The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-04-14
4 BATTLE WITH THE STRIKERS.
Four Men and one Woman Killed.

toned at the Louisville and Nashville
yards, near Broadway, fired into a
crowd of three hundred strikers at
about 2.30 o'clock this afternoon. Six
men and one woman were shot. -Four
/ of the men were killed, and the wom-
an is supposed to be mortally wound
ed. The killed are Pat DIiscoll, an
employee Of the water works and not
striker; Oscar Washington, paint
er; John Bohman, a water-works Ia
borer, not a striker; and I. Z.
Phompton. Major Richman is shot
i'll the head and shoulder, aud will
probably die; Mrs. John Pfeife, is
Shot in the back and probably mortal
+ ly wounded; an unknown man was
shot at the bridge approach.
The crowd had made no attack up
on the yards, as was at first reported,
but were standing at the Cahokia
bridge. near the Louisville and Nash
vile yards, jeering at the guards,
when, without the slightest apparent
provocation, the deputies levelled their
rifles and fired two vollies. The crowd
immediately separated, running in all
directions, and the deputies ran over
the Cahokia bridge toward the Missis-
sippi River bridge, still holding their
rifles and firing to cover their retreat.
When it was known by the strikers
that the guards had fed, the former
returned to recover their dead. The
crowd, after firing, began to run up
Broadway, shouting 'tTo arms! to
arms! We will get guns and return
that fire." Women and children ran
out their houses and met them in the
streets, weeping and wringing their
hands.
After the crowd returned to the
scene and the excitement had abated,
several of the leading strikers drew
their revolvers and swore that they
would drive all OF the deputies out Of
the city even at the loss of their own
lives.
In the stampede which followed the
first voliey from the rifles of the dep
uties, one man, name unknown, was
forced from the Calokia Creek bridge
and killed. His body has not yet
been recovered.
The deputies who did the shooting,
eisht in number, went to the third
district police station in this city and
surrendered themselves, and were
taken to the -Four Courts, where they
were taken into custody and were re-
lieved of their arms They say that
the crowd began firing into them
first, and that they simply returned
fire. After the first firing was over,
and the strikers had become bent on
revenge, a number of them armed
themselves with revolvers and advanc-
ed on the Ohio and Mississippi Rail
road yards, where they surprised the
deputies on guard and fred on them,
killing one.
The greatest excitement DOW pre-
walls in East ST. Louis, and the strlk-
ers are fast arning themselves and
seem determined, . avenge the death
of those Of their number so wantonly
slain, as they say. The local execu-
tive committee of the knights of La
Dor are on the scene attempting to
restrain the men and trying to per
suadc them to meet in Flannlsans S
Hall, where they desire to advise them
against all further violence. The men
refuse, however, to meet them, claim
ing that they will be surrounded b.
deputies and fred upon again. a
mass meeting of strikers, however, is
being held IN front of the City Hall.
and the men are with difficulty res
trained by their leaders from cdvan-
cling in q body upon the different
railroad yards and attacking the dep
uties on guard. Guards of police are
now stationed at each approach of the
bridge connecting with East st Louis,
ar no one is allowed to pass over.
S.. LouIs, $50 P. NJ. Governor
Oclesbv, Of Illinois, has ordered out
eight companies of militia Some OF
tie troops arrived in East St. Louis
tonight. Bailey and Haynes, Of the
executive board, and P. Z. Brown, a
prominent Knight, spoke at the meet
ing held in front Of the City Hall this
afternoon and appealed to the knights
to obey the laws OF the country and
to rigidly observe all the principals OF
the Order