The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-09
Entire Street CarSystem of City
Is Tied Up.
OVER 5000 MEN ARE OUT
SCENES OF DISORDER AND MANY
ARE INJURED.
Howling Mobs Surround the Cars and
Throw Bricks and Other Missiles
Several Shots Fired and Innocent
BystandeTs Wounded-Police Were
Powerless to Preserve Order.

ST. Louis, Mo, May 8.-The employees
of the st. Louis Transit company,
numbering about $500 men, made good
today their threat to tie up the street
railway traffic of the city. In doing
50 they not only paralyzed the bust
ness Of the company. which operates
all the electric and cable roads in the
city witt the exception Of those owned
by the St Louis & Suburban Railway
company, by which a strike has been
in progress for two weeks past, but
brought matters to a standstill in half
a dozen other lines of business as well.
1t was the mos1 complete tie-up ever
seen in St. Lois.
RiOtOus proceedings began almost i'm
mediately When the company tried
to take cars out from the various barns
Of the system. the nOn-uniOn men who
had undertaken the task. were imme-
diat6ly surrounded and urged not to
make the attempt If they persisted
the cars We're surrounded by a howl
ing mob, and as if by magic sticks and
stones filed the air, forcing the men
in charge 10 desert their posts. Dur
ing the fusillade windows in the cars
We're broken. while their SIDES would
be Scared and dented by the missiles.
At frs the storm Centers were con-
fined to these remote points. By and
by a few cars managed to slip away
from the crowds around the power
houses and car barns, and made their
way down town Then the theatre Of
activity was transferred to Washing
ton avenue, Locust street and other
down town thOroughfares.
Volleys of Rocks and Bricks.
The same tactics were resOrted to
down town that had proved so etfica-
ciOus about the barns A crowd would
surround each car and while the boys
and young men would shout "Scab"
and Cheap crew at the mOtOrman
and conductor from further back in
the thrOng would come a voliey Of
rocks and bricks, snlasjhing the win
GOws and frightening the men in
charge from their posts.
The most serious personal injuries
sustained Up to nightfall were received
in riots of this character which took
place on Washington avenue from
Sixth to Eighth streeta In one of
them a boy was shot by a nOn-uniOn
conductor. who was trying to push his
car through the crowd. In the fracas
further down a mOtOTman was serious
one in the crowd.
A man was shot at Grant and
Fr5,.lklin avenues tonight, and still an
other man was shot at O'clock tonight
near the crossing Of the suburban
tracks or Taylor avenue.
AS a suburban car was crossing Tay-
lor avenue, a big crowd gathered. Some
one in ii pulled the trolley from the
wire and this action so eHTdged a pas
senger. at present unknown, that he
drew a revolver and fired three shots
into the crowd. Il. Gilbert. d bar
keeper, an onlOokeT. received one of
the bullets in the arm and another in
the lung. He was taken to the City
hospital. where his wounds were pro-
HOunced fatal
The police were poweriess today, in
the face Of the mob. which was aug
mented at noon by thousands of clerks
from business houses and wOrkmen
from the factories. Many women also
gathered with the crowds Boys and
young men. most of whom had no con-
nection with the strikers whatever,
furnished most of the noise and did a
large amount of the mischief down
town. There were comparatively few
of the strikers in the mob, and many
of those who appeared most jealous in
the cause Of the street railway men
were animated by no more ferocious
feeling than the love of excitement