The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-09
Three Shot In Van Buren, Riot.
Charles Henderson, guard, sho'
through foot with buckshot.


through foot with buckshot.
Antonio Lazzaro, Italian strike-break-
Or, shot through shoulder.
Carlos Niccolina, Italian strike
breaker shot through right leg and
arm.
This is the casualty list after pre-
arranged attack upon the bunk cars,
containing 30 Italian rike-breakers,
who were sent to Van Buren, week
ago by the Iron Mountain to take the
places of the company's striking car
repairers, at 1920 Monday night.
So far as is known none of the at
lacking party was injured, as 1t was
very evident the Italians were not
armed, or, if they were, they were TOO
badly frightened to shoot and used all
of their energies in getting out of the
cars and out of range.
No arrests have been made, and as
Henderson, the white guard, left for st.
Louis on the midnight train to enter
the company's hospital for treatment
only vague idea as to the number
of the attacking party can be formed,
the crowd being estimated from so to
100
The entire eastern portion of the
city was awakened at 1890 by per-
feet volley of shots. At the first vol
ley those familiar with the bitterness
of the strikers toward the foreigners
concluded that the strike breakers
were being attacked. Owing to the
fact that the streets in that part OF
the city are not lighted, there were
only a few of the citizens who went
in that direction to investigate the
trouble. Not a sound could be heard
above the reports of the guns. APP
parently only enough time for the al
lacking party to reload the guns
elapsed between the first and second
volleys. After the second volley there
was some desultory firing, for after
the first volley the Italians leaped
from the cars in which they were
housed and fed through the yards,
taking refuge behind and in hundreds
of cars on the tracks in the east yards,
or hiding in the cottonfied and Johnson
grass pasture that practically adjoins
the shops on the east.
Henderson, the white guard, made
his way west along the main line I'M
til he reached the division offices,
where he reported the attack, asked
that he have his wounds dressed and
that he be gwen a ticket to St. Louis.
He expressed the opinion that several
of the Italians had been killed, but
search of the yards and cars resulted
in the finding of only two wounded
men who were given medical atten-
ton.
Less than a dozen of the strike
breakers appeared at the shops Tues
day morning when the 6 o'clock whis-
tie blew These men had evidently
spent the rest of the night after the
attack in the tall Johnson grass and
ventured out only when they knew
they were assured protection.
1t was felt there Monday when the
two white guards, George Hermon and
Tom Mullary. were arrested on what
is believed to have been trumped-
up charge and held without bail, that
an attack was to be made upon the
Italians and no surprise was felt when
it was known that they were fired up
on. The negroes, had been
wrought up during the day by the al
legged assault upon Donnie Johnson, a
negress, and they were as bitter to-
ward the imported laborers and their
guards as were the white strikers, and
It is believed that a large portion OF
the mob was made up of blacks.