The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-13
Condition of Deputy Sheriffs and 9th
ers-Niner Thrown Of the Train.


SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Oct 12.-The special
train on the Chicago & Alton. which
brought the Alabama negroes from virden.
had eight wounded men-all deputies. ex-
cept one, who was a colored miner-who
were taken to the Springfield City Hospital.
OF these one man died tonight, William w.
Carroll deputy sheriff. He was shot three
times. one bullet passing through his neck
from the right side; another passed into
the temple on the right side, and the third
entering the brain over the eye. crushing
the skull. Another train. which arrived at
O'Clock, brought up six wounded men.
who are at st. Johns Hospital Those at
the Springfield are:
WILLIAM H. GARRISON. an inmate
of the old soldiers home at Leavenworth,
Kan, deputy skull crushed; will die.
H. A. KYGER, of Bloomington, engineer
on train. shot through arm.
WILLIAM MASSER, of St. Louis, deputy,
shot through head shoulder and hands;
will probably recover.
JAMES PALMER, deputy. shot in left
side of face, arm and side; will recover.
Palmer has just been mustered out of the
Third Nebraska Regiment. He refuses to
give his home.
PATRICK MACK, of Virden, employed
by the operators of the Chicago-Virden
shafts, bullet went through his thigh; will
recover.
ERNEST RYAN. a colored miner from
Alabama, bullet through his head; will re-
cover
John NJ. Hunter, of Pontiac, president
of the Illinois district of the United Mine
Workers of America, lies at the Collins
House in critical condition. Mr.. Hunter
got on the train which bore the colored
miners to this city this afternoon and en-
gagged in conversation with two of the col
ored miners. Some of the deputy sheriffs
saw Hunter, and when the train was be-
tween North Grand avenue and the North
shaft and was going at the rate of eighteen
miles an hour, it is estimated, the deputies
attacked Hunter and pushed him off the
train. man who happened along later in
a buggy saw Hunter lying near the track
in an Unconscious condition placed him in
his buggy and took him to the Collins
House, where a physician dressed his
and his ribs are injured. He is still UNI
conscious.
Governor Tanner tonight wired the War
Department, asking If the Fifth Illinois In
fantry could not be placed at his disposal
for use at Virden. Colonel Culver, the COM
mander of the Fifth, has rendered his
services and those of the regiment to the
Governor. Chief Deputy William York. who
brought the train OF negroes from Birming-
nam, Ala, was exposed 10 the IRE OF Lnt
miners during the battle. but was uninjured,
though the bullets rained around him.
The following wounded miners are in st.
Johns Hospital: Albert Smith, Mount Olive;
Gustave Werz. Mount Olive; Edward Up
ton. Springfield; Thomas Jennings, Spring
field; Joe Haines. Girard; Joe Runk. Glrard;
William Herman, Girard; Joseph BastOn,
Mount Olive; Joseph Long, Mount Olive.
The miners are gathered IN little knots
on the streets of the city tonight, but there
have been no demonstrations. They say
they recognized the negroes who arrived
here from Nirden this afternoon as some of
those who came up three weeks ago from
Ala ALBANIA and refused to go to work at Vir-
den, and who were sent home at the ex
pense Of the Miners Union.