Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-12
The Shooting by the Deputies De-
scribsd by the Sheriff.
Mr.. PowdsrIy Explains His Utter
ancs Regarding Powder and Ball
That Should Be Furnished Strikers
to Fight the Troops.

TO Fight the troops
EAST Sr. LOUIS, Ill, April lO.-About
$50 o'clock last night, people passing on
the bridge near the Louisville and Nash
vile depot, discovered smoke curling up
from the yards. A few moments Later o
small fame could be seen issuing from @
box car located only q short distance from
the Louisville and Nashville depot, and in
the center Of a train with cars on the tracks
on each side. Some OF the bystanders ran
TO the bridge office and procured the hose.
They had Just fastened it upon the hydrant
when the night superintendent of the bridge
arrived on the scene and instructed the
men to pay no attention to the burning
cars, but merely to protect the bridge. BY
this time the flames from the burning cars
were shooting up into the air and were Visl-
Die all over the entire city. Some per5cn
ran up to the Rslaydepot, where the troops
were qusrtered, aud Informed them OF the
facts. Company H, Fifth Regiment, from
Decatur, qusrtered in the Young Mems
Christian Association rooms, was ordered
to the scene OF the cophsgratior. They
Immediately fell in line, and under the
command of Captain Frank Wells, marched
down the track, double quick time. ar.
irving at the FIRE they surrounded the burn
ing cars, and allowed no outsiders around
them. By this time quite a crowd bad
collected on the bridge, mostly composed
of strikers, but they took things rather
coolly and we're very quiet. Msjor Joyce
arrived on the scene g. about the same
time and sent in an alarm calling out three
engines of the Fire Department of this
city, which quickly responded and prevent
ed the FIRE from consuming mere than the
one car in which il originated, but not be
fore their hose had been cut BY some one
OF the crowd.
ANOTHER BLAZE.
just as the above FIRE vas got under
good Roadway q big blszs vas discovered
in the direction OF the roundhouse OF the
Cairo Short Line, about a mile and a halt
10 the southeast. The crowd ran down the
track to this place, when it was found hat
thrsS box cars and one caboose on the
Giro Shn,;. = ine tracks were enyeloped In
danes. The cars S5za surrounded oy a
crowd numbering perhaps iSq hundred
osouIs, but they were orderly and made no
disturbance. The csboose belonged to
the Ysndslia line, while tbe box cars were
one of the Burlington and Missouri River,
. Chicago, Burlington and Qiincy, and q
CHICAGO, Milwaukee and ~. Paul, al
empty. They were all totally destroyed.
OIL SHEDS BURNING.
At 1910 o'clock the Waterman at the
vards Of the Cairo Short Line detected
another fire in the oil sheds, which lnme
distely burst forth and enyeloped the build
ing in flames. 1t sas Q cpmmodlcas
wooden structure, rendered additionally lr
Asmmsble by the oil with which the h7or
was saturated. The Ere, fed by barrels OF
oil. swept eastward, and in o few moments
one of a long tram o! freight cars on the
nearest track caught FIRE. The Wind, which
mad been driving the flames in the direc'
ZION of the round house and shops, grew as
the intensity of the flames increased. Ihe
Ere crept along to the main buildings and
spread 10 another of the cars, whfc sepa
rated II from the shops Only q few mo
ments ELAPSED before the ismes leaped 10
the next paralleltrack, and 10 8 shoF: time
he entire train of twenty-five cars was
consumed. The FIRE in the round house
and machine shops, in the meantime, had
not been put opt despite the eff1rts OF .he
iremen. The latter worked under great
difficulties, for no sooner ~SGG they get
a line of hose in position and have as;reau
OF water playing on the fire, than some one
would quickly run ont from the crowd and
cut the hose. The flames, therefore, made
rapid Roadway, and in q abort time th,t
round house and machine shops, combined
we're destroyed.
MORE CARS BURNING.
A fourth FIRE started in the Cairo Shor
Line lumber yards, where q lot OF dimen
| sion timber for car construction was piled
| There were also 9 number of cars standing
in close proximity and they also commene
ed to blaze and the cars were G destroy
al. Another blaze shot up in the vleinit
~ the southern end of the Cairo yards
where about twelve cars belonging to On
/ ferent railroads, and these, too, wer
burned to the ground. The ST. Lou'
fire department wAs near q hand an
could readily have extinguished the IRE
the crowd would have permitted them
do 90. They had got the danes unde
%coatrol at the second FIRE, and voald hsV
sxtipguished it if they had 10 been int
fered with BY the strikers.
FIRENES FRIGHTENED OFF
About l2:l5a q. m. Assistant Chief Gro:
wss directing the efforts of his men l
their attempt to stay the flames, when B
vas approached By q striker, Who said: y
want 70 speak to you"
Mr.. Gross said he would gise han bus q
~teution in a moment, snd allowed himse
to be led from the burning cara. II
/. striker said he represented q committt
1. which had been instructed to inform Il
Fire DEPARTMENT that they were not wsn
al in East 81. Louis. The Assistant Chi
exclaimed that he had responded 10 Il
call Of duty.
!. "Did you come here BY tas authority
Mayor JoyceH" asked the m~outhQiecs
the committee.
"Yes."
. Take my advice; you hsd better go bs'
. to your own city. 1t amt healthy foE y
: here"
: Assistant Gross concluded that 1t va,
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