Show ST LOUIS IS THE SCENE OF more men are wounded by shots fired by the em aloyes of street car company delegation of citizens of st louis notify the street car company that unless their men are disarmed they will force disarmament at whatever cost posse comitatus being organized by the sheriff st louis may si the work ini accordance with the order of the board of commissioners to summon a posse comitatus to aid the police in preserving order during iche street railway strike began today the sheriff expects to nave the posse ready by saturday sheriff pohlman said today in summoning the posse I 1 will only secure good citizens 0 st louis no thugs or bad men will be secured I 1 may be compelled to arm these men and send them out on this mission but tahe laws give me no other course and I 1 abail do it disease has suddenly broken out in the city since the draft tor the posse began sheriff pohlman saya nearly every man who has been summoned to serve on the posse is ying about to get a physicians certificate that he is suffering from disease which unfits him for duty among the prominent citizens summoned to serve on the posse comitatus are the following william aisse pisse ex judge circuit court caas H green street car magnate george H plant ot plant milling co M W stewart attorney for the union trust company W D orthwein member of the merchants exchange and grain exporter john warren stock broker D T byrne real estate agent peyton carr prominent lawyer edgar allton corporation lawyer william stannard son of ex lieutenant governor stannard otto man wealthy malster J L ewing george S johns editor post dispatch rev dr S J nichols pastor of the sevorid presbyterian church gen G B farrar united states sub treasurer at st louls it developed today that five persons were shot during the street car troubles yesterday thomas kehoe and thomas alley union motormen are seriously injured kehoe was shot in the abdomen in the fight near the car sheds at broadway and osage streets lie says he was a block away and took no part in the disturbance he was a member of the states cavalry during the spanish american wai and saw active service in cuba and porto rico alley received a bullet near the heart in the battle between several supposed passengers who left a car at awen ty fifth and farrar streets and a crowd that pursued them others wounded during the fracas were frederick potter and john A davis potter was shot in the left hand and arm anton chalupsky who was shot through both legs is doing well at ahe hospital the sheriffs authority to swear in special deputies is questioned by prominent lawyers who contend that he is not calling a posse comitatus his order simply being a call to join a special force of deputies which cannot be compulsory notwithstanding this more than a hundred prominent citizens liala been sworn in A committee of south at louisiana appointed to represent a mass meeting field today called on the chief of police and president whitaker of the transit company and presented an ultimatum it was that unless the police or the company disarmed its employed emp loyes in the power houses and car sheds the committee would take the work of doing so in its own hands they said they proposed to protect their wives and children let the result be what it would it was announced by a member of the police board at 4 this afternoon that another order would be issued for the sheriff the police board members stated that the call would be for 1500 additional men the board decided in an informal conference today that it would adopt what is known in new york as the riot gun as arme tor the posse |