The St. Louis Police Board swears in…
June 1900 CE
The St. Louis Police Board swears in twenty-five hundred citizens in a posse comitatus commanded by a local realty agent, John H. Cavender, who had played a similar paramilitary role in the bloody 1877 Saint Louis general strike.
On the evening of June 10, men of that posse fatally shoot three strikers returning from a picnic, leaving fourteen others wounded.
A dozen or more eyewitnesses dispute the sheriff's statement that they'd been armed.
For their part, the strikers make three unsuccessful attempts to dynamite the housing for the temporary workers in the car barns at Easton and Prairie Avenues.
On the evening of June 10, men of that posse fatally shoot three strikers returning from a picnic, leaving fourteen others wounded.
A dozen or more eyewitnesses dispute the sheriff's statement that they'd been armed.
For their part, the strikers make three unsuccessful attempts to dynamite the housing for the temporary workers in the car barns at Easton and Prairie Avenues.
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