Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-10
BLOODSHED.
THE DEPUTIES FIRE INTO THE sTRI-
KERs WITH FATAL EFFECT.
-Four Men Killed and Number Wounded
The Attack by the Deputies Said to
Have Been Unprovoked.
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slight interferences until noon, aud II
was thought that the day would pass
without any demonstrations by the
strikers, and that it would be recorded
as one Of the quietest since the strike
began. At that hour, however, num-
Der Of strikers, without apparently hay-
ing formed any preconcerted plan, con-
gregated at the Relay depot and began
u discussion Of The general situation. As
time passed their number was augmented
until the original knot Of men increased
TO fully 200. The discussion became
animated and the crowd more demon
strative until some one proposed that
they 20 to the Louisville aud Nashville
yards and drive out the men employed
there. The cry of son. to the Nash
vile yards." was caught up and the
crowd advanced. AS they proceeded
their number again increased, some join
ing the mob simply as spectators, while
others were in full sympathy with the
movement, until from 800 to 400 were
advancing toward the yards. Arriving
there, they swarmed into the yards and
persuaded the men at work to desert
their posts. The crowd remained in the
yards for some time, and although con-
siderable excitement prevailed no vio-
lence was resorted to. Just at this
time, however, a Louisville and Nash
Vile freight train was slowly passing,
guarded by eight deputy sheriffs armed
with Winchester rifles. Crowds OF men,
women, and children had congregated
on Broadway where the Louisville and
Nashville tracks cross the street, and
also upon the Broadway-Railway bridge
which spans Cshokia creek, and
in the open space to the east.
Just as this train reached the
Broadway crossing the trouble began.
The crowd on the bridge began to yell
and jeer the officers, and it is said that
stones were thrown which struck two
or three Of them, and it is also said that
a pistol was discharged. The deputies
Immediately levelled their rifles and
fred two voleys into the crowd on the
bridge. Four men fell dead and one
woman was MORALLY wounded. The
dead are Patrick Driscol, Wabash Sec
ton band. not striker Oscar Wash
ington, apainter, not a striker; John
Bonner, coal miner, not a striker Major
Richman, mill employee, not striker.
Mrs. Pfeiler, said to be the wife of a
striker, was shot in the back and
MORALLY wounded. The greatest ex-
element prevailed Immediately and
pandemonum reigned. The crowd
fed in every direction, and when the
deputies realized how fearful was the
result Of their fire they sought means Of
escape by rushing for the bridge with a
view of fleeing to this city. At the
approach and just at the bridge tower
on the east side they were met by
Mayo Joice, City-Clerk CAVITY, and a
third man, who seized the deputies
guns and endeavored to turn them
back. One Of the deputies in his
terror fired upon the trio, killing man
named G. +. Thompson, who stood be.
tween Joice and CAVITY. Some shots
were fred by the remaining deputies at
the approaching strikers, and all start
ed over the bridge.
The scene on the bridge was one Of
the widest confusion and excitement.
Coal teams and other teams with wagons
were galloping westward, and their dri-
vers shouting to all pedestrians and
Transfers to run back. Women and
men on foot were running toward the
city and waving back all they met,
while Immediately behind came the
deputies, pursued by the vanguard Of
the crowd from East st. Louis. One
Of the frightened guards threw his gun
into the river, while another hid
his weapon in wagon that was in full
retreat. On arriving in this city the
deputies went at once to the Chestnut
street police station, where, after stat
ing the facts, they surrendered to the
sergeant in charge, and were taken to
the Four Courts, where they were
placed in custody after giving the fol-
lowing names p. G.. Hewlett, John
Hague, Sam Jones, John F. Williams,
G. Luster, Stewart Martin, George
Marnell, and W. F. Laird.
About half an hour after the shoot
ing an excited and angry mob gathered
in the square between the City Hall
and the police station. A man named
Dryer, a gambler, in no way connected
with the strike, was seen haranguing
the crowd, who cheered the incendiary
statements which he uttered. lie
urged the men to chang and kill, >" and
was in the midst ofan appeal to the mob
to follow him to the Ohio and Missis-
sippi depot to "hunt for deputy
sberiils," when John W. Hayes, a
member Of the General Executive Com
mittee Of the knights of Labor, NJ.
O'Neil, and Knight-of-Labor Brown,
arrived from this side. Brown, who
travels with the General Board in the
capacity of Knights-ot-Lsbor orator
and lecturer, mounted the stairs lead
irg to the police station and yelled at
the mob for attention, but the Infatuated
men answered him with Hang the
ours " "Kill them !"
Hayes, who was standing at Browns
side, turned to prominent Knight and
asked him to introduce Brown to the
mob as a representative of the General
Executive Committee.
The man replied in a frightened
manner " IL / do they'll hang me-"
Brown turned on him and said:
" Yes, if you don't they ought to hang
YOU"
Then turning to the mob which kept
up the cry TO "kill, kill, and burn"
Brown began an imprisoned appeal
for quiet, law, and order, and by sheer
force Of his earnestness riyetted the at
tention Of the crowd, but only for q
few minutes at time, for they would
break away from the spell of his elo-
quence and take up their revolutionary
yells. Brown said
"Men and brothers, for Gods sake
keep quiet. implore you in the name
of humanity, in the name of the great
order of the Knights Of Labor, in the
name of every law, both Of order and
your country, to restrain yourselves