The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
ADAY OF CARNAGE
Blood of Strikers Poured Out in
st. Louis.
Three Killed and Five or More
Wounded.
THE DEPUTY SHERIFFS
Fire on a Party Returning From
a Picnic.
Encounter Appears to Have
Been Entirely One Sided.
Strikers Appeal to President
GOmpers For Help.


st. Louis, June 11.-Yesterday was one |
Of the most eventful and bloody since |
the great strike on the St. Louis Tran |
sit began more than one month ago. |
There were numerous encounters be-
tween strikers and other riotous indl-
viduals and the constituted authorities
resulting in three deaths and the
wounding of five or more persons, most
ly strikers. One Of the latter will die
THE DEAD.
c. EDWARD THOMAS, striking con-
ductor on the Chouteau avenue line,
shot in breast by deputy sheriff; died on
way to hospital.
GEO. RINE, striking motornan on
Delmar avenue line; shot in abdomen
by deputy sheriff; died at city hospital
FRED BOEHM, aged citizen; shot
and instantly killed while standing in
his front yard by deputy sheriff.
THE WOUNDED.
Ed Burkhardt striking conductor on
Delmar avenue line; shot in head; may
| die.
avenue line; shot in right hand and
/ arm; serious.
August Smith. shot in right arm and
| breast; not serious.
ious
The day was quiet until afternoon,
| when the police were taken OH a num-
| ber of the street car lines for the pur-
| pose of giving them a. rest and 10 test
| the ability of the Transit company to
| operate without friction. Cars were in
| operation during the day time on all the
lines of the Transit company except the
| Southwestern. Last night cars were
| run under police protection until mid
night on the Park avenue, Olive street
Lindell division and Laclede avenue
lines.
The most serious trouble broke out be-
tween 6 and o'clock in front of the
six story store building on Washington
avenue, between Broadway and Sixth
streets, occupied by the Sheriff'S posse
comitatuS as a barracks and headquar-
ters. Several hundred striking street car
men had gone to East st. Louis earlier
in the day to attend a picnic given for
| their benefit at WOlff's grove. Towards
evening they began returning home
singly, in groups of two or three, and
= others in companies of a hundred OF
more. No serious trouble occurred un-
til one of these companies, composed OF
nearly $50 street car men in uniform
! and headed by drum corps, came west
! on Washington avenue In their caps
t some of them had cards bearing these
words:
Union or nothing; Liberty or death. >
l The men were marching along the
: sidewalk on the south side of Washing
ton avenue, opposite the posse barracks
They were in a jOcular mood, and as
near as can be learned, had no intention
of making any trouble. Just as they
} were passing the barracks, a car of the
Park avenue division was going west
t A number of the men broke from this
= line and rushed for the car with the ir.
tentiOn, it is said, of boarding it and
e taking a ride. Another statement wa.
I made that it was the intention of tn,
2 strikers to assault the motorman ant
2 | conductor, whose car was without tn,
usual police guard. However that ma!
\ be, the trouble started here. A bricl
was thrown through the car window
| and a shot was fired by somebody no
known. At the first intimation of troU
BILE members of the sheriff's poss
: swarmed from the building and sur
c rounded the crowd of strikers about tn
u car, calling on them to disperse. Othe
e shots were fired; then some deputies
| turned loose their repeating shotgun
3 loaded with buckshot. AS far as can b.
learned only four of the men in tn,
= strikers ranks were hit. Not a deput,
:. was wounded.
. . c. Edward Thomas, a striking conduc
a tor on the Chouteau avenue line. wa
n picked up and placed in an ambulance
Il after the fight was over. He was sho
in the breast, the heavy load of buck
G shot tearing a hole that soon let out hi
q life's blood, and caused his death Will
q on the way to the city hospital
+ George Rine, a striking motorman OF
: the Delmar avenue line, received a ter
h rible wound in the abdomen He wa
n taken to the city hospital, but died OF
: the operating table.
+ Another of those hit by shot from tn
. deputies guns was Ed Burkhardt, a strik
, ing conductor, also of the Delmar avenu
: line. Several buckshot struck him in tn
e side of the head, causing a serious wound
s He may die. Oscar Marvin, a striking con
S ductor on the Lee avenue line will prob
s ably lose his right hand a result of tn
s fusillade. 1t was badly torn. 1t is no
: known whether any others were wounde
= or not.
I Under the command of Colonel Caver
dar; the deputies arrested twenty of IN
strikers and took them to the barrack
5 where they were searched. Three revo
= vers and a number of pocket knives wer
: secured, and the prisoners were taken t
: the -Four Courts. where they were locke
q up pending an investigation.
= Those under arrest are: J. r. Gran
: Charles White. C. johnson, L. K. McCoi
) mack, John Adams, J. H. Kennedy, N
t GreenWay, n. P. Hedrick Thomas Doyl
e Charles Robbins, H Jones, George Keise
d Reinhart Miller, John Schuler. Charlie
Il NcIver, T. H. Chaplin, Joseph Emo. W. y
= Thomas Allan Knabb and F. E. Cleary.
= The remainder of the strikers fed ives
followed by a squad of mounted polio
: that had been summoned They disperse
n without any further trouble
n At the time of the trouble. company I
Ie composed of some of the most promineI
a citizens that have been summoned fl
n duty the posse conitatus, dul
- at the barracks. Headed by LieutenaI
y Colonel Cavendar, formerly of the Fir
u Missouri volunteers. they grabbed gul
Is and rushed for the street, where they b
Us haved with distinction. Among them wel
r w. P. Kennett. ex-president of the Ne
n chants exchange; John T. Lee, a prom
! nent lawyer and member of the citizen
= committee that has been trying to effe
LS a settlement between the strikers and Il
- Transit company; ex-Judge Chester ]
i Crurn Charles Nagle, a prominent lay
in yer and former candidate on the Repub
: can ticket for mayor: eS-Judge John