Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-07-12

The strikers by this time were fur
GUS with rage. and bricks and other
! missiles rained around the troops
Lieutenant Reed was struck twice on
the head and fell to the ground like
Il dead man.
MAR, wheeling the men quickly gave
| the word tn charge and handful of
militiamen sprang forward with lev
elled bayonets. John Burke was stand
| ing in front of the mob throwing coal
| One Of the first soldiers plunged a bay
onet clear through Burke's body, the
point coming out at the back. Burke
! died in few minutes.
The mob broke the charge but quick
ly ra lied and after a short pause came
on agrin, sending pattering of but
let's before it. The troops, deputies
and police waited for no orders. but
their rifles came to level, revolvers
were drawn and a storm of leaden
| death swept into the mob.
TIE men fell right and left, but the
militia, deputies and police :pressed
forward, rapidly driving the crowd be-
fore them in the widest confusion.
1t was all over in three minutes
and the militia marched into train
| and, with deputies. returned to the city.
They looked as though they had been
, through a battle when they disem-
parked at Dearborn station The uni
! forms were torn, their hats gone, they
were covered with dust and dirt and
many of them were badly bruised.
! 81 believe" said Superintendent At
water, that at least Il dozen men were
| killed. L saw men strewn all over
! the tracks and they were dead men,
! too. The mob was not far away when
we began to fire and for about three
minutes the militia. deputies and po-
lice were simply pouring lead into the
crowd. We were close enough, the
mob was big enough and | don't think
i that many bullets went wild. There
were more killed than we will ever
know about"
The statements of Superintendent At
water as to the number of men shot
i down Is upheld by militiamen and
deputies, many declaring that they
saw strikers carrying away their COM
rades, who were either dead or wound
ed, The injured men whose names
were given Were brought to the city
by the police and placed in a hospital.
Report Of the fight occasioned great
excitement at the army headquarters
and request of Police Inspector Hunt
| that several companies of regulars be
sent to the scene added to the feeling.
The mob beacme quiet at evening, how
ever. but nevertheless the regulars and
artillery are to be held at the depot
all night.
At II p. m. last night the militia and
police stationed in the vicinity of
Forty ninth street and Wentworth
avenue discovered a crowd Of men and
| boys setting fire to freight cars. The
police arrested about a dozen incendi-
aries. A fight ensued, the crowd ston-
ing the officers and firing upon them.
| The militia charged and two young
men We're badly injured one being
bayonetted and the other receiving
Il bullet in the body.
At Forty-ninth street and Ashland
avenue Il man applied blazing torch
to oil boxes along the row Of empty
box cars. The sight caused great eX-
element among the Bohemians and
Poles and they began rushing TO the
scene. Captain Kelly, of company f,
second regiment, |. n. g., faced the
mob and drove it back. Reinforce
ments were quickly summoned and
the crowd dispersed.
Joseph Warzowski was shot and ia
tally wounded by a United States SOL
der last night while stoning a Pan
Handle freight train. Martea Bache,
a seventeen-year-old girl, was instant
ly killed by the police charge during
the trouble in the Burlington yards.
AS a train with the militia on board
moved off from Forty-ninth street
fully 10000 people crowded about the
handful of police that was left be-
hind From all sides the mob rushed
upon the police hurting stones and
iron in the mad assault. The men
drew revolvers and prepared for des-
perate battle.
The crowd halted for moment and
the officers hurried to Il patrol box and
called for assistance. In the meantime
the crowd closed again on the retreat
! ing police. A car was set on fire, a
switch broken and the rails torn up.
An alarm was sent in and with it a
second call for police assistance.
The streets were crowded by howl
! ing, Shrieking mobs. Patrol wagons
rushed through. At the sight of re-
! Inducements the crowd began to fall
back and the officers, without orders,
raised their weapons and fired as fast
as possible directly into the crowd,
which wavered and then beat 4 re-
treat, first replying to the unexpected
rain Of shot with a volley of stones.
AS the mob retreated 1t left several
of its number with the injured on the
ground Rusing into near by saloons,
/ the mob barricaded the doors, but
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