The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-13

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cost him his life. He was sitting in his store
| when his telephone rang and he was in
| structed from the stockade to secure physi-
clans and hurry them to the place. Eyster
jumped into his delivery wagon and. secur-
! ing two doctors. rushed them to the mines
| He returned 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. With
rush the throng Of infuriated miners
pressed towards the store. Eyster ran be-
hand The miners pressed hard after and as
Eyster sprang up stairs he and the miners
began shooting simultaneously. He ran to
the top of his building and jumped behind
chimney. 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 to the roof of anoth-
er store, firing into the street below as he
ran. From there he crossed to the roof of
the Bank of Virden, where he reloaded his
revolvers. Blood was flowing from wound
| in his side, but with dogged determination
| against terrible odds he continued his flight
| Jumping to the roof of the Rae & Gish
| drug store, he halted behind a projection
| from the roof of the building he had just
| left and emptied both his six-chambered re-
volvers. Then, springing from cover, Eys-
ter dashed ahead amid the rain of bullets
| to the roof of the Steed building, the upper
story of which is known as Miners Hail.
He either fell or jumped through the sky
light and landed in the arms of a crowd of
miners who seized him and carried him
seized the almost unconscious man and he
was dragged into the middle of the street
Local policemen drove back the crowd and
carried Eyster to the city square, across
Eyster was motionless and was supposed
| TO be dead. The police attempted to dis
perse the crowd.
| In few minutes Eyster was seen to raise
i AtAo manu- anu Wipc tic DlOOQ from MS lace.
Two men sprang at him, and, with the
ferocity of tigers, began jumping on his
body and striking him on the head with
| stones. With a yell the angry crowd charged
into the square to kill Eyster. The police
charged in body and fought their way to
the center of the mob, where they took a
stand over the prostrate, battered, bleeding
man. carrier was procured and Eyster
was taken to the Buckles Hotel. He had
| been shot through the groin and is terribly
battered up about the head. The physicians
state that he has barely a chance for re-
covery.
IN THE SToCKADE.
An Associated Press representative secured
admittance to the stockade late tonight
and found one guard dead and eight wound
| ed. Two doctors were at work with the
wounded and communication with them was
prohibited. The stockade surrounds about
| twenty acres of ground in square and is
made of pine boards an inch thick set edge
to edge, about twelve feet high. On each of
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watch tower containing a guard armed with
| a Winchester. There are three entrances
which are closely guarded by half a dozen
armed sentries day and night The fight
| to-day occurred at the east entrance There
are about thirty-five big strong men sta
toned inside the stockade tonight, each
keeping watch through a loophole. The
four towers have been deserted. Manager
Lukens remained at his desk in the Office all
night issuing orders to his men.
Manager Lukens said tonight: 1.-The
blood of every man shed here is on the
Governors head. He is absolutely outside
of the law, and has no justification what
ever in refusing to send troops If this
train had come in before the interview with
been no bloodshed The men knew they
were disobeyng the law, and had exhibited
an entirely different spirit than what they
did after the interview was published.
Most of them were ignorant enough to be-
lieve that they had a right to do as the
Governor said they had His statement
that the miner had the same right to fight
for his property. which was his labor, as
the mine owner did to protect his property,
inspired these men to the action which they
took to-day on firing upon this train as
soon as 1t came into our town. At least 500
shots We're fired into that train by the time
1t reached the shaft, and no shots were fired
from the train until at least 100 shots were
fired into it, think. killing and wounding
good many of the people on the train. No
shots were fired from the stockade until
after several of our men had been wounded.
Several of the men came back without hav-
ing fired their guns at all. Most of the
shooting was done by the guards on the
train. who were authorized by the railroad
company"
Guard Killed by the Militia.
VIRDEN, ILL.,, Oct. PA detail of militia
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