Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-24
No Prospect of i Settlement Now at
St. Louis.
COMPANY IMPORTING new men
Other Union Labot Contributing
to Support Of Strikers.
MORE RIoTING REPORTED

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 24.-This was the
seventeenth day of the great strike inaugu-
rated by the employees Of the St. Louis
Transit Company, and settlement is ap-
parently further away than ever, neither
side to the controversy seeming willing to
advance any proposition to end it. The
transit company has resumed service on all
of its lines, except the Broadway Northern
Central, Southwestern Union and the South
9Th street divisions, and attempts may be
made today to run cars on some of these.
On the lines in operation the street railway
officials assert they are daily running more
cars and carrying additional passengers.
Non-union men continue to come in from
other cities. and as fast as they arrive the
company puts them to work Word was
received from Cleveland today that forty
two ex-employes of the- Big Consolidated
street car system had been sent here to
take the places o. strikers.
Thus far no general sympathy strike
among labor unions has been called, as had
been expected there would be. The differ
ent trades and labor organizations are
showing their sympathy with the strikers
IL, another way, by contributing to their
support and passing rules filming members
for riding on the street cars.
Worlds Fair Involved.
Union labor has brought the worlds fair
question into the strike controversy. AT
mass meeting held last night a resolution
was passed to the effect that all union
labor throughout the United States be ask
ed 10 instruct their representatives to OPP
pose the passage of the worlds fair appro-
pristion bill unless the ST. Louis Transit
Company settles the strike satisfactorily
to it's former employees. The resolution has
been wired to John b. Henderson, Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
tl, boo q n r.
sons, alleged to have violated the law in
it's connection, have been made, twenty
five warrants have been issued ten indict-
ments reported by the grand jury and the
remainder of the cases have been taken to
the police and United States courts where
many of them are still pending In most
of the cases which have been tried in the
police courts the defendants have been dis
charged. few of the prisoners have been
released without trial the police failing to
collect the evidence for prosecution.
Gov. Stephens is in the city for confer
ence with the police authorities on the
strike situation and met with the board of
police commissioners today.
More Rioting Yesterday.
Yesterday afternoon a Cass avenue car
was stopped at the corner of 23d street and
Cass avenue to remove barricade which
had been placed across the track. During
the enforced halt mob attacked the car,
firing number of shots.
One of the bullets struck Special Police-
man Duncan X. McRea, who was riding on
the front platform with the motorman IN
the left arm, passing through his BODY ana
coming out on the right side. The pollce-
man sank unconscious to the floor. other
policemen who had been stationed at the
corner to protect the cars then charged
the crowd and beat them back.
A riot call was sent in and dozen mount
ed policemen came at full galop to the
scene. The combined forces soon restored
order. McRea was placed in an ambulance
and a haSty trip made to the dlspen-
sary When the unfortunate policeman
was taken out and laid on the operating
table it was found that he was dead. Nc
Rea was about sixty years old, and was
appointed to the force last Monday. He
served as private during the civil war
on the confederate side. He comes of
prominent family in New Orleans and was
formerly resident of Kansas City.
Eddie ManZ, three years old, was Shot
through the leg by man on a Cass ave
nue. car. The boy was sitting on the front
doorstep, when some boys who had been
throwing stones at west-bound Cass ave
nue. car, ran up the alley south of the
house. A man, who is supposed to be an
emergency policeman, leaped out from the
and fired shot at the fleeing boys
The shot struck little Manz in the right
leg, near the hip. 1t is feared the wound
will prove fatal.
r. B. Hodge conductor on the Tower
Grove line. is a patient at St. Johns Hos
pital. suffering from injuries which II Is
feared will prove fatal. He was assaulted
by crowd of men on his car at the cross
ing of Salina street yesterday one OF
them struck Hodge over the head with
club. infiicting an ugly wound. While some
OF the crowd held him others seized the mo-
torman, H. l.. Kobusch. and stopped the
car. Then Kobusch was dragged from the
car. Emergency Policeman Alexander
Dunn, who was detailed on the car, at
tempted to interfere, but four men sur
rounded and disarmed him. Several OF
them struck him in the face. The assail-
ants knocked Hodge down and kicked him
until he was unconscious. Kobusch and
Dunn eluded the crowd and ran across the
away