Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-06
RIOTERS WOUNDED
IN SHOP STRIKE.
HARTMAN EMPLOYEES AND NON.
UNiONIsTs ON TRAIN, CLASH
IN SOUTH.
MILITIA SENT TO JACKSON, MISS.
Bullets Fairly Rain for 20 Minutes Be-
fore Coaches Are Pulled Out.
Trouble at other
Points.

jackson, Miss. Oct. Ain pltcneo
battle in the freight yards of the Hi
nois Central here between strikers and
strike breakers several persons are re-
ported to have been killed and others
wounded. Governor Noel ordered out
troops and two militia companies are
hurrying to the scene.
The fight at McComb occurred at the
freight shed about half mile south
of the depot, closely following the
first encounter of the afternoon in
which one man was seriously wounded.
The train bearing the strikebreakers
was standing on side track near the
freight shed and more than one hun.
ired strikers Immediately assembled.
Words were exchanged and hostilltles
started when, it is claimed, strike
breaker hurled brick among the strik
ars. Immediately fusillade OF shots
Followed The strikers in nearly every
instance were armed with pistols, and
tbey opened fire on the coach windows
at which the heads of the strikebreak.
srs could be seen. Several fell AFTER
the first volley was fired.
The occupants of the coaches I'M
! mediately returned the fire through the
coach windows. Occasionally when
strikebreaker, bolder than the rest,
raised his head above the danger line,
he was greeted with a shower Of bull
let's and other missiles.
The battle ragged for fully 20 min
utes. Finally the engineer in charge OF
the train made dash for his locono-
tive, managed to get aboard amidst
rain of bullets, opened the throttle and
pulled out at full speed.
The train did not stop at any points
south of McComb, going through Mag
nolia and Osyka at full speed. Realiz'
ing the gravity of the situation and
anticipating that the strikers would at
tack the machine shops where eighty
strikebreakers are barricaded during
The night, citizens deserted the streets
early in the evening.
Adjutant General Fridge was accom-.
panied on the special train leaving
Jackson. by posse Of deputy United
States marshals hastily organized by
Marshall Fred w. Collins.
Scores of kilograms and telephone
messages have been pouring into the
governors office appealing for help.
!. c. Obtains Injunction.
Cairo, Ill.-The Illinois Central road
obtained an injunction in the United
States district court at Cairo directed
against strikers and strike sympathiz-
ers and preventing interference IN any
way with the conduct Of the company's
business. The injunction was issued
by Judge Wright in the Eastern dis
trict of Illinois, covering East ST.
Louis and other points in southern I'LL
nois.
Trouble between strikers and strike
breakers at Mounds. Cairo and Gen.
tralia induced the railroad officials to
apply for the Injunction. A railroad
switchman was fatally wounded in the
yards at Mounds by a machinlst
brought there as strikebreaker, but
who was found incompetent and dis
missed.
Durant, Miss.-Several persons were
injured in clash between citizens OF
Durant and party of strikebreakers
destined for points south Of Jackson on
the Illinois Central.
Centralia, Ill-Following a riot at the
illinois Central depot here in which
shots were fired at an engine passing
through the yards, ]. l.. Smith, spe-
cial agent for the railroad, was bound
over to the grand Jury on charge OF
assault with intent to kill J. c. kobs,
brakeman, who was hit on the head
by Smith.
The shots were fired because 1t was
thought strikebreaker was on the en-
CINE. None of the crew was hurt.