The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-20
NEEDLESS BLOODSHED
By THE PINKERTON POLICE In
CHICAGO.
Fatal Ending OF the Stock Yard
Strikes, Which 1t Was Hoped
Would Pass Peacefully AwaJ.
4 SHOT BY A DELIBERATELY
MURDEROUS POLICEMAN
Is Followed by Fusilade, which
Results In the Death Of Two Men
Arrest OF the Murderers.

Arrest OF the Murderers.
CHroAao, ILL, October 19.-This
morning it looked as though every
locked cut man in the stockyards was
ready to 20 to work. All around the
large houses alleys were filed with
hundreds Of men waiting for an OPP
portunity to tax with the bosses. 0W-
ing to the scarcity of hogs, however,
very few men were being engaged.
Armour & Co. will start up tomorrow,
but will not be ready to cut up hogs
until Friday, and it will probably be
Monday before the full force OF men
is required. The Chicago Packing
and Provision Company are q little
behind Armour, and they have very
few hogs on hand. Fowler Brothers
will probably begin killing tomorrow
or next day, and the other houses as
soon as they can get hogs. The price
of hogs ON Change at the yards adj
vanced % cents per 100 pounds this
morning.
Mr.. Cudahy, Mr.. Hsteley and Capt.
Marley, the latter of the Town OF
Lake police force, held consultation
this morning concerning the further
employment Of the PinkeIton men.
Mr.. Haeley thought the wisest course
to pursue was to keep the specials on
the ground for several days, but Mr..
Cudahy thought differently. As q
result Of the conference it was decided
to discharge $40 OF the armed guards
todsy and 100 tomorrow. This will
leave only about 100 in the yards.
A great exodus OF imported men
will take place today. Mr.. Cudahy
went among them and assured them
that they could stay at work; that the
firm would protect them fully and
provide them with good boarding
houses, but at least two-thirds OF them
signified their intention OF getting
away as soon as possible. II is said
that large number OF the strikers are
dissatisfied at the order of the Execu-
tive Committee sending them back
TO WORK, and that they are holding a
secret meeting to discuss the situa-
ton.
Shortly after noon special train was
made up at the sockyards to convey
the 100 discharged Pinkerton men
back to Chicago, 1t having been de-
cided 10 dispense with the services of
300 OF them today. As the men
marched into the cars they were
greeted with yells Of derision by the
crowds of strikers and their sympa-
thizers that surrounded the tracks. AS
the train started the crowd yelled and
groaned and threw stones at the cars.
The same scene was repeated at For
tieth street, where the crowd was very
large and abusive. At this point one
of the Pinkerton men, exssperated by
the jeers, pushed his Winchester
rifle through the window and fred
into the crowd. His shot struck Dem
mis- Bagley, o well to do teamster Of
the towh OF Lake, and it is believed
that be Is fatally wounded. The crowd
made o desperate rush for the train,
which, however, started off at a high
rate Of sped and has now reached
Chicago.
Another train load OF Pinkerton
men will start down from the yards
this afternoon, and serious trouble is
feared, as the crowds are furious at
the shooting and vow vengeance.
Word was Immediately sent to the
Chicago authorities, and upon the ar
rival OF the train here, the entire lot
OF Pinkerton men, together with some
forty non union wolkmen, who were
also on the train, were arrested, and
they are all now locked up in the
Harrison Street Station. From later
accounts IL appears the shooting YVES
not confined to one man, but that ell
the Pinkerton men joined In the
fusilade. When the train passed
through the crowd at Hasted street
the men were again greeted with jeers,
whereat large, stout man, with red
face and clothed in the Pinkerton
uniform, stepped ont on the back
platform and fred his revolver into
the crowd. This was the signal for a
general volley, and fifteen or twenty
Pinkerton men began to fire their
rifles from the car windows. Fully
thirty shots were fired. The fence
and shanUes along the track were
marked with bullets.
The imprisoned PinkeItons said,
concerning the shooting, that they
left the ards on their way to the city
in the company Of about forty non
union men who had quit work. The
latter were in the car ahead of the
officers. Stones in great number were
thrown into the cars aud some OF the
men hit. This 30 enreged the men
that they levelled their rifles and fred
about ten shots.
At2 O'Clock this afternoon VIM.
Pinkerton went to the Armory aud
asked all of his men who had done the
shooting to step forward. Four men,
Robert ]. BertTana, r d. Loomis, Guy
SEWERS and Emmons Shaw admitted
having fred off their rifles. Three
boys who were at the scene OF the
shooting also went to the station.
They identif d two Pinker,ons named
Hill and Andrews as having done
come shooting, and these two, with
the four who had admitted their guilt,
were locked up, the other Pinkerton