The Bourbon news., 1900-05-29
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Street Cars Run in St. Louis With
out Being Molested.
Three Weeks of RiOting and Tur-
mOiI, and the End or Settle
ment of u Trouble Seems
as Far AVvny as Ever.

as Far Away as Ever.
st. Louis, May 2s.-This is the 21st
day of the street railway strike, and
the end seems as far away as ever,
both the Transit Co. and its en-
ployes standing firm in their respect
i've positions. Not car on the Tran
sit Co.'S system has been run since
the strike began without police pro-
lection. In consequence of there not
being enough police to guard the 500
or more cars usually operated, less
than a quarter of that number have
been run by the company over only a
part of its % divisions and lines.
Since May s, when the strike began,
there have been numerous collisions
between the police and the strikers
and the latter's sympathizers. Hard
~ day during that time has passed
without somebody being wounded by
bullets or injured by flying missiles
and police clubs. The list of casual
ties presents four persons shot and
killed, % wounded by bullets and so
or more injured in other ways.
Two of the killed were innocent by
standers, striking motOrman and an
emergency policeman completing the
number. Several of the wounded are
in n critical condition and may die.
1t is estimated by the strikers that
less than fifty of their number (3,325)
who struck have returned to work.
These, with the street car men i'm
ported from other cities, are Operat-
ing the Transit Co.'S cars. It is as
serted that at least so of the import
ed men have joined the strikers.
All the points of issue between the
company and its striking employees
have been agreed to except that of
reinstating all the men who went out
in their old positions. The company
refuses to displace the men they have
hired since the strike began, while
the strikers decline to sign any agree
ment that does not give all the old
men their places again. Several at
tempts have been made to bring the
employers and employees together,
but without success, and thus the
matter stands.
A meeting of citizens has been
called in the directors room of the
Merchants exchange for the purpose
of discussing plans for the amicable
settlement of the street car employees
strike
Sunday was uneventful. The first
cars to run over the Transit Co.'s lines
since 10 a. m. Saturday were sent out
in the morning over the Delmar ave-
nue., Page avenue, Spaulding avenue,
Compton Heights, Park avenue, la
clede avenue and Olive street lines.
The day being fair, the cars were
crowded from early morning until Z
p. m, when they ceased running, by
persons going to and coming from
the parks and western suburbs. The
lines mentioned run east and west,
and in consequence the main depend
ence of those living in the north and
south portions of the city was on
wagons and busses or the cars of the
Suburban system, which operates
only in a limited area compared with
that covered by the Transit Co.
As the result of an encounter last
night between striking and non-strik-
ing employees of the Transit system,
three men were shot, one being fatal
~ and the others seriously wounded.
AS Philip Sullivan, James Sullivan and
Patrick O'Connell, strikers, were pass
ing through Lafayette park they were
approached from the rear and fired
upon by three men, said to be in the
company's employ. One of the bull
let's passed through Philip Sullivan's
right lung, giving him fatal wound.
James Sullivan received a ball in the
left cheek, and O'Connell was shot
through the right leg. Accounts of
the affair differ, some bystanders
claiming that it was a deliberate at
tempt at assassination on the part of
the company's new employees, while
others aver that it was a pitched bat
tie between the two factions. A riot
call was at once sounded, but the
three unkaown men had made their
escape by the time the police arrived
on the scene.