Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1886-06-30


Away Train from the Railway Onicials
A Regular Fight Results-Five Strikers
and Two Policemen Woundsd-NIail
Train Derailed.
CHICAGO, June 2S-Saturday two loco
motives, 4ss6 and 52S, had emerged from the
round house OF the Lake Shore road and
were switched on to the main track at Root
| street crossing. There they were coupled
on to two cabooses and started on their way
toward Englewood. They were preceded by
| Capt Markey with his platoon of Town of
| Lake police. - On the engines and cabooses
| were grouped specials, others marching
alongside. The whole was irresistibly sug-
gestive, OF 9 funeral procession
Tom Collins made an address to the en-
gineers as the locomotives passed Root
street, urging them to turn back. But no
pause was made The procession kept right
along. The crowd hooted and yelled when
tho appeal was ignored and maintained
q desultory fire of choice remarks which
kept the recording shorthand writer's busy.
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.
Then began one of the most exciting
races on record Faster and faster flew the
Lake Shore train, and faster and nearer
came its pursuer. Thirty, forty, and then
fully fifty miles an hour were covered by
the pursued, and still the pursuers crept up
Matt Pinkerton jumped to his feet on the
bind platform of the last cabooss and a
revolver flashed in his hand
"Back. Eack!' he cried, but was only
answered by cries of derlsion from the dense
crowd which completely covered the pursu-
ing engine. AS it drew nearer the set teeth
and grim, determined faces of the strikers
could be seen through the dense volumes Of
smoke left behind by the engines Of the
Lake Shore train as they tore along
The pursuing engine arrived within q
few feet of the caboose, when the Town Of
Lake police jumped inside and closed and
locked the door behind them, leaving Matt
PinkeFton and three of his men with news.
paper reporters on the rear platform. A
huge lump of coal sailed through the air,
followed by three or four coupling pins,
and Pinkerton man fell headlong from the
platform Crack! crack! went Matt Pink
srton's revolver, and striker fell off the
engine
Before any one on the Lake Shore train
knew how it had happened the other en-
gines had been coupled on and the whole
train was being dragged back to the city
Several shots had been fired when the trains
came together, a running fight of ten or if
teen minutes taking place, but shower of
rocks from the strikers when the retrograde
noyeme began was answered by revolver
shots.
A general fusilade of rocks and pistol
shots was kept up during the slow progress
back to the starting point, Matt Pinkerton,
who was on the Lake Shore train, emptying
his revolver into crowd Of strikers who
were bombarding them with stones and
other missiles The railroad party had sew
eral members struck by rocks, and several
Of the strikers are said to have been seri-
ously wounded
Ths report received at the Lake Shors
depot is that the stolen engines were of the
Nickel Plate line and Chicago, Milwaukee
& St Paul road and they made connection
with the other trains at the Hock Island
junction, following it nearly to Grand
Crossing. One Lake Shore engine was left
behind at Englewood. It appears that the
shooting commenced upon the strikers pull
ing policeman, whose arm was hanging
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 police
men wounded. Officer McGallaghan is said
to have been seriously hurt