Show STLOUIS SHERIFFS IN EARNEST strikers disregard Dl Dio regard murders to Dl Di pr ana nl four are killed sunday was one of the most eventful and nd bloody since the great strike on the st souls transit began moro more t than he n a month ngo ago there were numerous encounters encounter between strikers and other riotous individuals and the constituted authorities resulting in ia three deaths death and the wounding of five or more persons mostly strikers one of the latter will die tile most serious trouble broke out at between a 0 and 7 in tronton thesia the als story building on washington avenue between broadway and sixth streets occupied by the sheriffs posse poise comi as a barracks aud d headquarters leveal hundred strikers had gone to east st louis earlier in tho the day to attend a picnic given for their benefit and toward evening ba b gan returning home the trouble wa wad precipitated when ISO strikers in uni form and headed by a drum corps came west on washington avenue in ill their caps some of them had cards bearin bearing these words union or nothing ivirty liberty or death just as they were passing the bar racks a car of tile the park avenue division was going west A number of the men broke from the line and rushed for the car which was without the usual police guard A brick was thrown through the cr car window and a shot was f alred red by somebody not known at first intimation of trouble members of the sheri aberi we ta posse swarmed out of the building and surrounded tile the crowd of strikers calling on them to disperse other shots were fired then several deputies turned loose their repeating shotguns loaded with buckshot As far as oan can be learned only oaly four men in the ranks were hit not a deputy was wounded the posse that did the shooting I 1 is a composed of some of the most prominent citizens in the city and behaved with distinction among them were W P kennett Ken nelt uett ex president of the merchants exchange john F lee ft a prominent lawyer and member of the citizens cirl ciri zens committee that has been trying to effect a settlement between the strikers and the transit company ex judge jude chester 11 II crum honorable charles nagle a prominent lawyer and former candidate on the republican ticket for mayor ex judge john il overall hugh r K hartung Ilar lung EL a newspaper man and dr J if woodworth wood worth |