The record-union., 1897-08-14
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HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT.
Serious Trouble Occurs at Fulton,
Illinois.

FULTON Ill.), Aug. 13.-The long
standing fight between this town and
Rock Island, H., for the location for
the headquarters of the Modern Wood
men of America eliminated to-day in
a hand o-hand fight between scores of
partisans of the respective towns, in
which a number of persons were seri-
ously injured.
AT the recent convention of the order
held at Dubuque, la, it was decided to
move the offices and books of Head
Clerk Halves to Rock Island. Citizens
of Fulton thereupon applied to the
court for an order restraining the re-
moval. The temporary injunction was
granted and the controversy went over
until the fall term of court The slow
process of law was not satisfactory to
the Rock Islanders, however, and they
determined to take matters into their
own hands.
To-day a party was made up in the
city by the Mississippi contingent and
plans were made for a raid on the Full
ton headquarters with the object of
forcibly taking possession OF the books.
records, etc, of the order and removing
the office of Head Clerk Hawes to Rock
Island. A train was chartered consist
ing of three coaches, a baggage car
and two box cars, and the invaders
were soon on their way to Fulton. The
inhabitants of the latter town were
forewarned, however, and made ready
to give their unlimited guests a cordial
reception. A fire alarm was sounded.
and lines of hose were laid to the points
where it was thought the Rock Island
ers would be most likely to stop.
The arrival of the special train was
the signal for the hostilities to begin,
and the scrimmage which followed re-
suited in the following casualties: VIII
Bennett, City Marshal of Fulton, head
cut, believed to be fatally injured; w.
H. Flanagan, head badly cut; James
Carrier head cut; Ed. Barre, head and
arms injured; Chris Miller, Lyons, Ia,
head cut; P. J. Casey, Moline, ILL.,, head
badly injured.
A score of others We're more or less
bruised and cut The free fight lasted
for. an hour or more. Rocks, clubs and
missiles of every description We're WELD
ed industriously by the opposing forces.
The Fultonites finally got the better of
the fight, and Deputy Sheriff Farley ef-
fected the arrest of Head Attorney
Johnson of the Modern WOodmen, one
of the Rock Island party, and number
of his companions. The railroad track
on each side of the cars that brought
the Rock Islanders was torn up by the
FuItonites, the latter evidently aiming
to cut off the retreat of their enemies.
The scene of the fighting bears every
evidence of the liveliest warfare, and as
there was a number of firearms in both
parties it is a wonder the affair did not
result more seriously than it did. A
large force of officers has been sworn
in. and as the invaders, or most of them,
are still in Fulton. there is great difh-
Guilty in preventing a renewal of the
trouble
The action of the Rock Island people
was prompted by a decision of Judge
Cast. rendered at Cambridge to-day,
dissolving the injunction which had
prevented the removal of the headquar-
ters from Fulton.
The Rock Island delegation arrived
at $50 with 575 men, and Immediately
proceeded to the offices of the Wood
men order Though they met with des-
perate resistance from the start, the
Rock Islanders succeeded in getting the
bulk of the records out to the train.
The Fultonites in the meantime had
called out the fire department, sounded
a general alarm, and, with the augment
ed crowd, succeeded in tearing up the
track in front of the locomotive. 1t
was then attempted to back the train,
whereupon the Fulton people tore up
the track in the rear.
By this time the Fultonites were re-
inforced by crowds from Clinton and
Lyons, and having this advantage and
with il the use of arms of the Lyons
Company of the Illinois State militia, a
guard was formed about the train. In
the meantime two additional Master in
Chancery injunctions were secured, and
the Sheriff swore in 200 deputies to as
sist in enforcing them.
SPRINGFIELD Gid, Aug. 13.-Gov-
ernor Tanner received a dispatch from
Fulton asking that troops be sent there
Immediately to quell the riot among
the members of the Modern Woodmeu
of America. The Governor decided not
to order out the troops before morning,
at least. By that time he will have
received further advices from Fulton
BASEBALL.