Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-22

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men Who sympsthized With the
Strikers.
ST. LOUIS. Mo-, May 21.-One boy
was killed and three men and a girl
were wounded to-day, as a result of the
strike. Martin Zika, is years old, was
struck in the left breast by a bullet
fired from a street car.
The wounded
Clarence E. Mullen, motorman, shot
in upper portion of left arm. Home in
Jacksonville. Ills. Wound not serious.
Minnie Kruger, IS years old, struck
in left thigh by a glancing bullet. Not
serious.
Two rioters. seen to fall during the
fight at Thirteenth and Herbert streets,
between a mob of $50 men and the po-
lice, We're carried away by friends and
their names were not learned.
Zika was shot late in the afternoon
while standing in the door of his home
on Geyer avenue. A mob of several
hundred men had surrounded a car OF
the Tower Grove line and were threat
ening the conductor and motorman. A
few tones had been thrown when a
shot was fred from the car, the bullet
striking Zika full in the breast. He
died within a few minutes. Conductor
Owen Farley and Motorman Drake were
arrested by the police pending an in
vestigation.
At the police station tonight Con-
ductor Farley admitted firing the shot
which killed Zika. He fired, he said,
at a man who was preparing to throw
a stone at him and the bullet truck
Zika.
The four people wounded were all
injured in a fight which occurred at
$3.50 O'Clock at the intersection of Thir-
teenth and Herbert streets. The riot
was lively while it lasted. fully 100
shots being fired, and as the streets
were crowded with people IL is remark
able that the number of injured was so
small.
Four cars of the Bellefontaine line
were running close together, and when
the first one turned the corner II
plunged into a crowd of over two
hundred men and women. No stop
was made, and the car was free of the
mob before any damage could be done.
The mob was ready for the second
car, however, and il received a warm
reception. Stones were rained upon
it and several shots fired at the con
ductor and motorman. The four po-
lice officers on the car at once returned
the fire, and the crew of the first car.
hearing the shots, reversed and ran
back TO reinforce their comrades. The
other cars, each carrying four officers,
were close behind, Police Captain
Joyce being on the third car. For
nearly a minute a rapid fire went on
from both sides and then, led by Cap
tain Joyce, the police made a rush on
the mob, which broke and scattered
in all directions. Motorman Mullen,
of the second car. which was in charge
of Conductor Charles w. Scott, was
shot through the arm. he being the
only n injured by the mob. Two
rioters were seen to fall, hit by bull
let's fired by the police, and several
officers who took part in the scrim-
mage declared that fully half a dozen
members of the mob had been shot
down. The best information and the
evidence of the greater number OF
officers is, however, to the effect that
only two were shot by the police.
They were at once carried of by their
friends and their names are not yet
known.
Minnie Kruger ran into a yard for
safety when the fight began, and a
bullet striking an iron fence near
where she was standing, glanced of
and hit her in the left thigh. The
wound was little more than a scratch.
The passengers on the car made
wild scrambles for the open air when
the trouble began. Among them were
three women and the female sympa-
thizers with the strikers, who were
present in large numbers. at once at
tackled them. They showered them
with abuse, pelted them with stones
and sticks and made them run for
their lives. For several squares the
chase was kept up, and the women
finally left the street and run across
some vacant lots, still holly pursued
by the crowd OF women behind who
succeeded every now and then in
striking one OF the fugitives with a
stick or stone. The crowd was not
distaneed until the three women had
been raced fully a third Of a mile.
The police had their hands full at the
time in dealing with the mob at the
corner and were not able to afford n
protection to the women.
AT s o'clock a small riot occurred
at Eleventh street anu Park avenue.
A mob of several hundred men at
tackled the last car on the Park ave.
nue. line as it was or the home trip.
Several stones were thrown and a
shot was fired, but whether by the
mob or by one Of the men on the car
could not be determined. A force Of
forty men was at once dispatched to
that point from police headquarters
and the mob dispersed without diff
Guilty.
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