Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-20
PINKERTON MEN SHOOT.
TWO MEN IN A MOB BY THE
RAILS SNIORTALLY WOUNDED.

Conf citing Accounts as to Witch Side
Commenced the Firing - The Pesce
Preseryers Booted and Bombsrded
With Stones Before the Fusilade Be
gan--six OF the squad Held for Murder.
CHICAGO, Oct. 10.-This morning 1t
looked as though every locked-out man in
the stock yards was ready to go to work.
All around the larger houses the alleys
were filled with hundreds of men waiting
for an opportunity to talk with the bosses.
Owing to the scarcity of hogs, however,
very few men were engaged. Armour &
Co. Will start tomorrow, but will not be
ready to cut uphOgs until Friday, and it
will probably be Monday before the iull
force is required. The Chicago Packing
and Provision Company are but little be-
hind Armour, and they have very few
hogs on hand. Fowler Bros. will proba-
bly, begin killing tomorrow or next day,
and the other houses as soon as they can
get hogs. The price of hogs on Change
and at the yards advanced 25c. per 100
pounds this morning.
A FIGHT ALONG THE RAILS.
AS about a hundred discharged Pinker-
ton men were on their way to the city to-
day in cars from the stock yards they
were booted and stoned by a crowd of
strikers near Fortieth street. One of
them finally fired his Winchester into the
crowd through the car window, mortally
wounding Dennis Bagley, well.to-do
teamster, and another man.
Word was Immediately sent to the Chi
cago authorities, and upon the arrival of
the train here the entire lot of Pinkerton
men, together with some forty non-union
workmen, who were also on the train,
were arrested and locked up In the Harrl-
son street station. Other accounts make
it appear that the shooting was not con-
fined to one man, but that all the
Pinkerton men Joined in the
fuslade. When the train passed
through the crowd at Halstead street the
men were again greeted with ieers, when
a large, stout man, with a red face and
clothed in the Pinkerton uniform, stepped
out on the back platform and fired his re-
volver 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 shanties
along the track were marked with bullets.
STORY OF THE PINKERTON MEN.
Some one hundred and fifty Pinkerton
men were arrested to await the courts
disposition on the charge of murder. All
but six were afterward released. The
Pinkerton men say the strikers made the
assault, first with stones and then with
revolyers, and that they made no attack
until they had been fired upon. Capt,
! Markey said, however, that the Plnkerton
men did the first shooting without any
| provocaton. Capt. Joy was in charge
| of the PinkertOn men when the
shooting occurred. He was standing
on the rear platform. He said the men
picked out by the city police were not the
| guilty parties. He said also that the
strikers gathered about the car AGO strong
| Just as they were about starting and be-
gan peltIng them with stones, and some
of them shot at them. 1--WE were sent
| down there" said Capt. Joy, ''to preserve
the peace, not TO disturb it, but when
some of my men were fired upon they
returned the shots, thinking perhaps that
the lives of the employees who were in
their charge were In danger.
ORDERED TO STOP FIRING.
"I was standing on the rear of the plat
form of the train at the time. l rushed
into the train and ordered them to stop
firing. Ibid not know what injury was
done until came into the city,"
William A. Pinkerton says he has am
pie proof that his men did not fire upon
the crowd until they had been fired upon.
Charles Beck, one Of Lis men, who was in
the car ahead of the one from
which the shooting was done, says the
crowd fired at least five shots before
the fire was returned. One of the bullets
passed through the car and imbedded it
self in the opposite wall. Bricks and
stones were then thrown until the side OF
the car was well battered up. Mr.. Pin
kerton says the men had been the subject
OF constant assaults and abuse while In
the yards and two Of them are now laid
up with wounds that may prove fatal.
1t is said that a large number of the
strikers are dissatisfied at the order Of the
| Executive Committee sending them back
to work, and are holding secret meeting
to discuss the situation.