The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-04-12
AN1anT OF TERROR.
rho LEGENDARY Fires at EaAt St Louis.
ArriYala Of TroopG.

rho Iuoeudiary Fires at EaAt st. Louis.
Arrivals Of Troops.
East sr. LOUIS, April 1o.-The city was
in state Of panic during the entire
night, owing to the numerous incendiary
Ores, but with:the presence Of the military,
which is guarding all the main lines Of
track diverging from the Relay Depot,
greater security waUielt to-day. The AreS
we're oil confined to railroad property,
and the officers sent with troops report
that about twenty or thirty cars In all
were destroyed, which were loaded with
merohandlSe and coal. The greatest dam.
ase occurred at the Cairo Short Line yards,
a6out one mile from the Relay Depot,
where probably fifteen cars were destroy.
al. and the flames for q time threatened
the destruction Of the one or two hundred
cars in the immediate vicinity.
From personal survey Of the yards
this morning, In which the inCendiary
ares Of last night occurred, the following
IA summary Of the destruction: In the
Cairo Short Line ysIdS, two empty box
carS Of The Burlington road were burned,
and one CabooSe car and six box cars Of
ihe Cairo Short Line road. The property
was completely destroyed, only the trucks
remaining. The track scale and scale
house OF The Cairo road was also burned.
In The yards Of the Illinois 4 81, Louis
road, near the rolling MILLS fourteen box
csrs, three Of which were loaded with oak
brldne.ties and one with coal, were com.
pletely burned.
Some further damage occurred 10 the
Cairo Short Line yards further out, but
ia exact character has not,ye been learn
ed, II was the evident intention 10 de.
Stfoy the car repair shops and round
house Of the Cairo road, and the early
presence Of the troops alone prevented
this. Groups OF men stood In the near
vioInity OF the tireS, but made no effort 10
snbdue lhe flames or 10 save any Of the
lbtsaisnsd property. This all devolved
on ina Sheriff, 4 few railroad shopmen,
three or four ol whom tenSciously remain
al on duty, and The troops. a detaen-
mani Of Che DAnvills battery arrived this
moYninp 10 take charge oi Q gattllng gun
bfourbt from Springfield. Company q,
FiNh Infantry, from Vifden, arrived at
ii IN, making nine companies ot in-
hnttv and the gun detachment oonstl-
tntins the force on the ground.
The total number Of cars burned At the
nsvetal wards Was iorty.two, representing
4 Total ioss Of about $50, ,0O0i exclusive Of
ths merchandise Of the fourteen cars on
the Illinois 4 81, Louis road. AL were
loaded, and their contents were utterly
destroyed. ,,.
Who WitneSRed the scenes Of last night,
declared that the property Of all the, rail-
way companies would positively nave
been wiped out before motnlng but lot tie
inlefposition Of The aoldiety..
THE sheriff and two Of his deputies,
vbo we're at the scene where the shoot
Inc occurred yesterday on the Oahokia
bHdSe, state that the 6toWd waS warned
tbfee timeo Ii succession, 10 dlsperee,
but ieefed and threatened the officers,
Ths evidence seems conclusive that the
Ihthfefs Kept throwing miesiles q the yard,
inefl IA ihe Louisville 4 Nashlille road all
morning, growing boldet All the time, end
| n a stated, on behalf Of the deputies, thal
] ihS actual atlng commenced alter ashO'