Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-05-01

fOundatlon. Though the riot of to-day
resulted in probably the fatal wounding
of one man, and serious injury of a
woman, the sheriff of Fayette county,
with his deputies has been defied and
the sheriff himself assaulted, shot in the
hand, and beaten, and cut with an axe,
IN the hands of Infatuated Hungarian
woman. Since the ugly Norwood
affair, ome have taken a principal
part in defying deputies. This morning
Sheriff Mccormick and deputies went to
Leisenring No. 3 to evict ten families of
the striking Slavs and as was their ex-
p%erience at Adelaide yesterday, they had
a bloody battle with the infatuated mob
of mon and It was about II
o'clock when the sheriff and his deputies
reached house No. 1875, occupied by
Thomas Farr. The sheriff at once read
the writ of eviction to FAR and by the
time he was through with it a crowd of
300 or 400 men and women had collected
in front of the premises.
THEN THE COMMENCED.
Men and women in broken English
yelled defiance and berated the sheriff
and his deputies in the strongest Ian
guage they could command. The sheriff
tried to reason with them. but without
avail. Their blood was up and nothing
but a tirst-class battle would satisfy
them. Andy Blashko's wife, who lived
in the other half of the house, and who
had given birth to a child only two days
before, hearing the tumult, rushed out,
and, spying the sheriff, made a dive for
him, pistol in hand. The sheriff saw her
coming, and just as she was about to fire
at his breast he struck the pistol a down
ward blow with his left hand and at the
same time fired the revolver he had in
his right hand at her. The two pistols
went off simultaneously and both took
effect. The sheriff had shot the woman
in the tleshy part of the left thigh and
she had shot him in the left ankle. The
ball, however, struck him only a glancing
lick and did not do him much injury.
The shot in the wonan's thigh seemed to
infuriate her more, and she made a Sec
ond dash at the sheriff, who showed her
back. She fell to the ground and was
carried into the house in a half conscious
condition by friends. Andy Blashko,
seeing his wife was being roughly han
died, made a dash at the sheriff with a
club, but the nervy little officer was too
quick for him, and, taking deliberate aim,
shot Blashko in the left ankle, the bullet
making an ugly hole in the flesh and
slivering the bone. By this time
THE sHER1Fr's BLOOD WAS UP,
and with cooked revolver in either hand
stood with his back against the end of a
house and informed the mob that the
first one who made a move towards him
he would shoot, and shoot to kill. For
a moment the crowd held back, then
Martin Scroupka, who lives at Leisen-
ring No. l, left the crowd and rushed at
the sheriff with a huge club uplifted.
The sheriff waited until Scroupka got
within five feet of him and then fired.
The shot took effect, the bullet striking
Scroupka in the mouth, knocking out
two of his teeth and lodging somewhere
in the back part of his mouth. The
wounded Slav wheeled and started to
run along the end of the house and
the sheriff followed him firing as rapidly
as he could. But none of the shots hit
the Slav. Some one shouted to the
sheriff to look out and turning saw Farr,
the man on whom he had served the
writ, coming toward him with an axe.
The sheriff pointed both his revolvers at
him and Farr retreated. BY this time
Captain Frasher of company G, who
hearing the shots and uproar had brought
soldiers up the road on a double quick
and their presence at once quelled the
~rioter, " nd the sheriff and Ills deputies
PROCEEDED TO THE woR OF EVICTION
and in a very short time the household
effects of thirteen strikers were piled in
front of so many houses. The sheriff
and his deputies, accompanied by the
militia, then went to the Trotter works,
located about one mile west of New Ha-
ven, and evicted twelve families, all Of
whom are English speaking, which task
was accomplished with little trouble.
Sheriff Mccormick arrived here this
evening with Ihos. Farr, whom he ar.
res'ed this morning. o a charge of resist
ing an officer. FAIR is now in Jail. The
sheriff is pretty lame from the effects of
the wound he received in the ankle this
morning and except that he is terribly sore
from the effects of the bruises inflicted
upon him by the Infatuated mob he has
been III for the past day, is feeling first
rate. He says that Martin Scroupka,
whom he shot in the mouth this morn
ing, is badly hurt, but is still living at
last accounts. Andy Blashko and wife
are both III bed, the latter suffering from
the nervous shock she reca1v we'd mora
than from her wound. He also says that
twenty families will be evicted at
the Morgan works tomorrow, and
twelve at Bradford. He expects trouble,
but says he is getting used to it. Every
thing is quiet at Leisenring No. 2. Sew
eral new men went to work in the mines
there to-day.
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