The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-05-10

! tue tfsln ffumcuceu ana the 'Wealere
thinking they were being taken Tacoma.
ward. rushed to the brakes. This con.
stituted the seizure OF the train, even Il
they had not practically taken ii before,
and then the trouble began In earnest
The reason for the backing OF the train
was to get the commonwealers away from
their local sympathizers, the marshais
believing and maintaining that they
would be more tractable II II was not for
the encouragement which they received
from citizens.
Jus. how the fight started or who fred
the first shot II is difficult 10 say. Those
who were spectators OF the ARRAY tell as
many different stories as there are re.
cIttrs. But that 1t began at the brakes
there is no question. On one OF the cars
q marshal ordered Coxeyifa to let 20 of
the brake. No attention was paid to the
command and the marshal started to pull
the man away. Then the Coxeyites made
a rush and the clubbing commenced.
One Of the marshals was getting the
worst OF the encounter and pulled his
run and fred. Immediately a number
nf revolvers were brought into play and
eight or ten shots fred. Some saw there
were more and some less, but this Is
probably conservative estimate. Then
the train backed toward Selah and the
Coxeyites jumped off, tumbled off or
we're dubbed off, leaving the cars TO the
marshals.
While the fight was progressing on the
.ars it is claimed that incendiary
i IL L., IL.
laps there were ill-advised remarks
made, but the matter is now IN the
'ourts and Tue HERALD does not think
| his the time for comment. II was not
alone the foolish talk, but rocks were
thrown from the street and it is even
| claimed that the bullet which found a
target IN Marshal Jolly was fred from
| the ground. The claim is made that the
rock throwing and shooting--if it was
done-was the work OF hobos and not OF
'itizens, for it is well known that many
IF this species OF biped had gathered here
at the FIRST sign of trouble.
When the smoke had cleared away the
train had pulled out and some order
come ont of chaos it was found that Cox
eyites Savage, Weaver and McAlphee. all
hailing from Seattle. had received flesh
wounds, none serious, that one of the
commonw callers had broken an arm and
another an ankle in falling from the
rain, and that number more were bat.
tered up with clubs. OF the marshals,
Chidister received flesh wound in the
leg and Jolly, OF Seattle, was shot through
the back. The ball lodged among the
intesiines and little hope is expressei for
his life. lie was taken to Tacoma on
| Thursdays passenger train.
Who shot jolly =? is the question. The
industrials claim that he Was shot by
one of his own companions. Some say
ne was shot by hobo spectator while a
number of the marshals maintain that he
was shot by Coxeyite. The truth may
never be known. After the shooting
the adjntant OF the commonw callers gath
cred his men together and admonished
them to obey the laws and said that the
trouble through which they had just
passed was the result of hasty actions on
both sides. Of this there is no doubt
Neither the 'wealers nor the marshals are
blameless, and both sides say the conflict
would have been averted but for the en-
couragement the army received from out
siders.
That night the Coxeyites slept in the
the opera house and the city hall. The
next day in the afternoon 40 of the con-
monw callers were placed under arrest and
escorted to the city jail by strong body
Of marshals armed with rifles. Warrants
were also served on number of citizens
charging them with melting the indus
trials ID resistance OF the law officers. The
citizens for whom warrants were issued
are Ira NJ. Krutz, +. S Davis, j. 2. Ne.
Cafferty, Thomas Lund, Nat Yeates, n.
]. kuechler, Robert White, S. Null, L
Coffin and about forty John Does. A
humber OF arrests have already been
made and more are to follow. There is
no doubt but what some OF the arrests
we're the result OF spite work and this Is
very much to be deprecated, and can
nave no other ending than causing ex-
pense to the government and Temporal,
inconvenience to the individual. The
arrested Coxeyites and some of the citi-
zens were started for Seattle Thursday
night, on special, which, ON account of
the trouble west, WAS taken over the
Union Pacific via Wallula ami Portland.
During Thursday night despatch was
received to the effect that the lock ed-out
Roslyn miners had captured a couple OF
cars and were coming down to liber ate
the imprisoned common ealers.
This proved only partially correct, the
ruth being that about l25 industrials
had taken couple OF freight cars at Ell
iensbnrgh and were moving down the
canyon. They were met ut point above
The bridge by strong force of deputy
marshals. A rail PLACED across the track
had prevented further progress of The
''ars. and when the Coxey ties discovered
the armed marshals they piled out of the
| ..ara and 20 Gfn.r m that
| Contrary to orders, the marshals
fred few shots and brought them to
stand. The claim is made that the in
dustrials also fired and when they were
searched, after being ARE sted and
brought to the city, two revovers were
found, one of which had several cham
bers empty and looked as though it had
been recently used. Two of the indus.
trials had received flesh wounds in this
encounter and are now in the hospital
The others, to the number of 100, are
locked up in the county Jail.
| A FEW NOTES AND INCIDENTS.
Rails have been torn up in some places
nv employees of the company. it is said.
for the purpose OF steppiny captured trains /;
and in at least one instance the indus,
trials piled stones on the track but sub
seqnentlv removed them.
The industrials caught an old ferry boat
belonging to the irrigation company, al
Zillah, and started down the Yakima
river, Wednesday. THE HERALD has
failed to learn whether they went over
the falls or got on to bar before reaching
| that danger point.
The present experience is q practical
trial OF the populisiic doctrine of govern
ment control of railroads. Let's have as
little OF it as possible, II this is the way
| it works.
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Fulker-
son relates thrilling episode. One OF
the Coxeyites rolled off OF car Just as it
was over the big union ditch. There was
a splash. pair of legs moved frantically
in the air and Mr.. Fulkerson closed his
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