Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-10
RED BLOOD FLOWS
As the Sequel of Drainage Can
al Turbulence.
SEVERAL STRIKERS SHOT TO DEATH

Four Others Fatally Hurt and Dozen
NIoreHade Targets for Lead-Contractors
Arm Their Laborors and Tell Them 10
Protect Thcmse.ves-How It.Was Done
Strikers Deny Being AEgressors-Troops
Sent to the Scene.
CHICAGO, June 1O.-A pitched battle has
taken place between strikers and employees
of the contractors on the drainage canal.
The fight took place at Romeo, the strik-
ers coming down from Lemont and others
coming from the north. they being divided
into two mobs. They at once began firing
on the contractors and their men. Coming
from the north, they drove off the men on
section 10. The men retired fighting, but
they had only gone a short distance when
they were set upon by another division of
the strikers The workmen returned the
fire of the strikers and several were killed.
Three of the men were killed in Will coun-
ty, two of them in the Illinois and Nichi-
gan canal, one was lying on the tow-path
and two others in the bushes just across
the line in Cook county.
Four Elem Fatally Wounded.
The list of wounded is as follows: Mich
ael Micholib bullet through tieshy part OF
thigh; Frank Palski. two bullet wounds
and terribly dubbed; Lorenz Levandoski,
wrist shattered by bullet; Ludwig h.
Ruga, shot through abdomen, will die;
Anton Nescloski. several wounds in head
and dubbed; Thomas Merelski, bullet
through lungs, will die; Michael Boyer, bull
let throug lower lobe of liver. will die; John
Zwojatonski bullet through thigh bone,
will lose leg; Michael Josloski, bullet in
lungs, is dying; Frank Smith, ear shot off;
Severn Peterson, shot in several place. and
dubbed. There aresiX or eight Others who
are wounded. but their injuries are not OF
81 serious nature. All of the wounded live
in Lemont, where they We're taken for
treatment.
sheriff and Drainage Board Confer.
The first news of the battle and its at
tendant fatalities reached this city in a
telegram TO President Wenter, of the
drainage board, and was delivered TO him
at a conference on the situation taking
place in the drainage board rooms. In adj
ditiOn to mum Der of contractors who were
present, several qUarrymen We're at the
meeting. together with Sheriff Gilbert, of
Cook county; Sheriff Sharp, of Dupage
county, and Sheriff Kennedy, of VIII
county. All these men had insisted that
it was proper case for the governor and
recommended military interference
Sheriff Gilbert said that he had no funds at
his disposal TO pay for the 1000 deputies
iiltt NONllu III INfiNAlIttl anu bhS ctiitl
sheriffs Joined him in this opinion. Sheriff
Gilbert said he would at once call Upon
Gov. Altgeld for aid.
AltceId Will Call Out the Troops.
A dispatch received from Governor Alt
geld says he has decided to call out the
Second regiment. y previous dispatch was
of an entirely different tenor. in that the
governor refused to call out the militia, for
the reason, as lie stated. that the authori-
ties in charge, from all the facts he could
learn. had so far the best of the encounter
He said that the deputy sheriffs appeared
to be holding their own and the only per
sons so far injured were those of the strik
ers' party. He also said it was the usual
custom in similar cases for the local au-
thorities to attempt TO shift the response
biIity that should rest upon them, and he
urged that the sheriff himself see to the
suppression of all violence
LATER.-The governor has ordered the
Second and Third regiments to the scene OF
trouble