The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-30

~-sae Il ,esch the swftchback and run them up
- the store There IL was that tbs
concerted attack by the strikers began, which
ended 20 disastrousiy for them Captain James
y. Foley was on board the train, which consisted
Of two coaches and baggage car, with other
guards, three Of them eciored. ne tells me
ssory:
The train Wis lust past the Wye when two
uhofs were cred 1t ii from the brush. one Of
them nearly hitting Cap Williams. eolored
guard, who was on the rear Platform OF the Bag
car 1 Nth another a that ed or
they were 10 fire again, ana Williams responded
with a revolver. Thsn al those on the train be-
gan 70 shoot and q, "a, nsing , Dosh d IRON
70 the fats and from the flats, at
the train became general and continued all the
way up the grade. The nring IRON m. TIE R.,l na,s
81 Labor hall. There we're quite number OF
rassaueers on the train before Black Diamond
was reached; but there were not many
after that place was passeas Ell, 1893 srsS -
ptck quarrel with the negroes on the train. but
thew were shaken of without trouble. The train
came along. slowly, the miners as nri .a:
answering the fire from the windows,
shooting In the direction OF the pu:s OF smoke
which arose FROM the brush. One man jumped
m the rear platform OF the front coach and was
fnocfed OF BY Guard Huston with blow on
the Jaw II was q cleyerly devised scheme, but
IL failed and brought terror TO the dweliers on
the fats and death 20 the party which was
tain aide Though the plan seems TO
have been 20 blow the whole defending army to
the west end OF the town before the attack was
made from the mountain side at the east end,
the firing BY the strikers from both above and
below east and west. began almost stimuli
faneously The sharp crack, crack, crack of
below, from the train and the fats and
the mountain-side far above the east end OF the
town This caused simultaneous movement
for defense on all sides. The negroes were re-
81 every black man in that camp was 70 get
gun aud shoot into the fiat, which they
believed 70 be swarming With strikers
cias ene Consent to the s.ors and each
possessed himself OF q gun. Within less than
i've minutes there was not shooting iron OF
any description left In the arsenal aud all the
ammunition was In the pockets Of the enraged
heroes They Lined the edge of the steep bluff,
from which there Is an almost sheer descent OF
$50 to 200 feet to the flats, and leaned from the
ratings OF the trestic over the dirt dump, and the
white miners houses were as implicitly under
their eyes as the chessmen on a board are under
the eye Of player. They poured q ceaseless
yolfey Of lesden bullets down at the devoted
settlement below. Women aud children He'd IN
terror from their houses to the brush or across
the river TO the little settlement beyond which
10 sheltered behind arocky bluff. The wall OF the
deep canyon re-echoed with the roar oil the
musketry and drowned the voice OF Green river
O. Il rushed and boiled over the great powders
IN the bed OF It's deep chasm. Other sounds
were drowned also; the cry OF two women
wounded IN one house, the shrieks OF others
who fed from the pitilees storm of lead poured
down by the Infatuated negroes, and the screams
of children bali crazy with terror As they called
70 their mothers TO protect them. IL was such Il
scene OF terror as Franklin will never forget
Meanwhile the attack from above had come to
q disastrous end. simultaneously with the
merciless attack OF bullets from the direction OF
4oxtU rf ~ he q fr-afd
overlooking the store and the adjoining houses.
This prevented the negro guards and officials
who we're at the east end OF the
town from running to the west end, and
seems to have been anticipated. 1t is also
ourmised that the failure of the attacking party
70 follow the plan OF action arranged By not re-
serving It's fire, prevented IL from getting its
whole force together before the firing began,
though an imitation OF the believing OF 3 bull
from the mountain top seems to have
been intended for signal. w. r. Williams. the
ris, the fire boss, the latters porch TO the east
oil the store, and Parker Robinson, the inside
boss, was ON the road in front OF Morris house
s sSs Aa just bas turned TO Up hTe ,e
direction Of the bunkers. Then the general
fusilade began at the bunkers, and at the same
time came vollcy from the mountain immedi
asely above this group. Robinson turned aud
ran up the steep path to his house, which
itHnds alone further up the mountain
than any other house at this point.
sides. He ran into his house while the bullets
were pattering against it, brought out his Mar
lin rife and ran 70 the rear, just In time to find
two men armed with winchesters coming
her toward him. He fired two shots
and brought down both men. for
He IL crack shot He then came down to the
stSeteh aud took him up to the place where the
men lay. The first man shot proved to be
Thomas Morris, one OF the leading men among
ball struck him in the left cheek, passed down
ward through his face and lodged in his neck.
he had stood for some time after he was
shot, apparently having fallen for
ward over the gun, and the blood from his
wound had trickled into the barrel His left
hand was under the barrel and his right arm
bent and leaning on it. He had, however,
partially on his right side, his dead hand still
on the gun. His hat had fallen and under
IT was found an empty cartridge
and in il was another empty she'll, all the cham
bers not having been loaded however. Deputy
Stretch put guard of two men ON the body aud
took away the gun, TO DO used in evidence. The
other man who had been shot could not
be found, aud had evidently been carried
away by his companions Mr.. Robinson was
sure he had wounded the man, for he heard him
cry out as thu bullet sped to its mark ana saw
him tall. he was found aiterward at his home
and proved to be Edward J. Williams, a frequent
companion Of Morris. The ball had entered one
inch TO the right of The anus, passed through
the bladder and probably ranged to the chest.
Williams died at O'Clock this morning and
tnade deposition which his relatives and DR.
J. smith the Oregon improvement Company's
physician hero, for reasons which they not care
TO diynlge, refuse to make public. W.
III. Williams, the superintendent, found
his mother. wife and sister panic
stricken s when hem. The THAI firing began and
porch screaming, while the bullets whistled
past them. lie forced them into the house. and
also found two boys, who were standing Ia ter
rcr on the road, aud took them in with him.
by she time the train arrived at the
depot, not q shot being fred from il,
pas he switchbsek, the negroes fighting blood
We. At boiling poin:, and they were
when Captain Foley, Deputy sheriff Stretch and
superintendent Williams ran among them, and
only by the NEST earnest persuasion wero they
sxcFs One hundred in one crowd
wefe going down TO drive out the whites and
Burr their houses. BY degrees the officers
taixs them over. inducing those wac had a
last quietcd down, and nothing remained OF the
terEof except the dread of its repetition.
ahe fusilade only lasted from ten to fifteen
minrtss, but Mr.. Stretch Says he never heard
enyt ING 10 equal IL In his life. At least l,o00
thots we're Aired aud some estimates place the
uumeT as high as ECO. All the ammunition IN
camp was used and = feQuisition for 1000
roand to be sent Immediately was tslegraphed
% the ity. The terror which the outbreak had
caused was 80 great as 20 amount 10 a panic
among the strikers. They teleSTaphed 90 Black
Diamond that the negroes had broken loose,
and The Black Diamond people tcle.
gtarhei all through the nigAt, iuquiring
bow thsy were gciEg on, as il was wired that the
Negroes would 60 there and drive the whites
Sut o. that place. Deputy Sheriff stretch felt
- eertainty of being able 10 keep the negroes
IN restraint, now that their dghting blood
Gas up, and therefore telegraphed
fos the militia, chiefly for the protection of tho
whites In the meantime untii the militia ar.
nvad be kept ali the guards up all night and
bad hfseen extra mea os duty.