Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-05
THE NATURAL RESULT.
COLLISION BETWEEN YRIEERS
AND OFFICERS.
The Missouri Pacific TroubIe-BIos,l-
shed at Fort Horth-SeveraI
Killed and Wounded.

The Missouri Pacific Trou bIe-BIoord-
shed at Fort Worth-SeveraI
Killed and Wounded.
-iDIsPATclIEs OF SATURDAY AND sUxDAY.I
FoRr Worth tTex.l, April 3d.-What
had been predicted has now come 10 pass
The striking Knights of Labor and the
officers of the law have met in a deadly
conflict. Two officers fatally wounded and
third shot through both hips are the
casualties on the side of law, and of the
strikers, so far az can be ascertained. one
has been wounded. 1t was announced
yesterday by the officers of the Missouri
Pacific that trains would move to-day
or there would be bloodshed. The
strikers, on the other hand put it down, as
stated, that no trains would be allowed TO
pass over tie Missouri Pacific line until
the demand of the strikers for arbitration
was conceded. There are only six men
among the strikers here who were formerly
employed by the Missouri Pacific. The
Missouri Psoific and Texas and Pacific
having poOl4,i their Forth Worth business
so that the freight was handled and the trains
moved almost exclusively by the Texas and
Pacific employees the places of these men
have long been filed, and they dared not
make fight on the Texas and Pacific be-
cause that road is IN the hands of q receiver.
Last night the Sheriff and his deputies
were busily engaged in serving writs on an
injunction against the strikers and allies
and by the time this morning dawned the
most of them had received an official no.
tice to keep away from the yards of the
Missouri Pacific road and warning them
against interfering with the servants of the
company in their efforts to take out trains.
The effect of the writs was to keep the
yards clear, and at 8 O'Clock this morning
not man save the employees could be seen
in them. In the streets near the yards,
however, could he seen lots of men. who
had collected TO see what would be done.
TRAIN SENT OUT.
To-day at 10 o'clock the officers began TO
collect at the Union Depot, and numbers of
them were stationed in the Yards At 1915
o'clock dozen or more Of them went 20
the round-house, and in few minutes en-
glne 54, loaded down with armed officers
pulled out and steamed up 10 the Missouri
Pacific yards As it ratified past the crowd,
which had collected on either sid of the
road, derisive cheers went up from a hun
dred throats, but moi a man attempted to
interfere with the movement of the engine
or to prevent it from coupling on to the
caboose, which was standing on the side
track. Having done this the engine was
run on the main track and then backed up
the road to Hodge, from which point it was
to pull freight train into the city. For
nearly two hours the crowd waited the
return of the engine with a train from
Hodges, and as the minutes rolled by they
amused themselves in various wavs. The
prevailing raw weather could not scatter
them, and the men, wrapped in heavy
overcoats, were continuously stamping their
feet to keep them warm.
THE FIRST SHOT,
At l1:3O o'clock the engine left Hodge
and at 11:35 o'clock steamed into the wards.
The train consisted of a caboose and ten
cars loaded with coal. As the train ap-
preached Sixteenth street the crowd rolled
out, but halted on the line of the right of
way and remained there Not a man made
a move toward the train but at the lower
end of the yard three women, wives of the
strikers, appeared on the track. One of
them was armed with a red flag, which she
waved as signal to the engineer TO stop.
No attention was paid to this, and the train
passed on by the Union depot and con-
tlnued ON its journey south. The suggestive
silence that marked the passage of the train
through the city was not withou its Sc
quel. Whee the train left the depot it was
under the protection of posse of twelve
officers commanded by Jim Courtwright, a
special Deputy Marshal. Some of the of
ticers were Deputy Marshals and Others
were members of the regular police force.
The train proceeded slowly to the crossing
Of the Fort Worth and New Orleans Rail
way, about mile and half south of town.
where it stopped. as is customary before
crossing. The switch waS found open. and
two men stood at he crossing The officers
approached th" switch, and as they did so
they discovered five
MES WITH WINCHESTER RIFLES
Partly concealed in the reeds, few Yards
distant. The entire posse advanced toward
the men in ambush They had reached
the ditch alongside the track when thev
ordered The throwing up OF hands. The
command was oheyod, hut, IS the hands
came up they brought Winchester rifles
The officers We're armed only with reyolv-
ers. They demanded the surrender of the
strikers. Both sides opened fire almost
Simultaneously, there being not more than
two seconds between the time hat the first
and second shots were fired After the first
fire the posse advanced, and continued fir
ing. The strikers retreated behind some
piles of ties, which formed a most excel
lent breaSiwUrk and from the security of
which they poured a murderous fire into
the posses The casualties among the posse
were found To be three police officers
wounded. TG.fnrd WAS shot through both
he,
was shot twice through the left breast. He
died at $50 clock. Special officer Charles
Sneed was shot through the ihroat and
jaw. His wounds are fatal. Drs Volker
and Farran, of the Missouri Pacific Hos
pital, say that Sneed and Tuli0rd cannot
possibly survive. Only one of the strikers.
Tom Mace, a switchman. was wounded.
He is said TO be shot through the groin
ABOUT FIFTY SHOTS WERE FIRED
In all, when the posse seeing 1t was use
less to fight against Winchesters with re-
volvers, placed the wounded officers aboard
the train and returned to the Union depot.
The strikers remained at the scene of the
conflict for some time after the train re-
turned, when they secured the Winchester
rifle of their wounded comrade and started
Tor the sycamore bottom. Mace was left ON
the prairie.
posse was reformed armed with Winches-
tiers, and started in pursuit of their assail-
ants. 1t Is estimated that there were twenty
men among the strikers, but of these only
five or six carried Winchesters. Tom Mace.
the wounded striker, was brought to this
city in wagon this afternoon, and as soon
as the officers learned of his whereabouts
he was arrested and carried to Jail, where
he will be strongly guarded No other ar
rests have as yet been made
The Knights of Labor claim that the first
shot was fired by the officers, but the
weight of testimony is against the PROPOSE
ton. Tom Wilson, who was on the engine
and within three feet of Dick Townsend.
who was shot in the back, states positively
that the first shot came from the strikers
d. l.. Steward, who was an eyewitness to
the shooting, gives it as his opinion that
the strikers fired the first shot
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
From another source the following was
obtained: 1t was the determination Of the
strikers that no train should run on the
Missouri Pacific, injunction or no injunc-
ton. 1t was arranged that should train
pass through Fort Worth il must bestopped
plSeyvh here Fofhis e.1d a pu-,har q c.r,l-a-s