The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
JAY G0ULD'S CRIME.
DEATH OF THE EIGHTH VICTIM OF
THE EAST ST. LOUIS RIOT.

THE EAST ST. LOUIS RIOT.
! Casting up pCasua1tics-Forty-Tw Freight
Cnrs Burned and s32, 900 Iyortl, of Prop
erty Observation-Disclosures Companies
ofTroops Preserving Order.
EAST ST. LOUIS. April l0.-The fires
of last night are now under control.
Fifty freight cars, the scale houses and
lumber yards were completely destroy
ed. The round-houses and shops were
partially saved. No railway officials
are around to direct troops where they
will be most needed. The fires were
all incendiary and started about 9
O'Clock last night. Large crowds OF
strikers and citizens are collected in
groups ovor the city and are still de-
termined to have revenge for yesterdays
massacre. Public sentiment is rnnning
high.
. Firemen and engines were sent from
St. Louis to help put out the fire, but.
their hose was cut and the men lntlnl-
dated. They returned without being
able to render any assistance.
ST.. LOUIS, April l0.-The Executive
Board of the knights of Labor, when
news Of the shooting reached them, pro-
cecded at once to East St. Louis and
there conferred with a number of citl-
zcns and got the general opinion as to
the affair. After advising every one
AGAINST violence the Board returned to
this side and prepared the following tele-
gram and sent it out rs an expression OF
The Boards opinion of the affair:
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 9, 1856.
To jay Gould, Mem York.
The following advertisement appeared
In many of the leading papers of the 7th
instant:
LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE X. K. Co.,
OFFICE OF THE AGENT,
april 6, 1886.
''Ten good men from here are wan
ted as deputy MarshaIs at East st.
Louis, to protect the Louisville and
Nashville employees. Five dollars ner
day and board will bepaid. Also, a
number OF platform men can be given enl-
ployment. Only men who have plenty cf
grit and mean business need apply. Ap-
ply at once. T.S. GENuNGi Agent"
How we'll this advertisement has
been answered is seen by their work OF
to-day in East st. Louis-six men and
one woman were murdered by those
who had ''pleDty Of grit and, meant
BUSINESS" By your action in refusing
the peaceful negotiations solicited by
the Board of Arbitration, you, and you
alone, must be held responsible by the
world for the lives of these innocent
people.
JOHN W. HAYES,
Per order of the Board. - 6.
EAST ST. LoU1s,Aprll l0.-The city
has been in state Of panic during the
entire night owing to the numerous
incendiary fires, but with the presence
of the military which is guarding all the
main lines Of track divrrginy from the
relay depot, something like order ap-
pears to promise for the day.
1t is impossible at this hour to more
than approximate the damage by last
nights fires. They were all confined to
railroad property. and the officers sent
with the troops report about twenty to
thirty cars destroyed, loaded with mer-
clandise and coal. The greatest dam
age occurred at the CAIRO Short Line
yards, about one mile from the relay
depot. where probably fifteen cars were
destroyed. and the flames for time
threatened the destruction Of one or two
hundred cars in the immediate vicinity.
The yards were unprotected by the pres
cncc of an active Deputy or IN officer
of any kind, until Company D OF Cham
pai.n arrived at the scene of the fire.
Until the arrival of the troops the fire
was permitted to burn at its will. Two
members Of this company were tonnd
who could fire and run locomotives, and
a switch engine being placed at their
disposal, they succeeded in dragging
away from the burning cars fully one
hundred box and coal cars.
Three companies of troops from
Grccnvile, Paris and Champaign are
now stationed at the Louisville and
Nashville and the Cairo Short Line
yards. The main body of the troops.
beyond a few scntries stationed at TIE
railroad switches, remains IN the vlcini-
ty of the relay depot. No serious
opposition OF any character has beset
the troops.
A man named Andrew Jones, Knight
of Labor. was shot yesterday and is not
expected to live through the night. He
will make the eighth person killed thus
tar. The city remains quiet. A walk
through the business and residence
streets gives the impression that tits de-
serted and dead, except that now and
then clusters Of sullcn men are to be
seen at the street intersections watch
ing the movements Of the troops. The
saloons are closed and nearly every
store is closed with the windows and
doors barred. The troops have been
distributed III platoons and companies
at the principal yards and shops and
IN the vicinity Of the large elevators on
the levee along the Mississippi River.