Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-19

nay Die-A monster LABOR lie I'm on
stration Tomorrow.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 1S.-There was
no formal conference to-day between
representatives of the striking street
car employees and of the st. Louis
Transit Company, although President
Halves, of the board of police commits
| sioners, tried to get the two sides to-
| gether. He consulted with T. B. Ed
wards, chairman of the grievance COM
| mittee, and with Benjamin F. Clark,
morning, and as a result had Mr. Ed
| wards send letter to President Whit
| aker suggesting conference. In re-
| Spouse, Mr. Whitaker said he was will
ing TO meet the committee at any
| time. Mr.. Edwards then suggested
that the next proposition come from
the company and the response was in
effect that the company had no fur
Their proposition to make. standing on
the offer of Thursday, rejected by the
strikers.
Rioting broke out afresh to-day in
various parts of the city, and several
casualties of a severe nature resulted.
At noon crowd of four hundred or
more men, women and boys congre-
gated along Laclede avenue, between
Grand and Theresa avenues, and piled
distractions on the tracks. AS the
cars came to standstill rioting be-
| gan, persons in the crowd throwing
rocks and some shots were fired. One
Of the bullets struck j. r. Richardson.
a conductor from Cleveland, in the
head
A special officer on one OF the cars
was dragged off and badly beaten, mis-
club and revolver taken from him and
several other motormen and conduc-
tors We're assaulted While the tar
MOL was at its height. detail OF po-
lice came dashing up and charged into
the crowd. They struck right and left,
but they had no clew as TO who was
responsible for the shooting. Richard
son is probably fatally wounded
On the Bellefontaine line obstruc-
lions were numerous and when the
men left the cars to remove the bar
riers they were made the targets for
rocks, broken bricks and pieces OF
iron.
The employees on the Easton avenue
cars had another rough day OF it,
Their cars were pelted at street cor
ners near the western terminus and
also along Franklin avenue and Nor
gan street. In one place the strike
sympathizers blocked the track with
dead horse. No sooner did the car
employees remove the carcass than a
hundred willing hands grabbed It and
dragged it back to the track Traffic
was INSTRUCTED until the police arrived
and made the crowd dispense. OBJ
structions were numerous along the
California avenue and Tower Grove
lines, and the cars passed through sew
eral showers OF stones and bricks.
Traffic was frequently impeded By piles
of rock. lumber etc, along the Market
street and Choteau avenue lines. and
every now and then a stray rock was
hurled at the passing cars.
Two imported employees ~ the st. Louis
Transit Company were shot to-day while
IN charge Of street cars. In neither case
is the assailant known.
Guy Ffckes, Of Decatur, Ill. was shot
through the thigh at Twenty-fIrst and
Morgan streets. Fickes was employed as
a guard on the cars.
Shortly after noon to-day three cable
cars started east from the power house
Of the Fourth street railway on Eight
eenth and Park avenue. At Fourth street
and ciaoteau avenue the cars stopped. and
upon investigation. II was found that
the cable had been cut. When the free
end OF the cable arrived AZ the power
house It was found that al the strands
had been severed. presumably by a steel
saw. The cars were hauled back to the
power house b. horses
The task OF splicing the cable and run
ming II through the conduits viii BE- a
difficult one and the road probably VIII
not be IN shape for dag or two.
Arrangements are being made for a
parade Of union labor Sunday. when II
IS expected 10 have more than 800 nen
il line. The miners unions AT Believllle
and Carbonate. III. have sent n re-
| quest for permission to participate in the
parade.
Fifty Hon-uEson men who were brought
here from Omaha b. the Transit Com
pany to run cars In place 81 the striking
employees. we're persuaded 10 stop work.
Their fares we're paid and they we're sent
home to-day
The HouSe OF Delegates this afternoon
| passed the bill TO revoke the franchises
| Of the VARIOUS street railway COMPANIES
in ST. Louis IN case they failed 70 run
their cars e compliance % the city ordi-
nances-