Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-04-11
STORY OF THE SHOOTING
OF Friday Told BY the Sheriff In Charge
of the Yards.

| of the Yards.
ST.. LOUIS April lot. J. Hewlett,
Charles K,uster, VIM. Tucker, Sam Jones,
W. J. Laird, Stewart Martin, Geo. W.
Bennett and J. A. Williams, the East st.
Louis Deputy sherifs who surrendered
themselvts to tie s.. Louis police after do
ing the shooting a. the Louisville end
Nashville crossing on the East Side yes
te,day, are !ti'l locked up at the
Four Courts. This morning Chief
Harrigan WAS notified by Mayor
Joyce of East s.. Louis to hold the men as
fugitives from Justice till requisi;ion papers
would be secured for them. They will be
held. Mr. Hewlert, who is special agent
for the Louisville and Nashville railroad,
as well as being temporarily deputy sheriff,
has made statement
EXPLAINING THE SHOOTING
of Yesterday. This is corroborsted by the
other deputies ana is in substance as fol-
lows:
"Tbursdsy the strikers captured one
OF our deputies and held him
about an hour and bali.
They let him 90 and told him they intend
ed to visit sgain and DO US up. About 10
o'clock man who recognized me as an
cdd fellow came and told me to look out for
serious trouble. Immediately told Mr..
J. T. Harrshsp, General Manager of the
division and he said he had also been |
uctiGed TO look out for trouble. ! then
wrote two letters to A6jutant General
Vance, explaining the situation to him and
sent them to him little before 2 o'clock |
While writing the letters | was summoned |
10 keep the strikers from coming into our |
yards at the east end. | went up there
with General Manager Harrahsn. There
we're about 800 men collected around |
when we got there. Sheriff Ropequert was
present and tried to disperse the crowd but
they
WOULD NOT LISTEN
and ieered at him, calling him all sorts Of
names. Seeing he could not disperss the
crowd, the sheriff went away. |
Then l commenced talking to the
crowd. | said "ior Gods sake
men get away and save trouble, look at
this thing nationally. You heard the
Sheriff read the law 10 you and you would
not leave" then read the law to some
twenty or thirty men who were nearest.
When l stopped reading some one in the
crowd said, referring to me: This man
is right" Others said PAY no stten.
ton TO him. We don't care d for
the law. he is scab" All that said
had no effect upon the crowd. While some
of my men were at dinner Mr..
Sample came to me and said: "Hewlert,
hurry and get some men to help bring one
o! orr coal trairs. There are
FIVE HUNDRED STRIKERS
at the crossing" This was about l;3O
clock. Mr.. Sample came 10 me again
in few minutes and said: Come on;
We haye not got time to eat now; they
have halted our train at Broadway Cross
ing" We had Sly cF seven deputies at the
crossing to protect the train, and
| started with about twelve other
deputies to re.enforce them. The crowd !
when We got there was massei on the
bridge, over Cohokis creek, and on the
east side of our tracks around the green
tree house and sboRt the Illinois and st.
Louis passenger platform. There was q
gres. deal OF yelling from the crowd, they
eered q, us and called Us everything they
could think Of
This thing lasted quite 9 while, until
the General Manager induced the engineer |
to run the train through the crowd with O
rash. While we were waiting there at the |
crossing to protect the fireman and en-
gineer, striker said to deputy, You
will never get out of these yards alive"
said, IL will arrest that man, it is my
sworn duty TO do it" took hold Of him
to arrest him and be resisted. He said he
would not be arrested and attempted
10 Jerk away, bu! ] leld on TO hip. The
MOB then closed in on me, but with the as
sistaucs Of one OF my deputies we forced
tue man ont of the crowd. turned around
TO crowd them and said: For Gods sake,
men, disperse. While am carrying out
the isE don't resist" Just about that
moment heard
A PISTOL Scot
to my rear. 1t sounded like the report
from 8 snail pistol aud quick ss q flash |
saw stone coming. ] lodged and i
struck me on the shoulder. / Judge the
6rst shot came from the rear windows OF
the bsrroom on the west side of the creek
(ny deputy Krss.er says it came from
there). After the FIRST shot
xas fired the shooting
become general We were between two
fires and then noticed shots coming from
rear barroom windows. Shots were fred
from tie east sing Of the trsck from little
house, or IRON coal CSrs on the Indian:
spOlis aDd St. Louis track. The crowd
then started West along Dixie to cut us By
cross street from our depot. !
saw this movement aud started
with my deputies across our trestle on q
run for the depot and got there in advance
Of the esoE5. We halted at the depot and
the freight men csRs AID begged for pro.
lection, saying that the strikers would
! murder every ous of them. told them to
go to the btd9s and W
! WOULD PROTECT THIN.
BE then describes the scene on the bridge
and the arrival Of the deputies in this city
as previously reported.
i Powdsrly on the Situation.
SCRANTON, Pa, April l0.-Genersl
Master PoEderly this morning stated that
the rumor that he was preparing 3 state
meat to be Published tO::tha. the knights
rersr5ing the Southwestern troubles
was without iogndetion. The
General Executive Board, seid
| hs, has done everything possible Tor
a settlement of the Difficulties and the re-
sporsieiHty for what follows Tests entirely