The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-11
FATAL RESULTS OF STRIKE.
RIOT AND BLOODsHED RULED ST.
LOUIS ON SUNDAY.

Four Men Were Killed and at Least
seven Were Badly Wounded-PO-
uce Taken on Some of the Cars in
the Afternoon-Party of Strikers
Attacked an Unprotected Car and
was Fired Upon by the Sherif's
Posse.
81. Louis. June 1o,--The day just ended
has been one of the most eventful and
rloody since the great strike on the st.
Louis Transit lines began, more than one
month ago.
There were numerous encounters be-
tween strikers and other individuals, ana
the constituted authorities, resulting in
three deaths and the wounding of five or
more persons, mostly strikers. One of the
latter will die.
The dead are: C. Edward Thomas
nue. line, shot In breast by deputy sher-
iff died on way 20 hospital; George Rine
striking motorman, on Demar avenue
line. shot in abdomen by deputy sheriff
died at hospital; Fred Boehm, citizen, shot
and instantly killed while standing in his
front yard, by deputy sheriff; Ed Burk-
hart striking conductor on Delmar ave-
nue. line, shot in head.
The wounded are: Oscar Marvin,
NOT serious; Ed Barry, motorman, and
James Mcclure and John McElroy, severe
scalp wounds. inflicted by strike sympa-
thizers.
The day was quiet until this afternoon
when the police were taken off a num-
ber ofthe street car lines for the purpose Of
giving them a rest and to test the ability
o. the Transit Company 10 operate with
out friction. Cars were in operation uur-
ing the daytime on all the lines of the
Transit Company. except the Southwest
ern
Tonight cars were run under police p~o-
lection until midnight on the Park avenue.
Olive street, Lindell division and LaCl de
avenue line.
Strikers Started Row.
The most serious trouble broke out be-
tween and o'clock in fro9t of the
six-story building on Washington avenue,
between Broadway and Sixth streets. oc-
cupied by the sheriff's posse comitatus
as a barracks and headquarters Several
hundred striking street ear men had gone
TO East St Louis earlier in the day -
attend a picnic given for their tene1t.
Toward evening they began returning
home singly, in groups of two or threa,
and others in companies of a hundred or
more.
No serious trouble occurred until one of
these companies, composed of nearly $50
street car men in uniform and headed by
drum corps, came west on Washington
avenue. In their caps some of them had
cards bearing these words: Union or
nothing; liberty or death
The men were marching along the S de-
walk on the south side of Wa shington
avenue opposite the posse barracks.
They were in a jocular mood, and as
near as can be learned, had no inten-
ton of making any trouble
just as they were passing the barracks,
Ger Of the Park avenue division was
going west. numter of the men broke
from the line and rushed for the car with
The intention, il is said, of boarding 1t
and taking ride. Another statement
was made that it was the intention Of
the strikers to assault the motorman and
conductor whose car was without police
guard. However that may he, the
trouble started here. A br ok was thrown
through the car window and a shot was
fired by somebody unknown.
Fired on the Strikers.
At the first intimation of trouble mem
ters of the s3erif's POSSE swarmed from
the building and surrounded the crowd
Of strikers about the car. ealing upon
them to sperse O;ter shots were fired
loose their repe ting shotguns loaded
with buckshot. As tar as can be learn
ed only four of the men in the strikers
ranks were hit. Not deputy wa,
wounded
G. Edward Thomas, a striking conductor
on the Chouteau avenue line, was pickeC
up and placed in an ambulance aftel
the fight was over. He was shot in the
breast. the heavy load of buckshot tear
ing a hole that soon let out his life''
blood and caused his death while on tn,
way to the city hospital.
George Rine, striking motorman or
the Delmar avenue line, received j ter
fioe wound in the abdomen. and subse
qCently died
Others were badly wounded. The dep
uues arrested twenty of the strikers an'
took them 90 the barracks.
In East St. Louis there were riotou
scenes to-day during the picnic of stree
car strikers and there were number o
exciting incidents. This afternoon strik'
sympathizers piled timbers and ties on IN
tracks in Clayton, near a tifty-foot EN-
nankment, but the obstruction was dlscoV
cred in time
Fred Boehm, a respectable citizen. age
s. years. was this afternoon instantly kill
ed by shot from the gun of q deput,
sheriff, who had fired AT crowd stonini
car.
Strikers Use Dynamite.
Shortly after midnight this morning
powerful torpedo was exploded on the rail
road tracks at the corner of Tweuty-tirs
and Clark avenues. number of the poss
comitatus rushed to the scene and arreste
TOUR men who were pointed out as the par
ties who had exploded the torpedo. Will
the men were being escorted to the polio
station some one fired a revolver at tn
group, the ball lodging in the hip of win
lam Haggerty, one of the posse. Hi
wound is serious.
ONLY AS LAST RESORT.