The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-04-13
Another Report.

ST. Louis, Aprsl o. Special. The long
expected collision in East ST. Louis be-
tween the strikers and the sheriff'S posse
occurred to-day at 3 o'clock, and resulted
in the death of eight men and one woman.
A crowd of strikers and lOiterers were
! standing all day on ard near the LahOkia
bridge jeer:ng the guards and crying out
"scabs" every time the switch engine in the
Louisville X Nashville yards came near.
Finally, without apparent provOcst;on,
the guards leveled their Winchesters and
fired two volleys. No command was given
that could be heard among the crowd.
The crowd Immediately separated, men
running in al directions, and the deputies
ran over the CahOkia bridge toward the
big bridge approach, still holding their
Winchesters and firing to cover their re-
treat. When il was known by the strikers
the guards had fed the former returned to
pick up the dead.
They found Pat InscOll and Oscar Wash
sngton lying on the Cahokia bridge They
were dead when found.
John BOhman was ais found on the
bridge, but showed signs of life. He was
,aken to the Louisville Il Nashville switch
house and died in a lew moments.
Mrs. Pfeiffer was found living on the
track about one hundred yards from
Cahokia bridge and was carried by her
husband to a drug store on Broadway near
the crossing. He cried to her, a he stag
gered along with her bleeding body i'm his
arms, Don't die" in pitiful accents.
Mai. Richman was taken into the Green
tree hotel.
A number Of physicians were soon on the
scene attending To the wounded
When the crowd was running up the
streets away from the shooting excited
members shouted Ito arms To arms
We will get guns and return that fire ~
Women and children ran out OF their
houses and met them On the streets weep
ing and wringing their hands.
After the crowd returned To the scene
and the excitement had abated, several
leading men of the strikers white standing
over the bodies of Washington and Driscol
drew their pistols and swore to ayenge
their deaths even ut the sacrifice of their
own lives. The crowd b gan Immediately
tn procure arms.
From the scene at Cahokia creek the
deputies, panic-stricken, rushed for the
bridge with view of escaping 20 this city.
At the approach and just at the bridge
tower on the east side the four deputies who
had done the shooting with some six
or seven Others were met by Mayor joyce,
City Clerk Canly and third man, who
seized the deputies guns and attempted TO
turn them back. One Cf the deputies, in
AIS terror fired upon the trio, killing the
unknown man, who stood between Joyce
aud Canly. Some shots were fired by the
remaining deputies at the approaching
strikers, and all started over the bridge ut a
dead run.
The scene on the bridge was one of the
widest confusion and excitement. Coal
teams loaded and other teams with wagons
were galloping westward and shouting to
all pedestrians and teamsters to turn back.
Women and men on foot were running
toward the city and waving back all they
met, while Immediately behind came the
deputies, pursued BY the vengeance of the
crowd from East st. Louis. One of the
frightened guards threw his gun into the
river, while another hid his weapon in the
load OF a stake wagon that was In full
retreat.
Al eve witness TO the original shooting
was in the refreshing party. He charac-
terized the shooting into the crowd n wan
ton and unwarranted. The crowd had
been guying one of the deputies whsn he
lost ms temper and fired, he said.
Soon after, Police Captain Hercules
with squad If police took charge of the
western end oi the bridge and stated that
he would arrest any one coming into the
city.
1t was ascertained later that the name Of
the man killed on the big bridge was L. f.
Thompson, who resides at 1881 California
avenye, st. Louis. His body was taken in
the tower and put on stretcher, and later
was brought to his home ON this side.
The four deputies who did the shooting,
accompanied by four others, went TO the
Third di>tri I police station on their arrival
on this side, and were sent by the sergeant
in charge, To whom they surrendered them
selves, in the pa rol wagon to the Four
Courts.
There Sergeant Schmitgers took them
into custody and took their rifles from
them. regularly searched them and placed
them in the hold-over. The men were
registered rs T. +. Hewlett, John Hague,
Sam Jones, John F. Williams, G. Luster,
Stewart Martin, George Marnell and W
F. Laird. They said the crowd began
firing into them and they returned the
fire.
The dead are Pat Driscol, an
employe of the water works
as a labOrer, not a striker; Oscar Wash
ington, a painter, not a striker; MsjOr
Hickman; Mrs. John Pfeifier and Ed.
Thompson, of st. Louis, and three un-
known men who were shot OF the bridge
and fell into Cahokia creek.
According tn the statement of "A striker
who stood near the c,OsSing watchman's
shanty at Broadway, the trouble began in
this way: The speaker said he was sitting
at the east end OF Cahokia bridge where it
coanects with the tracks that lead to the
relay. The bridge is a rickety, wooden
structure about thirty-fve feet wide with a
II insee foot passenger PAIN at the south side.
The bridge is eighty feet long and at is
west end on Broadway is frame saloon.
From the bridge east to the Green tree tay-