The sun., 1900-06-12
'fBE ST. LOUIS STRIKE.
All Car Lines but One Are In Opera
tion Now.
THE CITY rs MORE ORDERLY
Deputies blamed For Shooting Down
street Car Men In Front OF
sF the Washington Ave-
ls nue. Barracks.

81. Louis, June 1.-THE fifth week of |
fbe street car strife opened tamely when |
compared with Sundays reign of terror.
With one exception all the street car
Zines were in operation. Each car carried
the usual guard of police officers. On
some lines running through unruly dls-
tricts the number was doubled. Squads
and companies of the sheriffs posse men
were on duty at all the power houses ana
car sheds Of the Transit company and at
the barracks on Washington avenue.
Chief Of Police Campbell, who on Sat
urday expressed the opinion that the
state troops should be called OUT, mas
changed his mind He said;
Il don't think ! would recommend that
the state troops be called upon just yet.
The developmcnts of Sunday, ! think,
show that we are able to handle the sit
uation. There were a great many per-
sons Shot and several killed. ! deeply de-
plore the necessity for such action, but it
only shows that our force is equal TO al
most any occasion"
N There is considerable hard feeling as
the resuleof Sundays shooting in front
of the posse barracks. The deputies are
blamed for what some call their unwar-
ranted action in shooting the striking
street car men, while the men in the pro-
cession are censured for their brayado.
Chief Campbell says he recognizes among
the 20 strikers arrested several to whom
he gave the friendly warning earlier IN
the day to be peaceabe.. Sheriff Pohl-
man justifes the action of his deputies,
who, he says, did their duty.
& Protest by Mahon.
M President W. d. Mahon of the Nation
al Association of Amalgamated Street
Car Railway Employees, who is manag
ing the strike, has wired Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fedora
tion Of Labor, at Washington, thai
1'street car men returning from picnic
peaceahly and unarmed. were fired upo1
by a sheriff's posse and shot down lk'
dogs. The outrages at Hazleton mel
into insignifcance in comparison. Ihl
outrage should be denounced in no un
certain terms by the organized wag
earners of America"
A recapitulation of the strike, whicl
has now been on one month and thre
days, shows 10 fatalities and at leas
so persons wounded.
Sunday was one of the most eyentfu
and bloody days since the strike begar
There were numerous encounters be
tween strikers and other individuals an
the constituted authorities, resulting i
three deaths and the wounding of five Q
more persons, mostly strikers. One 9
the latter will die.
M The dead are c. Edward Thomas, stril
WI ing conductor on the Chouteau avenu
M line, shot in breast by deputy sheri
E and died on the way to the hospita
M George Rine, striking motorman on Il
& Delmar avenue line, shot in abdomen |
M a deputy sheriff and died at hospital, al
nv Fred Bochm. aged citizen, shot and i
S stanty killed while standing in his fral
9& yard by lonuty sheriff.
6 The wounded ale Ed Rurkhartlr. stIi
ing conductor Oh the Dchnar avenue lin
shot in head and may die; Oscar Mavi
conductor on the Lee avenue line. shot
right hand and arm; August Smith. sh
in right arm and breast, and Charl
Ludwig, shot in hand.
The Central Trades and Labor uni
proposes to establish a bus line III
Ious to compete and run parallel to I
M lines of the st. Louis Transit compal
on which there is a strike, to be operat
N by union men.
M At meeting at Walhalla hall the fiji
step was taken toward this end by t
M adoption Of a resolution to raise at les
100000 to purchase and equip the nee
i# sary bus system. From the resoluti
M adopted and the declarations of
speakers, henceforth the policy will
s to win the strike if possible on the ba
1A of a general boycott.