The age-herald., 1900-06-11
Posse Comitatus Fired With
 Short Riot Guns.
NONE OF THE DEPUTIES WOUNDED
The Main Fight Occurred as a Large Body of Strikers Marched Past the Barracks of the
 Sheriff's Posse

St. Louis, June 1O.-The day just ended has been one of the most eventful and bloody since the great strike of the St. Louis Transit company began more than one month ago. There were numerous en- counters between strikers and other riot ous persons and the constituted authorities resulting in three death sand wounding of five or more persons, mostly strikers. One of the latter will die.
 The dead are:
 c. EDWARD THOMAS, striking conduc- tor on the Chouteau avenue line shot in breast by deputy sheriff; died on the way to the hospital.
 GEORGE RINE, striking motorman on Delmar avenue line; shot in abdomen by deputy sheriff; died at City hospital.
 FRED BOEHM, aged citizen; shot and instantly killed while standing in his front yard by deputy sheriff.
 The wounded are:
 Ed. Burkhart, striking conductor on Del mar avenue line; shot in head; may die.
 Oscar Marvin, conductor on the Lee ave- nue line, shot in right hand and arm; seri- ous.
 August Smith, shot in right arm and breast: not serious.
 Charles Ludwig, shot in hand; not seri- ous.
 The day was quiet until this afternoon when the police were taken off a number of street lines for the purpose of giving them a rest and to test the ability of the Transit company to operate without fric- tion. Cars were in operation during the day time on all the lines of the Transit company except the Southwestern. Tonight cars were run under police protection until midnight on the Park avenue, Olive street, Lindell division and LaClede avenue line.
 Broke Out at 2 O'clock
 The most serious trouble broke out at o'clock in front of the six-story building on Washington avenue, occupied by the sher- iff's posse comitatus as a barracks and headquarters. Several hundred striking street car men had gone to East St. Louis earlier in the day to attend picnic given for their benefit at Wolff's grove Toward evening they began returning home singly, in groups of two or three, in companies of hundred or more. No serious trouble occurred until one of these companies, com posed of nearly 15O street car men in uni form and headed by a drum corps, came west OH w tOi dNeHuc. III tHelT CdpS some of them had cards bearing these words: Union or nothing; liberty or death."
 The men were marching along the side walk on the south side of Washington ave- nue, opposite the posse barracks They were in a jocular mood, and near as can be learned, had no intention of making any trouble. Just as they were passing the barracks car of the Park avenue division was going west. A number of the men broke from the line and rushed for the car with the intenton it is said, of boarding it and taking ride. Another statement was made that it was the intention of the strk- CTS to assault the motorman and conductor, whose car was without the usual police guard. brick was thrown through the car window and shot was fired. Members of the sheriff's posse swarmed from the building and surrounded the crowd of str.k- CTS about the car, calling upon them to dis perse.
 Other shots were fired, and then some of the deputies turned loose their repeating shotguns loaded with buckshot. As far as can be learned only four of the men in the strikers ranks were hit. Not deputy was wounded.
 c. Edward Thomas, a striking conductor on the Chouteau avenue line was picked up and placed in an ambulance after the fight was over. He was shot in the breast the heavy load of buckshot tearing hole that caused his death on the way to the city hosiptal.
 George Rine, striking motorman, re- ceived terrible wound in the abdomen. He was taken to hospital, but died on the operating table
 Ed Burkhart, striking conductor, got several buckshots in the head, causing serious wound He may die. Oscar Marvin, a striking conductor, will probably lose his right hand as a result of the fusilade. It was badly torn.
 Burkhadt died at midnight of his wounds
 Twenty Strikers Arrested
 Under the command of Colonel Cavelder, the deputies arrested twenty of the strikers and took them into the barracks, where they were searched. Three revolvers and a number of pocket knives were secured and the prisoners were locked up
 Those under arrest are J. R. Grant, Charles White, c. Johnson, L. K. McCor- mack, John Adams, J. H. Kennedy, N. D. Greenway, N. P. Hedrick, Thomas Doyle, Charles Robbins, H. Jones, George Keisel, Reinhart Miller, John Schuler, Charles Me-