Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-13
THE TULARE TROUBLE.
Quiet Restored and No Further
Outbreak Anticipated.
FULL DETAILS OF The AFFAIR.
Graphic Account of the La
mentable Occurrence.
SIX KILLED AND TWO WOUNDED.
Heartrending Scenes Subsequent to
the Tragedy.
FULL DETAILS OF TIE AFFAIR.
SIX KILLED AND TWO WOUNDED

ESPECIAL BY TELEGRAPH TO THE REcoRD-UNroS.l
HANFoRD, May 12th.-Matters are ouie
this morning, with no prospects of a further
outbreak. Six men are killed-Dan. Kelly
Walter Crow, Ives Knutson, John Hender
son, James Harris and Arch. McGregor
M. ID. HART was mortally wounded, and E
Haymaker slightly. The principal shooting
was done by Grow. Hartt, Henderson, Kell,
and Harris. No others did any shooting, a,
far as ascertained.
DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE AFFAIR.
VIsALIA, May 12th.-The Visalia Delta
extra, just issued, gives the following account
of the Mussel Slough tragedy: For many
weeks suppressed apprehension has pre-
vailed in Tulare county that we were ON the
eve of an outbreak between the settlers an6
the railroad company. This fear has with
good reason increased as the time drew neal
when in the event of the settlers failing tc
comply with certain conditions they would be
dispossessed of their homes by the railroad
company. Whispers that the United States
Marshal was to be sent to take posses.
sion of and hold the disputed lands
for the railroad only made the crisis
more certain in the opinion of those
who knew the stern determination and pur.
pose of the settlers. A grand Indignation
meeting of settlers was appointed at Hanford
for Tuesday, May 18th, at which Judge
Terry was expected to give views on the legal
aspect of the case. On Monday it was re-
ported that several parties, supposed to be in
league with the railroad company or opposed
to the interests of the settlers, had received
anonymous warnings to leave the county.
Among those said to have been forewarned
were M. d. Hartt and Walter J. Crow, who
were looked upon as tools of the railroad com.
pany, and who, in consideration of their
services in dispossessing the settlers and
thereby providing test case, were to receive
their land. Members of the League deny
having sent those warnings to Crow and
others.
ARRIVAL OF THE MARSHAL.
United States Marshal Poole and W. II.
Clark, grader of railroad lands in Mussel
Slough, arrived in Hanford Monday night,
took rooms at the hotel, and early in the
morning drove out of town in buggy. The
settlers meeting called together large con-
course of people from all parts of the Mussel
Slough country, who began to arrive early in
the morning, and when the news went round
that the United States Marshal and w. H.
Clark had arrived the night before, and had
early that morning rode away in company
with Hartt and Crow, many of the settlers
gathered for the meeting prepared for prompt
and united action in whatever course they
might pursue in the matter. The Marshal
and Clark drove out to the place occupied by
VIM. B. Broden, northeast of town, and dis
possessed him. and in his absence set his
household goods out in the road and put M.
d. Hartt in possession. They then proceeded,
in company with HART and Walter Crow, to
the place occupied by Brewer and Storer,
three and half miles north of Grangeville,
in Fresno county. Meantime various squads
of mounted men, as the presence and purpose
of the Marshal became known, had followed
the officers and the party from Hanford.
Some of these men were armed, but many of
them had no weapons. They soon learned
the summary measures taken by the officer at
Broden's ranch, and hearing that like pro-
ceedings were contemplated at Brewers, they
rode thence When about half mile from
the place they saw the two buggies, the for
ward onecontaining Marshal Poole and Clark,
and the other Hartt and Crow, pass through
the yard near the house and into field some 200
yards west of the residence, where they
stopped. The settlers passed through the
fence at the southwestscorner of the field and
rode directly across toward the halted buggies
THE COLLISION.
When the advance squad of some fifteen
settlers came up to within 80 or 100 yards
of the Marshal, he alighted and advanced.
meeting them halfway. He saluted them
in gentlemanly manner, saying that in his
OhiNlui Capacity % SHluOu bJbovco 4tlhicudl
he was compelled to perform his duties in the
matter, although against his desire. A formal
demand to surrender was then made to the
Marshal by the leader. This he did, but re-
fused to give up his pistol, and with the un-
Outstanding that he should not use it, was
allowed to retain his revolver. Two men
Arch. McGregor and John Z. Henderson
were told to keep guard over the officer
While the parley was still going on, one man
rode alongside of Hartt and Crow and COM
menced conversation with the latter.
They seemed to be watching the ac-
tions of the party around the Marshal, and
once HART grasped his gun, when Crow said,
g" Don't shoot yet ; it is not time" Whether
Hartt and Crow were at this time ordered to
surrender, according to one account, or
whether settler drew his revolver on the
latter, as has been reported, we are not able
to state but they both at the same time
leaped from the wagon, grasping their weap-
ons, and Crow discharged the contents of his
shotgun into the breast and face of Harris,
who fell to the ground dead. The fight now
commenced in earnest, and
SHOT FOLLOWED SHOT.
Henderson, who was guarding the Marshal,
ran forward, firing as he went, and but for
the inefficiency Of his weapon-it being a
small pistol and hanging fre-he would have
probably finished Crow and put stop to the
affair; but before he was killed by Crow one
shot from his pistol wounded Hartt in the
abdomen. McGregor, who with Henderson
had been guarding the Marshal, aud who
was unarmed, was shot twice in the breast,
and crying my God" started off for pool
of water near, and when about 40 steps
away was shot again in the back. Knutson
fell riddled with buckshot, grasping his loaded
revolver, before he had fred shot. Dan
Kelly, with three shots in his back,
fell from his horse near the barn. Grow,
who had now run some distance from the
wagon, sung out to Hartt. &C d it,
bring the rife !" HART ran toward him with
it. and Crow commenced reloading, when j.
NJ. Patterson said, "This thing has gone far
enough, and had better STOP" T. J. Nc