Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-09
LABOR TROUBLES.

BLOODY ENCOUNTER BETWEEN STRIKERS !
AND A sHERIFF's PossE-THE SHERIFF !
DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED.
Little Rock, Ark, April 9-Between
midnight and one o'clock this morning
Sheriff Williams, in charge of
the deputies guarding the st. Louis and
Iron Mountain round house and machine
shops in Argenta, opposite this city, was
approached by F. Ell. Darby, a leading
knight OF labor, who notified him to
take his force away or they would be
put out. Williams seized Darby and
locked him IN one of the rooms. Just
then the outlines of twenty or thirty
men were seen a short distance away
and Williams ordered them out,
saying he was there to
guard property and would do 80, if he |
fell in his tracks. Some one from the
crowd replied,
WELL, DIE THEM"
and irregular shooting between the
deputies and their ASSISTANTS began.
| Probably q hundred shots were fred.
Williams ls dangerously wounded in the
right side, with one or two lesser
wounds in other parts of his body. The
assailants fled. 1t is reported that
several were wounded, but were taken
away by their comrades. Sheriff War
then was telephoned aud hurredly col
lected a posse and went over to Argenta,
near the south end of the Iron Noun
tain railroad bridge. and there the men
were arrested. Charles Stepp had q
double barreled gun, another. A. Cook,
ticket agent, was intoxicated
and abusive and stalked up
the bridge to the ticket office. A
strong guard was placed about the
roundhouse and shops and obtaining an
engine and car Williams and his four
prisoners were brought to this city
Everything IS quiet this morning. Viii,
Hams condition lie pronounced critical.
He is a well known and popular mar
and his son., Col. B. d. Williams, wal
formerly superintendent of the Memphi.
2 and Little Rock railroad.
GOOD ORDER IN ST. LOUIS.
st. Ionic, Mo-, April Sin st. Loui
to-day the strike situation remains un
changed. Several heavily laden train,
have been started out without inter
ference. Deputy marshals and sheriffa
armed with Winchester riHss, are still
on guard to protect She company's en-
ployes and property.
The foreman of the Wabash yards in
north st. Louis, where the men wen
out yesterday Or a strike on support O
: the knights, telegraphed to Moberl,
last night for new men to fill the posi-
tons of the strikers and this mornin,
eighteen switehmen and yardmen arriv
ed from that city and were directly put
to work moving %bloeka5sd freight in tn
Wabash yards.
H BLooDIEsT ENCOUNTER YET.
st. Louis, April ga crowd of striker
formed at tbs railroad depot at East 81
LOUIS at 1:45 p, sm..and advanced in th
direction of the railroad yards to sto,
Word-b by the new men employed there
They We're met by = guard o
deputies, who ordered them to disperse
The mob refused and rushed for tn,
yards, when ths deputies raised thei
Winchestcrs and fred killing six of til
strikers.
FIRING ON THE CROWD
2:40 p. M. The deputy guards statione,
at the Louisville and Nashville yards
near Broadway, fired into a crowd of 80
strikers about 2:20 this afternoon. Fiv
men and n woman were shot. Tire
of the men were killed and the woman j
supposed to be MORALLY wounded.
The killed are Pat Bristol, an employ,
of the water works not a striker; Osca
Washington, e painter; John Bohman, 6
water works laborer and not a striker
J. q. Phopton. Major Hickman, sho
in the head and shoulder, will probabl,
die. Mrs. John Piefer, shot in the back
is probably MORALLY wounded. An un
known mar was shot at the bridge an
proaoh.
NO CAUSE FOR THE SHOOTING.
The crowd had made no attacks upol
the yards, as first reported, bu'
were standing on Cahaki,
bridge, near the Louisville and Nash.
vile yards, leering at the guards,
when, without the slightest apparen,
provocation, the deputies leveled theil
rifles and
FRI TWO voLLEYs.
The crowd immediately separated
running in all directions, and the
deputies fed over the Cshakia
bridge towards the Missouri river bridge
still holding their rifles and firing TO
cover their retreat. When it was known
by the strikers that the guards had fed
the former returned
| TO RECOVER THEIR DEAD.
They found Pat. Brlscoll and Oscar
Washington lying on Chahakia bridge
and they were dead when
picked up John Brahman was also
found on. the bridge, but showed signs
OF life. He was taken to the switch
house, but died in q few minutes. Mrs.
Pfeifer was found lying on the railroad
about one hundred yards from Cahakia
bridge and was carried by her husband