The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-22
KILLED AND INJURED
FIVE VICTIMS OF THE sTREET-RAIL-
WAY STRIKE IN ST. LOUIS.
Conductor of n Car Shot a Boy and in
the Melee Four Persons, Includ-
ing a Girl, Were Hurt.

ST. LOUIS, May H.-One boy was killed
and three men and girl were wounded
to-day as a result of the strike.
The Dead
MARTIN ZIKA.4 eighteer years old.
struck In left breast by bullet fired from
q street car.
Conductor Farley and Motorman Joseph
Drake placed under arrest.
The Wounded
CLARENCE MULLEN. motorman, shot
in upper portion of left arm.
MINNIE KRUGER, eighteen years old,
struck in left thigh by glancing bullet.
Two rioters were seen to fall during
fight at Thirteenth and Herbert streets,
between a mob of $50 and the police; car
ried away by friends and names not
known.
Zika was shot in the afternoon, while
standing in the door of his home at No.
24O Gier avenue. A mob of several hun
dred men had surrounded a of the
Tower Grove line and were threatening
the conductor and motorman. A few
stones had been thrown, when a shot was
fired from the car, the bullet striking Zika
full in the breast. He died within few
minutes Conductor Farley and Motorman
Drake were arrested by the police, pending
an investigation. Both Of them deny the
shooting The four people wounded were
all injured in fight which occurred at
Thirteenth and Herbert streets. The riot
was lively, fully 100 shots being fired.
Four cars Of the Bellefontaine line were
running close together, and when the first
one turned the corner 1t plunged into a
crowd of over 200 hundred men and women,
who had gathered there. No stop was
made, and the car was free of the mob be-
fore any damage could be done. The mob
was ready for the second car, however,
and it received a warm reception. Stones
were rained upon it and several shots
were fired at the conductor and motorman.
The four police officers on the
car returned the fire. and the crew of the
first, hearing the shot, reversed and ran
back to reinforce their comrades. Two
other cars, each carrying four officers. were
close behind, Police Captain Joyce being on
the third. For nearly a minute rapid fire
went on from botn sides and then, led by
Captain Joyce, the police made a rush on
the mob which broke and scattered in all
directions. Motorman Mullen, of the Sec
ond car, which was in charge of Conductor
Charles W. Scott, was shot through the
arm, he being the only one injured by the
mob. Two rioters were seen to fall, hit by
bullets fired by the police They were at
once carried off by their friends and their
names are not known.
Minnie Kruger ran into yard for safety
when the fight began and bullet striking
an iron fence near which she was stand
ing, glanced off and hit her in the left
thigh, The wound was not serious.
The passengers on the cars made wild
scrambles for the open air when the trouble
began. Among them were were three
the strikers. who We're present in large
numbers, at once attacked them. They
showered them with abuse, pelted them
| for their lives. For several squares the
chase was kept up, the three women finally
| leaving the street and running across some
vacant lots. still holly pursued by the
row and then In striking one of the fugi-
tives with a stick or stone. The crowd
was not distanced until the three women
had been raced fully third of mile. The
| police were too busy with the mob at the
corner to afford any protection to the
women.
| At O'Clock, at Eleventh street and Park
| avenue, a mob of several hundred men and
| women attacked a car on the Park-ayenue
| lire as it was on the home trip. Several
stones weret brown and a shot was fred
force OF forty men was at once dis
natehed o from p91ee a.sner.S hsSadausfters and
| ficulty. At the police station to-
| night Conductor Owen Farley admit.
| ted firing the shot which killed Zika. He
| fred, he said, at man who was preparing
| to throw stone at him. and the bullet
struck Zika- There was riot at Tweltf
street and Choteau avenue. late In the aft.
ernoon. when a Tower Grove car reached
| the corner. A large crowd gathered and
/ blocked the tracks so the car could mol
move. while nearly hundred men climbed
| or top &C the Shinkie Harrison iron foun.
| dry building and rained hail OF stones or
| the car. riot call was sent In and Detec-
tives Haeeman. Ffnan and Poljceunar