The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-04-13

| They took the man and were walking him
! toward the Louisville * Nashville bridge
when this big red haired fellow and a little
| fellow IN black got mad at the hallOaing
and put up their guns. Somebody said
for them not To shoot, but without a word
q of warning they raised their guns and
/ fired right into the crowd on the bridge
All the deputies fired as fast as they could
:ind when the GROVE. run from the bridge
they turned their guns over that way,
toward the east and fired into the other
crowd that was running. A man next to
me fell and helped to carry him into the
shanty. His name is Bunner, and he was
! coal miner, who boarded at the Burke's.
He was alive when we carried him in, but
he is now dead. got all bloody in carry
ing him. There wasn't anything done by
| the crowd except to shout and jeer at the
deputies, and TN re was only one stone
thrown and that by young fellow who
lodged behind the shanty. After the depu-
ties got through shooting they started on a
run down the Louisville 4 Nashville track,
and getting the deputies there all of them
ran up the roadway and across the bridge,
at the top of which | hear they killed an
other innocent party. Not one of the men
killed is railroad man on a strike They
fired on men and women alike and killed
two women. One died right over there
near the Green Tree. Her name was Mrs.
Pfefier. You can see the marks of bullet
in Hills warehouse where they shot
over there. There is not
store of any size to be
seen on the road at The Cahokia
bridge. The street there is filled with
powdered dust, and could not furnish a
missile to any body. Some of the deputies
who failed to make connection with the
frightened crowd who rushed pell. NELL
over the bridge took refuge, chased by the
,rOwd, In the freight warehouse and Offices
of the Louisville and Nashville, and barred
all the doors. The warehouse was sur
rounded by an immense crowd, who hooted
and yelled and urged the men to att.cI
the stronghold and drive the deputies out.
Men went among rhe crowds urging Others
to- procure arms and shoot all the deputies
they could find. Some of the deputies
watching their opportunity, slipped out
and worked their way among the freight
cars unobserved. They left their guns be-
hind them in the freight house. A Louis
vile and Nashville freight car backed
down alongside the platform and took
NhS OhhSAo W PAoNC VI IWO
were sighted by the strikers who had pro-
cured arms and were chased under the
bridge. One of them was caught in front
of Toney's house on the leyee, and was
beaten to death by the mob; another
was reported to have been shot as he was
escaping under the approach to the bridge
The other deputies escaped unframed. As
soon as it was learned that the deputies
were escaping from the freight house, men,
insane with anger and excitement, burst in
the doors and searched the house thor
Oughly. They secured some Winchester
rifles, and with others who had shot guns
and revOlvers, searched the freightcars and
the yards of the Louisville 4 Nashville
carefully for stray deputies. 1t was reg
ular RABBIT hunt, and it would have been
instant death to any deputy found by the
gang.
Governor Oglesby has ordered eight
companies of militia under command of
colonel on the scene.