Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-11
The st. Louis Police Can Handle the
Strike Now.
VIEW OF CHIEF CAMPBELL
President Mahon Denounces the
Shooting of Strikers Yesterday.
REVISED LIST OF INJURED

With one exception all the street car lines
were in operation. Each car carried the
usual guard of police officers. On some
lines, running through unruly districts. the
number was double. Squads and companies
of the sheriff's possemen were on duty at
all the power houses and car sheds OF the
Transit Company and at the barracks on
Washington avenue where yesterdays
shooting ARRAY took place.
Gov. Stephens, who is in jefferson City,
had. up to II o'clock, taken no action in
regard to the calling out of militia.
Everything is in readiness, however, for
the calling of this force into active service,
and the $50 men composing it can be
modified in short time.
Chief of Police Campbell. who on Satur-
day expressed the opinion that the state
troops should be called out, has changed his
mind. He said today:
Chief CampbeIl's Views.
81 don't think l would recommend that
the state troops be called upon just yet
The developments of yesterday, l think,
show that we are able to handle the situa-
ton. There were great many persons
shot and several killed. 1 deeply deplore
the necessity for such action, but it only
shows that force is equal to almost
any occasion. A meeting of the police will
be held today to consider the adVlsablltE
of calling the governor for the militia.
but l shall not recommend 1t until matters
grow worse.
There is considerable hard feeling az the
result of yesterdays shooting In trent of
the posse barracks. The deputies are
blamed for what call their unwar-
ranted action in shooting the striking street
car men, while the men in the procession
are censured for their bravado. Chief
Campbell says he recognizes among the
twenty strikers arrested several to whom
he gave friendly warning earlier in the day
to be peaceabe. Sheriff Pohlman justifies
the action of his deputies. who, he says,
did their duty.
Edward Burkhardt. the striking conduc-
tor, who reported to have died last
midnight from his wounds, Is still alive,
but cannot survive.
Another Reported Wounded.
One name has been added to the list Of
those wounded yesterday. Jack White,
one of the striking street car men who
was in the Washington avenue procession.
was found today at his home suffer
ing from severe buckshot wound.
President w. D. Mahon of the National
Association of Amagamated Street Rail-
way Employees. who is managing the
strike, has wired Samuel Gompers, presl-
dent of the American Federation of Labor
at Washington, that the street car men
returning from picnic peaceabiy and I'M
armed. were fired upon by a sheriff's posse
and shot down like dogs. The outrage at
Hazleton melts into insignificance in com
parson. This outrage should be denounced
in no uncertain terms by the organized
wage earnerS Of America
Attorney Ford Smith. legal adviser Of
Sheriff Pohlman, was asked If he consider
ed there was sufficient provocaton to JUS
tify the shooting on Washington avenue.
Mr.. Smith answered: when deputy
sheriffs fired upon. as they were in this
case, L think they were justified In the
shooting"
A recapitulation Of the strike which has
now been on one month and three days,
shows ten fatalities and at least fifty per
sons wounded.
To Start a Bus Line.
The Central Trades and Labor Union pro-
poses to establish bus line in ST. Louis
to compete with and run parallel to the
lines of the ST. Louis Transit Company,
on which there is strike, to be operated
by union men.
At a meeting at Walhalla Hall last night
the first step was taken toward this end
by the adoption of a resolution to raise
at least 100000 to purchase and equip the
necessary bus system. From the resolu-
ton adopted and the declarations OF the
speakers, henceforth the policy will be to
win the strike if possible on the basis of
a general boycott. which, in all its ramifi-
cations, is to reach to almost every indus
trv in the city. The fare bus for
distance equal to that traversed by the
street car line will be cents.
President Malron made statement re-
garding yesterdays shooting, in which he
said:
Il denounce it in the most unqualified
terms. Investigation shows that not one
shot was fired by the railway men.
This outrage will be resented by organic
ed labor, not alone in ST. Louis. but
throughout America. We will stand by our
demands all the more since this anair anu
contest the struggle to the bitter end
A circular has been issued by a NUMBER
of labor leaders for mass meeting to be
held tonight. 1t calls on all good and law
abiding citizens to protest against me
atrocious crimes and outrages committed IN
the name of the law by armed men styling
themselves deputy sheriffs. .-
Coroner Lloyd will hold inquests tomor-
row over the remains of the victims oil yes
terdays shooting to determine the respoh-
sibiity.
Yesterday was one of the most eventful
and bloody since the great strike began,
more than a month ago. There were nu-
merous encounters between strikers ana
other individuals and the constituted au-
thorities, resulting in three deaths and the
wounding of five or more persons mostly
strikers. One OF the latter Will dle. 1he
dead:
the Chouteau avenue line; shot in breast
By deputy sheriff; died on way to hospital
George Rine striking motorman on Del
mar avenue line; shot in abdomen by dep
uty sheriff. died at hospital.
Fred BOehm, aged citizen; Shot ana IN
stantly killed. while standing in his front
yard, by deputy sheriff
The wounded:
Ed Burkhart striking conductor on Del
mar avenue line; shot in head; may die.
Oscar Marvin conductor on the Lee ave-
nue. line; shot in right hand and arm; Sc
rious.
August Smith: shot in right arm and
breast; not serious.
Charles Ludwig; shot in hand; not Sc
riouS.
The day was quiet until the afternoon,
when the police were taken off a number of
street car lines for the purpose Of giving
them a rest and to test the ability of the
transit company to operate without fric-
ton.
When the Trouble Occurred.
The most serious trouble broke out be-
tween 6 and Too clock in front of the six
story store building on Washington avenue
between Broadway and 9th street occu-
pied by the sheriffs posse comitatus as a
barracks and headquarters. Several hun
dred striking street car men had gone to
East ST. Louis earlier in the day to attend
a picnic given for their benefit at VOLTS
Grove Toward evening they began return
ing home singly, in groups Of two or three,
and others in companies of a hundred or
more No serious trouble occurred until
one of these companies. composed OF nearly
15O street car men in uniform and headed