The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-08
CRUEL CRIME ON A CANAL.
A MOB swARMs 4 BOAT AND KILLS
THREE MEN.

Rate Cutting the Cause of the savage
Attaek-The Men Killed the Cap
tain of the Craft and His son.
Their AssniInnts, Men From other
BOats-The Captain's Daughter
FeIIed 20 the Deck, While Rushing
10 Assist Her Fnther-A Deputy
Marshal Held at Bny-sixteen Ar
rests Made.
North Tonawanda, N. Y, oct. IA
double murder was committed on p. w.
seribner's lumber docks at an early hour
this morning.
Shortly after midnight Capt. Phillips Of
the canal boat Jenye Graft. and his son.
of the boat May, began loading up with
lumber. Other boatmen, who had refused
to take loads at the price scribner offered.
marched down in a body to the dock and
interfered. Phillips, who was armeds
drew revolver and fired over the heads
Of the crowd, probably seeking to intimi-
date them. Some one, exactly whom has
not been learned, pulled gun and fired
three shots at Phillips, who fell to the
deck of his boat dead man. The young
er Phillips, who had taken hand IN the
melee, was struck down with club and
horribly beaten. He managed TO crawl
into the cabin, where he died at S15 o'cloca
Capt. Phillips was about 90 years Of age.
and his son about 49, Their homes were
IN Burtons Bay.
While the fight was in progress the linea
OF the two crafts were cut and they foatr
ed down the river, but were intercepted
at Little Island by a tug and brought back.
The murder appears to have been the d.
rect outcome Of the newly formed canal
association, which was credited some
time ago as a New York Central moves
ment.
The evidence here shows that Scribner
had gotten Capt. Phillips to bring hla
boats here for n load, the boats 70 be loads
ed as soon as they arrived. This IS cons
trary TO the associations rules, as the as
sociatiOn wishes to dictate to the forwards
ers when and how boats shall be loaded.
When the Tonawanda boatmen found
that Capt. Phillips would load when he
saw ht, little army OF desperate men
collected at the dock and waited for the
boat TO come in. She arrived and tied up
only to be boarded by the crowd. Officers
were on the spot and attempted to keep
the crowd back, but their efforts were
fruitless. for the men were like a pack
of maddened wolves.
'If the eoppers lay. hand on any Of
you. lay them out, boys" shouted one
man In the crowd, and then he shouted TO
Capt Phillips: "If there's anybody on that
boat that you want to get off, now's your
Never mind anybody here" answered
Then the trouble began. The men poured
on the boat like demons, kicked the crew
into the forward cabin and started for
capt. Phillips. In a second he fell 70 the
another through his heart His N-year-old
daughter sprang to his assistance, only to
be struck on the head and felled 10 the
deck, while the mob kicked and abused
the body Of her dying father
|. While this was going on the dead cap
tan's son was attacked. and though ne
fought well, he was knocked down and.
beaten almost to a jelly, his skull being
fractured.
United States Deputy Marshal Smering
made an attempt TO fight the crowd back,
but three of them covered him with re-
volvers and held him at bay until they
had completed the bloody work.
When the crimes had been committed,
the mob cut the boats loose and allowed
them TO drift down the river
1t was a horrible sight that greeted
the people on the dock when the boats
were again tied up. on the deck in a
pool OF blood was the father, and along
the deck were streams and blotches
where the son had crawled along to the
cabin. Every window In the cabin was
broken, and the daughter was in hyster-
les over the remains Of her murdered
father.
SO far sixteen men have been arrested,
and the authorities are examining wit-
nesses and taking afiidavits, looking to
the arrest of others.