Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-08-31

Murderous Italians.
spokane, Aug. 27.-With the side of
MS head torn with shot and a bullet
lodged In his right shoulder, l.. b. Har.
low lies at the Sacred Heart hospital
with poor chances of recovery. He was
the victim OF an assault at Hansen
Junction Sunday night. and but for the
''Ahey interference OF train hands
would have been killed on the spot
his partner and Foreman Ferrell are
supposed to have been killed by the
same mob Of Italians who attacked
Harlow and Foreman Coleman. who
has an ugly cash in his wrist. None
OF the Italians were injured as far as
known. Sheriff Bradbury of Kootenai
county, Idaho, and an armed posse
reached the scene Of the fight and has
score OF the Italians under arrest.
The fight was started about %. m.
by an alteration between Foreman
Coleman and drunken Italian. The
laborer stabbed the foreman in the
arm. Just then Harlow and his part
ner appeared on the scene and took the
foreman's side. They laid out two Of
the Italians who had joined their
drunken associate. Then the Italians
retreated to their car and soon returned
with many willing assistants. They
drove the two young men onto a switch
engine and opened fire on the train
crew because the latter refused to de-
liver Harlow and his friends into their
hands
AZ
OF the train, which had been backed
onto siding while waiting for a spe-
cial to pass on the main line. Harlow
took refuge in the cab of the engine
and his partner crawled to the running
board on the opposite side from the
mob.
Brandishing guns, knives and clubs,
the Italians soon reached the engine
and demanded that the engineer sur
render the two men or he would be
killed. The engineer parleyed with the
mob for some time until some of the
infuriated towards began shooting into
the cab.
This seemed to be the signal for a
general fusillade, and bullets rained
about the engineer as he stood in his
cab facing the mob. He was not hit.
but bullet from a rifle struck Harlow
In the shoulder, and, as he fell the con-
tents OF shotgun tore into the side of
his head. After Harlow fell the firing
Stacked up and the engineer got down
from his cab to demonstrate with the
Italians. He was driven back at the
muzzle of a rifle and ordered to deliver
the two men. 1t was only upon his re-
peated assurance that one of the men
had been killed and the other had left
the cab that the engineers life was
spared.
In the meantime Harlow's partner
had crawled down from the opposite
side Of the cab and started to run for
his life. He was pursued and sur
rounded. The Italians at once opened
fire on the defenseless man and he is
believed to have been shot to death.
Foreman Coleman took refuge in a
Jap boarding house and the extent Of
his injuries were not learned up to
late hour. AS soon as the special train
reached the spot word was sent to Sher-
in Bradbury at Rathdrum. Then the
freight train returned to Spokane, bear
ing the injured man, who was taken
TO the hospital
Throughout the whole affair the
train crew acted with remarkable cool
ness, particularly Engineer McGilli-
vray. whose life was repeatedly threat
ened by the infuriated laborers. Fire
man Mcmillan also had a narrow es-
cape for his life. He got down to the
front OF the cab TO fix his headlight
when he was seen by three of the Ital-
ians, who mistook him for one OF the
hunted men. He was covered with two
guns and would have suffered a sudden
death had not one of the Italians recog-
nized him as the fireman and not Har-
lows partner. /
Brakemen J. King and A. n Long
were on the eaboose when the firing be- |
gan. Several Of the shots passed in I
,lose proximity to them
AS soon as Sheriff Bradbury was no.
.ified of the riot he organized a posse |
of 80 men and went to the junction on |
! special train. The Italians were all
ported that Foreman Ferrell, in charge
II the Japanese steel-laying gang at
1auser. had been killed about an hour
EARLIER. 1t Is presumed that Ferrel,
vas killed in defending the wounded
oreman, Martin Coleman, who had
AIKEN refuge in the japanese boarding
iouse.