The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-19
RIOT BEGINS IN ST. LOUIS.
CASUALTIES OCCUR IN VARIOUS
SECTIONS OF THE CITY.
One Conductor and a saloonkeeper
Killed and Numbers of Others
wounded Ordinance Passed
to AnnuI Railway Franchises.

ST. LOUIS, May 1s.-There was no con-
ference today between representatives Of
the striking street car employees and of the
st. Louis Transit Company, although Pres
ident Halves, of the board of police COM
missioners, tried TO get the two parties
to the strike controversy together in still
another meeting. The federal grand jury
was in session all day today. 1t had under
consideration the hindrances and obstruc-
tions to the United States mail caused
by the present street car strike.
Rioting broke out afresh today in various
parts of the city, and several casualties of
a severe nature were reported.
At noon a crowd of 400 or more men. wo-
men and boys congregated along Laclede
avenue, between Grand and Theresa av-
enues, and stopped the cars as they ap-
preached by means of distractions piled
on the tracks. Persons in the crowd COM
menced throwing rocks, and some shots
were fired. One of the bullets struck j.
r. Richardson. a conductor, in the head.
He is probably fatally wounded.
special officer on one of the cars was
dragged OFF and badly beaten, and several
other motormen and conductors were as
saulted. While the turmoil was at Its
height a detail of police came dashing up
and charged the crowd.
Two imported employees of the ST. Louis
Transit Company were shot while in
charge Of street cars In neither case
is the assailant known.
Guy Ficks, of Decatur, Ill, employed
ms a guard, was shot through the thigh at
Twenty-first and Morgan streets at 1870
this afternoon.
John Kenna, saloonkeeper in Gartert
street. was probably fatally wounded. and
Robert Nelson, colored and Emergency
officer Jacob Hollingsworth slightly
wounded tonight in riot at the south
end of the Fourteenth street bridge. Kenna
had been drinking hard for several days
and tonight, as car on the Chouteau av-
enue division of the Transit company's line
was rounding the curve lat Fourteenth
and Gartert streets, he stepped up to IL
and drawing n revolver. attempted to
shoot the motorman. The car was going
too fast for him, and he missed his mark.
He then began shooting at the conductor
and Special officer Hollingsworth, who was
standing on the rear platform. The off,
Ger jumped from the car and, walking
toward the intoxicated saoonkeeper, be-
gan shooting at him. Four of his bullets
struck Kenna's body. Kenna continued
to shoot at the officer, and the last shot
he fired struck Hollingsworth in the left
hand. One bullet, which went wide, passed
through Nelson's ear. Kenna was taken
to the hospital. where the physicians Of
fered no hope for his recovery.
Patrolman Barton was shot and painfully
wounded today on Jefferson avenue near
Geyer avenue Barton was on a car of
the Jefferson avenue line as a guard AS
the car passed Geyer avenue a few stones
were thrown and then several shots rang
out One bullet struck Barton in the
head. A riot call was sent in and
squad OF police hurried to the scene. The
crowd which had gathered at the sound
of the shots was dispersed without trouble.
Barton was taken to a drug store, where
an examinat ton showed that the bullet
had only made a scalp wound. A number
of men In houses near where the shooting
occurred were arrested and sent to the
police station pending an investigation
The house OF delegates at its meeting
today passed the Kelly ordinance annui-
ling the franchises of all the street rail-
ways in St Louis unless they run their
cars in compliance with the terms OF the
city ordinances,