Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-04-14

to refusal to disperse when order
ed TO and in regard to throwing
stones Some said that I was right,
and left, but others cursed me. / no
ticed that some of them had been
drinking 1 left and a couple OF
hours later the agent of the road
told me that crowd of men were
congregated about coal train and
that Deputies would be needed to
take it out Getting all the men
could together, nine of us, we went
up to the train. There were fully
three hundred people congregated
there, two hundred on one side and
one hundred on the other. Wewere
in the Louisville and Nashville yards
and they at the Market street cross.
ing. We ran the train through al
right, but after we got it through the
trouble began. A fellow called out
to Sam Jones: Here is one of the
-- Deputies. Kill the red
headed --. We don't allow
y5u to live to get out Of town ]
arrested the man and ordered the
crowd to disperse. Stones were then
thrown and one came by my should
er"
Here Hewlett asked the other Dep.
uties how many OF them had been
hit. Deputy Jones said that he had
twice been hit with stones. Deputy
Luster said that he had been hit
twice and that Charles Farnham, a
switchman, had been hit twice. Hew.
lett then concluded:
Two police officers tried to pre-
vent us from arresting our man and
more stones were thrown, and then
the firing began. l think we fred
first. Shots were fired at us also
from a car and from a house. /
think all our shots took effect. One
man who threw the first rock was
shot down.
''They cried: Kill the cowboy
meaning me, interrupted Deputy
Sheriff Kensler, '.and as L saw fell
low drawing a revolver L shot him"
after the shooting, continued
Hewlett, 1--WE made for the bridge,
not from fear, but because we did
not want to kill any more people.
We were stopped on the bridge by
Mayor Joyce, who was quite drunk
and wanted us to 60 back with him.
This we refused to do, because he
could not give us protection. He
attempted to take us and gave his
revolver to n fellow who epehed fire
on us. The man fired several shots
at US and some of our party fired
back.
How many of you fired in the first
shootingf"
'.All of us, was the reply, and all
of the nine men in the party added
that they had all fired. No one knew
who fired first.
When the smoke cleared away.
Pat Driscoll, Oscar Washington and
John Bonner, none of them strikers,
were found lying on Cahokia bridge.
Driscoll and Washington were dead.
Bonner showed signs of life, but he
died in switch house near by. 4
few moments later Major Richman
was shot in the head and shoulder
and will probably die. Mrs. John
Pfeiffer was shot in the back and is
also mortally wounded Both were
also found on the bridge.
Mrs. Pfeiffer was carried by her
husband to a drug store on Broad
way, near the crossing. He cried to
her as he staggered along with her
bleeding body in his arms: ''Don't
die, in pitiful accents.
Major Richman was taken to the
Green Tree Hotel and a number of
were soon on the scene
to the wounded.
When the crowd was running up
the streets, away from the shooting,
excited members shouted: ''To arms,
to arms we will get guns and return
that fire. Women and children ran
out of houses and met them on
streets, weeping and wringing their
hands. After the crowd had return
ed to the scene and the excitement
had somewhat abated, several lead
ing men of the strikers while stand
ing over the bodies of Washington
and Driscoll drew their pistols and
swore to avenge their deaths even at
the sacrifice of their own lives. The
crowd began Immediately to procure
arms.
From the scene at Cahokia creek
the Deputies, panic stricken, rushed
for the bridge, with view of escap-
ing to this city. At the approach and
Just at the bridge tower on the east
side the Deputies who had done the
shooting, with some six or seven 9th
ers, were met by Mayor Joyce, City
Clerk Carly and a third man, who
seized the Deputies guns and endeav
ored to turn them back One of the
Deputies in his terror fired upon the
trio, killing a man named Thompson
who stood between Joyce and Carty
Some shots were fired by the remain
ing Deputies at the approaching strik
ers and all started over the bridge OIL
a dead run.
The scene on the bridge was one o.
the widest confusion and excitement
Coal teams loaded and other teams
with wagons were galloping west
ward and shouting to all pedestrians
and teamsters to turn back. Womer
and men on foot were running TOWARD
the city and warning back all the.
met, while Immediately behind cam
the Deputies, pursued by the val
guard of the crowd from East st
Louis. One of the frightened guard
threw his orin into the river. Will