The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-04-11

~ the crowd hsgap firing into them
Inst and they simply returned the
nfe. 5s.sa. .ststJs I,
[ After the frst firing was over and g
the strikers had become bent on res .
venge, number Of them armed them-
selves with revolvsrs and advanced
upon the Ohio end Mississippi railroad
yards, where they surprised the .depu-
ties on, guard aud AIRED into them kill
ing one.
+ The greatestexcitemsnt now prevails
in East st. Louis and the strikers are
fast arining themselves and seem do.
termined 10 avenge the death Of those
of their number 90 wantonly slain, as
they say. The local executive commit
tee Of the knights Of Lsbor are on tho
scene attempting to restrain the men
and trying to pursnads thei0st to meet
10 Flannigan's hall, where they desire
TO advise them against further vio-
Hence. The mon refuse, however to
meet them,a claiming that they will
be surrounded by the sleputies and
fired upon again. A mass meeting Of
the strikers, howsver, is being held in
front of the city hailIaud they are with
ldinienl,y restrained by their leaders
iron advancing in body on the diff
Eferent railroad yards and attacking the
deputies on guard in the different
yards. g.
t. Guard, Of police are now stationed
i al each ta,preaeia of the bridge COM
nec.ing Win East st. Louis ana no
one is allowed to pass over.
In the stampede " hlch followed the
first volIy from the rifles cfthe depu~
ties one man, whose name is unknown
was forced from the Cphokia creek
bridge and WAS killed. His body has
j not yet been recovered.
; Governor Oelesby ordered out eighi
companies Of militia and placed them
: under orders to move at once. Adju'
. tant. General Vance will also arrive
p and every means will be psed to allay
q excitement and restore orders.
q Messrs. Hayes and Bailey, of thu
q general executive committee, and Z
9 B. Brown, = prominent knight of La
d Dor, who came here with Hayes, spok'
at mass meeting this afternoon ant
d made imprisoned appeals to thu
10 knights OF Labor to obey the laws o
o the country and to rigidiy regard al
% the laws and principles of the order
o Master Mechanic Bartlett OF tn
u Missouri Pacific railway, Thursda!
is sent to twenty-three of the hremel
who left their engines during tn
first of the strike, and have been GU
since notice that their services wer
no longer required by the company
and requested them to call for thei
psy at his office. This action ma
~ possibly result in agitation among th
fremen that will cause the case of tn
- discharged men to be taken by th
b Brotherhood, and If that Is done th
!. twenty-three men will either be reir
stated by the company or there wi
be strike Of the Brotherhood me
along the entire system. The Brother
hood has very carefully drawn cor
tract with the company and in tn
IN the circumstance under which fireme
re may be discharged plainly relatet
ar The firemen in this strike have pei
eis sIsteutly claimed that they were M
u, on strike, but left their engines b.
n canse they thought 1t safer to do {
!, = than 10 stay on them.
le-I From signs and symptoms il hi
&C. been evident that during the last fs
he days another move in the great stril
iri is being planned by the general exc
lri utive board and associates. That Il
les key to this move is the already mat
moo.ed question Of coal supply is te
ers rihly Ger; aiii, ROW HAT the bulk OF Il
re-. knights employed! by the Gould sy
CIV tenn are cut ard that there is Iii
20. hope of securing cooperation fro
IRE engineers.
an L1TpII. Rock, Ark, April, 10,
w. Deputy Sheriff Williams was shot ye
be terday morning at the railway roun
es. house in Argenta. He rested east
he last night, but chances are against
0f