The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-11
STRIKERS HAVE FATAL
BATTLE WITH POSSE
Hundreds Of Men Fight With Guns, RcVOlVerS and
BrickS-SeYeral Killed or Wounded
Several Riots Take Place in Various Parts Of the City
Day Worst Of All.

there. Captain Hancock in command
of the deputies, ordered the men tc
stop. They replied with several shots
and drove away. Captain Hancock or
deTed them to come back and when
they refused fired point blank at the
buggy with his shotgun, killing one OF
the horses. The men jumped out of the
buggy and escaped unhurt.
Ed Barry, a motOrman, is laid up
with a badly battered head. He was
wounded by a brick, thrown by some
body while his car was passing a
crowd tonight.
Cars We're run freely during the day.
Tonight they were run under guard till
midnight on half a dozen lines.
James Mcclure and John McElroy
received serious injuries today while
engaged in a dispute with a number
Of strikers and strike Sympathizers.
Their assailants escaped.
Rioting During the Picnic.
Over in East St. Louis there were
rictous scenes during the picnic of
street car strikers. A crowd of sew
eral hundred men released a young
man from st. Louis who had been ar
rested for annoying the employees of
the East St Louis car line.
Several St. Louis men boarded an
East st. Louis street car and dragged
John Reagan, the conductor, from the
car.
Reagan landed a few heavy swings
on his nearest opponent and the car
proceeded. At p. IN. all of the East
st. Louis cars were ordered into the
service.
A Delmar car filed with passengers
was attacked this evening at o'clock
at FOrsythe junction by a bowling
crowd, that bombardat the car with
rocks. The mOtOrman increased the
speed and got away before any one
was seriously hurt.
Earlier in the day a crowd piled tim
berS and ties on the tracks just east
of the Colorado bridge in Clayton.
There is a sharp turn at this place
with a steer incline. The motOrman
discovered the timbers just in time to
prevent a collision. Had the car struck
the obstruction, the passengers prob
ably would have been precipitated
down a fifty-fOot embankment.
Battle From Strikers Side.
Mack Missak. II secretary of the
strikers union, sal garding the bar
racks riot:
I've had a picnic It VOLTS grove
in East St Louis We marched over
at the head of the parade, in which
there were 500 men. 1 saw, as [ looked
toward the barracks, that the deputies
in anticipation of any disorder had
formed a guard in a complete circle
from Fourth to Sixth streets. l was
walking away from the street and the
men were marching along, when, as
accurately as was possible under the
1 remember that a
small boy marching beside the men,
threw a rock at an approaching car
which had not yet reached Sixth street.
There was a revolver shot but I am
positive that it did not come from our
s:ca.
Instantly there was a fusilade of
shots from the deputies. They swept
the street from Fourth to Sixth and
from Eighth to Fourth. It is a miracle
that there were not fifty men shot.
After the firing, we tried to get at
the men who were lying in the street,
but we were driven away. The shoot
ing was unprOvOked. It was one of
the most objectionable OutrageS ever
in the United States. The
HazeltOn riots do not compare with it."
Colonel Blames the Strikers.
Colonel Lavender, in command of the
posse cOmitatus. said: THE strikers.
when they came back from East st.
Louis, were very demOnstrative as they
passed the barracks and they attacked
q car at Sixth street, trying to drag off
the crew. l ordered the men out at
once, and when the deputies arrived on
he scene one of the strikers fired di-
-ectly at my men. Before that bricks
had been thrown at the car. Firing
began at once in a desultory way, and
dispersed almost Immediately"
Colonel CavendeT's version of the af-
'air was verified by others who wit
lessed it.