Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-04-15
THE RAILROAD STRIKE.

AS a result of the strike on Western and
Southern railroads operated as the Jay
Gould system, a collision occurred in East
st. Louis on Friday last, in which six men
and a woman were killed. AS giving the
direct origin of the massacre, the following
is %telegraphed from st. Louis under date
Of Friday:
The executive board of the knights of La
Dor, when the news of the shooting reached
them, proceeded at once to East st. Louis
and there conferred with a number of citi-
zens and got the general opinion as to the
affair. After advising everyone against
violence the board returned to this side and
prepared the following telegram and sent it
out as the expression of the boards opinion
of the affair:
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 8, lSSG.-To Jay Gould,
New York: The following advertisement APP
peared in many Of the leading papers of the 1th
instant:
louisville and Nashville Railroad Company,
Office Agent, April 6, lSS6.-Ten good men from
Louis to protect Louisville and Nashville en-
ployees. i've dollars per day and board will be
paid. Also a number of platform men can be
given employment. Only men who have plenty
of grit and mean business need apply. Apply
at one to T.. S. Leming, agent"
How we'll this advertisement has been answered
is seen by their work of to-day in East St. Louis.
Six men and one woman were murdered by
those who had ''plenty of grit and meant bust,
ness By your action in refusing the peaceful
negotiations solicited by the board for arbitra-
ton, you and you alone must be held response
BILE, by the world for the lives of these innocent
Per order of the board.
A press dispatch of Saturday gives the
following account of the affair as narrated by
one of the deputies:
T. G. Hewlett, Charles Kinsler, VIM.
Tuster, Samuel Jones, John Hayne, W. j.
Laird, Stewart Martin, George W. Barnett
and J. T. Williams, the East st. Louis dep
uty sheriffS who surrendered themselves to
the st. Louis police after doing the shooting
at the Louisville and Nashville crossing on
the east side yesterday, are still locked up
at the Four Courts. This morning Chief
Harrigan was notified by Mayor Joyce to
hold the men as fugitves from justice till
requisition papers could be secured for
them. They will be so held. Hewlett,
who is a special agent for the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, as we'll as being tempo
rarily deputy sheriff, has made a statement
explaining the shooting of yesterday. This
is corroborated by the other deputies, and
is in substance as follows: "Thursday the
strikers captured one of our deputies and
held him about an hour and a half. They
let him 20, and told him they intended to
visit us again and do us up. About 10
o'clock yesterday a man, who recognized
me as an Odd Fellow, came and told me to
look out for serious trouble. Immediately
told T.. J. Harrahahan, general manager OF
this division, and he said he had also been
notified to look out for trouble: L then
wrote two letters to Adjt. Gen. Vance, eX-
planning the situation to him, and sent them
TO him a little before II o'clock. While
writing the letters I was summoned to keep
the strikers from coming into our yards at
the east end. 1 went up there with Cen
eral Manager H%arrahahan. There were
about 800 men collected around when we
got there. Sheriff Ropriquet was present
and tried to disperse the crowd, but they
would not listen to him. They Jeered at
him, calling him all sorts of names. Seeing
he could not dispense them, the sheriff went
away. Then 1 commenced talking to the
crowd. I said: For Gods sake, men, go
away and save trouble look at this thing
nationally. You heard the sheriff read the