St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-11
MORE MILITIA MOVING
The Governor of Illinois Orders Seven Ad-
ditiOnal Companies to East
st. Louis.
Evidence Before the OorOner's Jury Places
the Blame for the Shooting on
the Deputies.
The Largest Labor Meeting Ever Held
in Chicago Favors the Eight
Hour Movement.
Resolutions Denouncing Gould's
Course Adopted--A Little Side
Show by the Socialists.
More Troops Ordered ont.

companies OF the tiItn ana SlNtn regiments
TO repcrt there at once. This is not owing
to fear of an open conflict with the riotous
element, but simply as a precaution to IN
sure the guarding of the railroad and other
valuable property. The city has very few
policemen and very limited facilities for
subduing fires. The railroad yards and
grain warehouses extend for distance of
fully six miles along the east bank of the
Mississippi river, and the difficulty which
is presented of guarding property scattered
over such an extent of territory, re-
QuireS necessarily a very large body
of men. The arrival of the additional
force will make seventeen companies of
infantry, in addition to the gatling gun
detachment. Gen. Reese. commanding
the Second brigade, assumed command of
the force tonight under orders from the
governor. 4 few small clusters of men
have been seen on the streets and i'll the
vicinity of the railroad crossings, but thus
far they have preserved an utter silence.
and have displayed no desire to promote a
conflict. The taunting and the cat-calls to
which the deputy sheritfs were subjected
have ceased. The troops have conducted
themselves very quietly. The companies
ordered to the scene are from Robinson.
Newton, EdwardSville, Petersburg.
Jacksonville, Arcola and Marion. Not
withstanding the
ASSURANCE OF ORDER
given by the presence of the troops, there
has been no resumption of work by the
employees of the Bridge company and the
teamsterS of the Transfer company, upon
whom the companies are entirely dependent
for the transfer of freight to the Missouri
side of the river. The officials Of the Bridge
company are performing the work in the
l. -. s,
purpose. All freight which is not billed
through in bulk has to be taken over the
bridge by the transfer wagons and in con-
sequence of their failure to report for duty
a great deal of freight remains here in
the yards. The railroad officers are con-
tident. however. that when their personal
protection is assured the majority of
them will return 10 work. This, they de-
clare. can only occur aTt6r considerable de-
lay, and owing to the peculiar helplessneSs
of the city to exercise its police power, it
would seem evident that the troops are des-
tined to remain on duty for an indefinite
period At IL p. m. reports from every
portion of the city showed that absolute
quiet had prevailed up to that hour, The
business streets are deserted and no arrests
have occurred of trespassers upon the rail-
road property. The night is stormy, rain
falling steadily.
THE DEPUTIES STILL IN JAIL.
T. G. Hewlett, Charles Kinsler, A. NJ
Luster, Sam jones' John Hague w. j.
Laird, Stewart Martin, George w. Bennett
and j. I, Williams. the deputy sheritfs
who surrendered themselves to the st.
Louis police after doing the shooting at the
Louisville IL Nashville crossing on the East
side yesterday, are still locked up at the
four courts. This morning Chief Harrigan
of st. Louis was notified by Mayor joyce
to hold them as fugitives from justice till
requSitiou papers could be secured for
them. They will be held. Mr. Hewlett,
who is special agent for the Louisville &
Nashville railroad, as well as being tempo
rarily deputy sheriff, has made a state
ment explaining the shooting of yesterday.
This is cOrroborated by the other sheriffs,
and is in substance as follows:
Thursday the strikers captured one of our
deputies and held him about an hour and a
half They let him go and told him they in
tended to visit us again and do us up. About
10 o'clock man who recognized me an
Odd Fellow came and told me to look out for
serious trouble. / Immediately told Mr.. J.
T.Harrahan, general manager of this division,
and he said he had also been notified to look
out for trouble. l then wrote two letters to
Adjt. Gen. Vance, explaining the situation
II O'Clock. While writing the letters / was
summoned to keep the strikers from
COMING INTO OUR YARDS
at the east end. went up there with Gen.
eral Manager Harrahau. There were about
300 men collected around when we got there.
Sheriff Ropiequet was present and tried to
disperse the crowd, but they would not listen
to him. They jeered at him. calling him all
sorts of names. Seeing he could not disperse
the crowd, the sheriff went away. Then L
commenced talking to the crowd. said: For
God s sake, men, get away and save trouble.
Look at the thing nationally, You heard the
sheriff read the law to you, and you
would not leave" 1 then read the
law to some twenty or thirty men who were
nearest me. When L stopped reading some
one in the crowd said, referring to me, This
man is right" Others said, "Pay no atten-
tion to him. We don't care damn for the
law. He is q scab." All that / said had no
effect upon the crowd. While some of my
men were at dinner Mr.. Sample came to me
and said, Hewitt, hurry and get some men
are 500 strikers at the crossing.
This was about 1:30 O'Clock. Mr..
Sample came to me again in few
minutes and said, "Come on; we have not
got time to eat now. They have halted our
train at the Broadway crossing" We had
six or seven deputies at the crossing to pro-
tect the train and 1 started with about twelve
other deputies TO reinforce them. The crowd
when we got there was
MASSED ON THE BRIDGE
over Cahokia creek, and on the east side of
our tracks around the Green Tree house and
about the Illinois g. st. Louis passenger plat
form. There was great deal of yelling from
the crowd. They jeered at us and called us
everything they could think of. This
thing lasted quite while until
the general manager induced the engineer to
run the train through the crowd with a rush.
While we were waiting there at the crossing
to protect the fireman and engineer striker
said to deputy: "You will never get out of
these yards alive" 1 said, ~ will arrest that
man. 1t is my sworn duty to do it," 1 took
hold of him and he resisted. He swore he
would not be arrested and attempted TO jerk
away from me, but held on to him. The mob
then closed IN on me, but with the assistance
OF one of my deputies we forced the
man out of the crowd. i turned
around TO the crowd then and said: ''For
Gods sake, men, disperse while 1 am carry
ing out the law. Don't persist" Just about
that moment heard pistol shot to my rear.
1t sounded like the report from small pistol
and quick as flash saw q stone coming at
my head. lodged and it struck me on the
shoulder. judge the first shot came from
me rear windows Of the barroom on the west
side of the creek. Ny deputy Kinsler saws
Ii came from there. After the
FIRST SHOT WAS FIRED
the shooting became general. We were be-
tween two fires, and then noticed shots com
Ing from the rear barroom windows. Shots
were fired at us from the east side of the
track, from little house or from coal cars on
the indianapolis st. Louis tracks The
crowd then started west along the dyke to cut
US off by cross street from our depot /
saw this movement and started with nv
deputies across our trestle on a run for the
depot, and got there in advance of the crowd
We halted at the depot, and the freight men
came and begged for protection, saying that
the strikers would murder every one of them
1 told them to go to the bridge and we would