Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-14
CAR STRIKE. CAUSES TWO
 TRAGEDIES
With Policemen Riding the the Platform Street Gar Service Was Resumed in Kansas City.

Kansas City. Mo-, Dec. 13.-Limited service throughout the daylight hours with practically no violence reported was maintained today, the third of Kansas City street car strike, but ef- forts of James Damn, representing the deferad Department of Labor, to bring about a conference between the heads of the company and the Union with city officials were unavaling
 'ResumptiOnt of service was attend ed this afternoon with an accident resulting in two deaths and the se- were injury of at least eight persons when car got out of control, on the line of twelfth street Viaduct, leav- ing the rails and 'demolishing itself against trolley pole and a build ing At the company offices it was asserted the motOrman of the wreck ed car had good record of ten years with the company. A statement attributed to the motorman also was given out in which he had applied the airbrakes and tried to sand the rail but could not stop the increas- ing speed of the car.
 Rain fell intermittently all day
 P. J. Kealy, president of the car company, in g statement late today, promised 125 cars would be operat- ed tomorrow as against hundred to- day and that by Monday, If adequate police protection is >affored," full service with $40 cars would be re-. stunned. Extra policemen are being sworn in and the cars are to be guarded by one in uniform and one not in uniform.
 With policemen in uniform on front and rear platforms, about one hun dred street cars left the barns of the Kansas City Street Railways Company this morning. the first street car service since the has has olnce four o'clock Wednesday morning
 when nearly 200 union employees struck for higher wage scale. Squads of policemen also were stationed at each barn and other de- tachments were held nreadiness to be sent to any part of the city ill
 which trouble might develop. Ma yor Cowgirl has indicated he will in- yoke the full power of the state as well as of the city, if necessary to preserve order and might call out the seventh regiment of the Missouri national guard. <. A man and woman were killed four persons sustained injuries which
 may prove fatal and twelve .p others received less serious injuries when a street car ran wild down the Twelf. 1 tn Street Viaduct here this afternoon
 lest the tracks on the lower approach to the structure and crashed into the Union Pacific freight depot.
 The man who was killed was iden-
 tified as Gustav0 Hearle, 45 years old Lexington, Mo. The woman has not been identified.
 Officials of the street car com
 pany said the motorman in his re. port stated that he attempted to ap- ] ply the air brakes and that they had refused to work.
 The viaduct is approximately three quarters of mile in length. It its
 length it drops from an elevation oi
 more than 100 feet.
 Montreal. Dec. 13.-Montreal was quiet today after night of disorder
 growing out Of the strike of 1.50(
 city employees for higher pay. While | the efforts of Mayor Martin to effec
 a settlement last night allied, city of. ficials were hopeful early today that
 the sstrikers would accept the offel o fthe Trades and Labor Council tt
 act as mediators in the dispute.