The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-04-06
A Clash Feared.


here. The company intends to start trains.
The strikers say it shall not. Trouble Is
feared.
Whist had been predicted has come to
pass. The striking Knights of Labor and
che officers of the law have met In deadly
conflict. Two officers fatally wounded and
a third shot through both hips, are the
casualties on the side of the Law. OF the
strikers so far as can be ascertained only
one had been wounded.
IL was announced yesterday by the
officers of The Missouri Pacific company
that trains would move to-day or that
there would be bloodshed. The strikers on
the other hand had put it down rs settled
that no trains would be allowed TO pass
over the Missouri Pacific line until The de-
mand of the strikers for arbitration was
conceded. There are only six men among the
strikers who were formerly employed by
the Missouri Pacific, the Missouri Pacific
and Texas & Pacific having pooled their
Fort Worth business so that freight was
handled and trains moved almost exciu-
sively by the Texas & Pacific employees.
The places of these men have
long been filled, but they dare not
make fight on the Texas & Pacific, be-
cause that road is In the hands OF re-
ceivers.
Last night the sheriff and his deputies
we're busily engaged serving writs on and
iniunctions against the strikers
and their confederates, and by the
time this morning dawned the most OF
them had received an official notice to
keep away from the yards of the Missouri
Pacific railway and warning them against
interfering with the servants of the COM
PAW in their efforts to take out trains
The effects of the writs were to keep the
Yards clear and at 9 o'clock this morning
not a man save the employees could be seen
In them. On the streets near the yards,
however, could be seen knots OF men who
had collected to see what would be done.
To-day at 12 o'clock the officers began
20 collect at the Union depot and numbers
of them we're stationed in the yards. At
1880 O'Clock dozen or more of them went
TO the round house and jim few minutes en-
aine s., loaded with armed officers, pulled
ont and steamed up 10 the Missouri Pacific
yards. As il ratified past the crowd con-
gregated ON either side of the road, derlsive
cheers went up from a hundred throsts,
bat not man attempted to interfere with
the movements of the engine or to prevent
il coupling on 10 a caboose which was
standing on a side track. Having done
this the engine was run onto the main
track and then backed up the road to
Hodge, from which place il was to pull a
freight into the city. For nearly two hours
the crowd awaited the return of the engine
with the train from Hodge and o. the
minutes rolled by amused themselves in
various ways. The raw weather could moi
scatter them and the men, wrapped IN
heavy overcoats, were continuously stamp
ing their feet to keep warm.
At lI:30 o'clock the engine left Hodge
aud at 1l:35 o'clock steamed into the yards
The train consisted of the'cabOose and ter
cars loade with coal As the train ap
preached Sixteenth street crowd rolled
out but halted on the line o.
the right of way and remained
there. Not q man made . move toward
the train, but at the lower end OF the yart
three women, wives of the strikers,appesred
on the track, one of them armed with rec
Aas which she waved as a signal Tor th'
engineer to stop. No attention wa
paid TO this add the tran
passed by the union depot and continued
on its journey south.
The suggestive silence that marked the
passage Of the train through the city wa
not without its sequel. When the tran
left the depot il was under the protection OF
posse of twelve officers, commanded by jas
Oourbright, special deputy marshal Som
of the officers were deputy marshalS am
Jthers we're members OF the regular polio
force The train proceeded slowly to tn
crossing of the Fort WORT
and New Orleans railway, about
mile and a half north of towr
"a &c
crossing. The switch was found open an,
two men stood near the crossing. The off
Gers approached the switch au
as they did so, they discovere
five men with Winchester rife
nartly concealed i'm the weeds few yard
distant. The entire posse advanced 70
ward the men in ambush. They ha'
reached the switch along the track whe
they ordered the throwing up OF hand
The command was obeyed, but as the HAND
came up they brought Winchester rites. Th
officers were armed only with revolver
They demanded the surrender OF tn
strikers. Both sides opened fire almo,
simultaneously, there being no more tina
two seconds between the time the ir
and second shots were fired. Att
the first fire the posse advanced and col
tinued firing. The strikers retreated b.
hind some piles of ties, which formed mo
excellent breast-works, and from the s
curity of which they poured a murdero,
fire into the posse. The casualti'
among the posse were foun
TO be three. Doctors Volker an
Farrar, of the Missouri Pacific hospita
say that Need and Fulford cannot possib
survive: Only one af the strikers, Tor
Mace, switchman, was wounded. he
aid TO be snot through the groin. Abo
City shots we're fred in sll, when the pos
seeing Il Vas useless to fight Wincheste