Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-04-10
THE BLOODY STRIKE.
Battle on the Missouri Pacific
What Gould Saws.

What Gould Says.
Fort WORTH, Texas, April 3.-The
suggestive quiet that marked the massage
of the freight train through the city was
not without its sequel. When the train
left the depot it was under the protection
of q posse ofofiicers, commanded by Jim
COPYRIGHT. The train proceeded to the
crossing Of the Fort Worth and New
Orleans road where it stopped as Gus
tomary. What followed is reported by
a railroad employee who was on the
train. lie says that when the train
it was noticed that several men
were congregated on the track in front
of the train. The posse in command
the men and asked why they
impedcd the progress of the train, to
which they replied they had nothing to
do with it: that they were not armed
and had NJ intention of%interfering with
the road. AS the officers returned to the
train they noticed several men sitting or
lying on the grass a few yards. from the
track. The entire posse advanced to-
wards the men Ill ambush until they had
reached the ditch along the side tracks,
when they commanded the throwing up
hands. The command was obeyed, but
as the hands came up they brought Win
chester rifles with them, which belched
forth a deadly fire. The posse returned
the fire, it is said, with fatal effect.
There were perhaps one hundred shots
fired. After the first fro the posse ad.
vanced and continued firing. The am
busllers reiterated behind some piles of
ties which proved most excellent breast
works and from the security of which
they poured u murderous fire into the
posse. From this position they were fin
ally dislodged and driven beyond the
range of the posses pistols. The casual
ties among the posse was three-Po-
lice Officer Tulford shot through both
thighs and Special Officer Dick Town
send shot through the left breast near
the nipple, fatal special officer Charles
Sneed shot through, the heart and jaw.
The casualties among the ambushers is
only q matter o conjecture. There seems
to be good grounds for saying that three
or more Of them were wounded, proba-
bly, fatally. The same authority says
there were half q dozen or more horses
visible from the train, that were ambush
ed, which it is believed belonged to the
ambushing party. The posse carried the
wounded men aboard the train, which
backed into the Union depot, where
the wounded men were lying when the
Mail reporter saw them. 1t was a deter.
mination of the strikers that no trains
should run on the Missouri Pacific, in
junction or nj injunction. 1t was ar
ranged that should the trains pass
through Fort Worth, it must be stopped
elsewhere. TO this end y number Of
strikers had been detailed to watch the
road south of the city. The train ar
rived at the crossing, where 1t was
tagged by the strikers. The engineer
not obeying the flag, the strikers next
rcsorted to throwing switch. AS a man
approached and threw the switch, he
was fired upon by the posse, and the
lire was promptly returned by the men
in ambush. The narrator says it was
not the intention OF the strikers to re.
sortto violent measures unless forced to,
but when they were once fired upon they
returned the fire. They were we'll arm
ed and their work shows that they were
pretty good marksmen. One thing may
he set down as settled, continued this
narrator, and that is no trains will be
allowed to pass over the Missouri Pacific
until the demand ofthe strikers for arbi.
tration is acccded to.
GouLD's VERSION.
New YORK, April 5.-Secretary Tur.
ner, Of the executive committee of the
knights of Labor, having stated yester-
day in st. Louis that Mr.. fIoxie was not
acting in conformity with the terms of
IN agreement entered into at the New
York conference, Mr.. Gould was today
interviewed upon the subject and said ::
"The stenographer's note OF the New
York conference show that there was no
agreement, direct or implied, that the
company would take all men back with
some comparatively few exceptions.
On the contrary, they show that not one
ofthc committee expected the company
to take back any men not needed or II
who had any thing to do with damage to
the property of the company or obstruc.
ton to the running of trains. Powderly
said if the company would supply him
with the names Of those law breakers
they would he expelled from the order.
The whole committee was very positive
that its orders to return to work would
be generally obcyed, and asserted most
positively that those who refused to
obey its orders would be put out of the
order, and to use the words of one com.
mlttee, except out Of it for ever" A
message from Mr.. lEoxie was read to the
committee, in which he said that only q
portion of the men formerly employed
would be required hy the company on
account of the reduction in business
caused by the strike, and because q large
number Of men had been employed to
take the places of strikers which would
not he discharged. The following dis
patch was received this afternoon at the
office Of the Missouri Pacific Railroad
company:
II TEXAS TRAGEDY
Font WORTH: April 5.-At this hour,
p. m., everything is quiet. Two trains
haye gone south this morning, we'll
guarded. There was no interference.
Some II crippled engine No. q last
night at Waco while the train men we're
eating sunner. About Lao this morning