The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-08

l don't think many bullets went wide.
There were more killed than we will ever
know about"
The statements of Superintendent At
water 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. The report OF the
fight occasioned great excitement at army
headquarters and the request OF Police III
specter Hunt that several companies OF
regulars aud a Garling gun be sent out TO
! the scene, added to the feeling. The mob
became quiet at evening, however, and the
regulars and artillery were held at the
depot for the night.
AS the train with the military aboard
moved off fully 10000 people crowded
about the handful of police left behind.
From all sides they rushed upon them
hurting stones and iron in their mad
assault. The men, realizing their position,
drew their reyolvers and backed against
each other prepared for desperate battle.
The crowd halted for moment and Officer
Ryan breaking from the crowd hurried TO
| patrol box and called the patrol wagon.
Lieutenant keichner and twelve men
responded, but in the meantime
the crowd had closed again on the now
retreating police. following them with the
volley OF stones. The work that had been
done by the wrecking party was attacked
as the police retreated. \ car was set on
fire, the switch close by broken and rails
torn up. An alarm of fire was sent IN and
with il a second call for police assistance,
to which Captain O'Neill and thirteen
men responded.
The condition of things was now ex-
tremeiy critical. L0omis street, the heart
of the Anarchistic settlement, was
crowded by a bowling, shrieking mob.
The patrol horses were urged through 1t.
the crowd sullenly parting. Without
fiinchiug they dubbed their way through
to their fellows aud then all started back
against the crowd.
At the sight of the reinforcements the
crowd fell back. Each officer thought his
life in danger and without any order they
raised their weapons and fired as fast as
possible directly into the crowd, which
waYered and then beat a retreat, first re-
plying to the unexpected rain of shot with
shower OF stones. As they retreatef,
leaving several on the ground, the police
followed with clubs, showing no mercy.
At every step they knocked a man down
and as they advanced the crowd showered
stones on them like hail. Rushing into
nearby saloons the mob barricaded the
doors and made a stand, but We're driven
out through windows and back doors
like rats. clubs descending or
their heads at every jump. WindO, 0
in the houses adjoining were sudden.
thrown open and volIey of shot was
poured in to the police, who returned the
fire and the mob scattered into alleys aud
side streets, ending the pursuit.
The ground over which the fight &C.
CURED was like battlefield. The men
shot by the troops and police lay about
like logs. Hats knocked off and coats
thrown off to lessen weight in the flight
were scattered about. while on the LoomiS
street crossing. where the eight police Off
GERS had made their stand were fully 500
large stones that had been thrown by the
mob.
III all fOrty-one who had been shot and
bayoneJted Were taken to the drug store
at the corner of EOrty-eigthth and LOOMS
streets. There d hospital was Impoverished
and the wounded and tue least hurt were
attended TO.