The age-herald., 1900-06-12
Mayor Advises Against Crowds
 Congregating on Streets.
ALL MINORS MUST STAY INDOORS
Both Factions Claim That the Other Was Wrongun the Fatal Shoot ing Which Occurred on
 Sunday Night

St. Louis, June u.-Ihe Sundays scenes | of disorder and bloodshed were followed | today by comparative quiet throughout the | city Last nights riot the all-ab- , sorbing topic especially among the police | force and the officers and the men of the | sheriffs posse comitatus. They discussed it in all its bearings, the unanimous opin- ion being expressed that the posse men had done their full duty and no more. The strikers and their sympathizers naturally viewed the occurance in a light diametri- caly opposite to that of the sheriff's posse, the officials of the former saying the men
 were shot down in cold blood General Manager Baumhauf, of the Tram sit Company, today announced that cars
 would be operated until midnight tonight on LaClede avenue, Market street, Olive street, Washington avenue, Compton Heights and Park Avenue.
 Up to 10 o'clock no reports of disorders
 had been received ythe chief of police.
 The vigilance of the police department was
 not relaxed in the least. If anything, their
 efforts were redoubled in maintaining peace
 and order as in some quarters 1t was fear ed the lawless element of the community might take measures to even up yesterdays score when three striking employees were | killed and nine persons injured by the | posse men. In the same degree, the two l regiments of the posse comitatus were | their mettle.
 | Mayors Proclamation | In answer to letter directed to Chief of l Police Campbell this afternoon to Mayor l Zeigenhein the following proclamation was issued by the latter:
 "Whereas, During the pendency of the
 present railway strike and the crisis
 oh yrh ri iS m nnc
 Is of the utmost public interest that all excitement be suppressed and that no acts of any kind be done which may tend to produce create excitement in public places, such the assembling of crowds or groups of persons upon the streets, the discussion of the situation in boisterous language or the discharge of firearms or fireworks.
 Therefore, I, the undersigned, Mayor of the city of St. Louis, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested by law, do hereby proclaim and direct that all per- sons in the city of St. Louis refrain from gathering in numbers on the public streets | or in public places that all persons, par | ticularly women and children, remain in- | doors as much as possible until the present
 situation is relieved; that jeering or abus- l i've language calculated to provoke breach 1 of peace be not indulged in.
 And all persons are especially warned against the discharge within the city linn | US or IrearnS or any Kind or description and against the firing and exploding of bombs, torpedoes firecrackers or any species of fireworks. All minors are warned to keep within | doors during the next three days and par ents are notified that all minors found out l of doors between one hour after sunset and | one hour before sunrise subject to arrest and imprisonment under the pro- vision of section 2139 of the revised statutes | of Missouri of 1S99
 | (Signed) HENRY ZEIGENHEIN, | Mayor of the City of St Louis.' | President H. B. Hawes of the police board said tonight that the mayors proc 1 lamation would be rigidly enforced \ Inquest Held
 I Inquests were held on the victims of | Sundays riot by Coroner Lloyd this morn- | ing.
 Besides call for a mass meeting at the | West End coliseum for tonight as a re- | suit of the riot, the action at labor head
 quarters today was confined to the send | ing of a telegram by President McMahon of the Street Railway Union to President | Gompers of the American Federation of
 Labor, requesting cooperation and assist
 ! ance and declaring that the fight in St.
 Louis had gone beyond the limit of any | battle ever waged between organized labor
 | in the history of the country.
 | Chief of Police Campbell today communt- l cated to Governor Stephens at Jefferson l City over the long distance telephone the circumstances of the riot. The chief said | Governor Stephens expressed the opinion
 that the deputy sheriffs could not have a 1 choice acting as they did and he was satis- 1 fled with their course. No steps were | taken today toward settling the strike.
 Ex-Governor w. J. Stone, attorney for the | strikers, said that he Is not thinking of
 reopening negotiations with the attorneys
 of the St. Louis Transit Company At a mass meeting of strikers and sym- | pathizers at the West End Coliseum to- l night the action of posse men in shooting 1 the strikers in Sundays riot was de- nounced. A committee of ten was appointed
 to prosecute the men who did the shoot l ing