The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-11

George Keisel, Reinhart Miller, John
Schuler, Charles McIver. F. H Chaplin.
Joseph Emo, E. NJ. Thomas, Allan Knabbe.
and F. Z. Cleary. The remainder OF the
strikers fed west. followed by squad of
mounted police that had been summoned
They dispersed without any further
trouble.
At the time of the trouble. Company F.
composed of some of the most prominent
PEOPLE that have been summoned for duty
on the posse comitatus was on duty at the
barracks. Headed by Colonel Cavender,
formerly of the First Missouri Volunteers.
they grabbed guns and rushed for the
street, where they behaved with distinction
Among them were w. p. Kennett, ex-
president of the Merchants Exchange;
John F. Lee. a prominent lawyer and
member of the citizens committee that has
been trying to effect a settlement between
the strikers and the Transit Company; ex-
Judge Chester H. Krum. Hon. Charles
Nagle, a prominent lawyer and former
candidate for mayor; ex-Judge John H.
Overall. Hugh X. Hastung, newspaper
man who was acting as clerk at posse
headquarters and Dr. ]. H. Woodwork.
This afternoon while crowd of men on
Franklin avenue near Twelfth street were
menacing a car of the Easton avenue line
the motorman or the policeman on board
fired several shots from a revolver. August
Smith was shot in the right arm and breast
but not seriously injured. Charles Ludwig
was wounded in the hand. Both these men
assert they were merely looking from their
boarding house windows, block and half
away, and had nothing to do with the
trouble. A third man is also said TO have
been wounded, but his name could not be
learned.
In fracas at Tenth and Franklin ave-
nues tonight a man was shot and. it was
reported fatally injured, but before his
name could be learned or the extent Of his
injury, he was hurried away in a buggy by
friends.
Fred Boehm. a respectable citizen, aged
sixty-five years, was this afternoon killed
by the shot from the gun of a deputy. The
latter had fired at a crowd of strikers or
sympathizers who were stoning car on
the Bellefontaine line. Death was instan-
taneous and the body was taken to the
morgue.
Late tonight horse and surrey in which
were a number of men drove up to the car
sheds at Compton and Manchester avenue
The men in the buggy stopped and COM
menced to revile the deputy sheriffs on
guard there with vulgar language. This
became unbearable and Captain Hancock.
in command of the deputies, ordered the
men to STOP They replied with several re-
volver shots and drove away.
Captain Hancock ordered them to come
back and when they refused fired point
blank at the buggy with his shotgun. kill
ing one of the horses. The men in the
buggy jumped out and escaped on foot.
No one was wounded. Ed Barry. a motor
man on the Laclede-avenue line. is laid
up with badly battered head. He was
wounded by a brick thrown by some one
while his car was passing a crowd to-
night.
James MCGUIRE and John McElroy re-.
ceived serious injuries to-day while en-
gagged In dispute with number of strike
sympathizers. In the row Mcclure and
| McElroy were hit several times over the
| head with beer bottles. receiving ugly
| scalp wounds. Their assailants escaped.
| The injured men were taken to the City
Hospital.
IN EAST ST. LOUIS.
In East st. Louis there were riotous
scenes to-day during the picnic of street.
car strikers and there were a number of
| exciting incidents. A crowd of several
hundred men released young man from
| ST. Louis who had been arrested for annoy
| ing the employees of the East st. Louis
car line. At Ohio and Collinsville avenue
a crowd of men gathered in the afternoon
| and called ''scab'' at each passing car
crew.
Several of the st. Louis men boarded
| an East ST. Louis car as it was passing
VOLTS Park and dragged John Regan, the
| conductor, from the car. The motorman
4 stopped the car and Regan landed
| a few heavy swings on his nearest oppo-
nents and freed himself, jumping on the
| car again.
| There was no other attempt at violence.
but tonight Superintendent McHarold or
| dered all the cars into the sheds There
were no cars in operation on any OF the
| divisions of East st. Louis. The passen-
| gers on car No. 1853, of the Delmar line,
| in charge of Conductor Walsh and Motor
| man Bagley, had an exciting experience
this evening at Forsyth Junction, near the
western city limits. They were attacked
by bowling crowd. who were just return
| ing on a special train from Creve Coeur
lake. The train stopped at Forsythe juno
ton for several minutes, waiting for a Wa
bash train. The excursionists, who saw the
car coming several hundred yards away,
| armed themselves with rocks and bonn
barded it as 1t drew near. Motorman Bag
by increased the speed, not even stopping
| at the switch at the junction. None of the
| passengers were allowed to get of the car.
They remained aboard until after IL had
turned the loop at the Lindell pavilion in
Forest Park. BY this time the train had
passed This was the second experience
that Clayton passengers had during the
J day. During the afternoon a crowd of
strike sympathizers piled timbers and ties
| on the tracks, Just east Of the Colorado
bridge. in Clayton. There is a sharp turn
at this place, with steep incline. Motor
man s. 2. Ely discovered the timbers just
In time to prevent a collision. Had the car
struck the obstruction the passengers prob
| ably would have been precipitated down a
| fifty-foot embankment. Sheriff Keith de-
tailed several deputies along the route
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AFRAID OF THE COST.
Governor stephens Has Not Yet Called
| Out the Militia.