St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-11

st. Louis deputy sheriffs yesterday after
noon on the bridge. and died last evening at
1885 al the hospital. was taken to the morgue
to-day. DIR. Dean, in his statement 10 the
coroner, says that he asked Thompson TO
make statement of the occurrence so that
il could be used in case of his death, but
the wounded man would not make any.
This afternoon III. Il. Stone, general mana
ger of the Chicago, Burlington IL Quincy
road, called at the morgue and identified
the body as that of a ringleader in the
strike across the river. He said:
rec ognize him as the man stopped in our
yards last Wednesday leading gang OF 200
strikers.
FRIDAYS CASUALTIES.
Eight persons are known to have been
killed in yesterdays riot. Andrew Jones.
a Knight of Labor. not before reported.
was shot, and will die. The total number
of cars burned at the several yards was
fifty-two, representing total loss of about
$50. 900. -Four distinct fires were in pro-
greSS at the same time, and the firemen
were greatly hindered by the cutting of
hose by unknown persons, supposed TO be
strikers or sympathiZerS. Many companies
of Illinois militia have arrived and Others
are expected. Shortly after - o'clock striker
named Alexander Sweeny, was challenged
by a sentry named Kent, a private in Com
pany c, Fifth infantry. To an injunction
to ''move on" he drew a revolver and
remarking ''You are too pretty to shoot. )"
started to walk away, but turning abruptly
fired at Kent. The latter simply knocked
the revolver aside and took the man in
charge. He was placed among the others
arrested. The affair created no especial
excitement, although the shot was fired di-
rectly in the line of the troops and civil
ians about the depot. Several OF the
strikers known as leaders were arrested
and placed under an armed guard at the
relay depot Messrs. Bailey and Hayes of
the general executive committee of the
get Adjt. Gen. Vance to release the strik-
erS.
THE INQUEST.
The inquest on the bodies of the people
killed yesterday afternoon by deputy sher-
ifs, in the yards of the Louisville q Nash
vile railroad in East st. Louis, began at
2:2O this afternoon. The first witness
was Joseph NJ itchell, formerly in the en-
pIoy of the Ohio IL Mississippi road. He
said that he was on the Broadway crossing
at the time the shooting began; saw about
ten deputies on the Louisville & Nashville
treStle; saw no stones thrown. but
heard the crowd call the deputies
names and laugh at them. A little man
who appeared to be the leader told the
crowd to disperse and then minute after
fired into them and man standing near
a telegraph pole fell The crowd then
turned and ran and all the deputies fired
into them. Robert McGanahan, a lOcomO-
tive engineer, said he was standing on the
bridge when the deputies came on the
trestle. The man who fired the first shot
was named Hewitt, l think. When they
reached the trestle he shouted out, ''Get off
that crossing, every one of you. Get now or
we will kill half a dozen of you" The
crowd yelled at this, and the man who had
been talking came out and said: Il am a
deputy sheriff, and want you all to dis
perse." Then Officers Dalton and Mahoney
stepped in front of the crowd, holding up
their hands as if to warn the,deputieS not TO
shoot, when this little leader fired right
into the crowd.