Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-11

Governor Stephens Still Reluctant
to Call Militia News Of
the Day. S
I ST. Louis, Mo-. June 11.-Three dead,
three fatally injured, eleven severely
hurt, four cars derailed by dynamite
and the temporary dismantling Of two
car lines by wire cutters make up the
results of Sundays strike rioting.
hundred incipient riots were quelled by
the police in various parts OF the city.
Five hundred strikers and a company
of deputy sheriffs fought pitched bat
tie at 6:45 o'clock last night in Wash
ington avenue, near Sixth street, the IF
heart of ST. Louis. The strikers, IN the
uniforms of conductors and motormen,
were returning from a meeting In East
St. Louis. They marched up Washing
ton avenue with a band at their head
and cheered as the vanguard came
1 abreast of The deputies barracks q -
Washington avenue.
4 The garrison of deputies appeared at
1.-THE front door Of the barracks to svtoW
1.-THE parade. A crowd assembled at each
corner to watch it. Then somebody
threw brick thru the window of g 4
jLindall avenue car that was passing.
lCapt Webster, of the First Regiment.
1 Missouri National Guard, rushed into
1.-THE street to arrest the man who threw.
4 the brick Capt Webster had his re-
i peating shotgun in his hands, and -
/ he approached the car tracks pistol
4 shots resounded, as IL coming from tho
ranks of the marching strikers.
4 The band stopped playing instantly.
4 a deputy standing on the sidewalk tooh
deliberate aim a the pistol shooter ana
4 ilpegan to fire In an instant the whole
\ column of strikers was on the defen-
i s;ye. pistols were drawn and the men
4 ba cked suI,s on the north sidewalk. where
4 they seemed prepared to do battle. The
sheriffs came rushing pell-men from
4 the barracks to the south sidewalk With
a weapons ready, but loath to fire upon
silent opponent. Then somebody stano-s
ing behind the emba tiled strikers nreo
81 five shots in quick succession at tn tne
: ! group of deputies, and the response was
a roar of shotgun detonations that put
the strikers to almost immediate nighs
4 and brought a crowd OF many thou-i
sands rushing toward the scene 81
battle sss
When the street car men ran aseAy
q three lay writing upon the sldewaIk.
I Most of the deputies fired high ana the
! glas fronts Of the stores on the north
side of the stret.t wef.e shattered.
The fact that the strikers Who We're
= armed had only pistols is supposed to
account for the fact that no deputies
. wers hit. 1t is not known how many
strikers were wounded. but the scatter
S ing effect of the bucksl1ot from the
z deputies, repeatars is supposed to have
: injured many who escaped in the hand-
ta-i hand melee that followed. No sooner
did the deputies see that the strikers
we're in full retreat than they charged
them from the rear. clubbing their
guns and beating down the few who
resisted the charge Desultory pistol
shots marked the retreat Of the strikers
o and the deputies abandoned pursuit
after driving the rioters three blocks
in all directions.
IL furious thunder storm prevailed
'p during the battle, and the roar OF shot
a guns and pistols was mistaken by
N MANY for the peals of thunder which
y We're frequent Fifty mounted police.
Vi men with drawn pistols arrived on tn.
y scene ten minutes after the fight anc
7 the streets leading toward the barracks
Y. were quickly placed under guard.
is In the posses which fired upon tht
NJ strikers We're William p Kennett, ex
nresident of the Merchants Exchange
Judge Chester H. Crum; Charles Nagel
former president OF the city council ant
a wealthy lawyer: Frank johnson
=. stha Simmons Hardware company; JOIN
=, Atkinson, a wealthy grain dealer, ant
!, = John H. Overall. formerly city at
forney. Many Of the sons of wealth.
! st. Louisans We're in. the squad whtcl
: fought the rioters and there was n
=, 5skulking from, the moment the mrs
"A shot was fired.
&c ss a dozen ambulances and patrol wag
Z. ons responded to the riot call and the
= found the victims lying upon the stree
5 in the pouring rain Ed Thomas.
~ striking conductor. was in dying con
" |dition. He died as he was lifted into til
ambulance. Ed Burkhart. anothe
u, " striker was fount bleeding fro1
w wounds in the head and face. Angus
y, ne Ryan was shot thru the bowels an
g breast, and Oscar Marvin, who wa
Y found fainting against a lamp-pos
- had lost his right hand thru it bein
shot off A trail of blood marked tn
W VI retreat of the strikers, and there is n
eo doubt that many were injured who pre-
'ee ferred to escape rather than fall int
no the hands Of the authorities. Deputie
however, captured sixteen prisoner
'ss most of them in the uniforms Of sire.
car men. The prisoners were led I'M
The basement of the barracks, which
st- a vacant store directly opposite Il
go Lindell hotel
he From shotguns and pistols about 9
ars shots We're fired. During the dgl
r.. crews of passing cars which started Il
he trouble abandoned their cars and III
nm for safety. The police stopped the al
&c proach OF other cars and no effort vi
,er made to resume operations on that III
re- that night.
ur- Tnyiors ON n strike.
of Buffalo, June 1l.-Owing to dimcu
ties which have arisen between q
Master Tailors' Protective Aasociatis
and Local Assemblies 10 and II. Unit
: - - Workers of America. about 1000 M
" and girls are idle today.
.ri- steel Mills Resume.