The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-16
THE STRIKE.
Deputy Sheriffs Held Responsible
for the Riot and BiOodshed at
East st. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, April 14.-Coroner Woods
resumed the inquest yesterday morn
ing on the victims of Fridays shoot
ing. a number of witnesses were ex-
amined. their testimony being mainly
repetition of that given Monday.
The inquest was concluded and ver-
dict rendered to the effect that the de-
ceased persons met their death at the
hands of the deputy sheritfs now in
jail at st. Louis and holding them re-
spOnSible therefor. 1t is probable that
a requisiti,on will now be issued for the
deputies by Governor Oglesby. and
that they Will be taken to the Belleville
Jail under escort. They will then very
likely be admitted to bail, the railroad
company going OH their bond.
EAST ST. LOUIS, April 14.-The
railroads centering in East st. Louis
made very little progress to-day in re-
suming traffic. The Chicago, Burling-
ton ~ Quincy was the sole exception,
that road having all its old men at
work again. The other roads find it
difficult to secure new men, and the old
ones will not return to work. The
strikers remain passive. and are amused
at the efforts of the railroads to secure
men. The military are still on the
ground, but how long they will remain
is matter of uncertainty. The Off
GERS in charge keep Governor Oglesby
posted by telegraph as to the situation
of affairs and it is thought that by to-
morrow the Governor will definitely
determine the length of the militias
stay. Colonel Smith, who commands
the levee forces, said that both the new
men who would be willing to 90 to
work and such of the strikers who
might desert to go back are afraid to
do so. Not that the protection is in
sufficient, but because they fear with
drawal of the militia in q few days, in
which case they would have cause to
regret their return to work. He
thought the troops should be either in.
creased and kept OH the ground or re-
turn at once.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 12.-Ye sterday
was one of absolute quiet in East st.
Louis. Gen. Reece, with his force in
creased by the seven additional COM
panies which arrived Saturday night
and early Sunday morning, has been
able Systematically to cover every
strategic point in the city, and any fear
which may have been felt from the
torch Of the incendiary has almost en-
tirely ceased. AS matter of fact, the
alarm which permeated the city before
the arrival Of the troops seems very
materially lessened, and it is now be-
lieved that the worst is over.
After making a tour of the city and
conversing with all classes of resi-
dents, the impression is conveyed that
the arrival of troops was believed from
the first to be the only and natural out
come as relief from the confessed in
ability of the civil authorities to en-
Of hn do,
workingmen, although classed among
the strikers, express satisfaction at the
fact that the troops are in the town.
The soldiers have not yet been COM
PEELED to do any firing, and, unless the
present quiet bellies the actual condi-
ton of affairs, the commanding officer
expresses the belief that no actual
demonstration will be required from
the troops beyond that of their pres.
ence until the existing difficulties have
ended.
The funeral of three victims of the
tragedy of last Friday-Driscoll, Wash
ington, and Boner-occurred yesterday
morning from st. Patrick's Roman
Catholic church. A mass was cele-
brated early in the forenoon and about
$50 o'clock the funeral column pro-
ceeded to the cemetery. Three hearses
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in turn by about fifteen carriages and
other conveyances. On the sidewalk
thanking the carriages were about fif-
teen hundred Knights of Labor, knights
of Honor, and other labor organiza-
tons, who marched in regular order,
proceeding in this way to the cemetery.
At the head of this body of marchers
vas the mayor, the city clerk, the chief
of police, and the twelve patrolmen,
who constituted the entire protective
force of East st. Louis. A band of
music preceded the labor organizations
and sounded funeral dirge. The
column marched by circuitous route
from the church, keeping east of the
relay depot, where the main body of
the troops are stationed, but passing
by the front of the Green Tree house,