The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-04-04
THE STRIKES PROVOKE RIOT
A SHEHIFF'S EFFORT no NOPE a
TRAIN CAUSES BL00DSHED.

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Trains stopped Outside Fort Worth,
Texas, and Fined into-Ths sheriff
Returns Fire-seven Reported Dead
Merchants with Gums and Pistols.
LBy Associated Press to the rArr1En.l
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April ga special to
the Post-Dispatch from Dallas says A
special to the Herald from Fort Worth
states that at ten o'clock this morning
1900 persons assembled at the Missouri
Pacific depot to see Sheriff Maddox send
out a train, which he said las. night he
would do or die in the attempt. At eleven
o'clock an engine with twenty armed depu-
ties backed into the yard to take out
train Of twenty cars when ready. The
engine backed down the track. and the
train pulled out for the South, and reached
the New Orleans crossing, two miles south
of the city. Sheriff Maddox and posse we're
attacked at one o'clock. and q regular
battle ensued Three deputies were ia
tally shot, and several of the strikers
are supposed to have been killed.
The strikers at the crossing stopped the
traiu. Guards asked them why. The
answer was velley from Winehesters in
the grass. Guards returned the fire with
the results stated.
Train No. lis left Parsons at 1880 With
out interference. Thirty soldiers went on
the train as guards. This makes four trains
on the way south. A train is now being
made up at Parsons to start north.
Several hundred merchants and citizens
are now marching down Main street, all
armed with Winchester rifles and shot guns.
Seven men are now dead, and number are
wounded. Gun stores are closed and nm
der guard. The trains that went through
Fort Worth 1905 P. NJ was attacked at
Fort Worth and New Orleans crossing bv
lot of men. lying in the grass Several shots
were fired, and three of the guards badly
wounded. One of them is dying. Trains re-
turned to Fort Worth
CHICAGO, ILL.,, April 3.-It is stated this
morning that the Box makers Union and
Maxwell Bros. have agreed on a basis at
settlement. The firm, it is understood.
agreed to take back all the old men who
were in its employ at the time of the strike.
some four months ago. Child labor is NOT
to be used. This latter caused the strike
WILMINGTON, Del, April 3.-There is no
change in the morocco workers strike. 637
men are now out The manufacturers have
combined to help each other in working up
their unfinished stock.
COLUMBUS, o., April 3,-SecretaTy Tur-
ner and his associates made every effort to
arbitrate with the Champion Reaper Works
at Springfield yesterday, but William
Whitley. although receiving them kindly,
would not recognize them as a Board Of
Arbitration, or representatives of any organ
ization
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 3.-The resHmp-
of fr. frrl1f fro14 I,x,k
fic and Iron Mountain Railroads has now
become an acknowledged fact.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 3.-Frederick
Turner, the Secretary of the General Ex-
ecutiye Board, Knights of Labor, and
William Il. Bailey, of the same commit
tee, arrived here this morning and pro-
ceeded to the rooms of the local Ex.cu
tive Committee, where they are now con-
sidering the strike situation. He intends
to see Mr.. Hoxie and ascertain what line
he intends to follow in re-empIoyine the
striking knights of Labor.
Other dispatches from Fort Worth saw
that when the first train that left there
stopped several men were on the track in
front of it. The posse asked why they
we're there. They answered that they
were not armed, and had no idea of inter
fering with the train. The posse noticed
men in ambush, and ordered their hands
up. The hands went up with Winchester
rifles. The posse returned the fire, and
the men in ambush retreated to some ties
that proved an excellent fort, from which
they fred murderous volleys. The strikers
have determined that no train will be
allowed to pass over the Missouri Pacific
till the demand of the strikers for arbitra-
ton is acceded to-.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April "a special
from Youngstown, Ohio, says the enQin-
GERS on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Rail-
road have asked that their pay be ad-
vanced from 1925 to 81 per round trip,
and that Of the firemen from $1.50 to 50.
Later reports from the scene of conflict
show only four or five men wounded-two
fatally. But one of the strickers was
wounded. The. streets are full of armed
men.