La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-10-19
dragged into the middle OF the street
Awful brutality.


ANful Brutality.
Locnl policemen GrOS, back tho crowd
and carried .Eyster to this city square
across the street ana laid him oE the
Stazs. !sYsteF was motiuniess and sup
pose9iy dead. In few minutes he was
seen 10 raise his hand and wipe the blood
from his face. = Nu men spFaug at him
and with the ieEoc.ty OF tigers began
jumping on his BODY and striking him on
thc head With stones. With yell, the
angry crowd chased into the square TO XII
Eysicr, The police charged into the body
ano Fought their way 70 the center Of thG
mob, wh.rr they made q stand over the
PROSTATE. battered. bleeding man. A car.
r9er was procured and Eyster was taken
TO the Buckles hotel. He had been sho,
through the groin and is terribly bat
tered M about the head The physicians
Hay that he has barely a chance for re.
ooveTy
The dead miners were removed from
tho vicinity of the stockhde to hotels and
itNcrY stables md the wounded miners
were taken on ittters TO the station and
taken 10 Springfield tonight An Asso.
cisied Press reporter secured ndrniitanee
10 the s,ockade late tonight The list Of
dead and wounded inside the s,ockade
Dehd.
A. w. MORGAN. Chicago.
Wounded:
II. GritF-scli sho, in shoulder: O. J.
SNYDER. shot In face and legs: James
sickles, Chicago shot IN leg; Frank WI.
dfr. chicago. shot In arm. Thomas Nc
'ntee Chicago. shot in leg.
Two doctors were Mt work with Tn.
wounded and communication with them
was prohibited
ihe s'ocHade surrounds abou. 70 acres
OF ground in square and Is made of pine
poaFis an Inch thick. set edge to edge
hoout y 'est high. On each OF the four
sin"s about midway. Is small tower.
containing a guard. armed with Win
CHESTER There are three entrances
which arc closely rnared by half a dozen
armed sentries day and night The nxh,
.9iay occurred AZ 'he cas-, entrance.
There are about Is big strong men sta.
Toned inside the stockade tonight. each
Keeping watch through ionpho,e. The
four towers have been deserted.
Manager Lukens remained at hi. desk
IN the office all night. issuing orders 10
his men.
MANAGER Lukcns said tonight:
ne blood OF every man shed here Is
on me governors head. He is absolute.
q ou.s'ae OF the law and has no juris-
nicnon whatever in refusing to send
troops HIS public statement tbo, tba
miners had the same right to fight for
ms property. which was his labor as r..
mine owner did to protect his propertv
inspired the men to the action witch
.hey ,ook today in firing upon the train
as soon as II came into our town"
Wounded Deputies.
Springfield. H.. Oct. 1.-THE ,peci.,
train on the Chicago and Alton whtcn
prouEh, the Alabama negroes from y,r.
ecu, hAa eisht wounded men. all deputies.
except one who was colored miner and
were taken to the hospital or t,ese on,
man died tonight, william w Carroll a
deputy sheriff. He was shot thre. ,i,nes
one bullet passing through his neck fro,,
the risht side. another passing into me
iempie In the right side and the third
entering the brain over the eve crushing
the skull. Another train. which arrlvea
at O'Clock brought up six wounded men.
WHO are at st. Johns hospital Those nj
Springfield hospital are:
William ciarksor, inmate of the old
soldiers home at Leayenworth, Kas.: dep.
utyi skull crushed: will die.
IL A. kyser. OF Bloomington, engineer
on train. shot through arm.
William Masser. OF St Louis. de,,,tv
shot through head: shoulder and hands.
will probably recover
James Palmer. deputy. shot in left sid.
of face. arm and side. VIII recover
Palmer has Just been mustered o,,, NJ
the Third Nebraska regiment He re-
fuses to give his home
Patrick Mack OF virden. run,oyo, -.
the operators of the Ch,enrn v;r.,os
shafts. bullet wound in thign, vii, re-
cover.
Ernest Ryan. a coiored miner fror, Ala
bama. bullet went through his head. Will
recover.
John M Hunter. of Pontiac. the presi.
dent of the Illinois district OF Tho Iint,ea
Mine Norkers OF America. lies a, the
Collins house In a critical condition ~.
Hunter got on the train which bor. .-.e
coiorec miners to this city THIS afternoon
and engaged In conversation with two ~
the coiored miners. Some Of the aepu,y
shsrhs saw Hunter and when the train
WIS between North Grand ayenue md
the north shaft and was going At ,he
rate OF Is miles al hour. II is estimated
the deputies attacked Hunter and puxhed
him OF the train. a man who bnnn~ued
along later in buggy saw Hunter living
near the track in an unconscious condi-
tion and placed him In his buggy ami,
took him to the Collins house. He IL sfIl
unconscious Governor Tanner ton,rh.
wired the war department asking II the
fnh Illinois infantry could not be piac-
ed at his disposal for use at virden. Col
onei Culver. the commander of the Fifth.
has rendered his services and those Of tho
regiment to the governor.
Ge~ersor Tanses Talks.
Springfield. his. Oct lin an inter-
view with Governor Tanner this evening
regarding the virden riot; he said:
Mfr. 7. C. Louck. pre.ident. and Mr..
Tutkin. superintendent Of the virden Coal
company. MT 1890 today nIads good their
threats TO land j train load Of imported
laborers from the south and attempted
To put them to work in their mines. at
the point OF the bayonet and the muxxlc
OF the Winchester. such lsbcrers being
drawn largely, II not entirely. from th..
criminal class. ex-coIv.ets who learned
their trade while doing time in the peni-
tcrtiaries of Alabama after having been
fully advised and having fun knowleese