Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-09-28
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
OF Saturdays Riot at Martins
Ferry.
The Excitement Attending it Quiet
ing Down.
The Condition of the WOuad3d Men
Ysste day.
Rsisling and Dorsey in a Very CrltI-
cal State.
A South Wheeling Man Said to be
Hurt.
interesting Interview With Major
Anderson.
How W~orkingmen Regard the AS
sauIt on the Mill.
How Workingmen Regard the As
sauIt on the Mill.

The srest riot OF Saturday morning, at
Martins Ferry, almost m~OnopoLzed puehc
attention, Yesterday, and the demand for
SUNDAY REGISTERS was correspondlngly
heavy. A large extra addition containing
a very full and practically exclusive account
of the affair, had been printed, but not
w~itbstandiug this the LAST copy was sold at
a very early hour, leaving q number OF
heavy orders untitled. At Martins Ferry
Yesterday, as on Saturday, the riot was the
one theme upon which every tongue dWeIt'
and interest in the attack and its results
was maintained. The intense excitement
o. Saturday, however, had almos. entirely
died away, aud in the place Of discuss
ion of
WILD IMPROBABLE RrNoRs
men talked mostly OF the condition Of the
wounded and the probable punishment
which would be meeted out to the men now
under bond, in the event OF their guilt be-
i1g conclusively proven. The penalty Tor
engaging in the assault is imprisonment IN
the peDitcntiary from one to twenty years,
AZ the discretion of the court, and this con-
| temptation ola possible long term at Colum-
bus. with all the monotouy and inconyen-
fence which such 8 %sojourn necessarily car
r;ss with il leff many workmen who had
relatives or friends in the ~assaulting
column in a rather solemn and ser
ious frame OF mind. Ia
many quarters, yesterday w~orkingmen
and strikers at that, denou,ced the attack
as a foolish one, while others, who approved
he course pursued on Saturday, held that
the affair was very badly planned, and that
he leaders were incompetent, and SOM Of
he rank and file cowardly and
UNFIT FOR sCCu SERIOUS WORK.
Il was limited 10 q REGISTER reporter that
he original plan of the attack upon the
uil va very different from the one actually
made, and that the change took place at the
last moment. When the force set out for
the mill it was intended that the main as
sault should be made from the river, the
men 10 advance across the bottom land IN
q northwesterly direction, healing toward
the mill office. This assault was expected
TO draw the defenders away to that part OF
the mill next the river, leaving the ware
house on the railroad nearly or quite de
fenseless. When the fight on the rlye7 was
well under way, fifteen or twenty picked men
were 10 make O rush for the warehouse, and
while a majority OF them opened fire IN the
tank Of the defenders, the remainder were
10 force an entrance to the warehouse, kill
or drive out the workmen sleeping there,
and then make their way into the mill OF.
6ce and the main part OF the works. This
programme, if it be a fact, would have been
much better than the course actually pur
sued, and it is probably well for the Nessrs.
Laughhn that q change was made.
ANOTHER ARREST
was made Yesterday By Constable Neon.
naughey, the prisoner being John Bissit. H.
was taken TO Bridgeport, where be gave bail
aud was a. once released. 50 far eleven
men have been arrested, and It is probable
this number will be largely added to to day
Of the wounded men, R%elstng and Dorsey
are in a serious condition, aud both OF them
NAV die. The former, 1t will De remembered,
Vas shot three times,al threeot the wounds
Il Is claimed, being inflicted 6y one man
The story goes thar Resisting was standing
near the corner Of the warehouse, when u
guard. who is alleged 10 have been stationed
Ia an orchard ives, OF the railroad track,
| - IL s. - L.. 49, ~ Ln1I 49,.
IN downward and lodging in the back near
tae spinal c,lumu, his left arm being para
lived from the effects OF the wound. Refs,
ling. h~oseyer, stood his ground, and in a
moment received another shot in the SINAI!
o. bis back. q little to the left Of the spine.
Ga receiving this wound he started to walk
away, and while gOing
HE WAS AGAIN WOUNDED
q the sish. leg. The balls are eYiIeatly
all t-om the same weapon, and this bear
Oh, the st-ry Jhst they we're fred by one
nan. Yesterday Resisting neck vas hor
r5ly swollen and his general condition wa
,hought 10 De serious. Thomas Dorsey was
Ncrse yesterday, and he is suffering much
pain. His recovery is very doubtful. Both
mpu We're visited by large numbers o
friends Yesterday, among Reisling's caller,
being Major Anderson, VINO 20 ably assisted
IN the defense Of me mill. AGolg other
rumors to be heard yesterday were a mum
DER as 20
OTHER WOUNDED MEN.
L, is known with considerable certainty
that three men are walking around the
streets with bullet wounds upon their per.
sons. but are keeping out OF bed to ALA
suspicion. Said one gentleman 10 a repOr,
ter If am not mis,aEed, Won will hea-
Of two or three cases OF typhoid fever il
Martin $ Ferry in a day or two Just a,
soon as the BOYS wounds get d little slit
and sore they will be taken violently i'll and
Ne laid up | anticipate several cases o.
Ibis kird There seems to De one an
possibly two suspicious cases on this side o.
ihe river. la South Wheeling there i
said 10 be q nan who has 8 bullet wounC
tsrcugh his liver, and who Is d~angerOusl,
hurt. \ physician il authority TOR thi.
statement. but he claimed he was not tn"
oue who rendered medical aid. The troubl
over the river has stirred up a general on.
irtarg,5le
FEELING or INSECURITY
in this CITY. and there is said to quite q de
maud tor large cshbre revolvers and other
weapons. In the Sixth and Eighth wards
Yesterday, there was al immense amoIn' O.
talk bearing on the attack on he mil, auc
opinions Of all degrees were expressed Fo.
the most part the riot was condemned
but many men could be touni who no
only approved it, but protess-d to regre
,hst it had not succeeded. When asked
by reporters as to the likelihood Of tIrther
trouble, the answer often was "Tnavei
be no more, or there II be 8 good
Gel more Several me1 from.
to'u that WAY are reported 90 have Jt>ea a
!ard in the riot, but there can oe ~ reli
srce put in such rumors Thu real par
ti,ipsUts in the assault are keeping
g., extremely quiet, and when = man i fund
throwing out mysterious winks AMI node /
can be pretty safely laid do IN that he IS
"a BLOWER"
who bss We, to smell Of gurpowder Will
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