The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-10
Serious Situation Among the
70 st. Louis Strikers.
WISH CONGRESS- TO INTERFERE
Six Of the Strikers Killed by Depu-
ties, and the End - Not Yet
Other Notes.
The situation at St Louis.

the hHlButS OF LaDOr. arrived IN tn.
city this morning TO make his oificia
report to Grand Master Workman
Powderly. Mr.. Turner was asked thi.
afternoon: do you'll think the
strike at st. Louis will be setlisc
soon?" He replied: ~ don't know
NJ. Hoxie aud Mr.. Gould have goa,
back on their agreement, and now wher
We issue an order to resume work they
refuse 10 employ any Knights of Labor
The statement that trains are running
on the Missouri Pacific as usual arr
untrue. They may be getting five or
SIX cars out of East st. Louis daily.
When the strike commenced there was
a few loaded cars in the ari and they
may have succeeded in getting those
out"
Are there any prospect of the engin-
GERS going out on striker"
II cannot tell. II Is not probable
unless Mr.. Arthur issues an order %
that effect. The Brotherhood of Engin-
esrs is strongly in sympathy with the
strikers"
as there no way in which the strike
at 81. Louis can be controlled"
No. sir; none that know Of"
Mr.. Turner left for Philadelphia at
30 p. m.
Mr.. Powderly, to-day, sent the fol.
lowing dispatch:
To Hon. 4. G. Curtin, Washington, d. C.
Urge the immediate passage Of your
resolution to appoint a committee to in
vestigate the labor troubles in the
southwest. The committee should be
at work now The public has q right to
know who is TO blame IN the matter"
After sending the above, Mr.. Pow
DERBY received a dispatch from ST. Louis,
announcing the killing OF six strikers
by deputies.
Ever since the railroad employees in
East st. Louis ceased work, in support
of the striking knights on the Gould
southwestern system, rumors of riots
and bloodshed have daily gained circu-
lation, but until to-day no serious con-
fiict has occurred. To-day opened with
but little prospect of serious trouble
although some of the strikers intimated
that the roads would find il less easy to
run trains than they had anticipated,
and early in the morning the yards pre-
sented an animated scene. Switch en-
gines were running up trains, platform
men were busy loading and unloading
freight. and trains were arriving
and departing without any interference.
rhis condition of affairs continued I'M
til noon, and il was thought the day
would pass without any demonstration
by the strikers. at that ho.r. how
ever, the trouble which afterward grew
70 such charming proportions began
A number of strikers, without appar-
entity having formed any preconcerted
plan, congregated at the railway depot
and began a discussion of the general
situation. As the time passed their
number was augmented until the orig
inal knot of men increased 10 fully 200
The discussion became animated and
the crowd more demOnstratiye, until
some one proposed that they 60 to the
Louisville and Nashville yards and drive
out the men employed there. The cry
of ION to Nashville yards " was
caught up and the crowd advanced.
As they proceeded their numbers
again increased, some joining the mob
simply as spectators, while others were
in full sympathy with the movement.
until 800 TO 400 were advancing toward
the yards. Arriving there, they
swarmed into the yards and persuaded
the men at work to desert their posts.
The crowd remained in the yards for
some time, and, although considerable
excitement prevailed, no violence was
resorted to. Just at this time. however,
the Louisville & Nashville freight train
was slowly passing, guarded by eight
deputy sheriffs, armed with Winchester
rifles. In the meantime. crowds of men,
women and children had congregated
on Broadway, where the Louisville
& Nashville tracks cross the street.
and also upon the Broadway bridge
which spans the Cahokia Creek, and in
the open space to the east. Just as the
train reached Broadway Crossing, the
trouble began. The crowd on the
bridge began to veil and ieer at the
officers, and It is asserted stones were
thrown which struck two or three OF
them. and it is also said that pistol
was discharged. The deputies immedi-
ately levelled their rifles and fired two
volleys into the crowd on the bridge,
with fatal effect, four men being killed
and one woman mortally wounded.
The dead are Patrick Driscol, Wabash
section hand, not a striker; Oscar
Washington, painter. not q striker;
} John Bonner, a coal miner, not a striker
and Mai. Rychman, a mill employee.
not a striker. Mrs. Pfeffer. said
TO be a wife Of a striker, was shot in the
back and mortally wounded. The
greatest excitement Immediately pre-
vailed aud pandemonium reigned. The
crowd fed IN every direction, and when
the deputies realized how fearful was
the result OF their fire, sought means OF
escape by rushing for the bridge, with
view OF fleeing to this city. AT the ap
proach, and Just ct the bridge tower on
the east 81 e. they were met by MAYO,
Joyce, City Clerk Canty and third
man who seized the deputies guns ano
endeavored to turn them back. One OF
the deputies, in his terror, fred upon
the trio, killing one man named T.
Thompson, who stood between Joyce
and CAVITY. Some shots were hreu
by .he remaining deputies at
the approaching strikers and all started
over the bridge. The scene 90 the
bridge was one of the widest CONFUSION
and excitement. Coal teams and other
Jeans with wagons were galioping We. !,
ward and their drivers shouting 70 al
pedestrians and teamsters 70 rul