Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-11

tails of the Situation as Ii Existed
| Yesterday and Last Evening.
| ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 10.-Four men
in party of one hundred or more
striking employees of the Transit Com
pany, who were returning from a la
Dor parade in East st. Louis, were shot
shortly after six o'clock this evening
by members of the sheriff's posse, in
front of the temporary barracks on
Washington avenue. between Broadway
and Sixth streets. One is dead. two
others wounded in the head and abdo-
men, will die, and the fourth will lose
/ hand
Just in front of the barracks occupi.
ed by the posse comitatus the parad-
ers attempted to assault the crew of a
passing car. A brick was thrown and
several shots were fired by the street
car men. when members of the posse
| appeared on the street with their shot
guns and attempted to rescue the street
| car men. In the melee at least ten
| shots were fired by the posse men who
| surrounded the mob, and there were
four casualties as far as known. Twen-
ty-one prisoners were captured by the
| posse and taken into the barracks.
! One other shooting by deputy sher-
if is reported at the sheds of the Belle
fontaine line. Fred Boehm, 65 years
| old, was killed.
A Bloody Day.
The day just ended has been one OF
the most eventful and bloody since the
| great strike on the st. Louis Transit
lines began, more than one month ago.
There were numerous encounters be-
| tween strikers and other individuals
and the constituted authorities. result
ing in three deaths and the woundlng
of five or more persons. mostly strikers.
One of the latter will die.
The dead:
6. Edward Thomas, striking conduc-
tor on the Chouteau avenue line: shot
in breast by deputy sheriff, died on way
| to hospital
| George Rine, striking motorman on
Delmar avenue line; shot in abdomen
by deputy sheriff, died at hospital.
Fred. Boehm, aged citizen, shot and
instantly killed while standing in his
front yard by deputy sheriff.
The wounded:
Ed. Burkhart, striking conductor on
| Delmar avenue line, shot In head; may
| die
Oscar Marvin, conductor on the Lee
avenue line. shot in right hand and
arm; serious.
August Smith. shot in right hand
and breast; not serious.
Charles Ludwig. shot In hand; not
serious.
Ed. Barry, motorman on Laelede ave-
nue. line, hit on head with brick and
| badly injured
| James Mcguire and John MeElroy.
severe scalp wounds received in trouble
| with strike sympathizers.
The day was quiet until this after
noon, when the police were taken off
| number of street car lines for the
purpose of giving them rest and to
test the ability of the Transit company
to operate without friction. Cars were
in operation during the day time on all
the lines of the Transit company ex-
| cept the southwestern.
Tonight cars were run under polics
| protection until midnight on the Park
avenue. Olive street, Lindell division
and Laclede avenue lines.
| The Most serious Trouble
| broke out between and I o'clock In
front OF the six-story store building on
| Washington avenue, between Broadway
and sixth streets. occupied by the
| sherif's posse comitatus as barracks
and headquarters. Several hundred
striking street car men had gone TO
| Fast st. Louis earlier in the day 70
attend a picnic given for their benefit
al VOLTS Grove Toward evening they
began returning home singly, in groups
of two or three. and others in compa-
MES OF a hundred or more. No serious
trouble occurred until one Of these
companies, composed Of nearly one
hundred and fifty street car men in
uniform and headed by drum corps,
/ came west on Washington avenue.
In their caps some OF them had cards
bearing these words: Union or moth
ing; liberty or death"
The men were marching along the
sidewalk on the south side OF Wash
ington avenue, opposite the posse bar
racks. They were in jocular mood
and as near as can be learned had nc
intention OF making any trouble just
as they we're passing the barracks.
! car OF the Park avenue division waa
| going west A number Of the men
I. broke from the line and rushed for the