The Indianapolis journal., 1886-04-11

explaining the situation to him, and sent them
to him little before IL o'clock. While writing
these letters, was summoned to keep the strik-
ers from coming into our yards at the east end.
went up there with General Manager Hanrahun.
There were about three hundred men collected
around when we got there Sheriff Ropie-
quet was present, and tried to repress
the crowd, but they would not listen to him.
They jeered at him and called him all sorts of
names. Seeing he could not disperse the crowd
the sheriff went away. Then commenced talk
ing to the crowd. said: For Gods sake men,
get away and save trouble; look at this thing
nationally You heard the sheriff read the law
to you, and you would not leave | then read
the law to some twenty or thirty men nearest
me- When stopped reading, some one in the
crowd said, referring to me: This man is right
Others said: Pay no attention to him. We
don't care a - for that law. He is a
scab All that I said had no effect upon
the crowd. While soms of my mon
were at dinner, Mr. Sample came 70 me and said,
Hewlett, hurry and get some men to help bring
% cur coal train; there are five hundred strikers
at the crossing This about 1:30 o'clock.
DIR. Sample came to me again in few minutes
and said, Come on; we have not got time to eat
now; they have halted our train at the Broad
way crossing We had six or seven deputies at
the crossing to protect the train, and started
with about twelve other deputies to reinforce
them, The crowd, when We got there, was
massed on the bridge over Cahokia creek. and
on the east side of our tracks, around the Green
Tree House, and about the Illinois & st. Louis
passenger platform. There was great deal Of
yelling from the crowd; they jeered at us and
called everything they could think Of This
thing lasted quite awhile, until the general man
ager induced the engineer to run the train
through the crowd with rush.
"While we were waiting there at the crossing
to protect the fremen and engineer striker said
to one of my deputies, you will never get out
Of these yards alive. said, I will arrest that
man. it is my sworn duty to do it. took hold
of him to arrest him. and he resisted He swore
he would not be arrested, and attempted to jerk
away from me, but / held on to him. The mob
then closed in on me, but with the assistance Of
one of my deputies we forced the man out of the
crowd / turned around to the crowd then and
said, For Gods sake, men, disperse while am
carrying out the law; don't persist just about
that moment I heard pistol shot to my rear
It sounded like the report from a small pistol
and quick as fash saw a stons coming at my
head. lodged, and it struck me on the shoul-
der. / Judge the frst shot came from the
rear windows of the bar-room on the west
side of the creek-my deputy. Kinsler. says it
came from there After the first shot was fired
the shooting became general. We were between
two fires. and then noticed shots coming from
the rear barroom windows. Shots were fred at
as from the east side of the track from little
house, or from coal-cars or the Indianapolis g.
st. Louis track The crowd then started wesb
along the dixie to cut us off by cross street from
our depot I saw this movement and started
with my deputies across our trestie on a run for
the depot, and got there in advance of the crowd
We halted at the depot, and the freight men
cams and begged for protection, saying the
strikers would murder every one of them.
told them TO get out and 60 to the bridge. and we
would protect them"
He then describes the scene on the bridge and
the arrival of the deputies il this city. as pre-
viously reported
1t transpires that young man named Andrew
JONES' a knight of Labor, was shot yesterday
and is not expected to live through the day.
He will make the eighth person killed thus far.
Testimony Before the Coroner.
ST.. Louis, April 10--Ths inquests on the
bodies of the people killed yesterday afternoon
by deputy sheriffs, in the yards Of the Louis
vile 8 Nashville railroad, in East st. Louis,
began at 2:20 this afternoon. The first witness
was Joseph Mitchell, formerly in the employ of
the Ohio & Mississippi road He said he was on
the Broadway crossing at the time the shooting
began; about ten deputies on the Louisville
& Nashville trestle; saw no stones thrown, but
heard the crowd call the deputies nam es, and
laugh at them. A little man. who appeared to
be the leader told the crowd to disperse, and
then. minute after, fired into them, and a man