractions on the street car
tracks. As the cars came to n stand
still rioting began. persons In the crowd
Throwing rocks and some shots were
nred. one OF the bullets struck ]. r.
Richardson. conductor. I'm the head.
special officer on one OF the cara
was dragged Off and badly beaten. his
CRUZ ana revolver taken from him and
several other motormen and conduc-
tors were assaulted. While the turmoil
was at Its height n detail OF police came
oashins up and charged into the crowd.
Ihey struck right and left, but they
mad no clew as TO who was responsible
Tor the shooting. Richardson is proba-
bly, fatally wounded.
on the Bellefontein Line distractions
were numerous and when the men left
the cars to remove the barriers they
were made the targets for rocks broken
bricks and pieces or iron.
Inc employees on the Easton avenue
cars had another rough day OF It. Their
cars We're pelted at street corners near
the western terminus and also along
FRANKLIN avenue and Morgan street In
one place the strike sympathizers
blockRded the track with a dead horse.
No sooner did the street car employees
remove the carcass than n hundred
willing hands grabbed II and dragged IL
back TO the track. Traffic was obstruct-
ed until the police arrived and made
the crowd dispense DISTINCTIONS were
numerous along the California avenue
and lower Grove lines and the cars
passed through several showers of
stones and bricks.
Traffic was frequently impeded by
piles OF rock, lumber, etc, along the
Market street and Cheateau avenue
lines and every now and then a stray
rock was hurled at the passing cars.
Two imported employees of the ST
Louis Transit Company were shot to-
day while in charge OF street cars. In
neither case Is the assailant known.
Guy Fickes. OF Decatur Illinois. was
shot through the thigh at Twenty-first
and Morgan streets. Fickes was en-
ployed as a guard on the cars Fickes
said a large crowd on the sidewalk
hooted and jeered at the car. At Twen-
ty-frst street he was shot, and he says
the flash came from a corner house
nearby. His condition is not serious.
The Federal grand jury was I'm ses-
sion all day to-day. taking evidence
regarding the hindrances and obstruc-
lions to the United States mail, caused
by the present street car strike.
Shortly after noon to-day three cable
cars started east from the power
house OF the Fourth street railway on
Eighteenth and Park avenues, but
some one cut all the strands OF the
cable. presumably by a steel saw. and
the cars were hauled back to the power
house by horses.
John Kama, a saloon keeper, was
probably fatally wounded, and Robert
Nelson, colorsd. and Emergency Officer
saoob Hoiiingsworth slightly wounded
tp-ptght In a riot at the South End.
a special officer fired at Kama and the
other two were shot. supposedly by
Kama Kama had been drinking and
ehot at q motorman on a passing car.
Fetrolrnan Henry r. Barton, guard on
. car. was shot and painfully wounded
to-day. The car was stoned and then
shot at. A riot call dispersed tho
ayoWd.