The age-herald., 1900-05-16
TWO MEN SHOT IN
 A ST. LOUIS RIOT Strikers Attempt to 0bStruct
 Transit System Cars. CONDUCTOR FIRED SHOTS
Intense Excitement Prevailed and No Further Effort to Stop Cars Was Made-No Agreement Has
 Yet Been Reached.

St. Louis, May 15.-The distinguishing feature in the street car strike situation today was a riot which broke out on the opening of the Grand Avenue line of the St. Louis Transit system, during the prog ress of which two men were shot At night fall the Trantis company and its 3,6OO strik- ing employees were no nearer sn adjustment of their differences than they were at the same time yesterday
 The officials of the railroad company, members of the employees grievance com mittee and the president of the police board were in session for five hours today in an endeavor to reconcile the differences. On
 adjournment all the parties declined to talk for publication, simply stating that no agreement had been arrived at, and that
 they would meet again tomorrow afternoon. The suburban company pursuant to an agreement effected yesterday with it's em- ployes ran on full schedule day and night
 This is the first time since the strike was
 inaugurated on the road that a night schedule was maintained.
 Five lines were opened during the day by
 the Transit company, all shutting down at dark Irregular schedules were main I line of the Transit system was attended by a riot about clock at Easton avenue, in | which two persons were wounded by bull | lets said to have been fired by B. B. l Campbell, conductor of one of the cars A
 crowd gathered at the corner, made up | largely of street railway strikers on the l Easton avenue line and their sympathzers The tracks of both the Grand avenue and
 the Easton avanue lines in the vicinity had been obstructed by piles of rocks, boards,
 waterspouts, etc.
 Cars SLowered i h Stones
 The Grand avenue cars, moving north,
 reached the point at 4:15 D. m headed by
 a sprinkling car, with a half dozen or more cars behind it, each manned by a crew of six policemen. The trouble began in the block just south of Easton avenue when
 shower of stones fell on the cars and tine officers and crew drew their revolvers. The first two cars passed over the Easton av- enus crossing, and then the Instructions on the track were encountered. The motor
 man waited for the policemen to get down
 and remove the stones and lumber from the track.
 ! As the officers began this work Mrs l Hogan, who lives in the neighborhood, hur- | red out to the track and called the ofncers | "curs" and other names for attempting to | help move the cars, saying that the duty | of a policeman was not to perform such work A shot fired in the air by a policeman as the car started Shouts of "scabs" came from the crowd at the same time, and more shots were fired rom the procession of cars. It was claimed in the crowd that fifty to seventy-five shots were fired almost simultaneous, but only two per sons were wounded. They were John Flat ley and Joseph Trendam. Both were wounded in the left hip. Flatley's wound is serious is a striker Thendam is 19 years old and was merely on on-looker.
 Intense excitement prevailed during the
 riot, and for half an hour after no further effort to molest the cars was made. A force of 50 to75 police was on the scene soon
 after the riot call was turned in and suc- ceeded in preserving order.