Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-12
STORY OF THE SHOOTING
OF Friday Told By n sheriff In Charge
of the Yards.

. OT. LUOlS, hUIh
Charles Kinster, VIM. Tucker, Sam Jon E,
W. J. Laird, Stewart Martin, Geo. "
a Bennett and J. A. Williams, the East 81
Louis Deputy Sherifs who s~urrendere'
, themselves to the ST. Loais police siter oo
I ing the shooting at the Louisville ant
Nashville crossing on the East Side yes
: terdsy, are still locked up at n
-Four Courts. This morning Che
Harrigan was notified BY Mayo
Joyce Of East st. Louis to hold the men a
, fugitives from Justice till requisition papers
, would be secured for them. They will b
held. Mr.. Hewlett, who is special sgenI
for the Louisville and Nashville railroad
as well as being temporarily deputy sheriff
has made q statement
EXPLAINING THE SHOOTING
of Yesterday. This is corroborated by the
other deputies and is in substance as toi
lows:
Thursday the strikers captured one
OF our deputies and held him
about an hour and q hall.
They let him go and told him they intend
ed 10 visit again and do Us up. About 10
o'clock q man who recognized me SIS an
odd fellow came and told me to look out for
serious trouble. / Immediately told Mr..
j. T. Harrahan, General Manager of the
division and he said he had also been
notified TO look out for trouble. | then
wrote two letters to Adjutant General
Vance, explaining the situation to him and
tent them to him O little before II o'clock.
While writing the letters | was summoned
to keep the strikers from coming into our
yards at the east end. l went up there
with General Manager Hsrrahsn. There
were about 800 men collected around
when wa got there. Sheriff Ropequert was
present and tried to dispense the crowd. bat
they
WOULD o LISTEN
and ieered at him, calling him all sorts Of
names. Seeing he could not dispense the
crowd, the sheriff went away.
Then / commenced talking to the
crowd. | said "for Gods sake
men get away and save trouble, look at
this thing nationally. Yos heard the
Sheriff read the law to you and you would
not le l then read the law to some
twenty or thirty men who were nearest.
When l stopped reading some one in the
crowd said, referring to me: This man
is right" Others said: PAY no atten,
ton to him. We don't care a d for
the law. He is a scab." All that / said
had no effect upon the crowd. While some
OF my men were at dinner Mr.,
Sample came to me and said: Hewlett,
hurry aid get some men to help bring one
oil our coal trains. There are
FIVE HUNDRED STRIKERS
ct the crossing" This was about l:30
o'clock. Mr.. Sample came to mi again
in Q few minutes and said: Come on;
we have not got time to eat now; they
have halted our train at Broadway Cross-
ing" 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 Cohokis creek, and on the
east side of our tracks around the green
tree house and about the Illinois and st.
Louis passenger platform. There was q
great deal Of yelling from the crowd, they
ieered at US and called US everything they
could think of.
This thing lasted quite a while, until
the General Manager induced the engineer
to run the train through the crowd with q
rush. While we were waiting there at the
crossing to protect the fireman and en-.
gineer, q striker said to a deputy, you
will never get out of these yards alive"
| said, IL will arrest that man, it is my
sworn duty 10 do it." | took hold of him
to arrest him and be resisted. He said he
would not be arrested and attempted
to jerk away, but l held on to him. The
mob then closed in on me, but with the as
sistsnoe OF one OF my deputies we forced
the man out of the crowd. turned around
to crowd them and said: For Gods sake,
men, dispense. While | am carrying out
the law don't resist" Just about that
moment l heard
A PISTOL SHOT
to my rear. 1t sounded like the report
from o small pistol and quick as a fash |
saw o stone coming. lodged and it
struck me on the shoulder. | Judge the
first shot came from the rear windows OF
the bsrroom on the west side of the creek
my deputy Krastor says it came from
there). After the first shot
was fred the shooting
become general. We wsre between two
fires and / then noticed shots coming from
rear barroom windows. Shots were fred
from the east sine Of the track from a little
house, or from coal cars on the Indian
spolis and st. Louis track. The crowd
then started West along Dixie to cut us by
a cross street from our depot. |
saw this movement aud started
with my deputies across our trestle on a
run for the depot aud got there in advance
| of the crowd. We halted at the depot and
1.-The freight men came and begged for pro.
lection, saying that the strikers would
murder every one of them. told them to
90 to the bridge and we
WOULD PROTECT THEM
he then describes the scene on the bridge
and the arrival OF the deputies in this city
as previously reported.
Powderly on the Situation.
SCRANTON, Pa, April l0.-Genersl
Master PoWderly this morning stated that
the rumor that he was preparing a state
ment to be published to that the Knights
regarding the Southwestern troubles
was without foundation. THE
General Executive Board, said
be, has done everything possible for
a settlement Of the difficulties and the re.
sponsibiEity for what follows rests entirely
upon others, and matters will have to take
their " Oourss unless srbitrs'ion is con.
scented to. If this is done then there will
be no difficulty in bringing this strike to q
speedy close. This is the only point where
trouble exists and l believe that the
country will never again see 80
formidable p strike, as en-
pleyers and employees nave learned that
the easiest way Of settling disputes is BY
arbitrstion-the corner stone ofthe Knights
Of Labor"
While Mr.. Powderly has improved in
health he is by no mesns a we'll man.
POWDER AND BALL.