Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-08-18
The New York Central Strike Trou-
Bile Added 10 by Pinkerton
Detectives,
WHO FIRE AT RANDOM UPo n
THE CROWDS.
Three Of PinEeTton'> Men Arrested
and Fifteen Others Badly
Injured.
FIVE CITIZENS BEYOND HOPE
OF RECOVERY.
The Executive Beard Of the knights
of Labsr Keeps in
Seclu>ion.
BY Telegraph to the Nrvs.i
FROM BAD TO WORSE.

FROM BAD TO WORSE
PInkerton Detectives fire into Tn
offending Crowds with SERIOUS
Results.
| ALBANY, y. Y, Aug. 1.-THE
most disastrous day in the history Of
the New York Central strike cluSed
tonight. Fiitecn PiukeTt0u men
are under the care OF surgeons ami
five citizens are 80 badly wounded
that there are feIrs for their recnv-
cry. Three Piukerton men We're ar
r,sted and one was ~ severely han
died by the mob that the police sur
geOn had 10 dress hi- wounds.
I Nearly all the PiuSertDu men
were Withdrawn to-day from duty at
the crossings within the city limits.
as their presence serves 20 excite the
thrOug 81 OulJ0kers, and tire police
took their places. About O'Clock
James HattOn, a piukert0n man,
was patTOlliug the tracks in tire
vicinity Of Van Vert street. He
claims 10 have teen struck with a
stone in tine chest, while his COM
/ RAMON was Knocked down and
severely hurt by gang q r0ugh-.
Then he fired his revolver into the
crowd, seriously wOuuding Richard
| DIyer, aged Il. HattUu had no
time 20 fire another shot. The
| crowd surge,i around him, and he
/ fore the police could Interfere his
clothes were torn of his back. He
was struck with fists and clubs and
Presented n pi:iable spectacle when
r-ssued from tie angry crowd by the
/ police, who were obliged b draw
/ their revOlyCrs 90 stem the
CRpwDING MASS OF TEJULE.
The occurrence aroused the pas
-iDus Of the spectators, mostly !
TIIrh- AMI hJIilum~, an! tgc;g
hunters wer. increased, AMI tIr
chief 81 Iuliur, frlgiug further
trouble, established his headquarters /
in the station hUL>. nearby.
About 2 O'flurS a fr..ght train I
passed through ,hc cifva-J i'iu.yr- |
ton SAYS IL wgs stoned. Tile fulirC
claim that such va, not the ease. !
At any event. when the train 1
reached the Brlldway viaiuct, the /
l'iukcTtun men began "a reckless |
fiIsiliade on the crowd standing in /
the vicinity. -Four or five shots /
were iirc,i without any pr0yOcaii1u.
Mrs. Thomas Hogan, standing ON /
step at her residence, was shot |
through the leg, and n small hoy |
sho, la the thigh. The crowd this /
time was wrought up t1 n fearful 1
pitch Of excitement. aud sHly los the /
efficiency IL tire local pu.icr. aided i
10y committee irum the siEikvT-,
were they kept back.
After this incident Robert Pink
eTt0u, who had charge Of his fuurs
here in person, called Oh Chief viii
lari. lie said ii- men hai byeu as
s1ultei continually ami firearms had
been put in their possession only VS.
teriay, that they might be used I'm
>-lf defense aui Ia the WORK u pro-
t,Ctiug the cJmp1ny's property. lie
was sorry innocent parties had sui
frred aud addc,i that il generally
happened that way. Still, he
would staad 10y his men against the
wANrUN ATTACKS or E0UGHs.
Chief Willard cxpress,l his belief
that II the Piukert0u men had new
cr becn brought here the lIc.il police
would have been able Ia cope with
the situation. Asst j., he fears that
there will be further Trouble u these
men stay mere. aud says that la that
case the local authorities could not
he held responsible, a. he had re-
peate,lly informed Superintendent
Bis-ell that the cOmIany's property
would he well guarded by his own
men II no other forces were brought
here 10 iuiiamc the passions Of Che
strikers.
At4 O'Clock another freight train
came through, and the Piukr.tJu
men again fired into the crowd, "a
hoy uamei Frank PARIS receiving
a bullet ia the arm.
The PinkeItOu man who fired into
a crowd at the Nauwc-t Street Cr0ss-
ing was pursued up the track by an
officer and captured. A. the p,.lict-
man was bringing the prisoner hack
he was assaulted ny a crowd 81
PinkeTtOu men, WHO TC-Cueii the
prisoner and severely beat the
officer. All the police are maSsed at
this point aud trouble i expected to-
night.
Of TINE.
NEW YORK, Aug. lT.-All the