The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-14
killed IN ST. LOUIS RIOTS,
Strikers Shot During a Pitched
Battle with Deputy Sheriffs.
THE DEAD FOUR IN NUMBER.
Transit Lines the Scenes of Trouble All
Day-A Big Thunderstorm RACES Dur
ing tho Fight-Prominent Citizens Do
Firing.

+ st. Louis, Mo-, June 12-Four dead,
one fatally injured, eleven severely
hurt, four cars derailed by dynamite
and the temporary dismantling of two
car lines by wirecutters make up the
results of today's rioting. Several in
cipient riots were quelled by the police
In various part of the city. The dead:
G. Edward Thomas, striking conduc-
tor on the Chouteau avenue line, shot
in the breast by deputy sheriff, died on
way to hospital; George Rine, aged
citizen, shot and instantly killed while
standing in his front yard by deputy
sheriff; Ed Burkhart, striking con-
ductor on Delmar avenue line, shot in
head, died in hospital. The wounded,
SO far as their names could be OBJ
tanned: Oscar Marvin, conductor on
the Lee avenue line, shot in right hand
and arm, serious; August Smith, shot
In right arm and breast, not serious;
Charles Ludwig, shot in hand, not
serious; Malachy Moran, policeman,
seriously beaten by crowd that at
tackled car; Peter Smith conductor,
beaten by crowd; Charles Kuhn, con-
ductor, beaten by crowd; Albert
Strong, motorman on Market street
car, skull fractured by stones thrown
by mob, will die; Ed Barry, motor
man on Laclede avenue line, hit on
head with brick and badly injured by
mob as his car was passing; James
Mcclure, severe scalp wounds received
in a fight with strike sympathizers
which followed a dispute; John NOEL
roy, scalp wounds, beaten by strike
sympathizers in same fight.
| Five hundred strikers and a COM
pany of deputy sheriffs fought q
pitched battle Sunday night in Wash
| ington avenue, near Sixth street, the
| heart of st. Louis. The strikers, in
| the uniforms Of conductors and motor
men, were returning from meeting
in East st. Louis. They marched UP
Washington avenue with a band at
their head and cheered as the van
guard came abreast of the deputies
| barracks at 624 Washington avenue.
| The garrison of deputies appeared at
the front door of the barracks to view
the parade. A crowd assembled at
each corner to watch it. Then some
body threw a brick through the win
dow of a Lindell avenue car that was
passing. Capt. Webster of the First
regiment, Missouri national guard,
rushed into the street to arrest the
man who threw the brick. Capt. Web
ster had his repeating shotgun in his
hands and as he approached the car
tracks pistol shots resounded, as if
| coming from the ranks of the march
| ing strikers.
The band stopped playing instantly.
A deputy standing on the sidewalk
look dellDelate ann at the p1sroI
shooter and in to fire In an in
slant the whole column Of strikers was
on the defensive. Pistols were drawn
and the men backed up on the north
sidewalk, where they seemed prepared
to do battle. The sheriffs came rush
Ing pellmell from the barracks to the
south sidewalk with weapons ready,
but loath to fire upon silent oppo-
nent. Then somebody standing behind
the embattled strikers fired five shots
IN quick succession at the group of
deputies, and the response was roar
of shotgun detonations that put the
strikers to almost immediate flight and
brought crowd of many thousands
rushing toward the scene of battle.
When the street-car men ran away
l1ree lay writhing upon the sidewalk.
Most of the deputies fired high and the
glass fronts of the stores IN the north
side of the street were shattered. No
deputies were hit
A furious thunderstorm prevailed
during the battle, and the roar of shot
guns and pistols was mistaken by
many for the peals of thunder, which
were frequent.
In the posse which fired upon the
strikers were William P. Kenneth, ex-
president Of the Merchants exchange:
Judge Chester H. Krum; Charles Ma
gel, former president of the city coun-
Gil and wealthy lawyer Frank John
son of the Simmons Hardware COM
pany; John Atkinson, wealthy grain
dealer, and John H. Overall, formerly
city attorney. Many of the sons of
wealthy st. Louisans were in the
squad which fought the rioters.