The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-06-15
FIRE UPON RIOTERS.
Sheriff's Deputies Do Bloody Work
in St. Louis.

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Very Riotous Sabbath. e.
& st. Louis, June 11.-Sunday was one
Of the most eventful and bloody
since the great strike on the St. Louis
transit began more than month ago.
There were numerous encounters be
tween strikers and other riotous in
dividuals and the constituted authoti-
ties, resulting in four deaths and the
wounding of five or more persons,
mostly strikers. One of the latter will
die. The dead are:
The Victims. ~,
G. Edward Thomas, striking conductor
on the Ch0teau avenue line, shot in
breast BY. deputy sheriff, died on his
way to the hospital. ''"> ~
George Rine. striking motorman on Del
mar avenue line, shot in abdomen by a
deputy sheriff. died at city hospital.
Fred Boehm, aged citizen, shot and in
stantly killed while standing in his front
yard, by deputy sheriff.
Ed. Burkhart, striking conductor on
Delmar avenue line, shot in the head,
lived until nearly midnight. So ,
Wounded-Oscar Marvin. conductor on
the Lee avenue line. shot in right hand
and arm: serious WI,
Oscar Marvin, conductor on the Lee
avenue line, shot in right hand and arm;
serious. "~t. r.. .
August Smith, shot in right arm and
breast: not serious. 81
Charles Ludwig. shot in hand: not seri-
Gus.
Men Attack 4 Car.
The most serious trouble broke out
between six and seven o'clock in front
of the six-story store building ON
Washington avenue, between Broad
way and Sixth streets. occupied by
the sheriff's posse comitatus as bar
racks and headquarters. Several hun
dred striking street car men had gone
to East St. Louis earlier in the day to
attend picnic given for their benefit
at VOLTS grove. Toward evening
they began returning home singly, in
groups of two or three, and others in
companies of hundred or more. No
serious trouble occurred until one of
these companies, composed of nearly
$50 street car men III uniform and
headed by drum corps, came west on
Washington avenue.
Just as they were passing the bar
racks, a car of the Park avenue divi-
sion was going west. A number of the
men broke from the line and rushed
for the car with the intention, it is
said, of boarding it and taking a ride.
Another statement was made that it
was the intention of the strikers to
assault the motorman and conductor
whose car was without the usual po-
lice guard. However that may be. the
trouble started here. A brick was
thrown through the car window and a
shot was fired by somebody not known.
Sherin's Posse Acts.
At the first intimation of trouble
members of the sheriff's posse swarmed
from the building and surrounded the
crowd of strikers about the car, call
ing upon them to dispense. 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 even.
George Rine, striking motorman on
the Delmar avenue line. received a
terrible wound in the abdomen. He
was taken to the City hospital. but
died on the operating table. Another
of those hit by shots from the depu-
ties guns was Ed. Burkhart, strik-
ing conductor, also of the Delmar av-
enue line. Several buckshot struck
him in the side of the head. causing
wound from which he died. Oscar
Marvin, a striking conductor on the
Lee avenue line, will probably lose his
right hand as result of the fusillade.
It was badly torn.
Under the command of Col. Caven-
der the deputies arrested 20 of the
strikers and took them into the bar
racks. where they were searched.
Three revolvers and number of pock-:
ct knives were secured and the pris-
oners were taken to the Four Courts.
where they were locked up, pending
an investigation. The remainder of
the strikers fled west, followed by d
squad of mounted police that had
been summoned. They dispersed with
out any further trouble. /
Says Shooting Was Unprovoked.
Mack Missick, the secretary of the
strikers union, was seen at Walhalla
hall, where he was waiting for par
ticulars regarding the riot. Missick
said: r
The men were marching along when as
accurately as was possible under the cir
cumstances I remember that a small boy
marching beside the men threw a rock
at an approaching car, which had not
yet reached Sixth street. There was
a revolver shot. but l am positive that
1t did not come from our side, as our
men were unarmed. Instantly after the
shot was fired there was a fusillade of
shots from the deputies. They swept the
street from Fourth to Sixth and from
Sixth to Fourth. 1t was miracle that
there were not so men shot. expected
q bullet momentarily. After the firing
we tried to get at the men who were
lying in the street. but everywhere we
explained that we wished to assist them
we were driven away. and the men lay
there suffering until the ambulance came
The shooting was unprovoked. 1t was
one of the most objectionable outrages
ever perpetrated in the United States
The Hazelton riots do not compare with
it,. @-.'- '1
At Hts Old Home.
Rochester, n. Y, June 11.-Gen. E..
S. Otis, who is to be the city's guest
next week, accompanied by. his wife
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