The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-28

A Regular Fight tEcsuIts-Fiye striker,
aud Twn Policemen WourGed-aiaiI
Tram Deiaiied.
CHICAGO, juno e Saturday two loco
motives, $50 and jlS had emerged from the
round house of the Lake Shore read and
were switched on 10 the main ira X at Root
street crossing. There they were coupled
on TO two caboose5 and started on their way
| toward Enslewood. They were prereded i,y
Capt Markey with his platoon of Town oi
Lake police. On the engines and cabooses
| were grouped specials others marching
| slongsI!e The whole vas irresisiibIy sug-
gestlve of a funeral procession.
Tom Collins made an address 80 the en-
| gineers as the locomotives passed Root
street, urging them to turn back. Ent no
pause was made. The procession kept right
along. The crowd hooted and yelled when
the appeal was ignored and maintained
a desuitory fire of choice remarks which
| kept the recording shorthand writers busy
| The speed was increased, and finding IT
impossible to keep up with the engine the
strikers borrowed two engines of the New
| York Central road and cha. Ell the Lake
Shore train
|
races on record Faster and faster flew the
Lake Shore train, and faster and nearer
came its pursuer. Thirty, forty, and then
fully fifty miles all hour were covered by
the pursued, and still the pursuers crept up.
Matt Pinkerton jumped to his feet on the
bind platform of the last caboose and Il
| revolver flashed in his hand.
Back Tack" lie cried, but was only
| rraral hy of 1.
crowd which completely covered the pursu-
| ing engine. As it drew nearer the set teeth
and grim, determined faces of the strikers
could be seen through the dense volumes of
smoke left fehind by the engines of the
| Lake Shore train as they tore along
The pursuing engine arrived within a
lew feet of the cabooSe, when the Town of
Lake police jumped inside and closed and
locked the door behind them, leaving Matt
Pinkerton and three of his men with news
paper reporters on the rear platform. A
huge lump of coal sailed through the air,
followed by three or four coupling pins,
and finkerton man fell headIong from the
platform Crack crack went Matt Fink
ertnn's revolver, and a striker fell off the
engine
Before any one on the Lake Shore train
knew@iow it had happened the other en-
gines had been coupled ON and the whole
train was being dragged back to the city
Several shots had been fired when the trains
came together, running fight of ten or fif-
teen minutes taking place, but n shower of
rocks from the strikers when the retrograde
movement began was answered by revolver
shots
A general fusilade of rocks and pistol
shots was kept up during the slow progress
back TO the starting point, Matt Pinkertou,
who was on the Lake Shore train emptyins
mis- revolver into crowd of strikers who
We're bombarding them with stones and
other missiles The railroad party had sew
eral members struck by rocks, and several
of the strikers are said to have been seri.
ously wounded
The report received at the Lake Shore
depot is that the stolen engines were of the
Nickel Plate line and Chicago, Milwaukee
a st Paul road and they made connection
with the other trains at the Rock Island
junction, following it nearly to Grand
Crossing. oDe Lake shore engine was left
behind at Englewood 1t appears that the
shooting commenced upon the strikers pull
ing policeman, whose arm was hanging
over the side of the cshoose, off the train
He opened fire on the c'owd and eight ol
ten shots were fired then, without appai eni
5 result
There were five strikers and two police
men wounded. officer McGallaghan is sait
to have heen seriously hurt.