The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-04

were formerly employed by the Missouri
/ Pacific, Missouri Pacific and Texas q
Pacific having pooled their Fort Worth
business, so that freight was handled
and trains moved almost exclusively by
the Texas & Pacific employees. The
places OF these men have long been
filled, but they dared not make \ fight
on the Texas & Pacific because that
road is in the hands of a receiver. Last
night the sheriff and his deputies were
I busily engaged in serving warrants on
an injunction against the strikers and
their confederates, and bv the time this
morning dawned most OF them had re
ceived an official notice to keep away
/ from the yards of the Missouri Pacific
road. and warning them against in
| terfering with the servants OF the COM
pany in their efforts to take out traius.
l The effect of the writs wa 20 keep
/ the yards clear and ut Q o'clock rhIs
morning not a man save the employees
coEld have been seen in them. In the
streets near the yards, however, could
be seen lots of men who had collected
TO see what would be done. To-day al
u O'Clock the officers began TO collec;
at the union depot and numbers ri
them were stationed in the yards. At
12:15 o'clock a dozen or more OF them
I went TO the round house and in few
minutes engine 81. loaded down With
armed officers, pulled out and steamed
up TO the Missouri Pacific yards. As i
ratified past the crowd, which had col
lected on either side of the road. deri-
siTe cheers went up from hundred
! throats, but not a man attempted 10
interfere with the movement OF
the engine or TO prevent it from
coupling on to the caboose which was
! ha
done this, the engine was run TO the
main track and then backed up the
road to Hodge, from which point II
was to pull freight train into the city
/ For nearly two hours the crowd awaited
| the return OF the engine with the train
I from Hodge, and as the minutes rolled
! by they amused themselves in various
ways. The raw weather could not
scatter them. and men wrapped Ia
heavy oyercoBts, were continuously
stamping their feet to keep warm.
At 11.30 O'Clock the engine left
Hodge, and at 11.35 o'clock steamed
into the yards. The train consisted OF
a caboose and ten cars loaded with coal.
as the train approached Sixteenth
Street, the crowd rolled out, but halted
on the line of the right of way and re-
manned there. Not a man made move
toward the train, but at the lower end
of the yard three women. wives of the
strikers, appeared on the track, one
of them, armed with a red flag, which
she waved as a signal to the engineer to
stop. No attention was paid TO this and
/. the train passed on by the Union depot
on its journey south The suggestive
/ silence that marked the passage of the
its sequel. When the train left the
depot it was under the protec-
ton of posse OF twelve Of
/ ficers. commanded By Jim Cartwright
= special deputy marshal. Some OF the
officers were deputy marshals and
others were members or the regular
police force. The train proceeded
slowly TO the crossing of the Fort Worth
& New Orleans railway, about a mile
and half south of the town, where il
stopped. as is customary, BEFORE cross
ing. The switch was found open and
two men stood at the crossing. The
officers approached the switch and as
they did so they discovered five mel
with Winchester rifles partly concealed
in the weeds a few yards distant. The
entire posse advanced toward the men
in ambush. They had reached a ditch
alongside the track when they ordered
the throwing up of hands. The COM
mand was obeyed but as the
hands came up they brought,
Winchester rifles. The officers were
armed only with revolvers. They de-
manded the surrender OF the strikers
Both sides opened fire almost stimuli
taneously, there being not more than
two seconds between the time the first
and second shots were fired After the
first fire the posse advanced and con-
tinued firing. The strikers retreated
Behind some piles of ties, which formed
most excellent breastworks. and from
the security of which they poured a
murderous fire into the posse. The
casualties among the police were found
to be three. Police Officer Fulford was
shot through both thighs. Special
Officer Dick Townsend was Shotthrough
the left breast near the nipple. he died
at $50 O'Clock this afternoon. Special
Officer Charles Snead was shot
through the throat and jaw. His
wounds are fatal. Doctors Volker and
Farren, of the Missouri Pacific hospital,
say that Sneed and Fullord cannot pos
4 siblY survive. Only one of the strikers,
Tom Mace switchman, was wounded.
He is said to be shot through the groin.
About fifty shots were fired in all, when
the posse, seeing ii was useless TO fight
Winchesters with revolyers, placed the
wounded officers aboard the train, and
returned to the Union Depot. The
strikers remained at the scene of
the conflict for some time after
the tram returned, when they Sc
cured a Winchester of their wounded
eomrade and started for Sycamore bot
tom. Mace was left on the prairie. As
soon as the train left the city the posse
was reformed, armed with Winchesters
and started in pursuit of the murderers.
Ii was estimated that there were twenty
men among the strikers. but of these
only FIVE or six carried WincheSters.
Tom Mace. the wounded striker, was
brought to this city in wagon this
afternoon. and as soon as the officers
learned of his whereabouts, he was ar
rested and carried to jail. where he will
be strongly guarded. No other arrests
have as yet been made. The knights Of
Labor claim that the first shot was fired
by the officers, but the weight of
testimony is against the proposition.
Tom Wilson, who was on the engine,
and within three feet of Dick Townsend,
who was shot IN the. back. states posi-
fively that the first shot came from the