News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
L.aw!eSS Strikers,

Dispatches from East st. Louis, Mo-,
the 18th inst, state that fifty freight-cars,
the scale houses and lumber yards were
| completely destroyed Saturday. The
| round houses and shops were badly dam
aged. There were no railway officials
around to direct the troops to point,
where they would be most needed The
ilres were all incendiary and were started
about o'clock Friday night. Large
crowds of strikers and citizens are COL
lected IN groups all over the city, and are
stlli determined to have revenge for yes
terday's massacre. Public sentiment is
running high. Firemen and engines
were sent from st. Louis to help put out
the fires, but their hose was cut and the
men lntlmidated. They returned without
rendering any assistance. the fires were
set and the disturbance caused out of the
revenge of the strikers for the firing, I'M
provoked, as they claim, of posse of
deputies on Friday, upon crowd which
was merely jeering at them. The depu-
Ties Killed Jour men and one woman, all
of whom were inoffensive spectators.
The most intense excitement prevailed
after the shooting, and the deputies bare
~ escaped the frenzied mob with their
lives. st. Louis fire company, which
mad arrived to assist in quenching the
flames was forced to leave the city on ac-
count of intimidation, ard every now and
then some one would dart out of the
crowd and cut the hose, thus rendering
their presence and effort useless. About
81 loaded cars, many empty ones, and
the roundhouse and machine-shops of
the Cairo short line were destroyed by
ire, making the loss about $4,000.
ST. LOUIS. Mo-, April u.-Unusual
Quiet prevailed yesterday in the Missou-
ri Pacific and Iron Mountain railroad
yards on this. side of the river. The
strikers around yards are few in number,
preserve perfect order and confine them
selves to calm discussion of Yesterdays
tragedy at East st. Louis. They all de-
plore the hasty firing of the deputies.
but admit that the strikers were partly at
fault. They say that they profit by a
lesson and resort to no violence in any
case. The usual number of five freight
trains have been sent out to-day over
both the roads without interference.
Inc inquest on the bodies of the per-
sons killed Friday afternoon by deputy
sheriffs at East st. Louis, began at 80
p. m. yesterday. Four or five witnesses
were examined, but their testimony was
OF the same general tenor. All agreed
that Hewlett fired the first shot, and most
vi ohStii 'oiNt 0hhG iIO sGOll0S were THROWN,
and there was no provocation for the
shooting. other than the yelling of the
crowd.
Ell PAso, Texas, April 11.-Judge
turner, OF the Federal Court, yesterday
passed sentence upon the strikers. He
had no desire, he said. to punish the
prisoners unduly, and yet he felt that he
must make an example that would not
be forgotten for the protection of society
and government itself. He considered
that the young men had been misled, and
he placed the blame On prominent mem
bers of the Knights of Labor. He re-
ferred to Powderly and Irons by name,
and was especially severe in condemna-
ton of their interference with the opera
ton OF public highways. Seven of them
were sentenced to 80 days each in Jail,
and one to 80 days.