The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-24
THE ST LOUIS STRIKE.
Controversy In No Nearer a Settle
ment--Anofher nay of Riotoun
Demonstration.

ST. LoulS, May was NO
conference Friday between represent
atives of the striking street car en-
ployes and of the st. Lonis Transit
company, although President HAYES,
Of the board of police commissioners,
tried to get the two parties to the
strike controversy together in still
another meeting. He consulted with
T.. B. Edwards, chairman OF the griey-
anee committee, and with Benjamin
4. Clark, the attorney of the strikers,
in the morning, and as a result had
Mr.. Edwards send q letter to Presi-
dent Whitaker suggesting a confer
ence. In response Mr.. Whitaker said
he was willing to meet the committee
at any time. Mr.. Edwards then sug-
gested that the next proposition come
from the company, and the response
was In effect that the company had
no further proposition to make, stand
ing on the offer of Thursday, reject
ed by the strikers.
The house of delegates has passed
the bill to revoke the franchises of
the various street railway companies
in st. Louis in case they failed to
run their cars in compliance with the
terms of the city ordinances.
Rioting broke out afresh in various
parts Of the city and several casual
ties of a severe nature were recorded
on the books Of the police depart
ment. At noon a crowd of 400 or more
men, women and boys congregated
along Laclede, between Grand and
Theresa avenues, and stopped the cars
as they approached by mean of OBJ
%structions piled on the tracks, As the
cars came to a standstill rioting be-
gan. Persons in the crowd com
menced throwing rocks, and some
shots were fred, One of the bullets
struck j. II. Richardson, a conductor,
in the head. a special officer on one
of the cars was dragged off and badly
beaten, his club and revolver taken
from him aud several other motor
men and conductors were assaulted.
While the turmoil was at its height
a detail Of police came dashing up and
charged the crowd They struck right
and left, but they had no Chew as to
who was responsible for the shooting,
Richardson is probably fatally
wounded.
On the Bellefontain line obstruc-
tions were numerous, and when the
men left the cars to remove the BAR
riers they were made the targets of
the strike sympathizers, who peited
them from windows and housetops
with rocks, broken bricks and pieces
of iron. The employees on the Easton
avenue cars had another rough day
Of it. Their cars were pelted at street
corners near the western terminus,
and also along Franklin avenue and
Morgan street. In II place the
strike sympathizers blockaded the
track with a dead horse. No sooner
did the street car employees remove
the carcass than a hundred willing
hands grabbed it and dragged it back
to the track. Traffic was INSTRUCTED
until the police arrived and made the
crowd dispense. DISTINCTIONS were
numerous along the California avenue
and Tower Grove lines, and the cars
passed through several showers of
stones and bricks.
= Guy Ffckes, of Decatur, ILL.,, was
shot through the thigh at Twenty
first and Morgan streets at 1880
o'clock Friday afternoon. Ficks ar
rived from Decatur Friday morning.
He was employed as a special guard
by the Transit company and was on
one of the Easton avenue cars at the
time the shooting occurred.
John Kenna, a saloon keeper in Ora
tiot street, was probably fatally
wounded, and Robert Nelson (col-
ored) and Emergency Officer Jacob
Hollingsworth slightly wounded inN a
riot at the south end of the Four
teenth street bridge. Kenna was shot
four times by the special officer and
Nelson was struck in the lobe of the
left ear by a stray bullet fred, sup
posedly by Kenna, who fired four
shots at the officer, one of which
struck him in the hand, causing a
slight wound.
Patrolman Henry E. Barton was
shot and painfully wounded on JEFF
ferson avenue, near Geyer avenue.
Barton was on a car of the Jefferson
avenue line as a guard. As the a
passed Geyer venue a few stones
thrown and then several shots
rang out. As the reports died away
the officer felt a singing sensation
in his head, and, reaching up, found
the blood pouring from a bullet
wound.