St. Paul daily globe., 1886-04-04
BIOOdshed at Ft. Worth.

ing Knights of Labor ana the OlncerS OF tne
law have met in deadly conflict. Two
officers fatally wounded and third shot
through both hips are the casualties on the
side OF the law. Or the strikers, SO Tar as
can be aScertained, only one has been
wounded. 1t was announced yesterday by
the officers of the Missouri Pacific that trains
would move to-day or there would be blood
shed. The strikers, on the other hand,
had put it down as settled that no
trains would be allowed 10 pass
over the Missouri Pacific line until the de-
mand of the strikers for arbitration was
conceded. There are only six men among
the strikers here who were formerly enl-
ployed by the Missouri Pacific, the Missouri
Pacific and the Texas Pacific having pooled
their Fort Worth business so that freight
was handled and trains moved almost eX-
cluSively by the Texas Pacific employees.
The places of these men have long been
filled, but they dared not make tight on
the Texas Pacific because that road Is
in the hands Of receivers. Last night the
sheriff and his deputies were busily engaged
in serving writs on an injunction against
the strikers and their confederateS, and by
the time this morning dawned the most Of
them had receive an official
NOTICE TO KEEP AWAY
from the yards OH the Pacific railway, and
warning them against interfering with the
servants of the company in their efforts to
take out trains. The effects of the writs
was to keep the yards clear, and aft9 o'clock
this morning not man save the employees
could be seen in them. In the streets near
the yalds. however. could be seen knots of
men who had collected to see what would
be done To-day at II o'clock the officers
began to collect at the union depot aud
numbers of them were stationed in the
wards. At 1915 O'clock dozen or more
of them went TO the round house, and in
few minutes engine "a, loaded down with
armed officers. pulled out and steamed up
to the Missouri Pacific yards. AS it ratified
past the crowd collected on either side of
the road DeriSive cheers went up from
hundred throats. but not man attempted
to interfere with the movements of the en-
CINE or to prevent it from coupling on to the
cars which were standing on side track.
Having done this the engine was run Oh to
the main track and then backed up the road
to Hodge from which point it was to pull
freight train into the city. For nearly two
hours the crowd awaited the return of the
engine with the train from Hodge, and at
the minutes rolled by they amused them
selves in various ways. The raw weather
could not scatter them, and the men
wrapped in heavy OvercOatS were contin-
uOusly
- STAMPING THEIR FEET
to keep warm. At 11:30 the engine lett
Hodge and at I1:35 O'clock steamed into
the yard. The train consisted of the ca
boOse and ten cars loaded with coal. AS
the train approached Sixteenth street
crowd rolled out, but halted on the line of
right of way and remained there. Not
man made move toward the train, but at
the lower end Of the yard three women.
wives of the strikers, appeared on the
track one of them armed with red flag,
which she waved as a signal for the eugi-
neer to stop. No attention was paid TO this
and the train passed on and by the
union depot. and continued on its
journey south. The suggestive silence
that marked the passage of the train
through the city was not without its sequel.
When the train left the depot it was under
the protection Of posse of twelve officers,
commanded by Jim COurtwright, special
deputy marshal. Some of the officers were
deputy marShals and others were members
of the regular police force. The train pro-
ceeded slowly to the crossing of the Fort
Worth & New Orleans railway, about mile
and half south of town, where it stopped
as is customary before crossing. The
switch was found open and two men stood
near the crossing. The officers approached
the switch and discovered five men
WITH WINCHESTER RIFLES
partly concealed in the weeds few yards
distant The entire posse advance toward
the men in ambush. They had reached the
ditch alongside the track when they Or
dered the throwing up of hands. The COM
mand was obeyed, but as the hands came
up they brought Winchester rifles. The
officers were armed only with revolvers.
They demanded the surrender of the strik-
ers. Both sides opened fire almost stimuli
taneously, there being not more than two
seconds between the time the first and Sec
Ond shots were fired. After the first fire
the posse advanced and continued firing.
The strikers retreated behind some piles of
ties, which formed most excellent
breastworks, and from the security
of which they poured a murderous
fire into the posse. The casualties among
the posse were found to be three. Police
Officer FulfOrd was shot through both
thighs. Special Officer Dick Townsend
was shot twice through the left breast near
the nipple. He died at $50 this afternoon
Special Officer Charles Snead was shot
through the throat and jaw. His wounds
are fatal. Drs. Voeker and Farrar of the
Missouri Pacific hospital say that Snead
and Fulford cannot possibly live. Only
one of the strikers, Tom Nall, switch
through the groin. About fifty shots were
fred in all, when the posse, seeing it was
USELESS TO FIGHT
Winchesters with revolverS, placed the
wounded officers aboard the train and re-
turned to the union depot The strikers re-
NAMED at the scene of the conflict for some
time after the train returned to the city,
when they secured the Winchester of their
wounded comrade and started for the Syca-
more bottom. Mace was left on the prairie.
AS soon as the train reached the city, the
posse was reformed, armed with VIM
chesterS and started in pursuit of the mur-
dererS. 1t is estimated that there were
twenty men among the strikers, but 0i
these only five or six carried Winchesters.
Tom Mace, the wounded striker, was
brought to the city in wagon this aft
ernoon, and as soon as the officers
learned of his whereabouts he was carried
to jail, where he will be strongly guarded.
No other arrests have as yet been made
The Knights of Labor claim that the first
shot was fired by the officers. but the weight
of the testimony is against this proposition
Tim Wilson, who was on the engine anC
within three feet of Dick Townsend, wht
was shot i'm the back. states positively thai
the first fire came from the strikers. D. L.
Stewart, who was an eye witness the shoot
Ing, gives it as his opinion that the strikers
fired first Sheriff Maddox this Afternoon
organized two companies of posse, which
were armed with Winchester carbines, anC
MARCHED TO THE DEPOT,
the avowed determination being to suppress
all opposition to law. No further attemp
will probably be made to move trains befor