The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-04-17

EAST ST., Louis, Mo-. April H.
The day has been one Of absolute
quiet. General Reece with his force,
increased by the seven additional
companies which arrived last night,
has been able to Systematically cover
every strategic point in the city, and
any fear which may have been felt
from the torch of the incendiary has
almost ceased. As matter of fact
the alarm which permeated the city
before the arrival of the troops has
very materially lessened and it is
now believed that the worst is over.
After making tour over the city
and conversing with all classes of
residents the impression is conveyed
that the arrival of the troops was
believed from the first to be the only
and natural outcome as relief from
the confessed inability of the civil
authorities to enforce order
SIX STRIKERS KILLED.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, April "a crowd
of strikers formed at the Relay de-
pot in East st. Louis at l 40 o'clock
this afternoon and advanced in the
direction of the railroad yards to
stop work by the few men employed
there. They were met by guard
of deputies who ordered them to dis
perse The mob refused and made
a rush for the yards when the depu-
ties leveled their Winchesters and
fired, shooting six of the strikers.
The four deputy guards stationed
at the Louisville Il Nashville yards,
near Broadway, fired into crowd of
three hundred strikers about 2:2O
o'clock this afternoon. Five men
and one woman were shot. Three of
the men we're killed and the woman
is supposed to be mortally wounded.
A NIGHT OF TERROR.
EAST ST.. LOUIS, April 10.-The
city was in state of panic during
the entire night, owing to the num-
erous incendiary fires, but with the
presence of the military, which is
guarding all the main lines of track
from the Relay Depot, greater secur-
ity was felt to-day. The fires were
all confined to railroad property, and
officers sent with troops report that
about twenty or thirty cars were des-
troyed, which were loaded with
merchandise and coal. The greatest
damage occurred at the Cairo Short
Line yards, about one mile from the
Relay Depot, where probably fifteen
cars were destroyed. and the flames
for time threatened the destruction
of the one or two hundred cars in the
immediate vicinity.
From a personal survey of the
yards this morning, in which the in
cendiary fires of last night occurred,
the following is summary of the
destruction In the Cairo Short
Line yards, two empty box cars of
the Burlington Road were burned,
and one caboose car and six box
cars of the Cairo Short Line road.
The property was completely de-
stroyed, only the trucks remaining.
The track, scale and scale house of
the Cairo road was also burned. In
the yards of the Illinois d st. Louis
road, near the rolling mills, fourteen
box cars, three of which were loaded
with oak bridge ties and one with
coal, were completely burned.
Some further damage occurred in
the Cairo Short Line yards further
out, but its exact character has not
yet been learned. 1t was the evident
intention to destroy 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 vicinity of
the fires, but made no effort to sub
due the flames or to save any of the
threatened property. This all de-
volved on the Sheriff, a few railroad
shopmen, three OF four of whom ten
aciously remained on duty, and the
troops. A detachment of the Dan
vile battery arrived this morning to
take charge of gattling gun
brought from Springfield. Compa-
ny 6, Fifth Infantry, from Virden,
arrived at III A. NJ, making nine com
panies of infantry and the gun de-
tachment constitute the force on the
ground.
The total number of cars burned
at the several yards was forty-two.
representing a total loss of about
$32, 900, exclusive of the merchan-
disc of the fourteen cars of the Him
OILS u st. Louis road. All were load
ed, and their contents were utterly
destroyed
A General Manager of one of the
roads, who witnessed the scenes of
last night, declared that the proper
ty of all the railway companies
would positively have been wiped
out before morning but for the inter
position of the soldiery.
The Sheriff and two of his deputies,
who were at the scene where the
shooting occurred yesterday on the
Cahokia bridge, stated that the
crowd was warned three times in
succession, to dispense, but jeered
and threatened the officers.
The evidence seems conclusive
that the strikers kept throwing
missiles at the yard-men in the
Louisville & Nashvill road all morn
ing, growing holder all the time, and
it is stated, on behalf of the deputies
that the actual firing commenced
after shot had been fired from the
crowd or house in their rear.
WadestOwn.
MAIDSTONE, W. VA, April o.