The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-22
FIGHT WITH A MOB
Great Northern Strikers Take Pos
session of a Passenger Train,
But the Deputy United States Marshals
Recapture 1t and Arrest Some
of the Rioters.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, April 2.-The Great
Northern railway strikers seized train at
Wilmar tonight, overpowering the depu-
ties. The latter, however, resisted the at
tack, and got back the train and took sew
eral prisoners. A dispatch from Wilmar
says: Although the strikers at Litchfield
respected the government seals that had
been placed on the cars guarded by
Marshal Bede, such was not the case
here The strikers at this place took pos
session of the train. overpowering the
United States marshal and his party of
thirty deputies. a crowd of several hundred
men gathered before the arrival of the
train. A great crowd OF citizens gathered
to watch the strikers. The crowd numbered
one thousand when the train arrived at
5:15 this afternoon. The mood of the men
was decidedly ugly, and they declared very
emphatically that they would allow nothing
but engine and mail car to proceed Marshal
Bede told the mob that he represented the
United States government and that the
train was under the protection of the gov
eminent, and that any one interfering with
it was liable TO arrest and imprisonment.
The crowd yelled in derision. Some one said:
There is no use talking any more" Then
the crowd moved toward the deputies. In
vain did Marshal Bede warn them TO de-
sst. Two young strikers, Richard Judson
and James Burke, attempted to uncouple
the passenger coach. Bede grabbed one and
Deputy Shortall the other. and, backed by
the other deputies they hauled them into
the car and locked them in. John Carbon
then tried to detach the air brake and he
also was captured and placed in the car
BY this time the mob numbered three thou
sand The crowd forced the train back be-
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switch. The cars We're detached and then
the strikers seized engineer Ayott, whom
they called a scab, and his fireman, and
bodily removed them from the engine
Archie BOgard, a striker, taking the engin-
GERS place and sending the engine on
through the yards. Bogard blocked the
so that no train could leave or arrive.
At 1880 tonight Superintendent Winter
was assaulted by a striker and got a bad
cut in the cheek as he stood talking with
United States Marshal Bede. Later in the
night Marshal Bede again secured posses
sion of, the train and took 1t TO Kandiyohi.
where 1t now stands. A number of the
deputies are still here. No trains have left
here since yesterday, and the strikers say
have their rights. Marshall Bede Will go
to St Paul Sunday and get three or four
hundred deputies and return 10 Wilmar to
rigidly enforce the law; The three prison.
taken tonight by the deputies are now
on their way to st. Paul.
The Great Northern strike, so far as the
situation at st. Cloud is concerned. remains
i'm about the same condition as yesterday.
Passenger traffic will not be interfered with
pending a decision on the restraining order
of Judge Sanborn. No effort was made by
the company to make up trains there to-
day. though through trains are running on
time. The cases OF the strikers who were
arrested and brought down from ST. Cloud
were continued till Monday. President Fos-
ter, of the St. Cloud local union, secured
bail in this city, and at once started for
home to secure bail for II. +. Egbert the
only one of the arrested men brought into
court to-day.