Deadliest Night for St. Louis Polis

St ölümcül olay. Louis Polis geçmişi çatışmada değildi, natural disaster, or act of terrorism. St ölümcül olay. Louis Polis tarih Pazartesi gecesi meydana geldi, Eylül 3, 1900. Electricity was the assailant as a power line with 3300 elektrik volt telefon hatları üzerine düştü, at Eight Street and Carr Avenue. The telephone lines connected all the policemen’s call boxes in the Downtown area.

Seventy police officers patrolling the Downtown District were potential victims as they made their way to the call boxes for their 7:00 um. check-ins. Gecenin sonunda, two police officers lay dead, and electricity seriously burned thirteen other officers. The current also injured officers by throwing the officers from the call boxes or the headquarters call center.

Iki yönlü telsiz uygulanmasından önce, police officer called in on the call box every hour, so the station knew they were okay. The call box was also the primary way to call for a transport after arresting someone. As the police officers began to make their way to the call boxes, the electric current knocked an operator against the wall in the headquarters call center.

St. Louis Police command personnel sent out messengers to warn the officers about the potential threat, but too many officers did not get the warning in time. Bir yan hakem, kim polis merkezine yanıtladı, Ayrıca kötü şok oldu, when he tried to address the problem.

The thirteen injured officers suffered burns to their hands, or the current knocked them unconscious. The current threw a handful of officers from the call box leading to joint injuries. En yaygın yanık yaralanmaları arama kutusuna tuşları takarken veya çağrı kutu tutamacını marş gelen elleri vardı.

Patrol Officer John F. Killoren inserted his key into the call box at Fifteenth Street and Franklin Avenue and the electric current through Killoren into the street. Killoren ayağa kalktı ve yanındakilerin kendisini durdurmadan önce tekrar arama kutusunu açmak için çalıştı. The current knocked Killoren back into the street again with serious burns to his hands.

Yaralı memurları ek olarak, who citizens transported to the hospital, two officers lost their lives that night. Geçerli öldürüldü genç subay, Nicholas F. Beckmann, ve kıdemli subayı, John P. Looney.

Beckmann was a twenty-six-year-old police officer and veteran of the Spanish-American War. Beckman fought at the battle of San Juan Hill, which made Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders famous.

Beckman Washington ve Carr Caddesi arasında Onsekizinci Caddesi üzerinde arama kutusunu kullanılır. Beckmann çağrı kutuyu açtı, diye çığlık attı ve geriye düştü. Seyirci yakındaki Protestan Hastanesi'ne götürdü, O kendine gelememiş nerede. Bölüm dul annesi için haber kırmak zorunda kaldı, kim Beckmann ile yaşadı.

James Looney bir 41 yaşındaki koca ve baba oldu, kim bu yana yürürlükte olmuştu 1893. The electrical current shocked Looney as he tried to open the call box at Twelfth Street and Morgan Avenue. Citizens carried Looney to the dispensary, but he never regained consciousness. Looney died 15 minutes after the first shock.

City Lighting officials determined the source of the shock to be the power line from the Seckner Contracting Company. Şehir yetkililerine göre,, the Seckner Company’s was supposed to bury their wires, but the company received a waiver from the Board of Public Improvements. The officials cut down the responsible lines and told Seckner to bury the lines after repairing them.

Içinde 2006, St. Louis Police Department recognized that Michael P. Burke, who was one of the thirteen men shocked that night, died from the shock 15 months later, Aralık 13, 1901. It was one of the rare occasions that three St. Louis officers would lose their lives in the same incident. The department shootouts get more coverage but the deadliest night in St. Louis Police history was September 3, 1900, when electricity attacked an unsuspecting force doing their duty.

Sources: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Eylül 4, 1900, p. 1

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