Hutchinson gazette., 1900-06-14
WLlAS CASUALTIES WERE MANY.
sunday Was u bay OF RioIinG aud
BioOdshed Al over the CitV-No
settlement is In sight Governor
stephens sun HoIdtns sack

encounters between the strikers aud
other rotous individuals and the con,
stituttd authorities resulting In four
deaths and the woundmg OF live or
more persons, mostly strikers One
OF the latter will die,
The dead;
C. Edward Thomas. striking con.
ductor on the Chouteau line, shot in
breast by deputy sheriff; died on the
way to the hospital
George Rine, striking motormau on
ell avenue line; shot In abdomen
10y deputy sheriff; died at city hospt'
al.
Fred Boehm, aged citizen; shot and
instantly killed while standing in his
front yard by deputy sheriff
Ed Burkhardt, striking conductor on
Delmar avenue line; shot In the head,
Wounded:
Oscar Marvin, q conductor on Lee
avenue line; shot in the right hand
and arm, serious.
August Smith, shot In right arm and
DreaSti not serious,
Charles Ludwig, shot In head; not
serious
The most serious trouble broke out
between and o'clock in front of
The six story building on Washington
avenue and broadway, occupied by
the sheriff posse comitatus as bar.
racks and headquarters. Several hun.
ired striking street car men had gone
to East Louis earlier In the day 10 at4
tend picnic given for their benefit
ut VOLTS grove. Toward evening
they began returning home singly in
groups of two or three, and others in
companies Of hundred or more, No
serious trouble occurred until one of
these companies, composed Of nearly
$50 street car men In uniform and
headed by a drum corps, came west
on Washington avenue, In their caps
tome of them had cards bearing these
words:
Union or nothing; liberty or
Health"
The men were marching along the
sidewalk on the south side Of Wash
ngton avenue, opposite the posse bar
racksS They were in n joculOr mood,
Ind as near as can he learned, had no
intention of making any trouble. Just
rs they were passing the barracks a
ear OF the Park avenue division was
going west. A number of the men
broke from the line and rushed for
The car with the intention, II is said,
Df boarding 1t and taking a ride, An
Sther statement was made that 1t was
The intention of the strikers to assault
the motorman and conductor, whose
car was without the usual police
guard. However that may he the
trouble started here. A brick was
thrown through the car window and
a shot was fred by somebody not
known At the first intimation OF
trouble members of the sherifI's posse
warmed from the building and sur.
founded the crowd Of strikers about
the car, calling on them to disperse.
Other shots wer red; then some Of
The deputies turned loose their repeat
Ing shot guns loaded with buckshot.
AS far as can he learned only four Of
he men in the strikers ranks were hit.
Not deputy wos wounded.
G. Edward Thomas, striking con.
ductor on the Chouteau line, was
picked up and placed in an ambulance,
after the fight was over He was shot
IN the breast, the heavy load Of buck
shot tearing hole that soon let out
his life's blood, and caused his death
while on the way to the city hospital
George Rine, the striking motorman
On the Delmar line, received a terrible
wound in the abb men, He was taxi
en- to the city hospital, but died on
The operating table
Others were injured more or less
seriously. Similar disturbances of
smaller magnitude occurred all over
Ihe city Sunday.