The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-22
DETERMINED EFFORTS OF STRIKERS
To STOP THE STREET CARS.
SEVERAL SERIOUS CASUALTIES
The street Cars Attacked I'm Many Sec
tions OF the CITY, distractions Put
Upon the Tracks-The Men Assaulted
While Attempting to Clear the Way.
Severa Persons Shot-Mobs harged
by the Publfc-A General strike
Probable.

st. Louis, May 1s.-Rioting broke out
city and several casualties Of a severe
nature resulted.
At noon a crowd of 400 or more men,
women n boys congregated along
La Clede avenue between Grand and
Theresa avenues and piled obstruc-
lions on the street car tracks. AS the
cars came to a standstill rioting be-
gan, persons in the crowd throwing
rocks, and some shots were fired. One
Of h bullets struck j. r. Richardson,
a conductor, in the head.
A special officer of one of the cars
was dragged off and badly beaten, his
club and revolver taken from him, and
several other motormen n conduc-
tors were assaulted. While the tur-
moil was at its height a detail Of po-
lice came dashing up and charged into
the crowd. They struck right and left,
but they had no clue as to- who was re-
sponsible. for the shooting. Richard
son is probably fatally wounded.
On the Belle Fontein line, obstruc-
tons were numerous, and when the
hiCA Il Tx CdlS " TtHlONG the OAR
rlers they were made the targets for
rocks, broken bricks and pieces of
iron.
The employees on the Easton avenue
| cars had another rough day of it. Their
I cars were pelted at street corners near
the western terminus and also along
Franklin avenue and Morgan street.
In one place the strike sympathizers
blocaded the rack with a dead horse.
No sooner did the street car employees
remove h carcass than a hundred
willing hands grabbed it dragged
1T back to the track. Traffic was OBJ
structed until the police arrived and
made the crowd dispense. Distractions
were numerous along the California
avenue and the owe Grove lines and
the cars passed through several
showers of stones and bricks.
Traffic was frequently impeded by
piles Of rock, lumber, ETC., along the
Market street and Chateau avenue
lines, and every now and then a stray
rock was hurled at the passing cars.
Two imported employees of the st.
Louis Transit Company were shot to-
day while in charge of street cars. In
neither case is the asSailant known.
Guy Ffckes, of Decatur, ILL.,, was shot
through the thigh at Twenty-first and
Morgan streets. Fickes was employed
as a guard on the cars. He says a large
cTOWU OH the sidewalk nO0teQ ana
jeered at the car. He says the flash
was from a corner house near by. His
condition is not serious.
The federal grand jury was in ses-
sion all day today, taking evidence re-
garding h h~indrances and obstruc-
tions of the United States mail caused
by the present street car strike.
Shortly after noon today three cable
cars started east from the power house
of the Fourth street railway on Eigh-
teenth street and Park avenue, but
some n cut all the strands Of the
cable, presumably by a steel saw, and
the cars were hauled back to the power
house by horses. .
John Kenna, a saloon keeper, was
fatally wounded, and Robert Nelson.
a negro, and an emergency officer.
Jacob Hollingsworth, slightly wounded
tonight in a riot at the South End. 4
special officer fired at Kenna and the
other two were shot, supposedly by
Kenna. kenna had been drinking and
shot at a motorman on a passing car.
Patrolman Henry E. Barton, guard on
a car, was shot and painfully wounded
today. The ear was stoned and then
shot at. A riot call dispersed the crowd.
st. Louis, May 19.-At a meeting of
100 heads of labor unions, called last
night, it was resolved at 1880 o'clock
this Saturday morning, to recon-
mend to he controlling central bodies
h a a sympathetic strike be inaugu-
rated today of all the labor unions Of
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