The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-02

the store, tel of having seen white men go mp
there, pointing out the route followed in great
detail. Diggs says:
was sitting In front of the hospital about
4-0 on sunday afternoon, when saw four men
60 along the county road 20 VIC left and then
turn to the right up the old trail leading up the
bill. They then wclt out OF sight in the thickes
behind Robinson's house They were carrying
guns In their left hands, which were away from
me, hanging down their sides. Two women
went up III the same direction, but came back
before they reached the place where the road
passed through the thicket Later, after the
shooting began, smother woman in pink dress
and an urarss<ed man with baby in his arms
went mp between two stumps on the hilltop ana
elsappeared. never saw any OF them return
l called James Simmons attention 10 them
have met both men and women with guns pas
sing right through inside the dead lines, and
told Deputy Sheriff Stretch that he ought not 10
aliowit, as they would be doing some mischief
Richard Diamond, one OF the colored guards
says that the frst shot was fired at the train
short distance this side of the Y, at point
where the miners have had pickets for some
time. He said:
was standing IN the rear doorway OF the bag
gage ear, looking down into the bottom, when
man stepped out on the track behind the train
and started TO ire with six-shooter. Captain
Williams was in the side door leaning out and
looking behind, and he pulled his gun and
flashed it, but the first time il did not go of
Then another man stepped out and fred from
the rear, the first man having ran back
into the brush. Williams shot at the hill with
revolver. We stopped at the old depot q few
minutes, end two more shots were nred as we
started away around the curve. The first shot
was fred from the bottom when we started, aud
said TO Williams, This is awful rough track
here" Williams said: Track. the DEVIL That
is q shot" said: ''No, that is not q shot," and
Just then another shot came and the bullet
passed by both our heads. could hear the
singing as il passed. said to Williams, squat
down, they are shooting at u.s." then Williams
said: "No squat hell" and he fired two shots
with Martin rife / squatted, and after he
hred rose ana saw Two men running rom one
with his gun up ready TO shoot Then after we
rounded the curve and were right below the
schoolhouse. down In the bottom. another shot
was fired at the train and general fusilade be-
gan. when we got opposite to the saloon
in the bottom, ] saw five or six men
lying around log with their heads just above.
The shooting was continued until the train
went 10 the switchbsck and backed TO the depot.
The train passed and the colored people began
shooting into the rear of it. It's wonder one
OF Us was not shot. III two colored men had not
been on the back platform, the colored people
would have shot, as they would have thought
the strikers had captured the train. II the train
jumped OF and gone down into the bottom after
them.
Captain A. Fl. Williams confirmed Diamonds
statement in every particular
The miners used very bad language to US at
Maple Valley and Black Diamond as we came
up, but We did not answer word TO them.
None Of us were under the influence of liquor.
We all remained together at Seattle except Cap
tain Foley. All we had 10 drink was one round
OF beer, and two OF the men took soft drinks.
We did not stop in Seattle over an hour and
thirty or forty minutes
A brush fire began close by the river bank about
noon, and caused some alarm by the volume of
smoke IL sent up. Sergeant Fortson and de-
tail OF ten men were sent down to at least keep il
within bounds, and spent much of the afternoon
on the fats.
Superintendent Corey arrived on the evening
train from Seattle and was welcomed by the coll
ored people very heartily. They spoke with the
best satisfaction of the way matters stood at
both mines In an interview with a PosT-IS-
TELL eEScER reporter Mr.. Corey said:
Everything is going well at Newcastle The
to see colored men come in, and they
fraterniZe well We have sixty whites
and l35 colored at work, and
the old employees are applying for work in large
numbers. The mine will employ altogether 800
TO $50 men. When We get fully started the mines
Will produce thousand tons day.
They have established fort of logs and brush
on the hillside at Coal Creek.
The mother of Superintendent Williams and
two sisters, Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. E. D. Com
stock, with the three children Of the last named,
left for Seattle today. Mrs. Comstock and Mrs.
Robinson will probably go E asst, but Mrs
Williams will remain in Seattle as the guest of
Mrs. T. B. Corey. These ladies have all been
Frustrated by the terror of the fusilade. The
sick negroes are both doing well. Gas ton has
practically recovered One of his wounds has
healed. DR.. Smith has discovered that the ball
which struck Williams penetrated the peri
toneum and there is danger of peritonitis, which
would prove fatal. At midnight he was doing
well