Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-11-04
THE PISTOL.
James e.. Anderson Fatally wound
a.f law Eanrua n Rack.

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shooting scrape took place on Main street
in front of Clay Simms' saloon, between
James E. Anderson, editor of the Eureks
Evening Leader, and George j. Reek, Re
publican candidate for Superintendent o.
Public instruction Of Eureka County.
THE CAUSE.
The facts that led to the meeting are
fresh in the minds OF the community
There was o disagreement between the
two, growing out of politics, started in
the present political campaign. This led
to the publication in yesterdays SENTINEL
by Mr.. Reek of a very bitter card againsi
Mr.. Anderson.
H FRAY.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Reek came
down from Ruby Hill, where he lives, to
call a physician to attend his wife, who
was i'll. He stopped on the street at the
point where the shooting took place to
talk to Thomas Dale.
DALE's
Mr.. Dale says that he and Mr.. Reek were
standing together on the sidewalk, he on
the edge of the sidewalk with his back to-
wards the street, and Mr.. Reek standing
Just in front of him. While they stood
and were conversing quietly, Dale says
that Reek looked across the street, and
said,' without excitement: ''There comes
Anderson" A moment afterwards he
says the shooting began, the first shot be-
ing fired from behind him. He did not
see Anderson at the time. He was grabbed
by Reek, who held him in front of him.
He struggled and got out of the way as
quickly as possible. When the first shot
was fired Reek had no pistol i'll his hand.
He dale got scared and knew nothing
about the shooting that followed, except
he heard a number of shots in rapid sue
cession.
WILLIAM PERRY's STATEMENT.
VIM. Perry says he saw the whole affair.
He was standing near by on the pavement.
He saw Anderson coming ~diagonalfy
across the street to where Reek and Dale
were standing. When Anderson got near,
Reek drew and fired on him. After that
the two went diminishing around, with
Dale between them. Reek ran up the
street, across toward the Parker House.
Anderson followed him, running midway
of the street, pistol in hand, when Sheriff
Kyle met him and took the pistol away
and packed him into DIR. Schneider's drug
store. He perry says as positively that
Reek fired the first shot as Dale says that
he did not.
TOM R%oBINsoN's STATEMENT.
Thomas Robinson was in the Empire
Saloon and heard a number of shots. There
came an interval in the reports, and he
stepped out onto the pavement. He saw
Anderson starting out in pursuit of a man
who was running away he did not know
who the man was. He saw Anderson
about to level his pistol and cried out
"Don't, Jimmy ; you'll kill innocent peo-
ple." Thereupon Anderson let his weapon
fall by his side and was picked up by sew
eral men, who ran to his assistance. He
does not know whether Anderson fired
while running after his adversary or not.
H STATEMENTS.
There were many persons who saw the
of the affair. but Messrs. Dale
and Perry are the only persons we were
able to find who saw the trouble in the
DR.. Stowell says he saw a good
deal of the fight from his drug store. The
two combatants fought around and shot
Thomas Dale. He could not tell
who fired the first shot. Some say Ander-
fired while running up the street; 9TH
ers say he did not fire at that time at all;
still assert that he snapped his pis-
toll only; and others again say that he
raised his pistol as if to fire, but that it
dropped suddenly to his side again.
THE NuMBER OF SHOTS.
No two persons in town could agree as
to the number of shots. Some placed
it as high az eight or nine and
others at only three or four. Some
persons insisted that Anderson fred
ming after Reek, while others declared that
be did not fire then at alias stated. A
SENTINEL reporter went and examined the
two weapons Colts improved six-shooters,
Il caliber), and found that Anderson's
pistol contained two empty shells, and
Reek's had but one u%nexploded cart
In it. The presumption is that both
pistols were fully charged, and that hence
must have been seven shots fired.
THE WOUND.
Reek was not hit at all. Anderson was
into DR.. schneider's drug store. A
great crowd followed, against whom the
door had to be locked, that the few who
entered might not be embarrassed in their
to the wounded man. DR..
Owen, who came in shortly after the pa
was brought in, examined the wound
1.-THE only one except a powder wound on
the left wrist. and found that the ball
had entered the pit of the stomach below
at the right of the navel, and that rum
ming downward somewhat had probably
the bladder and the lower bowels,
that the wound was almost certainly
fatal.
SAT SCENE.
The wounded man suffered dreadful
pain. The doctor gave him q dose Of NOR
phine, and also used chloroform to quiet
the pain; but the pain was SO great that the
had but partial effect. Mrs.
Anderson, the highly esteemed wife of the
unfortunate man, was admitted through
the back door. Her distress we refrain
describing. 1t osn readily enough
be imagined. Shortly after her arrival
he was placed upon a bed and stretcher
and carried home on the stalwart shoulders
Of sympathetic men who were present.
THE PATIENTS CONDITION.
As has been stated. the doctor, upon
casual examination, presumed that the
wound was fatal, as its course indicated
that it had passed through the bladder and
bowels, a wound in either being enough to
cause death. About 1880 last night DR..
Owen stated that the patient could hardly
live longer than through to-day and to.
night, although he might linger a day or
two longer. He is kept under the in
fluence of morphine, but continues ra-
tional, though suffering extremely. The
told him he felt 1t his duty to tell
him his case was serious, and that he
would not live more than forty-eight
He thanked the doctor for being
an Ala xytlh htr, and uAapnaH rannpntJaJ
to die.