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Show BT.LOUI9 SHERIFFS IN EARNEST. ! Itrtkeni Disregard ur.l-i to Dlnpene and four Are Klllf.l. Sunday was one of the molt eventful ind bloody since the great strike on j ihe St. Sou in Trit begm, more than l month ago. There were numeroui sneounters between striker and other riotous ind i vid iiais and the constituted luthoritiei, resisting in three deaths , ind the wounding of live or more per- J loni, niOKtly strikers. One of the lat- J l-r will die. The. most serious troubin ! broke out at between '1 and 7 o'clock in front of the si x-story l,u I Id I ng on Wash, j ington avenue, between Hroadwayand; Sixth streets, occupied by the Sheriff's , posse comit.iinus as a barracks and headquarters. Seveal hundred strik-!r.H strik-!r.H had gone to Hast St. Louis earlier j In the day to attend a picnic given for i their beneilt and toward evening be-jan be-jan returning home. The trouble was precipitated when l.V) strikers in uniform uni-form anil headed by a drum corps, ;aujc weston Washington avenue. In their caps some of them had cards bearing these words: "Union or nothing; noth-ing; liberty or death." Just as they were passing the barracks bar-racks a car of the Park avenue division divis-ion was going west. A number of the men broke from the line .and rushed tor the car, w hich was without the usu-U usu-U police guard. A brick was thrown through the ear window and a shot was Bred by Somebody not known. At first Intimation of trouble members of the ihcriff's posse swarmed out of the building build-ing and surrounded tho crowd of strik-irs, strik-irs, calling on them to disperse. Other ihols were fired. Then several depu- lies turned loose their repeating shot-funs shot-funs loaded with buckshot. As far as tan be learned only four men in the ranks were hit. Not a deputy was ! rvou nded. The posse that did the shooting is jomposed of some of the most prominent promi-nent citizens in the city, and behaved rvith distinction. Among them were (V. P. . Konnett, ex-president of the Merchants' exchange; John F. Lee, a prominent lawyer and member of the jirizeu's committee that has been trying try-ing to effect a settlement, between the Itrikers and the transit company; ex-fudge ex-fudge Chester 11. t'rum, honorable Charles Xagle, a prominent lawyer, 1 Ind former candidate on the Republi-Cnn Republi-Cnn ticket for Mayor; ex-Judge John II. Overall, Hugh K. Ilartung, a newspaper news-paper man and Dr. J. II. Wood worth. |