Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-10-14
THE PARTICULARS
 OF THE FIGHT.
nfinera Poured Shot Into the Coaches and the Occupants Sent Bullets Back
 Tn a Similar Mannef.


 peeted clash between the union miners and imported negroes has occurred. A Chicago and Alton special train bearing 200 negro miners from the south arrived at the stockade around the Chicago Virden Goal company's mines and inn mediately terrific firing began.
 The Chicago and Alton limited shot through en route to Chicago Wednesday at noon an hour late, displaying flags on the rear, indicating that special was following. Immediately the word was spread and dense crowd of miners lined the the station platform, while an- other crowd collected at the entrance of the stockade a half mile north of the station. D. B. Riley, a Chicago and Alton detective, stood guard at a switch at the south end of the station platform to see that it was not tempered with.
 At 12: 40 o'clock the special train passed the station and signal shots were fired from the south end of the train an- nouneing the specials arrival. Imme- diately shots were fired from the mov- ing train and outside and the hastle was on
 4 few moments after the train had passed the switch where Ki1ey was sta toned, and while he was talking with two citizens, he threw up his arms and dropped dead with bullet through his brain. He was tho first man killed. The train continued to the stockade, the miners firing into 1t all along the route and the negro passengers returning the fire. The moment the train reached the stockade the miners opened desperate fire with Winchesters, revolvers and firearms of al descriptions. The ne- groes on the train answered with a steady fire. The miners and the train were enveloped in cloud of smoke, and the shooting sounded like a continuous volley.
 Engineer Burt Tigar received bullet in the arm and dropped from his seat. The fireman seized the throttle, pulled 1t open, and with jerk the train was under speed carrying load of wounded negro passengers.
 The train stopped at the stoekade but two minutes and left for SpFingHMa. Its departure did not cause the firing to cease. The tower of the stockade WAS filed with sharpshooters, armed with Winohesters and they kept up steady fire into the crowd of union miners. Eyewitnesses say the dead miners were killed after the train departed. It is not known how many men were station. ed behind the walls of therstookade, but an estimate places 1t between 25 and 10. Word was sent from the stoc1ade to the physicians of the town that their ser vices were needed. The supply and provision store of the Chicago Virden Goal company is known as the Climax Trading company, with Superintendent J. F. Eyster in charge.
 At $ o'clock after the firing at the stockade had subsided. an attack with. out parallel in the history of the trouble was made on Eyster in his store on Main street, one block from the depot which will probably cost him his ltfe He was sitting in his store when his telephone rang and he was instructed from the stockade to secure physicians and hurry them to the place. Eyster jumped into his delivery wagon and se- cured two doctors and rushed. them to the mines He returned to his store, climbed out of his wagonland was just entering the door when the cry was raised that Manager Fred Lukens of tho mines, was with him. With rush @ tbrong of infuriated miners pressed to- ward the store. Eyster ran behind 8 counter with 8 revolver in each hand. The miners pressed hard after Eyster and he defended himself with dogged determination He is serioi ilsly shot and beat about the head. No hope for his life.
 The dead miners were removed from the vicinity of the stockade to the hotel and livery stables and the wounded miners were taken on litters to the sta ton and taken to Springfield.
 The stockade surrounds about 90 acres of ground in square and is made of pine boards an inch thick, set edge to edge, about la feet high. On each of the four sides about midway is 0 small watch tower. containing guard armed with WiuchesteF Thefe are three en- frances which are closely guarded. by half dozen armed sentries dey and night The fight occurred gt tho east entrance.
 The list here, outside of the stsckade, stands;
 The dead are:
 Ed Welsh, Springfield
 Frank Bilyeu, Springfield <
 Albert Smith. Mount Olive,