Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-10

l front of Tony's house on the 1evee and wal | beaten to death by the mob. Another was reported to have been shot, as he was escap | ing under the approach to the bridge. The other deputies escaped unharmed. As soon 1 as it learned that the deputies were escaping from the freight house l men insane with anger and excitement burst l in the doors and searched the house thor | oughly. They secured some Winchester ri fes and with others who had shotguns and
 revolvers searched the freight cars of the LouisvilleSINashville careful fory stray dep uties. It was regular rabbit hunt and it
 would have been instant death to any dep
 uty found by the gang. "We got one sf the deputies" said striker. "We caught him and two others on the Ohio & Missis- sippi walk on the island. There were five of us and we called them to halt, which they refused to do. We fired and one of them fell. He's lying dead on the walk up there now. The other two got away, but we will get them all tonight. These fel- lows won't have guns in their hands all the time Five of us killed that fellow. They were on their way to the Ohio & Mississippi freight house to take refuge in it when we caught them.''
 About half an hour after the fight on the roadway an excited, angry mob gathered in the square between the City Hall and the police station. A man named Dwyer, who formerly ran a variety dive and who is at present gambler, was the center of wild eyed, pale faced crowd who loudly cheered every incendiary statement that he uttered. He urged the mob to Chang and kill'' and was in the midst of an appeal to the mob to follow him to the Ohio & Mississippi depot to 'hunt for deputy sheriffs" when John w. Hayes of the Knights of Labor general e1- ecutive committee and Martin O'Neill ar rived on the scene from St. Louis. Mir Brown, who travels with the general board in the capacity of orator, mounted the stairs leading to the police station and yelled at the mob for attention, but the infuriated men answered him with: "Hang the CUTS, {" "Kill them' and other re- marks of like nature. MT. Hayes, who was standing at Browns side, turned to a prom inent Knight of Labor and asked him to in- troduce Mir. Brown to the mob as the repre- sentative of the general executive committee The man replied in 8 frightened manner, of I do they will hang me-" Brown turned on him as quick as a flash and said, "Yes, if you do not they ought to hang you" Then he turned to the mob, which kept up the cry to kill, hang and burn, and began an impas- stoned appeal for quiet, law and order, and by the sheer force of his terrible earnestness rivetted the attention of the crowd for a few minutes at time, when they would break away from the spell of his eloquence and take up their revolutionary yells He said:
 Men and brothers For Gods sake keep quiet I implore you in the name of the great order of the Knights of Labor in the name of every law, both of and do no violence Remember that you are sw orn brothers Do not forget that you are Knights of Labor and that you pledged to obey the laws of men.
 At this point the gambler Dwyer broke in "Yes, why don't you talk for Jay Gould and be done with its They shot our men down say hang them.'' The crowd took up the words and repeated them, ringing the changes on. t'burn, kill and shoot 5 Brown pointed his finger at Dwyer and asked him: "Are you a Knight of Labor2' Dwyer dodged the question and yelled out, "Kill the Cd d-m brutes." "Are you a Knight of Labors ask,' said Brown. ;'No," answered Dwyer, "but I am with them in anything, you can bet" 'I knew that you were not Knight of Labor" said Brown. 'I know that no Knight would talk as you do. Again, brothers, I appeal to you to be calm and disperse to your homes. If you will not obey our laws member that you are forewarned, that you are no longer Knights Brothers, beg of you please do nothing rash" The speaker fairly quivered with earnestness and excite ment as he supplicated the mob to obey the laws
 What will the Knights M of tte country think our great order? Do not forget how hard we have worked to build up our organization. Oh! do not tear IL 0OWQ III FulDS Dy one raSn All men WnO ncite you to strife are not true Knights They are worse than the detectives of the railroads who trying to hunt you down. Shun them as you would
 While Brown was speaking Committeeman Hayes walked excitedly up and down the platform exclaiming in despairing manner, ''Oh, my God, my God. I wish this had not happened" His eyes were watery and when he addressed the mob after Browns harangue, his emotions choked him several times, and he obliged to pause for utterance. Hayes speech was of the same tenor Browns. as was also that of Martin O'Neill, who followed Hayes. Caspar Keep, who had arrived in the meantime, was busy among the crowd trying upon the more excited individuals the argTl- ments which the committeeman were urging from the platform. After while he was joined by Messrs. Hayes, Brown, O'Neill, McKeown and Bailey. After while the temper of the mob had cooled down some what, but they dispersed number of them showed by their remarks that all dan ger was not passed yet.
 At Il o'clock Sheriff Ropriquett telegraph ed the Governor that a riot had occurred and that he could not preserve the peace. The Governor replied that he had ordered several companies to go to East St. Louis. He urged the sheriff to be very careful and deliberate in his actions. He added that the Lieutenant Governor would go also if possible. The sheriff was seen afterward and said that he would do nothing more. He had turned the matter ever to the State officers.
 ST. LoUIs.-A confagration on the east side, which was at first thought to be seri- GUS, turned out to be of minor character. The first was some box cars standing in the Louisville & Nashville yards. Hardly had this been extinguished when another broke out among the box cars upon the Indianapo- lis and St. Louis tracks near the round house of that road The fire was allowed to burn, no access to it being possible. At midnight another fire has just broken out in the yards of the Cairo narrow guage road and is now burning some cars of that company. Tine militia that have arrived are camped near the east end of the bridge and seemed to be as yet unable to distribute themselves so as to guard the property The fact probably arises from their small number, only about seventy-fve men being on the ground as yet.