Show 3 RIOTS MANY ui GENERAL STRIKE CALLED I 1 1 t Resolution By the tile Central Labor Body Now Awaits Ratification By toe tile Individual Unions S Mobs Obstruct Cars and Throw Stones tones Several S Persons Are Shot Some of Them TheIn Fatally St Louis Mo May ay 19 Rioting broke broko out t atrain In various parts of the I 1 city today in connection conne Uon with the th street streetcar I Icar car strike Several persons were I wounded and some of ot them may dip die dl dlA A meeting of central trades and andla la labor labor bor unions executive boards was held d last Jut night at Walhalla Vt halla hall hail for the pur purpose pur purpose purpose pose of considering a strike in support of the railway who are on strike t the St Louis Transit The mecUm convened at 30 and adjourned at 1250 this morning mornin The delegate delegat s indorsed th the I strike of the former of the St Louis Transit Tran it company com and re resolved resolved I solved to recommend to all members of 91 trades and labor Jabor organizations in St StLouis StLouis StLouis Louis that tl they fh y hold themselves in inT readiness T to suspend labor when called upon to do so by the executive commit committees committees committees I tees of he Central Trades and Labor Council Building Trades Council CouncH and Railway Mens union The action a of th Central Trades and N Labor union Is not decisive It will be he necessary for f r the th delegates tes at the I mealing mc last night to o report rep rt to their I unions Each union will then vote upon the question and only those unions f whose hose members vote to strike will walk walkout walkout out If the call comis coms A I vote of each union is necessary to tode de declare declare clare dare a strike There was no conference today be between between between I tween representatives of the striking street car ear employees of the th SL St StLouis Louis Transit company although Pres President President PresIdent ident Hawes of the board of police Commissioners omm tried to get the two par parties parties r ties to the strike controversy together in still another meeting I The federal grand jury was in in ses session session session sion all aU day today toda It had under con consideration J S1 A ration the hindrances and ob oh obstructions T to the United States mail caused by b the present street car strike I Rioting Breaks Out Again 1 S At noon a crowd of or more men m n women and boys congregated along Laclede between Grand and Theresa I avenues and nd stopped stopp d the cars ars by means of obstruction t piled PHed en on the tracks hacks Persons In the crowd commenced 1 throWing and some sop shot shots were wre fired One of the bullets 37 J R H i Richardson Richard on a conductor In ip the head h ad j i i He is fatally wounded t 4 A 4 officer on ou one orte of the Q was oft off nil badly bad balia Y t ton tan 4 i several other and conduct I 1 ors were assaulted While the turmoil was at its height a detail of police j I came dashing up and charged the j crowd Two Imparted employees ees of the St StLouis StLouis StLouis Louis Transit company were shot while in charge of ff street cars In neither case is s the th assailant as known Guy Ficks of Decatur Ill employed ed edas as a guard was shot through the thi th jh lh h hat at and Morgan streets at i 1 30 this afternoon 1 John Kenna a saloon keeper on I Gratiot street was probably fatally wounded wo and Robert Robart Nelson colored I and an Emergency Officer Jacob Hollings Hollingsworth Hollingsworth worth slightly wounded tonight in a ariot ariot ariot riot at the south end of the Fourteenth street treet bridge Kenna had been drink drinkIng drinkIng Ing trig hard for several days and tonight as T 0 car clr on n the Chouteau Cho avenue di division division division vision of ot the thC th Transit company was rounding the curve at Fourteenth and andI I Gratiot t streets he up u to it and drawing draing a revolver attempted to Shoot hoo the motorman The car was going too fast for fot him and he missed his mark He then began shooting hooting at the conductor and Special Officer Hollingsworth who was standing on the rear r ar r platform The officer jumped from the car and walking toward the intoxicated saloon saloonkeeper saloonkeeper saloonkeeper keeper Legan shooting hooting at him Four of his bullets truck struck tru k Kennas body Kenna enna continued to shoot at the of officer officer officer and th thi last shot he fired struck Hollingsworth in the left hand OnE bullet which went w nt wide passed through ugh Nelsons ear Kenna I enna was taken to the hospital I where the phy physicians physicians physicians offered no hope hoP for his re recovery recovery recovery covery Officer is Wounded Patrolman Henry Hem E Barton was shot and painfully wounded today on Jef Jefferson ferson orson avenue near Geyer avenue a few stones were thrown and then several shots rang out One bullet struck Barton In the head A riot call was sent in and a squad of police hurried to the scene The crowd which had gathered at the sound of the shots was dispersed without trouble Cable is 13 i Cut Shortly after noon today three cable cars ears started east from the power house of the Fourth street railway on Eighteenth Eighteenth Eighteenth and Park avenue At Fourth street and Choteau avenue the cars stopped and upon investigation it was found that the cable had been cut When the free end of the cable arrived arild arii d dat at the power house it was found that all the strands had been severed ure by a steel saw The task of splicing the cable and running It through the conduits will be a a difficult one and the road probably will not bo be boin beIn in shape shae for fo a day or two I ger is Discouraged S General G Manager Baumhoff appeared discouraged dISC o el tP Q V lh th ca n diU ons pr ILiS vary vory disheartening g gattl hh saw attl fito to see how h little protection prot a abI bI Corporation can obtain for br its prop property erty In my judgment the militia be called out for the Do ice have demonstrated to my satisfaction at tt least that they are not willing or ot incapable of protecting our property pro erty However I shall not request the mili tia to be ordered order d out as I have be become come orne tired of making requests The heuse h e of f delegates at its meeting today passed the Kelly ordinance an annulling annulling the franchises of all the street railways ays in St Louis unless they run thir thair cars in compliance with the terms of the city ordinances |