Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-05
News by Telegraph l FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE STRIKERS IN ARMS. BLOOD FLOWS AT
 FORT WORTH. MILITARY ON THE SCENE. Another Conflict Likely
 to Occur.
 PEOPLE LIVING ON DOG FLESH. A Growing Desire For ' Open Sessions.
PEOPLE LIVING ON DOG FLESH
THE MILITARY AT FORT WORTH.

OpOAA 0OSSAUAASs
 THE MILITARY AT FORT WORTH. = Strikers and a Posse Exchange Shots
 -More Blood Likely to be Shed-The e | Knights Determined to Stop the Trains While the Troops Must Have Them Moved.
 ! FORT WORTH, Texas, April 4.-Shortly
 before noon yesterday an engine, with twenty deputies, heavily armed, marching on either ! side, attached to twenty cars started from
 the yards. Sheriff Maddox had previously
 declared he would start a train or die in the
 attempt. When the train had reached the crossing of, the Fort Worth and New Orleans
 road it stopped and it was noticed, according to the story of an employe on the train, that
 there were number Of men sitting or lying
 on the grass few yards distant. The entire
 posse advanced toward the party in ambush
 until they had reached the ditch alongside
 the track when they commanded the men to
 throw up their hands. The command was
 obeyed, but as the hands up they ! brought Winchester rifles with them which
 belched forth deadly fire There were, ,per | haps, one hundred shots fired. After the
 first volley the posse advanced and continued | firing. The ambassadors retreated behind
 some piles of ties, which proved excellent ! breastwork, and from the security of which 1 they poured murderous fire into the posse.
 From this position they were finally dislodg-
 ed and driven beyond the range of the pistols l of the posse. Several of the special officers I were wounded, fatally, and it is conjec- ! tured that number of those in ambush were also wounded The strikers claim that the 1 officers fired first and they returned the fire promptly. The strikers claim that no train | will be allowed to pass over the Missouri Pa | cifc until the demand of the strikers for ar | bitration is granted.
 4p. m.-Six companies of the Fourth l regiment have arrived here. Two compa- ! nies of the First are also here. Brigadier General Roberts is in command Trains ! will be moved regularly under guard of the State militia. Four companies expected ! to night and three companies are held in ! readiness awaiting transportation. No l trouble so far. l Alverado, thirty miles distant, safely. At ! tornev General Templeton, who is here with | Adjutant General King, says: Since the | authority of the State has been invoked it shall be yielded and trains must move if it takes the whole military force of the State to do it." No attempt will be made to take out trains until tomorrow. A proclamation has been issued closing all saloons and drinking houses of every character until 6 o'clock 1 I Wednesday. 6:30 D. n.-Ten companies of militia are already here and one battery of artillery. The | body of Frank Pierce (striker) was found and | has just been brought into town. The two l others wounded have been located. Trouble l is looked for to morrow. Strikers are swarm | ing in from all directions. | NEW YORK, April 4.-The officers of the | Gould lines took rest to-day. Neither Mir. l Gould nor any of his Heuten- l ants came down town. At the West | ern Union office it was said that 1 Messrs. Hoxie and Gould. Word was issued | that everything was quiet all along the | road. Judge Dillon, who has charge of the | prosecution of the strikers and rioters, said 1 the company would do all they could to se- cure the conviction of the men en- | gagged in the recent fights in Kansas | and Texas ''Of course,' he said, i've cannot do anything with the strikers as | the offences criminal and the State courts | will have to take them up But the citizens l of Kansas City are generally indignant at the l outrages and the law will have to do some l thing. We will do what we can to pacify l the men engaged in the striking. Everything | our agents can do in getting evidence is | being done already" Fort Worth to-day is veritable military l
 
 and armed sentinels are on guard. The air | has been full of rumors since | early morning and the people have | been kept in state of constant | excitement all day. Other than church | services and the closing of all business places | there has been but little observance of the | Sabbath, and there has been continuous | stream of people from up town to the Union l depot throughout the day. The excitement | instead of abating increases without 1 T~iv T have been remarkably quiet and but few of | them could be seen near the depot. Where l they question by hundreds and | remains unanswered Much significance is
 attached to this fact, and while everything | now appears quiet so far as they are con-
 cerned, people still fear that blood | will be shed. This morning at 330 o'clock | the Dallas Light Guard, twenty men, Captain Cook commanding, and the Hiberni- | an Rifles of Dallas, Captain Mooney, arrived | and were the first troops in the city. A | short time afterward the Grayson Rifles, Gap
 tain Ryan commanding, came in from
 Sherman. A special train from liar
 old tonight brought in Captain McMurrays | rangers. Later two companies of infantry | arrived from Austin and battery of artil- | lery from Dallas. These were supplemented | by company from Decatur, which with armed citizens duty | and of the regular police 1 and special officers constitute a l IOrc0 or nOI ICES Iuau OUU Ul0n. n6 presence of these men has no doubt had salutary | effort on the low element, but how long it | will last cannot be told and the prediction | is freely made that more trouble will come. l A prominent member of the Knights of | Labor told reporter tonight that no armed | opposition would be make to the running of 1 trains, but if one should run on loose rail l or strike turned switch the engineer would | be to blame. This morning the following notice was | posted all over the citya To the trainmen of freight department: Please do not sacrifice your lives by being | showed out on trains by government officers l or Gould's petty officers. Last call. Fair l warning. (SigneD DETERMINED. This morning a man named Mccarthy was | arrested and jailed the charge of having | distributed it to strikers. He does not deny | 1 the charge. A New Haven Ma n Stabbed. l NEW YORK, April 4.-During an alterca-
 ton in Grand street this morning between Robert Mccarthy and Michael Carthy, twen ty-ive both of New Haven, Conn.,, Mccarthy 1