The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-04-10
BAD WORK.


Flght--The Awful Results
Fort WORTH, Tex, April 4.-The
long-expected conflict between the con-
stituted authorities and the lawless ele-
ment that has carried things with such
high hand here came Yesterday.
Atl0:l5 a. m. dozen or more officers
went to the round-house, and in
few minutes engine 81, loaded down with
armed officers, pulled out and steamed
up to the Missouri Pacific yards. As it
ratified past the crowd, collected on either
side OF the road, derisive cheers went up
from hundred throats, but not man
attempted to interfere with the move
ments of the engineer or prevent it from
coupling on to a caboose, which was
standing on sde-track. Having done
this, the engine was run on the main
track and then backed up the road to
Hodges, from where it was to pull
freight into the city. For nearly two
hou rs the crowd awaited the return of
the engine with the train from Hodges.
AS the minutes rolled by they amused
themselves in various ways. The raw
weather could not scatter them, and the
men, wrapped in heavy overcOats, were
continually stamping their feet to keep
warm. At $50 O'Clock the engine left
Hodges and at 1895 O'Clock steamed
into the yards. The train consisted of
the caboose and ten cars loaded with
coal, As the train approached Sixteenth
street crowd rolled out, but halted on
the line of the right-of-way aud remained
there
Not man made q move toward the
train, but at the lower end of the yard
three women, wives of strikers, appeared
on the track, one of them armed with q
red flag, which she waved as a signal for
the engineer to stop. No attention was
paid to this, and the train proceeded
slowly to the crossing of the
Fort Worth & New Orleans rail-
way, about mile and half
south Of town where it stopped, as is GUS
tomary, before crossing. The switch was
found open and two men stood near the
crossing. The officers approached the
switch, and as they did so they discov-
cred five men with Winchester rifles part
ly concealed in the weeds q few yards
distant. The entire posse advanced toward
the men in ambush. They had reached
the switch, alongside the track, when the
chief of the posse OF deputies called out
for the fellows to throw up their hands.
Instead of complying, the men in am
bush suddenly sprang to their feet, and,
bringing Winchesters to bear, fired vol
| ley at the officers. The fire was returned,
and both sides fired again and again; but
| their aim must have been bad, Judging
from the results. AS the firing proceeded
the mob retreated in very bad order
to a rank of tie timber, ensconced
behind which they were comparatively
out of danger, They made momentary
stand there, but were dislodged and broke
on wild run for the sycamore bottoms
and were soon lost sight of.
The deputy sheriffs did not follow
them, but gave their attention to the vic
tins. 1t was found that Richard Towns
end, a special deputy sheriff, was shot in
the back as he stood on the engine, the
ball passing through his left lung and
coming out on the left side.
Charles Sneed, another deputy sheriff,
was shot near the ear, the ball coming
out on the opposite side of his head neal
his mouth. Both of these men will die
Police Officer John Fulford was shot in
both thighs, one of the balls ranging up.
ward into his body. His wounds are
dangerous.
Jim Courtwright is claimed to have re-
ceived two bullets through his hat, but
escaped unframed
The wounded men were put in the ca
boose of the train and brought back to
the city Fulford, after having his wounds
dressed, was taken to his home and the
two other men to the Missouri Pacific
hospital.
About two o'clock in the afternoon one
of the strikers, who was in the attacking
party, was brought to the city sho
through the thigh. His name is Ton
Mace. He was swltchman here at the
time the strike began. He was weak, anC
constantly called for water. He wa!
taken to his home, near Polk stock yards
in the southern part of the city.
1t is stated by parties who were on thu
train when the trouble occurred tina
three of the strikers fell beneath the fir
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after falling.
A lady who lives near the spot wher
the fight occurred recognized one OF tn,
men who ran off into the river Bottom
and says that he carried a Wincheste
rife in each hand. He has been engage,
in the carpentering business in this city
and is regarded as an out and out com
munist. His arrest is only matter o
time.
As to the number of men engaged 4
the attack on the train reports are con
ficting. Some place the number at ten
others at twenty-five.
The event, of course, caused the wild
est kind of excitement in this city, and tn
citizens seemed suddenly aroused to
realizing sense of the situation. Shortl
after the details of the affair were know
, i'm town about hundred of the bes
known citizens congregated at the dcpC
armed with WinCheStcrs, and announce
, that the trains should run at all hazard
if the company desires to run then
The city is raging with excitement, an
tile people appear not to know what {
do. Mayor Smith was asked his opinio
on the situation aud simply answere
lawful"
, Mace, the wounded man, was pu
l in Jail in the evening and will ;
strongly guarded. No other arrest
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