Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-07-02
THE LAKE SHORE FIGHT.
Desperate Struggle Between The
Strikers and the Police.

Desperate Struggle Between The
Strikers and the Police.
CHICAGO, June 26.-Shortly be.
fore noon today two locomotives
emerged from the ronndhOuse OF
the Lake Shore road and were
switched on the main track at the
Root street crossing. There they
were coupled on to two cabOOses
and started on their way toward
Englewood. They were preceded
by Captain Markey with his pla.
t0on of Lake police. On the en-
( gines and cabOOses were grouped
specials, others marching along.
side. The whole was irresistibly
suggestive of funeral procession.
On moved the cOrtege, slowly and
cautiously. The platoon of police
clearing the way in front, and the
pall-bearers on either side keeping
back the dense crowd that surged
about it. Tom Collins made an
address to the engineers as the
locomotives passed Root street,
urging them 10 turn back, but no
pause was made. The speed was
increased, and finding it impossible
to keep up with the engine, the
strikers "bOrrOwed" two engines Of
the New York Central road and
chased the Lake Shore train. No
effort seemed to be made by the
latter to escape, and just beyond
Englewood the pursuing train
caught up with the other. Before
any one on the Lake Shore road
knew how it happened the other
engines had been coupled on and
the whole train being dragged
back to the city. Several shots
had been fired when the trains
came together. A running fight of
ten or fifteen minutes taking place,
but a shower of rocks from the
strikers when the renegade move.
ment began was answered by re-
vOlvers and shot. A general fusil.
ade of rocks and pistol shots was
kept up during the slow progress
back to tho starting point, Matt
Pinkerton, who was on the Lake
Shore train, emptying his revolver
into the crowd Of strikers, who
was bOmbarding them with stones
and other missiles. The railroad
party had several members struck
by stones, and several of the strik.
ers are said to have been seriously
wounded. At FOrty-secOnd street
a number OF railroad officials and
detectives jumped of, but the train
kept on its course toward the city.
1t appears that the shooting com
menced upon the strikers pulling a
policeman, whose arm was hang
ing over the side OF the cabOOse,
off the train. He opened fire on
the crowd, and eight or ten shots
were fired then, without apparent
result. There were five strikers
and two policemen wounded. Off
Ger McGallahagan is said to have
been seriously hurt.
CHICAGO, June 2S.-The chief of
police of the town of Lake appear
ed at the extensive switching yards
of the Lake Shore railroad at s !
o'clock this morning with a police
force of one hundred men, in.
Guiding specials" and Pinkerton's |
police and at once began to clear !
the yards Of strikers and idlers. |
Very few of the latter had entered |
the yards, but remained in large |
groups just beyond the railroad
tracks intently watching the move.
ments OF the railroad people. Sever
al hundred men, however remained
in the close vicinity Of the round
house and the cars Of the Lake
Shore road and refused to obey the
order of the police to move. Clubs
were drawn and several rushes were
made at these groups, the police
using their clubs, and in one Of the
encounters Detective Finn, of the
Lake Shore police, knocked one of
the men down. He is the only
person reported to have sustained
any serious injury. The crowd
withdrew from the i'm
mediate vicinity of the yards. The
has made no attempt to
move any cars up to 9 CLOCK.
DETERMINED TO MOVE TRAINS.
CHICAGO, June 2S.-Prepara.
ions for determined effort to
move the trains on the Lake Shore
.o.day were perfected by the Off /
,ials yesterday. They were some :
what elated by the success attend I
ng the efforts of Capt. Hunt, of I
he Hyde Park police, in the police |
the train which was G
AIKEN out late Saturday evening, 3
md the fact that so many arrests n
If the strikers and their sympathiz. t
rs had been made. On the other :
land the strikers presented a bold n
ront. They renewed their deter @
ninatiOn to stop the movement of g
IL freight trains at all hazards. {
hey still profess not to be respon- q
IDLE for the trouble of Saturday, II
nd reward has been offered for I,
he discovery of the man who a
cooked" the switch on Saturday. s
shortly after q o'clock this morn G.
lg "Bllly" PinkertOn, in charge of q
large number of special police, a
'as taken to the town of Lake. On C,
heir arrival there, they were sworn b
1 as special officers. Thirty switch W
len, to take the place of strikers lo
ere also sent down. About a ii
undred special police arrived in So
special train of tree cars at $50,
nd were also taken to FOrty-third 81
rect. a dozen or more imported hi
were also on board. NJ
A Man Dies and Comes 10 Life Again. t I