Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-10
BULLET AND TORCH.
Eight Deputy Sheriffs in East ST, Louis
Pour Deadly Lead Into
Threatening Mob,
Four Men Lifeiess Mt One yolley, 4
Fifth Seriously, and Woman
Fatally, Wounded.
The Mob soatters.-rho Torch Applied
Troops on the soene--Four
More Men killed.
LAW WILL PREVAIL

LAW WILL PREVAIL.
Special to the Gazette
EAST ST.. LOUIS, lLL., April 10, ga. m.--
The militia are holding things down, and
East St.Louis Is safe for tonight at least.
What to-day will bring forth no one
dares to predict. 1t seems probable,
however, that there will be enough
troops here by daylight to resist any mob
that may collect. After the shooting late
In the afternoon yesterday, the situation
was more serious than at any time since.
In thirty minutes a crowd of fully 5000
people had collected. All that
was lacking was organization. With
the proper leaders 1t is almost certain
that East st. Louis would have witnessed
a riot far more bloody than that of Gin
cinnati In 'si. The authorities took
advantage of this lack OF or
ganization. Every railroad yard
was guarded by posse of deputy
sheriffs. Adjt.-Gen. Vance at once tele-
graphed the situation to Gov. Oglesby,
and two companies Of the First Illinois
regiment We're soon en- route to the scene
AS night began to- fall the mob increased,
but us it increased it divided.
Every yard in East st. Louis was
thronged, and for time mob violence
prevailed. Three times the Louisville &
Nashville depot was fired. Connagra-
tions sprang up in every direc,
ton. Wherever two or three box
cars were standing together
ha Ia. t.I
The authorities proved too much for the
mob. Fires were extlnguished as fast
as they were kindled The wooden APP
proach to the great Mississippi bridge
was twice discovered on fire, but no Sc
rious damage was done, and trains are
still running.
As 10 who fired first yester lay after
noon there is difference OF opinion. II
is known, however, that Sheriff Rope
quette OF st. Clair county had ordered
his deputies, as they were swore in,
not to fire first unless so ordered. The
firing of yesterday was without orders
This makes it pretty certain that the frs,
shot was fired by some one in the mob.
| Two of the men killed were not strik.
ers. 1t is even said that T. Il. Phonton
was not knight of Labor.
The woman who was wounded, Mrs
John Pfeffer, is still alive, but can hardly
recover. Her husband is knight OF
Labor and she was out with him.
There has been some promiscuous
shooting tonight, but SO far as reported
no one has been killed. The
deputy sheriffs have made number OF
arrests Of strikers found trying to set
| fire to Louisville & Nashville cars. Gov.
Oglesby will reach here this morn
ing and viii at once give
an order for more troops
if he sees the same are needed. At this
hour the streets are comparatively quiet,
and 1t is thought no further trouble will
occur tonight.
EAST ST. LOUIS THREATENED.
Special to the Gazette.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April l0--l2 80 A. M
At / 0 O'Clock tonight two companies OF
Illinois state militia arrived in East st.
Louis and were quartered in the Louis.
vile & Nashville depot. Not
withstanding their presence, a
Are broke out in the yards soon
after their arrival In some box cars OF the
Louisville & Nashville yards, but was
promptly extinguished.
At II O'Clock string of cars near the
indianapolis & St. Louis round-house was
set on fire, and six of them burned up.
These cars were in such posi-
tion that thav could MT ba raaohad
by the fire department, which had
been called over from st. Louis
for the first FIRE. About midnight another
fire broke out near the Cairo Short Line
shops and Is now burning fiercely. But
little effort it seems is making to prevent
the CONGREGATIONS, and it is only ques-
ton of the inclination of the strikers
whether or not the town shall be given
over to the flames.
BOUND TO HAVE BLOOD.
81. Louis, Mo-, April "a crowd of
strikers formed at the Relay depot in
East st. Louis at :45 this afternoon and
advanced in the direction of the railroad
yards to stop work by the new men en-
ployed there. They were met by a guard
OF deputies, who ordered them to dis
perse. The mob refused and made
rush for the yards, when the deputies
leveled their Winchesters aud fred, kill
ing six OF the strikers.
2:40 p. m.--The four deputy sheriffs
stationed at the Louisville & Nashville
yards near Broadway In East St. Louis
fired into crowd of 800 strikers at
about 220 this afternoon. Five men
aud one woman were shot. Three Of the
men were killed, and the woman is sup
posed to be MORALLY wounded. The
killed are:
PAT BRISTOL, an employe OF the water
works and not a striker.
OSCAR WASHINGTON, a painter
JOHN holman, laborer and not a
striker.
TIE. PHoNPToN.
MAI. HICKMAN Is shot in the head
and shoulder and will probably die.
MRS. JoHN PFRFFER Is shot In the back
and probably MORALLY wounded.
An unknown man was shot at the bridge