Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-09
4 FIGHT.

Wounded.
CHICAGO, June 2S.-About eleven O'Clock
Saturday engines 436 and 53S pulled outof
the Lake Shore roundhousc and were at
tached to two cabooses which stood ont nc
side track. They then started back on the
main track toward South Chicago. On
each caboose were about fifteen town OF
Lake police md twenty Pinkcrton men.
large crowd OF the strikers had rushed
ahead OF the train while it was proceeding
at a slow rate, and at n dead run set out
for Englewood. AS the trains speed was
accelerated the Grove was soon passed,
and a storm OF stones and cinuers were
thrown Mt the men on the outside OF the
engines and cabooses.
A cry OF rage went up from the throats
OF the mob as the engines dashed by. Soon
u Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul engine
and one bclongingto the Nickel Plate road
passed the Grove OF strikers. The engines
were on their way to the Englewood yards
to do some switching for the roads to
which they belonged, but as they passed
the crowd they were boarded by 100 furi.
GUS men who, Without ceremony, took un.
disputed possession.
The two engines were coupled together
and with the teMders fairly swarming with
strikers they were given u full head OF
steam. With throttles thrown wide open
they dashed off in chase OF the Lake Shore
train.
Then began one OF the most exciting
races on record. Faster and faster flew the
Lake Shore train, and faster and nearer
came it's pursuer. Thirty, forty, and then
fully fifty miles an hour were covered by
the pursued, and still the pursuers crept
up.
The pursuing engine arrived within a
few feet OF the caboose, when the town OF
Lake police jumped inside and closed and
locked the door behind them, leaving Matt
Pinkerton and three OF his men with news.
| paper reporters on the rear platform. A
huge lump OF coal sailed through the air,
followed by three or fourcoupling- pins, and
a Pinkerton man fell headlong from the
| platform. Crack! crack! went Matt P,nker.
toms revolver, and a striker fell off the
engine. Off they jumped like sheep, with
the exception OF a dozen men who, with
determined faces, gave their signals to the
engineer to go ahead. Another shower OF
stones, which smashed the windows
OF the caboose without doing seri.
Gus damage to any one on the
platform, and more revolver shots, also
apparently without effect, were fired by
the officers, and just then the pursuing en-.
gines caught up and coupled into the Lake
Shore train. The strikers engines were re.
versed, and the coupling-pins snapped like
SO many pieces of glass. The Lake Shore
train was stopped just rs the engines
again approached at a full head OF steam,
and struck the rear caboose a blow that
threw the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS policemen
to the floor and shivcred every pane OF
glass in the cars.
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about twenty-five police officers and rail-
tention OF holding a parley with the
strikers. The latter, however, took adj
vantage OF the situation, coupled the pur-
suing engines onto the cabooses. and sud-
denly started back toward the city, drag.
ging the two aboosc with the remaining
body OF officers along with them, leaving
the railway officers and their blue-coa,ed
protectors standing along the track in
Grand Crossing with n woe-begone and dis
comtited look on their faces. The %victori-
GUS strikers received a wild ovation on the
return trip. The policemen and railway
officials left at Grand Crossing arrived in
the city several hours later, having been
compelled to wait for the regular mail
train.
Late in the afternoon a freight train for
the East was started out from Chicago, in
charge again ct town OF Lake officers and
Pinkerton men. The strikers followed AS
before on the same Milwaukee e. st. Paul
engine, but this time they met with
utter defeat ana the police OF both
Lake and Hyde Park, as they put it.
wrested victory from defeat, and covered
themselves with glory. About fifty OF
the strikers were captured and locked up,
and the train was sent on it's way East re-
/ i0ininr An in 1,prrl fna;rb% go, ol.o
brought from South Chicago to Hyde
Park and there placed in the company's
yard. There were no serious casualties.
During the melee and chase of the morning
four strikers were shot. but none of the
wounds are serious. Several strikers fell
from the moving engines. receiving severe
but not fatal injuries. Officer McGalligan
was hit with a chunk OF coal and knocked
from the platform OF the rear caboose. He
was injured very badly.
The daring efforts OF the strikers on Sat.
urday beat anything that is known of
rccklessness in connection with railroad
strikes, and Matt Pinkcrton's men are
hard at work to ferret out all the Offend
ers connected with the two instances in
which engines were seized upon by the
mob. The engines used by the strikers at
noon when they pursued locomotives 436
and 4S5 of the Lake Shore road and two
~cabooVs from Fifty-tirst street to Hyde
Park were 2O2 ofthe ''Nickel Plate and 800
OF the st. Paul road. The engineer OF the
latter, Bernard Kearns, is under arrest in
South Chicago. His engine had again
been seized by the strikers in the afternoon
to pursue the Lake Shore freight train
which succeeded in getting through to Mil.
ler's Station, Ind, during the evening.
kearns says that he was overpowcred by
superior forces, but his whole behavior at
the time OF the excitement is said to indi-
cate that he was only a too willing victim.
Five Lives Lost.
PROVIDENCE, RI, June 2S.-E. G. Farm.
er, his wire, and their daughter Mamie,
aged SIX years; Mrs. {. W. Girsch, his wife,
ANA two children, both the men belong
ing to the firm Of Farmer. Girscb e.