The age-herald., 1900-05-22
SEVERAL BATTLES WAGED IN ST. LOUIS The Strike Situation Has Grown
 More Serious. ONE KILLED, FOUR INJURED Three Women Passengers Attempted to Escape from a Gar, and Were
 Chased Nearly Half Mile by
 Women Sympathisers
ONE KILLED, FOUR INJURED

St Louis, May 21.-one boy was killed | and three men and girl were wounded
 today as a result of the strike. The dead:
 | Martin Zika, IS years Of age, struck in
 left breast by bullet fired from street 1 car.
 Conductor Farley and Motorman Joseph
 Drale were placed under arrest. 1 The wounded:
 1 Clarence E. Mullen, mororman; shot In upper portion of left arm.
 Minnie Krueger, IS years of age; struck 1 in left thigh by glancing bullet. Two rioters who were seen 10 fall during | a fight at Thirteenth and Herbert streets I between a mob of 250 men and the police
 were carried away by their friends and
 their names not learned. Zika was shot l late in the afternoon while standing in l the door of his home at 1200 Geyer avenue. mob of several hundred men had sur
 rounded car of the lower Grove line, and
 were threatening the conductor and mo- l torman. A few stones had been thrown ] when a shot was fired from the car, the | bullet striking Zika full in the breast. He died within few minutes. Conductor l Farley and Motorman Drake were arrested | by the police pending an investigation l Both of them deny the shooting. I Four Persons N oLnded The four persons wounded were all in l jured near a fight which occurred at 5:30 o'clock at the intersection of Thirteenth and
 Herbert streets. The riot lively while | it lasted fully 100 shots being fired. Four | cars of the Bell Fountaine line were run txztx@ ,1, | turned the corner it plunged into crowd of | over 200 men and women who gathered l there. No stop was made and the car was l free of the mob before any damage could 1 be done The mob was ready for the sec l ond car, however and 1t received a warm l reception. Stones were rained upon it and
 several shots were fired at the conductor 1 and motorman. The four police officers on 1 the car at once returned the fire, and the | crew of the first car, hearing the shots at 1 once reversed and ran back to reinforce | their comrades. Two other cars, each car l rying four officers, were close behind, Po- l lice Captain Joyce being on the third car. l For nearly a minute a rapid fire went on 1 from both sides, and then led by Captain | Joyce the police made a rush on the mob, which broke and scattered in all directions. | Motorman Mullin of the second car, which was in charge of Conductor Charles w. | Scott, was shot through the arm, he being | the only one injured by the mob Two riot 1 CTS were seen to fall, hit by bullets fired | by the police. They were at once carried | off by their friends and their names are l not known.
 l Minnie Krueger ran into a yard for safe I ty when the fight began and bullet l striking an iron fence near which she was | standing glanced off and hit her in the
 left thigh. The wound was not serious. l Wild scramble of Pass. ngers l The passengers on the car made a wild | scramble for the open air when the trouble | began. Among them were three women l and the female sympathizers with the strikers, who were present in large num- bers, at once attacked them. They show l cred them with abuse, pelted them with l stcnes and sticks and made them run for | their lives. For several squares the chase | was kept up, the three women finally leav- 1 ing the street, running across some vacant l lot still hotly pursued by the crowd of l women who succeeded every now and then l in striking one of the fugitves with l stick or stone The crowd was not dis | tanced until the three women had been
 raced fully a third of a mile. The police l were too busy with the mob at the corner | to afford any protection to the women. l At o'clock at Eleventh street and Park ;! avenue a mob of several hundred men and | women attacked car on the Park avenue
 line. Several stones were thrown and a 1 shot was fired. A force of forty men was l dt once ulSpdtcHeQ from pOl1ce nead- | quarters and the mob was dispersed with 1 out difficulty At the police station to- 1 night Conductor Owor Farley admitted fir l ing the shot which killed Zka. He fred l he said, at a man who was preparing to | throw stone at him and the bullet struck | zika.
 | Another Riot
 There a riot at Twelfth street and l Chateau avenue late in the afternoon when i Tower Grove car reached the corner A 1 large crowd gathered and blocked the 1 track so the could not move, while nearly a hundred men climbed upon the i Shickle- Harrison iron foundry building and 1 rained a hale of stones on the car. riot | call was sent in, and Detectives Hageman l Finan and Policeman Finnagan were sent
 to the scene. Hageman arrested Al Brooks l for throwing a stone at the car It anger 1 ed the crowd, and seven men assailed Hageman, who had hard time in keeping l them off. After he had knocked down 1 three of them they let him alone Finan 1 arrested Pete Helfish. There was another l tussle, and Flanagan came to his assist l ance passageway Was anened up | through the crowd and both men were ta- 1 ken to the wagon. Brooks had his pockets 1 full of stones when he was searched at the l pOlice station