Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-06-01
CARS ARR BLOWN UP.
To rife Explosion In st. Louis Causes
q Panic.
MANY INJURED IN RIOTS.
In One ARRAY on CnIiiSrnin Avenue
ana KcOkuk street Over Two
Hundred Shots Were Fired and
a Number of People Shot.

st. Louis, May 31.-A terrific cNplo
SION, SUPPOSED to have been caused b!
dynamite placed ON the tracks of thu
Union line ut Fifteenth and Chamber
streets, shook the buildings and brok'
the glass in all the windows in the neigh
borhood early today
AS near as can lie determined, it hat
resulted from dynamite which was OK
ploded on the street car tracks. The
damage to the rails was not marked, the
explosive apparently having spent its
force in the air. The shock was fell
within radius OF mile on Fifteenth
and Chambers streets. Glass was shat
tered in windows many blocks away
The explosion created IL panic in the
neighborhood. The police furnish this
list of casualties in a street fight:
Herman Pestnke, shot in back, fatal
John Il. Rice, shot through the chest, fa.
tall II. II. StilsOn, Cleveland. shot through
the chest, fatal; John McCaly, shot in
left knee; Dolly Mitchell, shot in right
arm; William Grannemann, shot in left
leg; George Lacostan, shot in left arm;
Albert Wackwitz, shot in right arm; John
Decker, shot in left thigh; Frank Yeager.
shot in hand; Martin Burke, shot in left
hip.
A number of others suffered injuries
from missiles thrown and in other ways
Incidental to the riotous developments of
the day.
Two Hundred Shots Fired.
The worst of the riotous disturbances
occurred near the intersection of Cali
fornia avenue and Kcokuk street. In
this ARRAY a n0nunion motormnn and an
other employee On Il car of the Transit
company were probably fatally shot. The
battle while it ragged was fierce and in
view of the large number of shots fired.
estimated at 2OO. it is remarkable that
there were not more injured. If there
We're, they were removed before the po-
lice could get to the scene of the trouble.
AS the car approached the intersection
named Motorman II. II. Stilson, a man
imported from Cleveland, and an emer-
gency policeman, Lotion. who were on
the front platform, saw that some OBJ
structiOn had been piled high and that
the tracks were impassabc A big crowd
was gathered to witness the removal Of
the Instructions. They began to hoot
and jeer and to apply cpithets to the
crew of the car, daring any one to get off
StilsOn started to step from the car his
action was the signal for firing to begin
from the crowd. Almost at the first shot
Stison threw up his hands and fell to
the front platform with Il bullet through
his body.
In the fusillade that followed John T.
Rice, road agent, who was on the car,
was shot down as he got from his seat
inside, receiving bullet through the
chest. The police bodyguard on the car
opened fire on the mob. at least POO shots
being exchanged. The mob scattered
and ran down side streets TO get away.
Policeman Lotion said when the shoot
ing began it seemed to him that 30 men
had pistols pointed at the car and that
each one of them was blazing ont fire.
The supplemental bill to the federal in
junction issued to cnjoin strikers and
others from interfering with the govern
ment postal ears in this city was filed in
the United States circuit clerks office
today. The allegations set forth in il
are practically the same as were set forth
in the original bill.