The age-herald., 1900-05-19
ST. LOUIS RIOTS
 BEGIN AFRESH No Conference Was Held Be-
 tween Opposing Factions SEVERAL PERSONS BADLY HURT Cable Cut and One of the Lines
 Out of Operation. CONDUCTOR SHOT IN THE HEAD | At One Place the Strike Sympathisers Put the Carcass of a Dead Horse Across the Street Car Track
CONDUCTOR SHOT IN THE HEAD

St. Louis, May 1S.-There was no confer- ence today between representatives of the
 striking street car employees and of the St. Louis Transit company, although Presi-
 dent Hawes of the board of police commis- sioners tried to get the two parties to the
 strike controversy together in still another meeting He consulted with T. B. Ed
 wards, chairman of the grievance commit
 tee, and with Benjamin r. Clark the at
 torney of the strikers, in the morning, and
 as a result had MT. Edwards send letter
 to President Whitaker suggesting a con ference. In response MT Whitaker said he
 was willing to meet the committee at any | time. MT Edwards then suggested that the next proposition come from the company, and the response was in effect that the | company had no further proposition to
 make, standing on the offer of Thursday, rejected by the strikers.
 Rioting broke out afresh today in var
 ious parts of the city and several casualties of severe nature were recorded on the books of the police department. At noon a crowd of four hundred or more | men, women and boys congregated along Laclede battle ground and Thersa avenues | and stopped the as they approached by | means of Instructions piled on the tracks. | AS the cars came to standstil rioting be- | gan. Persons in the crowd commenced
 throwing rocks and some shots were fired. I one-of the bullets struck J. D. Richardson, conductor in the head. Oficer Badly Beaten
 A special officer on one of the cars was
 dragged off and badly beaten his club and
 revolver taken from him and several other
 mOtOrmen and conductors were assauIted
 While the turmoil at it's height de- tail of police came dashing up and charged
 the crowd They struck right and left, but
 they had no clew as to who was responsi-
 ble for the shooting. Richardson is proba-
 bly, fatally injured
 On the Bellefontaine line Instructions
 were numerous and when the men left the
 cars to remove the barriers they were
 made the targets of the strike sympathiz- | CTS, who pelted them from windows and i house tops with rocks, broken bricks and l pieces of iron.
 l The employees on the Eastern avenue | cars had another rough day of it. Their 1 cars were pelted at stret corners near the Western terminus, and also along Frank lin avenue and Morgan street. In one place the strike sympathizers blockaded the track with a dead horse. No sooner did the stret car employees re- move the carcass than hundred willing hands grabbed it and dragged it back to the track Traffic was obstructed until
 the police arrived and made the crowd dis
 perse. Distractions were numerous along the California avenue and Lower Grove lines and the cars passed through several 1 showers of stones and bricks. Traffic was | frequently impeded by piles of rock lum- | Der, etc, along the Market street and | Chateau avenue lines, and every now and 1 then a stray rock was hurled at the pass ing cars.
 Two Employees Shot Two imported employees of the St. Eouls Transit company were shot today while in charge of street cars. In neither case
 is the assailant known.
 Guy Fickes of Decatur H., was shot through the thigh at Twenty-first and Mor- gan streets at 1:40 o'clock this afternoon. Fickes arrived from Decatur Friday morn- ing. He was employed as special guard by the Transit company, and was on one of the Easton avenue cars at the time of the shooting.
 Pickles was removed to St. Johns hos. pital after his injuries had been attended to.
 To an Associated Press reported Pickles said:
 We were going east on Morgan strret at the time I shot. A large crowd had gathered on the sidewalk all along the street from Jefferson avenue east, ana i they hooted and jeered At Twenty-frst the crowd was biggest, and 1t was with difficulty the made any progress at all It was then I shot. don't know who
 shot me- but know the bullet came from
 a house along the street. I saw the flash
 at the same time I felt the sting Of the
 shot It came from the second story Of a
 brick building on the corner"
 The federal grand jury was in session all
 day It had under consideration the hind
 rances and Instructions to the United
 States mail case by the present street car
 strike. Numerous witnesses were examined
 and some important evidence presented. No
 formal report was submitted to the court,
 but it is believed final report will be made
 Saturday.
 Shortly after noon today three cable cars
 started east from the power house of the
 Fourth street railway on Eighteenth ana
 Park avenue. At Fourth street and Chat eau avenue the cars stopped and upon in-
 vestigation it was found that the cable
 had been cut. When the free end or the
 cable arrived at the power house It was
 found that all the strings had been severed,
 presumably by steel saw. The cars were
 hauled back to the power house by horses.
 The task of splicing the cable and run
 ming it through the conduits will be difh-