Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25
A DAY OF RIoTING.
Street Car Troubles in So. Louis Gull
inmate in One Death on Monday
Several Persons Wounded.

st. Louis, May 22.-One boy was |
killed and three men and girl were |
wounded Monday as a result of the |
strike. Martin Zika, IS years of age,
was struck in the left breast by bullet |
fired from a street car and killed.
Conductor Farley and Motorman Jo-
seph Drake were placed under arrest.
The wounded are: Clarence E. Mullen,
motorman, shot in upper portion of left
arm; home in Jacksonville, ILL.,, wound
not serious; Minnie Krueger, IS years
of age, struck in left thigh by glanc-
ing bullet, not serious. Two rioters,
seen to fall during fight at Thir-
teenth and Herbert streets between
mob of $50 men and the police, were
carried away by friends and names
not learned.
Zika was shot late in the afternoon
while standing in the door of his home,
at 1900 Geyer avenue. A mob of several
hundred men had surrounded n car of
the Tower Grove line, and were threat
| ening 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
| iiCu Nlthlh lew minutes SohuuStoi
Farley and Motorman Drake were ar
rested by the police pending an investi-
CATION. AT the police station Farley
admitted firing the shot which killed
Zika. He fired, he said, at man who
was preparing to throw a stone at him,
and the bullet struck ZilSa.
The four people wounded were all
injured near a fight which occurred at
$3.50 O'Clock at the intersection of
| Thirteenth and Herbert streets. The
riot was lively while it lasted, fully 100
shots being fired, and as the streets
were crowded with people it is remark
able that the number of injured was
so small. Four cars of the Bellfontaine
line were running close together, and
when the first one turned the corner
it plunged into crowd of over 200 men
and women who gathered there. No
stop was made, and the car was free
of the mob before any damage could
be done. The mob was ready for the
second car. however. and it received q
warm reception. Stones were rained
upon it. and several shots fired at the
conductor and motorman. The four
| police officers on the car at once re-
turned the fire, and the crew of the first
car, hearing the shots, at once re-
versed, and ran back to reinforce their
comrades. Two other cars each carry
ing four officers, were close behind.
Police Capt. Joyce being on the third
car. For nearly a minute a rapid fire
went on from both sides, and then, led
by Capt. Joyce, the police made rush
on the mob. which broke and scattered
in all directions.
Motorman Mullin, of the second car,
which was in charge of Conductor c. 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 fred by the police, and several
officers who took part in the scrimmage
declared that fully half dozen mem
bers of the mob had been shot down.
The best information and the evidence
of the greater number of officers is,
however, to the effect that only two
men were shot by the police. They
were at once carried off by their
friends. and their names are not
known. Minnie Krueger ran into a
yard for safety when the fight began,
and a bullet, striking an iron fence
near which she was standing, glanced
off and hit her in the left thigh. The
wound was little more than a scratch.
The passengers on the cars made
wild scrambles for the open air when
the trouble began. Among them
were three women. and the female
sympathizers with the strikers, who
were present in large numbers, at
once attacked them. They showered
them with abuse, pelted them with
stones, clogs and sticks and made them
run for their lives. For several
squares the chase was kept up, the
three women finally leaving the
streets and running across some va
cant lots. still hotly pursued by the
crowd of women, who succeeded ev-
cry now and then in striking one of
the fugitives with stick or stone.
The crowd was not distanced until
the three women had been raced
fully third of mile. The police
| had their hands full at the time in
dealing with the mob at the corner,
and were not able to afford any pro-
q lection to the women.
The meeting of labor leaders Mon
day night, held for the purpose of dis
cussing the advisability of calling out
the organized labor of the city on a
sympathetic strike, was not produc.
tive OF great results, and but little
progress apparently was made toward
ordering out the unions.
sinmese Admiral Arrives.