The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-18
STREET CAR STRIKE.
A Riot Breaks Out on the Opening
of a St. Louis Line.
TWO MEN GET SHOT IN THE HIPS.
No Visible Progress Made by the Union
Street Railway Employees in Their
Strike Against metropolitan sys-
tenn In Kansas CITY

ing feature in the street car strike
situation yesterday was a riot which
broke out on the opening of the
Grand avenue line of the st. Louis
Transit system, during the progress
of which two men were shot. At
nightfall the Transit company and its
5000 striking employees were no near
err an adjustment of their differences
than they were at the same time yes
terday The officials of the railroad
company, members of the employees
grievance committee and the presi-
dent of the police board were in ses-
sion for five hours yesterday in an en-
deavor to reconcile the differences eX-
listing between the company and its
employees.
On adjournment all the parties talk
ing part in the conference would not
talk for publication, simply stating
that no agreement had been arrived
at and that they would meet again
this afternoon in an effort to accom-
plish something.
The Suburban company, pursuant
to the agreement effected Monday
with its striking employees, ran on
full schedule day and night. This is
the first time since the strike was in
augurated on the road that a night
schedule was maintained.
Five lines were opened during the
day by the Transit company, all shut
ing down at dark. Very irregular
schedules were maintained on these
lines.
The opening of the Grand avenue
line of the Transit system was attend
ed by a riot about four o'clock at
Easton avenue, in which two persons
were wounded by bullets said to have
been fired by b. b. Campbell, conduct
or of one of the cars. The first two
cars passed over the Easton avenue
crossing and then Instructions in the
track were encountered. The motor
man waited for the policemen to get
down and remove the stones and lum-
Der from the track. A shot was fired
in the air by policeman as the car
started to move on. Shouts of
"scab" came from the crowd at the
same time and more shots were fired
from the procession of cars. 1t was
claimed in the crowd that so to 10
shots were fired almost simultaneous
ly, but only two persons were wound
ed. They are John Flatley, North
Nandeventer avenue, and Joseph
Trendall. Both were wounded in the
left hip. Flatley's wound is serious.
Flatley, who is motorman on the
Easton avenue division of the st.
Louis Transit company, is a striker.
Trendall is Is years of age and was
not involved in the strike. He was
merely an onlooker
Intense excitement prevailed in the
neighborhood during the riot, and
for an hour 0fterward, but no fur
Their effort TO modest the cars was
made. \ force of 80 TO - policemen
were on the scene soon after the riot
call was turned in and succeeded in
| preserving order.
Men on the trouble wagon" of the
Broadway line and bystanders had an
encounter at the corner of Twentieth
and Eugenia streets and two addi-
tiona names were added to the list
of strike casualties as n result.
Thomas King was riddled with buck
shot and some of the leaden missiles
struck the son of Sergt. Edward
Dowd. Both of these young men al
legc that they were innocent bystand'
ers and that there was no occasion for
the shooting.
Kansas Clty's street Car Strike.
Kansas City, Mo-, May 16.-No visi
BILE progress was made yesterday by
the union street railway employees il
their strike upon the metropolitan
system. The cars on all divisions
ran on schedule time, just as they
have every day since the strike was
inaugurated.
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