The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-11

III L4Uulos 1lDs y Ll4lE III llE nclg jus
closed has been one of the most event
ful and bloody since the great strike
on the st. Louis Transit company
lines began, more tha1 a month ago
There were numerous encounters be
= tween strikers and other riotous indi-
viduals, and the constitutional author
tiles, resulting in four deaths and the
wounding of FIVE or more persons
mostly strikers.
The dead
c. Edward Thomas, striking con-
ductor on the ChOuteau avenue line
shot in the breast by deputy sheriff
died on the way to hospital
George Rine, striking m0tOrman on
Deimar avenue line: shot in abdomen
by DEPUTY sheriff died at city hos
pltaL
Fred c. BOehm, aged citizen, shot and
Instantly killed while standing in his
Aront yard, by deputy sheriff.
Ed Burkhardt, striking conductor on
Delamar avenue line; shot in head.
WOunded
oscar Marvin, conductor on Lee ave-
nue. line: shot in right hand and arm:
serious.
August Smith. shot in right arm and
breast; not serious.
Charles Ludwig, shot in hand; not
serious.
Trouble Begins in Afternoon.
The day was quiet until this after
noon, when the police were taken off a
number Of street car lines for the pur-
pose of giving them a rest, and to test
the ability OF the Transit company to
operate without friction.
The most serious trouble broke out
between s and O'Clock, in front of
the SiX-StOry building on Washington
avenue, between Broadway and Sixth
1 streets, occupied by the sheriff's posse
Neomitatus as a barracks and headQuar-
ters. Several hundred strikers had
gone 10 East St Louis earlier in the
day to attend a picnic given for their
benefit and toward evening began re-
turning home. The trouble was pre-
cipitated when 80 strikers in uniform
and headed by a drum corps, came
west on Washington avenue In their
caps some of them had cards bearing
these words
Union or nothing; liberty or death"
Rush Made For Car.
Just as they were passing the bar
racks a car of the Park avenue division
was going west. A number of the men
broke from The line and rushed for the
car which was without the usual po-
lice guard. A brick was thrown through
the car window, and a shot was fired
by somebody.
At the first intimatiOn OF trouble
members of the sherif's posse swarmed
from the building and surrounded the
crowd Of strikers, calling on them to
disperse. Other shots were fired. Then
several deputies turned loose their re-
peatinS shOtguns, loaded with buck
shot. AS far as can be learned, only
four men in the strikers ranks were
hit. Not deputy was wounded.
Wounded Are Picked Up.
After the tight was over c. Edward
Thomas, a striking conductor was
picked up, shot in the breast. He died
in an ambulance on the way to the
HOSPITAL.
George Rine, striking mOtOTman,
received a terrible wound in the alb
domen. He was taken to che city hos
pital, and died on the operating table.
Ed Burkhardt, a striking conductor,
received several buckshot in the side
of the head, causing a serious wound.
He died at midnight.
oscar Marvin. :. striking conductor,
viii probably los his right hand which
was badly torn by a LOAD OF shot. 1t
is not KNOWN whether any others were
wounded or not
Ed Barry, motorman, hit on head with
brick; badly injured
James MCGUIRE and McElroy, severe
scalp wounds received in trouble with the
Fstrike sympathiZers.
Score of Strikers Arrested.
Under the command of Colonel Cav
ender, the deputies arrested twenty of
the strikers and took them into the
barracks, where they were searched. /
Three revolvers and a number of
pOCketknives were secured, ana the
prisoners We're taken to the Four
Courts, where they were locked up
pending an investigation.
The remainder of the strikers fled,
followed by squad of mounted police
that had been summoned. They dis
persed without further trouble
Prominent Citizens in Posse.
The posse that did the shooting is
composed of some of the most prOmi-
nent citizens in the city, and behaved
with distinction. Among them We're
W. p. Kennett, eX-president of the
merchants exchange; John T. Lee, a
prominent lawyer and member of the
citizens committee that has been try
iD.s 10 effect a settlement between the
strikers and the Transit company; eX-
Judge Chester Il. Crum; Charles Nagle, /
d prominent lawyer and former. candi- /
date Oh lhe Republican ticket for may
or: eX-Judge John j. Overall, Hugh K.
Hartung, a newspaper man, and Dr.
J. H. Woodwork.
Shots From Car Wound.
This afternoon, while a crowd of men
on Franklin avenue, near Twelfth
street, We're menacing a car on the
Easton avenue line, the motorman or
policeman on board fired several shots
from a revolver. August Smith was
shot in the right arm and breast, but /
not seriously wounded. Charles Lud- /
wig was wounded in the hand. Both /
assert they were merely OnlOOkers. A /
third man is said TO have been also I
wounded, but his name could not be 1
isarned-
In a fracas at Tenth and Franklin /
avenue this evening a man was shot 4
and, it is reported. fatally injured. but /
before his name could be learned or the 4
extent Of his injury determined he was /
hurried away by friends.
Erred BOehm, respectable citizen, /
aged O. years, was this afternoon shot /
from the gun of a deputy sheriff The /
latter had fired at ? crowd of strikers /
or sympathiZers who were stOning a car
on the Beilefontaine line. Death was
instantaneous
Vile Language Starts Fracas.
About o'clock tonight a two-horse
surrey in which We're a number Of men
drove up to the car sheds at Compton
and Manchester avenues. The men in
the buggy stopped and commenced TO !