Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-15
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1921 California avenue, st. Louis, in thu
groin, inflicting fatal wound.
The deputy sheriffs continued in thei,
I western flight, followed closely by Officer
| Doud, of East St. Louis, who had been
unsuccessful in his attempts to make
them surrender to him. They ran up tc
I Officer Weynacht, of the Third District
who was doing duty at the west end OF
the bridge, and surrendered to him, stat
ing that they had killed men in East ST.
Louis and desired to put themselves un-
der protection. Weynacht called his
partner, and the two accompanied the
men to the station at Seventh and Carr
streets. Somewhat of a crowd followed
| them, gathered both by the excited ap-
pearance of the men and rumors of the
tragedy. As soon as the names were
taken, the patrol wagon was rung up and
the whole party was forwarded to the
! Four Courts.
| At the corner of Fourth and Morgan
| streets a man named Charles Kline, a
street-car driver, stepped up to the small
| army and wanted to know what they did
that outrageous shooting for. This kind
/ of talk he kept up for some time, when
| suddenly the guards came to a halt, and
| with their rifles in their hands, told Kline
! he had better move to che rear if he did
| not want to be hurt.
DEAD AND INJURED.
The casualties reported are as follows:
c. E. Thompson, of 1927 California av-
enue, shot in the groin, fatally.
Patrick Driscoll, a Wabash section
hand, shot through the body, dead. Resi-
dence East St. Louis.
Oscar Washington. painter, shot dead
Residence
Mrs. Joseph Pfeiffer, shot in the small
of the back, fatally. Residence, East ST.
Louis.
Major Ryckman, rolling mill worker,
shot in the head and shoulder; wounds
considered necessarily fatal. Residence,
East St. Louis.
Mike Bonner, an emplOye of the Water
| works, shot through the left breast, be-
low the nipple, fatally.
An unknown man was seen to fall into
Cahokia creek; body not recovered.
James Scollard, a bystander, shot
through the right leg.
An unknown man was shot and slightly
injured while standing near Steul's coal
house.
Mrs. Kleinhein was crossing Cahokia
Greek bridge when the shooting COM
menced, leading her little daughter bv
the hand. A Winchester bullet grazed
the child's head, inficting only slight
wound.
STARTLED BY FIRE.
About half-past nine O'Clock people
passing on the bridge near the Louisville
& Nashville depot discovered smoke curl
ing up from the yards. A few moments
later small flame could be seen issuing
from box-car located only short dis
lance from the Louisville & Nashville de-
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on the tracks on each side. No one
seemed to notice the burning and no one
ventured near the car. A few spectators
on the bridge watched the flames, which
were slowly growing larger, for fully
half an hour, and made no attempt to eX-
tinguish the fire or give an alarm. Final
ly, about 10:I5, two men who resided
near the track came running excitedly
along the bridge looking for assistance,
and ran on up, to the bridge Office to get
the bridge hose. They laid the pipe down
to within short distance of the fire,
when the night superintendent of the
bridge arrived on the scene and instruct
ed the men to pay no attention to the
burning cars, but merely to protect the
bridge. By this time the flames from the
burning car were shooting up into the
air. and were visible all over the entire
city. Some person ran up to Relay depot,
where the troops were quartered, and in
formed them of the facts. Company II,
Fifth Regiment, from Decatur, quartered
in the Young Mems Christian Association
room, was ordered to the scene of the
conflagration. They Immediately fell
into line, and, under the command of
Captain Frank Wells, marched down the
track double quick time. Arriving at the
fire they surrounded the burning cars and
allowed no outsiders around them. By
this time quite crowd had collected on
the bridge. 1t was composed mostly of
the strikers, but they took things rather
coolly, and were very quiet. One man
picked up stone and wanted to throw it
down at the soldiers, but he was prevent
ed from doing so by the remainder of the
strikers.
Mayor joyce arrived on the ground
about the same time the soldiers did, and
ran up and down in a very excited man.
ner, denouncing the burning of the cars,
adding that he thought enough damage
had been done for one day. He looked
around for some time, trying to discover
some possible means of eXtinguiShing the
flames, and, seeing none, started to run
over the bridge, and turned on an alarm
from box No. SO, at the entrance of the
bridge. The department responded
promptly, and engines Nos. ~ and %,
carts were sent over the bridge. The pipe
was soon laid to the fire, but when the
water was turned on it was found that
the hose had been cut. This caused de-
lay of Il few moments, but Il new line of
hose was soon in shape and a stream
PLAYING on the car, the flames soon being
extinguished. The burned car belonged
to the Wabash, ST. Louis & Pacific, and
was loaded with sand.
THE SECOND FIRE.
Just as the flames got under good head
way a big blaze was discovered in the di-
rection of the round-house of the Cairo
Short Line, about mile and a half to the
southeast. The crowd ran down the
track to this fire, when it was found that
three box-cars and one caboose on the
Cairo Short Line tracks were enveloped
in flames. The cars were surrounded
by crowd numbering, perhaps,
two hundred people, but they
were orderly and made no
disturbance. The caboose belonged to
the Vandalia Line, while the box-cars
were one Burlington Missouri River,
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and a Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, all empty.
After the cars had nearly burned to the
ground a chemical engine arrived and
played stream on the fire, but it did
little good and the firemen retired.
THIRD FIRE.
AtI2:10 O'Clock the Waterman at the
yards of the Cairo Short Line detected
another fire in the oil-sheds, which i'm
mediate1v hurst forth and enyelOped the