The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-04
WOMEN BEATEN.
Clothes Torn Off For Riding on
st. Louis Street Cars.

st. Louis, June 4.-The citizen mem
bers of the posse comitatus had their
first experience with active service to-
day when several companies were as
signed for guard duty at the Park ave
nue.. EaSton avenue and Southern
electric power houses of the Transit
company. Arms were given QUITO about
900 of the deputies. yesterday and the
day was spent drilling them. AS a re-
suit the deputies presented a military
appearance as they marched away to
their respective rendezvous with guns at
a right shoulder.
While on guard duty the members of
the sherins posse win be subject to
strict military discipline. Those not on
guard Will be held in reserve at the diff
ferent police stations.
A barracks has been provided for
those already sworn in, and there the
men viii eat and sleep while off duty
None of the deputies will be sent out
to guard the cars, the police being re-
tanned for that service
The work of summoning and swearing
in additional deputies continues.
All but two or three of the divisions
of the Transit system are operating
cars today and good schedules are being
maintained on most of the lines. The
interference with passengers in some
sections of the city by strike sympa-
thizers IS becoming serious. 1t is as
much as persons life is worth to get
Off street car along South Broad
way Men, women and children join
in the assault on any one caught riding
on the cars. sticks, stones and fists
being used on all alike. Several women
have been brutally beaten and the
clothes torn from their backs But for
the appearance of the police in each
instance the victims would have Jared
worse
Christine There, IS years old, was set
upon by a crowd of about 1000 men, sim
ply because she had ridden on a car of the
st. Louis Transit company. She was on
the way to spend the day with her
mother. She is a servant. The distance
was too far to walk and get back to her
car; When she aiighted at Ninth street
and GeYer avenue at D. m. from a,
Cherokee car, she was approached by a
young man who called her a "scab." 9th
ers Joined in the chorus. A young man
tore on her Jacket and another her hat
She was struck by the fists of men and
bruised about the face and body A
pocketbOok which she carried in her hand
was snatched away and the money taken.
Piece by piece her clothing was torn
away. while she appealed for entrance at
the nearest house The Occupants how
ever, were afraid the mob would tear
down the building and refused her admit
taince. She succeeded in reaching an alley
and ran down it, followed by the hooting
men. There was a little window leading
into a cellar. She broke the glass and
/ Jumped in and covered in a corner in
the darkness Finally her. prosecutors
and received it, finally being taken to her
J employers in Delmar boulevard
At 1916 South Twelfth street another in
| cldent of the kind occurred. Stella Brod-
/ erick got off a car only to be assailed
/ and hooted at by mob Her jacket was
| torn from her by men. She ran down an
| The mob surrounded the house and began
/ throwing stones through windows. Mrs
! FOLK got a revolver and opened fire on
the mob from her front window and the
men scattered.