The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-05-12

70 the road. Hsfe t6ey formed in llnetWelvs
abreast under desult0ry FIRE from windows,
roofs and sheds and charged east ON the
street car tracks.
The rioters at first made q sullen resist
ance. They faced the approaching officers
and the slender, Clustering line Of revolver
barrels held on 4 level with their heads, %
though II was oil play. But whom the hur-
rylng officers curled the index finger Of
their right hands and q streak Of fire as
long as telegraph pole flashed through the
cir, there was an exciting hlgera and gen.
eral 60 as-you- please race for cover. Dur
were badly hurt. The former was hit In
the head with brick and the right hand of
Kaiser was crushed by stone. The patrol
wagons of the Lake street, Twenty second
street, Harrison street and Despalnes street
stations followed each other in quick sue
cessiOn.
Although the rioters had been driven
from the Mccormick works they still
lined Blue Island avenue from Robey
street to Western avenue. As the pa.
troll wagons dashed through the lines,
they we're made the targets for all kinds Of
missiles. The officers were compelled to
duck their heads to escape injury. When
the last patrol wagon had emptied Its load
W
that tile streets be cleared. The 200 officers
were again drawn up In line and commanded
to make the charge. In the midst Of an an
nOying fire the men l6ft the yards and
plunged right and left Revolvers cracked
continuously, and occasionally the loud re-
pOrt of q blund6rbuss or ancient shotgun
loaded with slugs split the mir. M#
Four strikers dropped during the charge,
two Of them being shot through the groin.
They were picked up by comrades and
borne away before the police could overtake
them. One of the victims was boy. He
was shot while in the act Of throwing q
stone. Five men caught him as he fell and
bore him to the car barns where he called
for a drink Of water. 1t was given him
and then he inoaned pite0usly and begged
secured and the dying boy placed in it. His
comrades would not give his name.
After the streets IN the vicinity of the
Mccormick works had been cleared the OBJ
jectiOnable scabs employed there were
marched out into Blue Island avenue and
| told that they would be escorted to their
homes by the police. They were pale and
their knees knocked together as they walked.
One hundred officers, were placed on either
side Of the scabs and in this position they
marched to the city. As they passed high
board fence near the entrance to the Nc.
Cormick yards an old man with gun
nearly six feet long crept to one corner Of
the barrier and dropped on his knees. He
then took deliberate aim at one of the Off.
GERS and fred. The charge went wide of its
mark and tore hole as large as mans
hand In board standing near the street.
The aged Anarchist then skunk out Of sight.
As the procession marched east on Blue
Island avenue the walkers were jeered in q
most eXasperating manner. Women, with
bare arms and red handkerchefs tied about
their heads, screamed imprecations from
windows; children hid behind chimneys and
pelted pebbles and eggs at the objects OF
their venom and from time to time bricks
and stones were hurled at officers and
'scabs' by men secreted in attics of the
many small buildings on the line of march.
| When the procession reached the corner
of Ashland and Blue Island avenue fully
sixty thousand people were massed along
these thorOughfares and upon the housetops,
The cry of rats and ''scabs'' was con
tinuous and deafening. At times the officer!
were compelled to charge to the right ant
left In order that the procession might pass
The women were even more ObstreperOu!
than the men. They ran out into the gut
tiers and shook their fists and spat at tn,
scabs. The.latter tried to smile but they
could not They hugged each other q
though they expected to be swept away b!
some unknown agency
At five o'clock the fag end of the process
sion reached the Blue Island avenue viaduct
But seven scabs remained, the rest havini
been escorted to their home by details from
the ranks of the officers Those who re
manned were now taken charge Of by fOu
officers and q moment later were lost Il
sight among the buildings on Rebecca street
During the riot five strikers were shot
two fatally. -Four officers were slightly in
jured and assistant superintendent G.
Bewby, of the Mccormick works, was hi
with stone In the face and badly hurt
ST.. LOUIS, May 4.-In response to al
earnest appeal from the citizens committee
to which is added letter from the member
of the Curtin Committee. the General Execu
night issued an order to the members nov
on strike upon the Gould system and upol
the various lines In East st. Louis, to returl
to work to-day. The following Is the cor
1 resp0ndence:
SOUTHERN HOTEL.
| 81. Louis. May ], 1885.
To the General Executive Board Knight
| OF Labor Of America:
The testimony taken to-day by the Con
Rressonal Investigating Committee show
conclusively that very serious losses to tn
| commercial, agricultural and other interest
Of the entire country have resulted from
labor troubles upon the lines of railroad
belonging to the Southwestern system an
Missouri, Kansas Arkansas and Texas, ant
that by reason of said troubles large mum
ber OF persons not directly connected there
with have been thrown out of employment
in regard to the causes which produced thi
lamentable condition of affairs or to In
wSsre and dhs soey
desire to render all. the assistance
in our power! in the endeavor y
] commercfsi % prosperity to the neR Citizens Of tn tn
country, and particularly of the nve State
above named, we do hereby respectfully
country at heart. to advise, through thu
proper official channels, a adiscontnuance o
the strike upon the S raj heretofSr
the employees or the officers of the corpors
tons were justitiable to the decision tha
public opinion may form when the Congres
under investigation, shall have completed 1t
work. Feeling assured that complanc
with this request will merit for your board
with your counsel, the appreciation of tn
people of the United States. we remain you
Obedient servants.
W. H. GRAIN, a.
JAMES H. OUTHwAITE,
rtrt A. X. PARKER,
| ".. ..#.t..lH JAMES BUCHANAN,
.." j. W. STEWART. .'.
HURsr's HOTEL,
81. Louis, May 2, 1885.
To Hons A. q. Curtin, w. Fl. Grain, James r
oushTSyte; out stav,t a x; Parker James Buohana
GENTLEMEN-Your communication of Ma
was placed before the joint executiv
board and the following resolutions wer