The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-08
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result.
The number of killed and wounded
may never be known as the mob car
ried off a number of men who were seen
to fall and whether they were dead or
wounded, or how many of them fell, it
is impossible at this time to ascertain.
AS far as known, the casualties were as
follows:
Dead-John Burke, striker, killed by
Ibayonet thrust through abdomen.
Wounded-Lieutenant Reed, Company
Z, Second infantry, /. n. G., hit on
head by stones, condition critical.
Thomas Jackman, shot in back; will
die.
John Kernberg, stabbed with bayonet;
will die.
Unknown man, shot through liver;
will die
Unknown boy, II years old shot
through abdomen; will die.
Tony Gajeweski, shot in right arm.
| Henry Williams, shot in left arm.
John Kerr, shot in hip.
| Unknown woman, shot in right hip.
The fight occurred at the intersec-
ton of Forty-ninth street and the
Grand Trunk tracks, territory which
has always had an evil name, and
which can produce any day two toughs
for every square yard of territory with
in the radius of half a mile.
The Expected Happens.
Serious trouble was expected here
early this morning.
/ Before 9 o'clock in the morning a mob
had gathered and made threats of burn
ing the Grand Trunk roundhouse.
Aid was asked from the authorities,
and Company f, of the Second infantry,
thirty-eight strong, commanded by
Captain Kelly, was hurried to the spot.
The militia was reinforced by num-
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/ pressed back from the roundhouse.
! The mob gathered again at Fiftieth
street and began to turn over freight
! cars and tear up the tracks.
/ squad of police, under Lieutenant
Duffy attacked the mob and several
shots were fred on both sides, but no
one was injured.
The mob then went back once more
to Forty-ninth street, and while a por-
ton Of the crowd, which by this time
was fully 5000 strong, occupied the
militia and the deputies, others ran a
freight car into the pit of a turn-tabe
and made the machine useless
Superintendent Atwater and Yard
master Mckee, Of the Grand Trunk,
/ with a gang of men set to work to re-
move the obstruction, while the mob
which had now grown to be very ugly,
stood around bowling and hooting and
. occasionally letting fly a stone at the
soldiers.
/ This condition of affairs prevailed for
two or three hours, the militia behav-
ing with excellent spirit and showing
good discipline
Finally the mob, encouraged by the
fact that the troops did not fire, began
active hostilities
] crowd of men pushed a freight ear
from siding on the track where the
train which had brought the militia to
the scene was standing, with the evil
dent intention of blocking the tracks
so the militia would have no line of re-
treat
Captain Kelly conferred with Super-
intendent Atwater and concluded it was
impracticable to clear the track and
that. as the mob was growing wilder |
every moment, the best thing to do was
10 leave the place before the strikers
proceeded to such eXtremities as would
necessitate his opening fire on them.
He accordingly detailed one-half of his
company to move the car, which
blocked the track on which the train
was standing, and with the balance
held back the crowd, which begar TO |
press closer and closer as it saw signs
OF the troops making a retreat. Hell
drew his men back slowly several times. |
turning them to confront the crowd
when it came too close.
Not Finch BY the Troops.
Again and again the mob shouting.
howiing and using the vilest language,
made rush, but every time Kelly met
them steadily with his men and the
crowd paused before the threatening
rifles. Finally, several toughs on the
edge of the mob made a rush at Yard |
master Mckee, one of them fiourishing |
a revolver
Mckee drew his own revolver and |
fired, but the bullet flew wide.
The strikers by this time were fairly |
wild with rage and bricks, stones, |
chunks OF coal and coupling pins rain
ed around the troops.
Lieutenant Reed was struck twice on |
the head in quick succession by stones
and fell 10 the ground like a dead man.
Kelly then concluded the time had
come, and wheeling his men quickly |
gave the word to charge and Ehe hand
ful OF miiitlamen sprung forward with |
levelled bayonets.
John Burke, who was standing in the |
front of the mob, was throwing coal as
fast as he could move his arm. One of
the first soldiers in the charge plunged
his bayonet clear through his body. the
point coming out at the back.
Burke went down like log and died
in few minutes. The mob broke be-
fore the charge, but quickly rallied. |
and after a short pause came on again, /
sending a pattering of revolver bullets
before it,
The troops, the deputies and the
police waited for no orders, but the
rifles came to a level revolvers were
drawn and a storm of leaden death
swept into the mob.
Men fell right and left, but the mill
tia, deputies and police pressed for |
ward, rapidly driving the crowd before i
them in the widest confusion.
1t was all over in three minutes, and |
the militia marched into their train and
with the deputies returned to the city.
They looked as though they had been
through a battle when they disembark-
ed.
Their uniforms were torn, hats gone; |.
they were covered with dust and dirt 7
and many of them had been badly
bruised by flying stones.
Probably Dozen Killed.
81 believe" said Superintendent At
water, that at least dozen men were /
killed. l saw men strewn all over the J,
tracks and they were dead men, too |,
The mob was not far away when we /
began to fire, and for about three min /,
utes the militia, deputies and police i
fought like devils, simply pouring lead l.
into the crowd. We were close enough |;
don't think many bullets went wide l.
There were more killed than we will Il
ever know about"
The statements of Superintendent i
Atwater as to the number of men shot
down are upheld by the militiamen and
deputies, many men declaring that they
had seen the strikers carrying away
men who were either dead or wounded |;
The injured men whose names are given
were brought to the city by the police
and placed in the hospital.
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