The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-13

ade but two minutes. Its departure
did not cause the firing to cease. The
tower of the stockade was filled with
sharp shooters armed with Win
chesters and they kept up Il
steady fire into the crowd of Union
miners. Eye witnesses say the dead
miners were killed after the train had
departed. 1t is not known how many
men are stationed behind the walls of
the StOckade, but an estimate places
them between % and 40.
WITHIN THE STOCKADE.
1t is claimed that six within the stock
AIDE were wounded, but those inside re-
fuse to hold any communication with
the men outside, and nothing authentic
can be learned. Word was, however,
sent from the stockade to physicians in
town that their services were needed.
The supply and provision store of the
Chicago Nirden Coal Company is known
as the Climax Trading Company, with
Superintendent j. Il. Eyster in charge
At o'clock, after the firing at the stock
ade had subsided. an attack without Il
parallel in the history of the trouble
was made on Eyster, which will proba-
bly, cost him his life. He was sitting in
his store when his telephone rang, and
he was instructed from the outside to
secure physicians and hurry them to the
place Eyster jumped into his delivery
wagon and securing two doctors, rush
ed with them to the mines. He return
ed to his store. climbed out of his
wagon and was just entering the door
when the cry was raised that Manager
Fred Lukens of the mines was with him.
ONE BRAVE MAN AGAINST A MOB
With a rush a throng of infuriatGd
miners pressed toward the store. Eys-
ter ran behind counter with a revolver
in each hand The miners pressed hard
after him, and as Eyster sprang up
stairs he and the miners began shooting
/ simultaneously. He ran to the top of
his building and jumped behind a Chin
ney, while the miners ran into the street
and opened fire on him again. Chips
| flew from the brick chimney and Eyster
ran from cover across the roof OF
! another store. firing into the street be
/ low as he ran. From there he crossed
! TO the roof of the Bank of Nirden,
where he reloaded his reyolvers. Blood
was flowing from Il wound in his side,
| but with dogged determination against
terrible odds he continued his fight.
/ Jumping to the roof of the Rae and
| Gisch drug store he halted behind a
projection from the roof of the building
| he had just left and emptied both of his
| siX-chambered revolvers. Then spring
| ing from cover Eyster dashed ahead
| amid the rain Of bullets, to the roof of
| the Steed building, the upper story Of
which is known as Miners hall. He
! either fell or jumped through the sky
/ light and landed iii the arms of crowd
/ of miners who seized him and carried
I him down stairs to the street.
! AS ONE RISEN FROM THE DEAD
| Here other hands seized the almost
! unconscious man and he was dragged
| into the middle of the street. Local po
| licemen drove back the crowd and car
ried Eyster to the city square across the
! street. Eyster was motionless and sup
p0sedly dead The police left him lying
! and attempted to disperse the crowd. II
IA few minutes Eyster was seen TO ralst
| his hand and wipe the blood from his
face. Two men sprang at him, and witt
+, the ferocity of tigers began jumping OF
his body and striking him on the heaC
with stones. With yell the angry
| crowd burst into the square to Kill EyS
ter. The police charged in body anC
I fought their way to the center Of the