Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-01
SOLDIERS SHOOT TO KILL.
Over Two Hundred Shots Sent AftcA
skulking Buffalo Strikers.

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A Buffalo. N. T., special says: con-
certed attempt was made by the strikers
or their sympathizers tonight to do
up" the militia all along the line of the
Nickel-Plate and New York Central
Roads from the Ohio street crossing to
the south OF the city, away out to the
Clinton street crossing of the Nickel
Plate Railroad. Over two hundred vol
leys were fired, but go far as known no
one was killed. The trouble broke out
shortly after midnight and every sentry
on duty was assaulted with stones and
coupling pins. Several sentries were
struck. They replied with shots from
their rifles and revolvers and called out
the guard. In all the yards the guards
were doubled and it is feared that be-
fore morning there will be serious
trouble.
The heaviest shooting took place at
the Clinton street crossing OF the Nickel
Plate, where company X of the Twelfth
regiment Is stationed. The sentries
were attacked here by six men who
stoned them. They called out the guard
and secured the yards. The men must
have been hiding In cars, for they were
not found.
Hardly had the guard returned to
quarters when the sentries were at
tackled again and tie bullets whistled
over the houses. Ten volleys were fired
on this raid, but In the darkness the
men were missed. Twice more was
this repeated. and the firing continued
till all the people living In the neighbor-
hood were aroused On the last sally
the corporal Of the guard reported that
he belie1ed one of the skulkers had
been hit The Twelfth regiment COM
panies at Seneca street, and the Thir-
teenth at Ohio street, were kept on the
jump all night shooting at strik ers who
pulled couplings on trains ready to start
In the morning.
Out at the Tefrt farm, where the
Twenty Regiment is on guard,
the shooting began at IL o'clock and
continued until daylight. 1t was re-
ported at o'clock that two strikers had
been shot to death by the guard.
s..There ,Meresfnpy meeti2ga. at strjkars
were made that the militia would be
done up" before morning. policeman
In citizens clothing overheard the
threats and notified the company COM
manders. Two men were bayoneted
tonight while attempting to run the
guard on the Lake Shore tracks. The
yards are surrounded by the militia, and
orders have been issued to shoot every
man dead who attempted to leave the
yards. The sentries have orders to kill
anyone who throws a stone or pulls a
coupling pin.
Gen. Porter was awakened at mid
night by the report Of the attack on the
militia. He said he had not ordered
out any more troops, but he regarded
the situation as more serious than at
any time since the strike began. He
said he had feared trouble all along,
and that to-night's skirmish is only thu
beginning OF serious trouble.
Gen. Porter and his staff are now can
vassing the advisability OF calling out
extra troops. The Fourteenth, Seventh
and Sixty-ninth are under arms in re-
serve and they may De oruered mere.
The latest report o, the result OF to-
nights shooting is that four men have
been killed and two wounded in one
place in the Erie yard a mile outside OF
the city, and that number Of other men
have been wounded by the soldiers
bullets in other yards.