Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-05-31
ST. LOUIS STRIKE.
After Twenty Days the End Seems
As Far OF As Ever.
A MEETING OF CITIZENS CALLED
Doth Sides stand Firm-The Lat of Casu-
allies In the Collisions Between the
Police and Strikers and Their
Sympathixers.

st. Louis, May 2s.-Yesterday was
the twentieth dayofthe street railway
strike and the end seems as far away
as ever, both the Transit company and
its employees standing firm in their
respective positions. Not car on the
Transit companys system has been
run since the strike began without
police protection In consequence of
there not being enough police to
guard the 500 or more cars usually
operated, less than quarter Of that
number has been run by the COM
pany, over only a part of its ~ divi-
sions and lines.
Since the Sth Of May, when the
strike began. there has been numer-
Gus collisions between the police and
the strikers and the latter's sympa-
thjzers, Hardly a day during that
time has been without somebody be-
ing wounded by bullets or injured by
flying missiles and police clubs. The
list of casualties presents four per-
sons shot and killed, 90 wounded by
bullets and 50 or more injured in
other ways. Two of the killed were
innocent bystanders, striking mo-
torman and an emergency policeman
completing the number Several of
the wounded are in critical condition
and may die. II is estimated by the
strikers that less than 50 of their
number-3,32 5-whp struck have re-
turned to work. These, with the
street car men imported from other
cities, are operating the Transit COM
pany's cars. 1t is asserted that at
least 50 of the imported men have
joined the strikers.
All the points of issue between the
company and its striking employees
have been agreed to except that of
reinstating all the men who went out
in their old positions. The company
refuses to displace the men they have
hired since the strike began while the
strikers decline to sign any agree
ment that does not give all the old
men their places again. Several at
tempts have been made to bring the
employers and employees together,
but without success and thus the mat
ter stands.
A meeting of citizens has been called
for this afternoon in the directors
room of the Merchants exchange for
the purpose of discussing plans for
the amicable settlement of the street
car employees strike,
As the result of an encounter last
night between striking and nom
striking employees of the Transit sys-
tenn three men were shot, one being
fatally and the others seriously
wounded AS Philip Sullivan. James
Sullivan and Patrick 0'Connell strik-
ers, were passing through Lafayette
park they were approached from the
rear and fired u pom by three men said
to be in the company's employ. One
of the bullets passed through Philip
Sulivan's right lung, giving him a
mortal wound. James Sullivan re-
ceiyed "A ball in the left cheek and
O'Connell was shot through the right
leg. Accounts of the affair differ,
some bystanders claiming that it was
deliberate attempt at assassination on
the part of the company's new EN-
ployes, while Others aver that it was
nothing more or less than pitched
battle between the two factions. A
riot call was at once sounded, but the
three unknown men made good their
escape by the time the police arrived
on the scene.