The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-19
INSTRUCTIONS ON TRACKS
AND THE CABLE OF ONE OF THE
STREET CAR LINES SEVERED.
No Further Conference Between the
Men and Emp1oyers-Federal
Grand Jury I'm Session.

night II was resolved at lz.oU THIS todlur-
day. morning to recommend to the con-
| trolling central bodies that a sympathetic
| Dor unions in st. Louis. ~
ST. LOUIS, May 1S.-There was no con-
| ference to-day between representatives of
the striking street-car employees and of the
| st. Louis Transit Company, although Presi-
dent Halves, of the Board of Police Com
missioners, tried to get the two parties to
| the strike controversy together I'm still an
other meeting. He consulted with T. B. Ed
| wards. chairman of the grievance commit
tee. and with BENZ. F. Clark. the attor-
| ney of the strikers, in the morning. and
as a result had Mr.. Edwards send a let
ter to President Whitaker suggesting
| conference. In response. Mr.. Whitaker said
he was willing to meet the committee at
any time. Mr.. Edwards then suggested that
| the next proposition come from the COM
pany and the response was in effect that
| the company had no further proposition to
make, standing on the offer of Thursday
rejected by the strikers.
Rioting broke out afresh to-day in vari-
Gus parts of the city and several casualties
of a severe nature were recorded on the
books of the police department. At noon
crowd of four hundred or more men, wom
en- and boys congregated along Laclede. be-
tween Grand and Theresa avenues, and
stopped the cars as they approached by
| means of distractions piled on the tracks.
| AS the cars came to standstill rioting be-
gan. Persons in the crowd commenced
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| One bullet struck ]. E. Richardson. con-
| ductor, in the head. A special officer on
one of the cars was dragged off and badly
beaten, his club and revolver taken from
him and several other motormen and con-
ductors were assaulted.
While the turmoil was at its height a
detail of police came dashing up and
charged the crowd. They struck right and
left, hut they had no clew to who was re-
sponsible for the shooting. Richardson is
probably fatally wounded.
On the Bellefontaine line distractions were
numerous and when the men left the cars
to remove the barriers they were made
the targets of strike sympathizers, who
pelted them from windows and house tops
with rocks, broken bricks and pieces OF
iron.
DEAD HORSE ON THE TRACKS.
The employees on the Eastern-avenue cars
had another rough day of 1t. Their cars
were peited at street corners near the west
ern terminus and also along Franklin ave-
nue. and Morgan street. In one place the
strike sympathizers blockaded the track
with a dead horse. No sooner did the
street-car employees remove the carcass than
hundred willing hands grabbed it and
dragged it back to the track. Traffic was
IoIx~t
made the crowd dispense. DISTINCTIONS
were numerous along the California ave-
nue. and Tower Grove lines and the cars
passed through several 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 of the ST. Louis
| Transit Company were shot to-day while
| In charge of street cars In neither case
| Is the assailant known. Guy Fickes, of De-
catur, ILL.,. was shot through the thigh at
| Twenty-first and Morgan streets, at 1:30
o'clock this afternoon. Fickes arrived from
Decatur Friday morning. He was employed
| as a special guard by the Transit COM
pany and was on one of the Easton-avenue
cars at the time the shooting occurred.
Fickes was removed to st. John Hospital
after his injuries had been attended to. To
| a reporter Fickes said: I'VE were going
| east on Morgan street at the time 1 was
| shot. A large crowd had gathered on the
| sidewalk all along the street from Jeffer-
| son avenue east and they hooted and
| jeered. At Twenty-first street the crowd
| was biggest and 1t was with difficulty we
made any progress at all. 1t was then
was shot. don't know who shot, but know
| the bullet came from the house along the
street / saw a flash at the same time
| felt the sting of the shot. 1t came from the
second story of a brick building on the
| corner" Fickes's condition is serious.
The federal grand jury was in session all
day. 1t had under consideration the hind
| RANGES and distinctions to the United
| States mail caused by the present street.
car strike. Numerous witnesses were ex-
| amined, and some important evidence pre-
| sented No formal report was submitted to
| the court, but IT is believed final report
will be made on Saturday.
Shortly after noon to-day three cable cars
started east from the power house of the
Fourth-street Railway. on Eighteenth and
Park avenue. AT Fourth street and Choteau
avenue the cars stopped and on investiga-
| ton 1t was found that the cable had been
| cut. When the free end of the cable ar
rived at the power house it was found that
all the strings had been severed, presume
| bly, with steel saw. The cars were hauled
| back to the power house by horses. The
| task of splicing the cable and running it
| through the conduits will be a difficult one
| and the road probably will not be in shape
| for a day or two.
RIOTS LAST NIGHT.
| John Kenna, saloon keeper on Gratiot
street. was probably fatally wounded and
| Robert Nelson, colored. and Emergency
| Officer Jacob Hollingsworth slightly
wounded tonight In riot at the south end
| of the Fourteenth-street bridge. Kenna was
shot four times by the special officer, and
| Nelson was struck In the lobe of the left
| ear by a stray bullet, fired supposedly by
| Kenna, who fired four shots at the officer,
| one of which struck him in the hand, caus-
| ing slight wound. Kenna had been drink
| ing hard for several days and tonight as
a car on the Chouteau-avenue division of
| the Transit Company was rounding the
curve at Fourteenth and Gratiot streets he
| stepped up to IL, and, drawing a revolver,
| attempted to shoot the motorman. The car
| was going too fast for him, and he missed
| his mark. He then began shooting at the
| conductor and Special Officer Holdings
worth, who were standing on the rear plat
| form. The officer jumped from the car, and,
walking toward the intoxicated saloon
keeper. began shooting at him. Four of his
| bullets struck Kenna's body. Kenna con-
shot he fired struck Hollingsworth In the
passed through Nelson's ear. Kenna was
taken TO the hospital. where the physicians
offered no hope for his recovery.
Patrolman Henry z. Barton was shot and
painfully wounded to-day on Jefferson ave.
nue. near Geyer avenue. Barton was on a
car OF the Jefferson-avenue line as guard.
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