The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-04
ST. LOUIS NEWS.
THE EAST sT. LOUIS WAR FAR FROM
EMBED.
the Cause of the EftfFlcuItfes-Gen. Cyrus
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The st. Louis Police Force.

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The st. Louis Police Force.
Especial Correspondence Of the DemocratJ
ST. Louis, August !, 1878.
The situation Of affairs in
EAST ST. LOUIS
remains unchanged. The Bowman party still
hold the market house, and the Wider party
still have possession Of the engine-house. The
windows Of each building have been boarded
up with two-inch plank and the big double
doors of the engine-h house have also been bar
ricaded. Since the decision of the Supreme
Court was given on one Of the legal points in
DISPUTE, the rnetropolitans the police force of
the Wider parity, have been watching for an
opportunity to capture the market-house,
but have made no attempt as yet. The Bow
man force have laid in @ supply OF guns and
ammunition in anticipation of an attack and
they seem disposed to make use OF them in
case any attempts made to take the building
GOVERNOR CULLoM
passed through East St. Louis couple OF
weeks ago, on his way to Carlyle, Illinois, to
attend the funeral Of Judge Breese, OF the
Supreme Court Of the State, but he did not
get off the train This was soon after the
fight In which two of Bowman's men were
killed, Last Saturday his private secretary
paid the town a visit. After visiting the head
quarters of both parties, and listening to the
statements of the leaders, he talked with the
men under them, and then went among the
people and felt the public pulse. Sunday he
returned to Springfield and reported to
the Governor This report has not
been given to the public but there
hat ,fo.,
able to the Bowman party. What action will
be taken by the Governor to prevent recur-
renee of the disgraceful scenes enacted in
East st. Louis last Tuesday week, and on
several former occasions, is not known, but
as yet nothing has been done at all. Although
East st. Louis Is in another State, the people
Of st, Louis feel personal interest in this
fight, We feel that the bad name which at
taches to the town Of East st. Louis is given
with a double force and significance to the
city Of st. Louis. Although their fight is not
our fight, we feel that the disgrace which ut
taches to it Is our disgrace, and that the bad
odor surrounding them affects us as well
The situation Of affairs there has not been
improved any at all that we can see and as
THE BBb1vILLE MILITIA
have returned home, another outbreak may
occur at any moment. ] don't remember now
whether said anything IN my last letter
about the troubles arising from the laying Of
a railroad track in East st. Louis or not. AT
any rate it will do no harm to say q word OF
two about 1t here. One of the fifteen railroads
radiating from East st. Louis Is
THE ST. LOUIS AND ILLINOIS
road. also known as the Pittsburg road The
line is o short one, connecting East st. Louis
and Belleville, only twelve miles apart. When
l. Ibid tb, nj Hin
ished all of the Illinois roads terminating il
East st. Louis made connection with it except
this Plttsburg road and the St. Louis and Cairo
narrow-gauge road. While the rest OF the
passengers at the Union depot, in the heart OF
st. Louis. these two were compelled to put
theirs off on the other side OF the river. The
route by which the Pittsburg road
portion of the town not cut up by
tracks, and the citizens of the ward opposed
=. 1t for that reason. The City Council refused
tt grant the railroad company the right OF
way. and when the company decided to put
down the track anyway. Mayor Bowman got
out an Injunction against them and prevented
it. Last month al ordinances was passed by
the Wider Council granting them the right ol
way, but Bowman refused to recognize the
ordinance and when the railroad company
commenced laying the track, he ordered Out
his force of deputy marshals.
A FIGHT
occurred but 1t was confined to clubs anf
shovels, and resulted in nothing more serious
than q few broken heads. The deputies came
out victorious. Last week another fight Oc-
Cured between the same parties and will
about the same result The metrOpOlltanS die
ottake part in either of these battles, but thei
sympathies were there and their leaders Were
In constant consultation with the officers OF thu
railroad company. An Injunction was mex
applied for by the company to restrain Mayo y,
Bowman from interfering with the work. The
Injunction WIS granted and the track was
then laid without interference on the part 0
the mayor. The people Of the ward made
A SHOW OF RESISTANCE,
but It was a. very faint one The first trair
passed over the connection and crossed The
bridge to the Union depot last night, thu
passengers being the officers OF the road ant
the work hands who laid the track. Now tina
the track is laid, 1t will probably stay there
for Mayor Bowman claims to be o respects
of State courts and an observer OF the law q!
interpreted by them. He will probably taxi
an appeal from the decision OF the court hu
will not disturb the track until the decision 0
the lower court Is reversed, and such an even
will hardly take place during his term o
office, which expires in April.
To the people of New Orleans 1t may seen
strange that such misrule IS tolerated at al
by the citizens of East st, Louis; that sucl
men as Mayor Bowman and COuucilmal
Wider are permitted to carry on their per
sonal fights at the expense Of the city, to tn
injury OF her name and credit, ana al the sac
rifice of the lives of a number OF her citizens
1t Is not SO very strange, however: East 81
Louis Is a great railroad centre for freigh
trains. Nearly all of the railroads terminal
ing in st. Louis have their freight yards an
houses and some of them their repair shop
over the river. The National stock yards an
several large slaughter-houses are also /
East st. Louis, and there are q number c
foundries and elevators there. The me
employed in these differ ent places are, for tn
most part, common laborcrs, without prop
erty, and Il great many of them are unmal
ried. It matters little to them how much TIL
property Of the town, owned almost entirel
by few ndviduals-nOn-reSiden prime
pally-is taxed. and they are not particular
Interested in the credit and reputation OF tn
town.
AS you are probably aware,
GEN. CYRUS BUSSEY,
of your city, has accepted an invitation to az
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