The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-14
TWO SPANISH FORK VETERANS.

quarters of the Modern Woodmen of Am
erica eliminated today in a hand TO hand
fight between scores of partisans of the
respective towns, in which a number of
persons were seriously injured
At the recent convention it was decided
to move the offices and books of Head
Clerk HaweS to Rock Island Citizens OF
Fulton thereupon applied to the court Tor
an order restraining the removal. Inc
temporary Injunction was granted ana
the controversy went over until the fan
term. The slow process of law was not
satisfactory to the Rock islanders. how
ever, and the determined to take matters
into their own hands
Today a party was made up in the city
by the Mississippi and plans were made
for raid on the Fulton headquarters,
session of the books, records. ETC., of the
order and removing the office OF Head
Clerk Hawes TO Rock Island A train
was chartered. consisting 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
decided to give their unlimited guests a
cordial receDtionsq A fire alarm sounded
and lines of hose were laid to the points
where it was thought the Rock Islanders
would be most likely to stop.
The arrival of the special train was the
signal for hostilities to begin and the
scrimmage which followed resulted in
the following casualties:
VIII Bennett, city marshral of Fulton,
head cut: believed to be fatally injured.
. w. H. Flanagan, head badly cut.
James Carrier beau cut.
Ed Barre head and arms injured.
Chris Miller, Lyons, Ia, head cut.
P. ]. Casey, Moline, Ills, head badly in
Cornelius o'Brien, Rock Island, injured
in arms.
Albert Spencer. Rock Island. face cut.
Walter Fowler, Fulton. head cut.
Charles Wernberger. Rock Island, head
T. Burns. Rock island. head cut.
r. Winter, Rock Island, cut over right
eye.
G. W. Sample, Rock Island. head and
face cut.
Sames Mulcahy. Rock Island, head cut;
condition serious.
Andrew Lunheinl, Fulton, head injured;
condition serious.
L. v Tfckhart, Rock Island. head cut.
A score of others were more or less
bruised and cut. The free fight lasted
for an hour or more, rocks, clubs and
missiles of every description being WED
ed industriously by the opposing forces.
the S anS bspf y gSt dRe F better of Of
fected the arrest of Head Attorney john
son of the Modern Woodmen. one of the
Rock Island party, and a number of his
The railroad tracks on each side of the
cars that brought the Rock Islanders
were torn up ty the Fultonites, the latter
evidently aiming to cut off the retreat of
the enemies. The scene of the fighting
bears every evidence of the liveliest war
fare, and as there were number of fire.
arms in both parties, it is wonder the
affair did not end more seriously than it
did. A large force of peace officers have
been sworn in, and as the invaders, or
most of them. are still in Fulton. there
is great difficulty in preventing q renewal
of the trouble.
Inc action of the Rock Island people
was prompted by decision of Judge
CAST, rendered at Cambridge today, dis
solving the injunction, which had pre-
vented the removal of the headquarters
from Fulton.
The Rock Island delegation arrived
at $50, with SIS men, and Immediately
proceeded to the offices of the Wood
mems 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 aug
mented crowd succeeded in tearing up
the track in front of the locomotive. 1t
was then attempted to back the train.
the Fulton people tore up
the track in the rear.
By this time the Fultonites were re-
by crowds from Clinton and
Lyons, and having this advantage and
with it the use of the arms of the Ly-
ons company of the Illinois state mi |
litia, a guard was formed around the |
train. In the meantime two additional
mastery in chancery injunctions were
secured, and the sheriff swore in 200
deputies to assist in enforcing them.
The Fulton people showed fight from
the moment the Rock Island crowd ar
rived. They began hostilities by tear
ng cd the walks about the depot. and I
assaulting the invaders with the loose +
blanks.
At the door of the head office. the vii
age marshal. William Bennett. stood /
with a drawn revolver. a brick from !
me OF the invaders felle. him to the {
ground. The Rock Islanders then made /
| rush into the office and captured the
'ecords. At the denot, which is q half
block distant, the fight was renewed.
IND here it took the nature of a riot
Turing which 100 of the Rock Island
seople were placed under arrest 1t was
1t this time a large number of both
ideS were injured.