The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-19
NON-UNON MN NOBBED
ST. LOUIS STREET CAR STRIKERS
AND SYMPATHIZERS GROW
UGLY
SEVERAL PERSONS WERE SHOT
One of the Victims Is Probably Fa-
tally WOunded-ShOwers of
Missiles Greeted Cars
in Motion.

81. LOUIS, Mo, May 1S.-There was no
formal conference today between repre-
sentatives of the striking street car en-
ployes and Of the st. Louis Transit com
pany, although President HaWs, of the
board OF police commissioners, tried to
get the two parties to the strike contro-
Versy together in still another meeting.
Rloting broke out afresh today in vari-
Gus parts Of the city, and several casual
ties OF a severe nature were recorded on
the books Of the police department.
AT noon the crowd of 400 or more men,
women and boys congregated along La
clede between Grand and Theresa ave-
nues. and stopped the cars as they ap-
proached, by means of distractions placed
on the tracks. AS the cars came to
standstill rioting began, persons in the
crowd commenced throwing rocks and
some shots were fired. One of the bullets
struck j. richardson, a conductor, 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 conductors We're as
saulted. While the turmoil was at its
height detail of police came dashing up
and charged the crowd. They struck right
and left, but they had no clew as to who
was responsible for the shooting Rich
ardson is probably fatally wounded.
LINES OBsTRUCTED.
On the Bellfontaine line obstructions
were numerous, and when the men left
the cars to remove the barriers they were
made the targets Of the strike sympa-
thizers who pelted them from windows
and housetops with rocks, broken bricks
and pieces of iron.
The employees on the Easton avenue
cars had another rough day Of it. Their
TTyny al fn6 o%r
western terminus and also along Frank
lin avenue and Morgan street. In one
place the strike sympathizers blockaded
the track with a dead horse. No sooner
dld the street car employees remove the
carcass than a hundred willing hands
grabbed 1t and dragged 1t back to the
track. Traffic was obstructed until the
police arrived and made the crowd dis
perse. distractions were numerous along
the California avenue and Tower Grove
lines, and the cars passed through several
showers Of stones and bricks.
Irattlc was frequently impeded by piles
OF rocks, lumber, etc, along the Market
street and ChQuteau avenue lines and
every now and then stray rock was
hurled at the passing cars.
TWO MORE SHOT.
Two imported employees of the st. Louis
transit company WeTe shot today while
in charge Of street cars. n neither case
is the assailant known.
Guy Ffckes, of Decatur Ill, was shot
through the thigh at Wwenty-first and
Morgan streets. at 1:50 o'clock this after
noon. F1ckes arrived from Decatur Fri
day morning. He was employed as
special guard by the Transit company
and was on one of the Easton avenue cars
at the time the shooting occurred Fickes
was removed to st. Johns hospital after
his injury had been received, where he
received medical attention To an AS
sociated Press reporter Ffckes said:
We were going east on Morgan street
at the time l was shot. A large crowd
was gathered on the sidewalk all along
the street from Jefferson avenue east. and
they hooted and jeered At Twenty-first
street the crowd was biggest and it was
with difficulty the car made any progress
at all. 1t was then that 1 was shot 1
do not know who shot me, but know the
bullet came from house along the
street. 1 saw the fash at the same tina
1 felt the sting of the shot. 1t came from
the second story of a brick building on
the corner
Fickes' condition is not serious and un-
less complications arise his recovery is
considered certain.
GRAND JURY INQUIRY.
The federal grand jury was in session
all day today. 1t had under consideration
the hindraDces and Instructions to the
United States mail caused by the present
street car strike. Numerous witnesses
were examined and some important evil
dence presented, but no formal report was
submitted to the court and it is believed
that G final report will be made Saturday.
Shortly after noon today three cable
cars started east from the power house
CT the Fourth street railway on
Eighteenth and Park avenue. AT Fourth
street and Choteau avenue the cars stor.
ped and upon investigation 1t was found
that the cable had been cut. When the
free ends of the cable arrived at the
power house it was found that all the
strands had been severed, presumably by
a steel saw. The cars were hauled back
10 the power house by horses. the task
of splicing the cable and running it
through the conduits will be difficult
one, and the road probably VIII not ba
in shape for a day OF two
STRIKE MAY BE GENERAL.
At a meeting of 100 heads of labor
unions it was resolved at 1850 this Sat
urday) morning to recommend to the
controlling central bodies that a sympa-
thetic strike be inaugurated today of all
the labor unions in st. Louis
Engineers Elect Officers.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 1S.-The cleo
tiOn of officers Of tba InSlrro0oa