The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-22
R|0T|NG IN ST. Louis.
ONE KILLED AND 4 NUMBER
WOUNDED BY BULLETS.
Mob Attacks n street Car with Guns,
stones and sticks and shots Are
Exchanged with Police-The
Women Passengers Are Mobbed.

ST. LOUIS, May 2l-One boy vas killed
and three men and girl were wounded
today as a result of the strike. The dead:
Martin Zika, IS years of age, struck in
the left breast by bullet fired from
street car.
Conductor Farley and Motorman Joseph
Drake were placed under arrest. Farley
admits having fired the fatal shot.
The wounded:
Clarence Z. Mullen. motorman, shot in
upper portion of left arm; home in jack
sonville. Ill; wound not serious.
Minnie Kruger. Is years old, struck in
left thigh by a glancing bullet; not Sc
rious.
Two rioters seen to fall during n fight at
Thirteenth and Herbert streets. between a
mob of $50 men and the police, were car
ried away by friends and their names were
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 car of the Tower
Grove line and were threatening the con-
ductor and motorman. A few stones had
heen thrown when shot was fired from
the car, the bullet striking Zika full In
the breast. He died within few minutes
Conductor owen Farley and Motorman
Drake were arrested by the police.
At the police station tonight Farley adj
mitted firing the shot which killed Zika
He fired, he said, at man who was pre-
pairing to throw a stone at him, and the
bullet struck Zika.
The four people wounded were all in
jured during a fight which occurred at $50
o'clock at the intersection OF Thirteenth
and Herbert streets. The riot was lively
while 1t lasted. fully 100 shots being fired,
and as the streets were crowded with peo-
pie It is remarkable that the number of
injured was so small
Mobs Attacks street Car.
Four cars OF the Bellfontaine line were
running close together and when the first
one turned the corner 1t plunged into a
crowd of over POO men and women who
gathered there.
No stop was made and the car was free
OF the mob before any damage could be
made. The mob was ready for the second
car however. and II received warm re-
ception. Stones were rained upon Il and
several shots fired at the conductor and
motorman The four police officers on the
car at once returned the fire and the crew
of the first car hearing the shots al once
reversed and ran back to reinforce their
comrades. Two other cars, each carrying
four officers. were close behind. Police
Capt Joyce being on the first car. For
nearly minute a rapid fire went on from
both sides and then. led by Capt. Joyce
the police made n rush for the crowd which
broke and scattered in all directions.
Motorman Mullen, OF the second car, was
sho. through the arm. he being the only
one injured by the mob. Two rioters were
seen to fan hit by bullets fred by the
police and several officers who took part In
the scrimmage declared that fully half n
dozen members of the mob had been shot
down. The best information, and the ovi-
dence of the greater number Of officers Is
however TO the effect that only two were
shot by the police. They were at once
carried of by their friends and their names
are not known.
Minnie Kreuger ran into yard for safe
ty when the fight began. and a bullet
striking fence near where she was stand
ing glanced of and hit her In the left
thigh.
The passengers on the car made wild
scrambles for the open air when the
trouble began. Among them we're 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 cipds and sticks and ma lie
| them run for their lives. For several
squares the chase was kept up. the three
women finally leaving the street and run
| ming across some vacant lots, still holly
pursued by the crowd of women behind.
who succeeded every now and then In
striking one of the fugitives with a stick
or stone. The crowd was not distanced
| untn the three women had been raced full
ly third OF a mile. The police had tier
| hands full at the time in dealing with
the mob at the corner and were not able
| to afford any protection to the women
| At 6 o'clock small riot occurred at
| Eleventh street and Park avenue, mob
| of several hundred men and women at
| tackled the last car on the Park avenue
| line as 1t was on the home trip. Several
| stones were thrown and shot WAS nre j.
| but whether by the mob or by one OF ire
| men on the car could not be determined a
| force of forty men vas at once dispatched
| from police headquarters and the MOB
disper sed without difficulty.