Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-21

NHlcdSO-N IIuCu COdI COHlpdn WHICH
lies along the right-of-way of the Chi
cago & Alton road about six blocks
further north. Just as the train
reached the southern limits of the
city, a miner stationed there fred a
gun in the air, which was the sig
nal arranged by the miners 10 an
nounce the arrival of the train bearing
the negroes. No more shots were
fired until the train passed the depot,
when quite a number of shots were
fired, and it is claimed by the miners
that the shooting was commenced by
the guards on the train.
When the train reached the stock
ade it stopped, and then came the bat
tie. About fifteen white men got off
the train and ran into the stockade.
The men on the train kept up steady
fire which was answered by the min
ers. BY far the heaviest firing came
from the tower of the coal mine in
side the stockade. Some of the balls
from the tower went through inch
planks on the other side of the town.
ID. n. Kjley, a Chicago & Alton pO-
liceman who was brought down from
Chicago. was standing near the north
end of the depot platform, five and
one-half blocks away, and was shot
through the head by one of the guards
in the tower.
At the east side of the stockade
where the train stopped the scene was
awful. The miners who were making
| their demonstrations were to the south
| of the stOckade, but over in the field
east OF the Chicago e Alton tracks
was g crowd of miners. The guards
in the tower and on the train corr
menced picking them off, and here is
where the miners lost all their men
I who were killed
The train met a furious volley of
| bullets from over a thousand men,
every shot intending to kill The vol
leys We're kept up for fully ten min
utes, until the uselessness Of remain
ing became apparent to the trainmen,
and the train was sped on to Spring
| field.
Shot and Brutally Beaten.
The men inside the stockade tele-
phoned for physicians, and J. F. Eyster
the manager of the coal company
store, drove up to the stockade with
two physicians. AS he was leaving
| the shaft he was seen by a number of
miners, and a frenZied crowd of sew
eral hundred miners followed him up
town. He ran into the store TO escape
the crowd. and they riddled the store
with bullets. Eyster, who is a young
| man, got out on top of the store and
ran along the tops of several store
buildings. Several hundred shots
were fired at him. He came down
through one building and was shot
through the head when he reached
the walk. He fell, and few minutes
later was carried out in the square
where two men jumped on him and
kicked him in horrible manner
Reign of Terror Prevails.
When the scene of battle was trans
ferred from the shaft to the store of
the company. which is in the center
Of the business portion of the town,
the postoffice, which is next to the
company store, and all other business
| houses in that immediate vicinity were
at once closed, and a reign of terror
prevailed in the entire community
Miss Ada Beatty, a young lady who
clerks in the company store, had a
very narrow escape She was in the
store during the entire fusillade.
The wounded men were cared for rs
well as the circumstances would per
nit, as the mine operator had secured
every surgeon in the city, and all were
within the stOckade but one. The SUI
perviSor secured the services of sur
geons from Girard and Carlinville
The dead and wounded were sent to
their homes.
A representative secured admittanct
to the stockade late Wednesday night
Two doctors were at work with The
wounded and communication with