The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-30
MORE BLOOD SHED
IN the Great St. Louis Street Oar
strike-Twslvo Persons KILLED ana
Wounded During tho nay.

eIs @OO4Hs AtOss may &9.-lu q flpts
ing sense to-day's developments were
the worst experienced since the strike
on the lines Of the St. Louis Transit
Company was inRugurated. over three
weeks ago, The rioting was confined
entirely to three places In the southern
section Of the city and by uightfaii the
police records showed that fully a dol-
en- persons had either received bullet
wounds or been hurt by flyinE missiles.
Three Of those hit by bullets received
what are presumably mortal woundE
and that no one was killed outright
seems miraculous considering the
great number Of shots exchanged By
the employees Of the company, the Striko
sympathizers and the strikers th0m-
selves.
Crowd Hooted and Guyed.
The hrst disturbance occurred At tha
intersection Of Broadway and Mlllol
streets. BonAren had been started dur
ing the night and the tracks were
found encumbered with the debris By
the crew of the first car out. A big
crowd, composed Of men, women ana
children, gathered at the corner, hoot-
ed and guyed the crew as Il attempted
to remove the distractions. Almost im-
medlately shooting commenced from
the car. First a single shot rang out
and then a perfect fusilIade. The
crowd scattered in every direction, ana
in the greatest confusion. A school
girl named Dolly Mitchell screamed ana ,
fell to the sidewalk. She was borne 70
a place OF safety and on examination u !
was found that she was shot through
the army and was not seriously huEA
William Grannemann. who was stand
ing some distance from the scene Of
the shooting, was struck In the lefh
knee and seriously wounded.
James McCallsy, who was also soma
distance from the crowd when the fir-
ing began, received a bali In the left
leg, Just above the knee. Both oPan.
nemnnn's and McCalley's injuries may
necessitate amputation
Doubt as to Number Of shots.
There is some doubt as to the num-
Der of shots fired. but from the ap-
pearance of things surrounding tho
scene of the occurrence, there must
have been thirty or forty.
Windows were shattered, boards
spllntered and numerous indentationO
of bullets are to be found on the wallis
of the buildings In the vicinity.
The second riot occurred at Broadway
and Pestalozzi streets. At the time .
large crowd was gathered at the alley
through which the railway switch to the
Anheuser-Busch brewery runs. As q
car passed the point the crowd first
commenced to jeer at the crew, and
then, began to pelt the car with rocks
and other missiles. AS soon as the
car wasthus assaulted the firing began.
In all twenty-five or thirty shots were
fired The crowd began to run up the
ally Just as soon as the firing started.
Herman Pezchke, boy employed in tho
bottllng department Of the brewery, was
the first to fall with bullet in the small
of the back. His spine is injured,eaus-
ing total paralysis below the point of In
Jury, and his recovery is thought Inn
possible.
Both Fell to the Ground.
A few moments later George Lacos-
ten, man employed at the brewery,
and Albert wackwltz. painter, fell to
the ground. the former being hit by q
bullet In the left arm, and the latter re-
ceiving one in the head in the right
temple, the ball ranging upward be-
tween the scalp and skull and passing
out at the top of the head. Il is the
opinion of the physicians that neither
man Is seriously injured. The worst or
the rIotous disturbances occurred near
the intersection OF California avenue
and Keoluk street. In this ARRAY o
non-unlon motorman and another ems
ploye on a car of the Transit company
were probably fatally shot
The battle while It ragged was fierce.
and, IN view OF the large number OF
shots fired, estimated at 200, It is re-
marlable that there were not more in-
jured. II there were they were re-
moved before the police could get 70
the scene OF the trouble. AS the car
approached the intersection. Motorman
r. II. stllson, q man imported firm
Cleveland, and Emergency Policeman
Lotion, who were on the front platform.
saw that some distractions had been
piled high, and that the tracks were
impossible.
A big crowd of people had gathered 70
witness the removal of the distractions.
They began to hoot and jeer. and to ap-
plS epIthets to the crew Of the car, daF-
ing any man TO get OF the car 70 re-
move the distractions. As Stl3on
started to step from the car, his apeon
was the signal for firing to begin FROM
the crowd. Almost at the hrst shot
StIlson threw up his hands. and teli 20
the front platform, with bullet
through his body. In the tusiHade that
followed, John T. Rice. road agent,
who wns on the car. was shot down az
he got from the seat inside, receiving
bali through the chest The police
body guard on the car opened fire on the
mob, at least 200 shots being eH-
changed. The mob scattered. and ran
down side streets TO get away. the otiicer
said that when the shooting began
seemed TO him TINT fifty men had pistols
pointed at the cnr and that each one OF
"a. ~ nut flHfs