Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-29
RENO SHOOTING ARRAY.
Conflicting Statements In Regard
to the Affair.
Scoville and Balch Supposed to be Nor
tally WOunded-JudicialE Examination
TO-DAY.

since our issue OF yesterday we nave
received the Reno papers, the Gazette
of the 9th and the Journal of the 2Sth
instants, giving lengthy but very con-
Trajectory accounts of the shooting
ARRAY at Reno on Tuesday last, in
which d. w. Balch and S. C. Scoville
were wounded.
There has been bad blood Of late be-
tween the two factions trying to obtain
control of the Nevada and Oregon Rail-
road, and the murderous work of Tues
day last was no great surprise to those
familiar with the sharp legal practice
resorted to by both parties. The Ga
zette, speaking of the meeting of that
day, and other matters, says
alt seems that Trustees McMechan,
Coffin, Wheeler and Sunderland issued
to themselves $4,000 shares of stock, at
a recent meeting. Contractor Moore
thereupon brought suit and enjoined
them from voting or transferring that
stock. The case was then transferred
to the United States District Court.
When the meeting was called to-day,
E.. B. Wheeler had in his pocket an
order from the United States District
Court, E. w. Hillyer presiding, modi-
flying the injunction that issued from
the First Judicial District Court some
days ago, enjoining Wheeler, Coffin,
McMechan and Sunderland from voting
their stock at the stockholders meeting
that was to have been held to-day, so
far as the voting of the stock went, and
allowing the defendants to vote their
stock, but he did not produce it or
mention it in the meeting"
The Gazette gives three versions of
the shooting affray, all differing in
every important particular, and each
colored in the interests of one or the
other of the parties to the shooting.
The Journal says: "At the APP
pointed time the Wheeler crowd were
in the railroad Office, waiting for the
Moore faction to show their hands and
then euchre them. Judge Wheeler,
as President of the N. and O., sat at
the desk prepared to preside over the
The other side presented
and Mr.. Fowler of New
York, who is the largest stakeholder in
the company, requested all persons not
stockholders to retire from the room.
He looked at the Wheeler crowd, but
none Of them moved. He repeated his
request. Judge Wheeler raped on
the table, and said: sThe meeting
will come to order Just about this
time man named Cogan, Moore's Su-
perintendent of Construction, and some
eight or ten other men filed into the
room from the outer Office, and some
body grabbed McMechan. In a second
\ pistol was fired, and shooting COM
The Directors who hadn't
expected this fled from the room as
quickly as possible, and there was a
general hurrying to and fro. Balch
Ind Scoville were the only two found
% have been injured"
Scoville and Balch, both of whom
ire supposed to be mortality wounded,
made ante-mortem statements. Balch |
declared to a friend, with whom the |
writer spoke yesterday, that Wheeler
hot him, repeating the statement three
lines as he held the hand of his friend.
denies having done any shoot
ng, and says he had no pistol. Sco-
lille says he was shot by Coffin. Four
'istols are in possession of the officers,
hree of which are loaded, the other
ne showing only three chambers dis
harged. There must have been some
lever juggling performed soon after
he shooting, as the Journal accounts
Or eight bullets, as follows: Two in
'alch, one in ScoviIle, one picked up
y Sunderland, one by Allen, one went
trough q window, and two were i'm
edded in the partitions of the railroad
flee.
Major NJ. c. Gardner, father-in-law
s. g. ScOvil1n went tn Ropo vootar