St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-17
Pinkerton Thugs Employed to
Guard Railroad Property
Use Winchesters.
A Bullet Intended for a Hood.
lum Strikes an Inoffensive
Citizen.
Intense Excitement Over the
Fraeas, Several Pinkertons
Being Run In.
Central and West Shore
Switehmen at Buffalo Go
on Strike.

ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 16.-The great
est excitement reigns among the strikers
and the public generally over fracas
between the Pinkertons and a crowd of
people. A freight train was coming
down the grade from West Albany
about z o'clock. The car had two Pink
erton men on II and as they got down
near the Van Vert street crossing a
small boy threw stone. striking one OF
the guards. Instantly the fellow
brought his rifle to his shoulder and
fired. The ball missed the boy, but
struck man named John Mccarthy,
who was in his own yard, in the leg.
Instantly the other Pinkertons who
lined the track opened fire on the in
offensive crowd near the station. As il
by magic. the place suddenly swarmed
with strikers, but almost as quickly a
squad of blue-coated policemen came
upon a run. The crowd was kept back
with difficulty. Chief Of Police Willard
ordered the arrest of five PinkertOn
men, who were seen to shoot. They
were: Robert Taylor, Thomas O'Con-
nor, Edward Kenny. Charles Pankhurst
and Joseph Lewis. All were locked up
and kilograms were sent out to inter
cept the train and arrest the man who
fired the first shot. So excited was the
crowd that the Pinkerton men, to the
number of fifteen. became SO frightened
that they applied at the station house to
be locked up for protection. The
Knights of Labor have just issued a
bulletin calling upon the members to
stay away from the railroad and pre-
serve the peace, but the
Excitement Is Still Intense
and trouble is feared. Henry Douglass,
another Pinkerton man. was arrested at
West Albany for flourishing revolver
crowd that had gathered. Had not the
police arrested Douglass he would have
been torn to piecee, as the crowd was
thoroughly enraged. He claimed that
he drew the revolver to force his way
back to the yards, but despite his plea
he was committed to jail. Five Pin ker-
tons were arrested for encroaching on
city property armed with rifles. All
were lockedCup. The streets have been
flooded with circulars tonight con-
tanning sarcastic illusions to the Sunday
services at West Albany and intimating
that the "PinkertOn thugs" will have
charge of the meetings. The road man
ayers claim that they are being badly
treated by the police, and that the Pink
erton men are being arrested out Of
spite. The man Mccarthy is in the hos
pital. The ball entered the leg just
above the ankle and came out on the
other side. The leaders In the strike
say their men were not party to the
trouble. They say Assemblies 10,740
and 1854 have patrolled that locality
since the strike began. and will tonight
double their force. When the new
men quit work in the West Albany
yards at 6 O'Clock tonight, three of them
were approached by committee repre-
senting the strikers. who tried to per-
suade them to desert the railroad COM
pany. The men refused, and some
words ensued, when number of Pin
kert0n men who had been at supper ap-
peared on the scene. One of them
drew his revolver to intimidate
the committee, but he was arrested
before any trouble enSued. Dis
trict Master Workman Lee. at whose
order the strike was made, arrived in
this city tonight. A reporter saw him
at the knights headquarters, and he
said: 81 have as yet nothing to say
except this: The strike is, from the
mems standpoint, in as good, if not bet
ter, condition than the first day it oc-
Cured. | have not been depoSed, and
the strike will be supported by the
order at large. The atfray has only just
begun