The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-11
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mand Of the deputies, ordered the men
to stop. They replied with several shots
and drove away. Capt, Hancock ordered
them TO come back, and when they re-
fused fired point blank at the buggy with
his shotgun. killing one of the horses.
The men jumped out of the buggy and
escaped unhurt
Ed Barry. motorman. is laid up with
badly battered head. He was wound
ed by brick thrown by somebody while
his car was passing a crowd tonight.
Cars were run freely during the day.
Tonight they were run under guard till
midnight on half a dozen lines.
RIoting in East st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS. June l0-James Mcclure
and John McElroy received serious in
juries today while engaged in dispute
with a number OF strikers and strike
sympathizers. Their assailants escaped.
In East ST. Louis there were riotous
scenes during the picnic of street car
strikers. a crowd of several hundred men
released a young man from st. Louis who
had been arrested for annoying the en-
ployes Of the East st. Louis car line.
Several st. Louis men boarded an East
st. Louis street car and dragged John
Regain. the conductor. from the car.
Regain landed a few heavy swings on
his nearest opponent and the car proceed
ed. At p, m. all of the East St Louis
cars We're ordered into a shop.
A Demar line car filed with passen-
gers was attacked this evening at
O'Clock at Forsythe junction, by bowling
crowd that bombarded the car with rocks
The motofman increased the speed and
got away before anyone was seriously
hurt.
Earlier in the day crowd piled. timber
and ties on the tracks just east of the
sharp turn at this place. with a steep
incline The motorman discovered tho
timbers Just in time to prevent a COLI
sion. Had the car struck the obstruction
the passengers would probably have been
precipitated down a. 50-foot embankment.
Mack Missak, the secretary of the strik-
ers's union, was seen tonight, and said
regarding the barracks riot;
We had been at picnic at VOLTS
grove, in east st. Louis. We marched
over with Mr. Mahon and myself In
there were 500 men, saw. as | looked
toward the barracks that the deputies,
IN anticipation of any disorder, had form
ed a guard in complete circle. from
Fourth to Sixth streets. | was walking
away from the street and the men were
marching along, when. as accurately as
was possible under the circumstances.
remember that a small boy marching be-
side the men threw a rock at an approach
fng car which had not yet reached Sixth
street There was a revolver shot. but
am positive that it did not come from
Instantly there was a fusilade OF shoot
ing from the deputies They swept the
street from Fourth to Sixth and from
.t1'sn'fl " rourIu. II Is miracle that
there were not nifty men shot.
After the firing we tried to get at the
men who were lying In the street but we
were driven away. The shooting was nm
provoked II was one of the most un-
pardonabe outrages ever perpetrated in
the United States. The Hazelton riots do
not compare with It."
Col. Lavender, In command of the posse
comitatus said:
The strikers, when they came back
from East st. Louis were very demon-
trative as they passed the barracks. and
they attacked car at Sixth street trv-
men out at once, and when the den,,tae
arrived on the scene one of the strikers
hred directly nj my men. Before that
bricks had been thrown at the car Fir
ing began at once in desultory way. and
Tour men were seen to fall. The crowd
dispersed almost Immediately"
Col. Cavender's version OF the AFFAIR was
verlned by others who witnessed n