The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-10-05
TWO KILLED IN
STRIKE, many HURT
|. c. SWitchman Is Slain by
Strike-Breakers.
RIoTING AT HOUSTON, TEX.
Federal Judge at Cairo Issues lnjune.
ton Restraining Striking En-
Ployes From interfering With
Roads Operation.

Cairo, ILL.,, Oct 4.-Robert Mitchell,
an Illinois Central switchman, was
shot and killed in the railroad yards
at Mounds, near here, by machinist
brought here as strike-breaker but
discharged for incompetency.
!. c. Gets Injunction.
The Illinois Central railroad OBJ
tanned an injunction in the United
States district court for the eastern
district of Illinois here directed
against strikers and strike sympathiz-
ers and preventing interference in any
way with the conduct of the com
pany's business.
Trouble between strikers and strike
breakers at Mounds, Cairo and Cen
tralia induced the railroads officials
to apply for the injunction, according
to statement from the office of j.
F. Porterfield. superintendent of the
st. Louis division.
The injunction covers the entire St.
Louis division, including among the
more important points East st. Louis,
Centralia, Carbondale, Mounds and
Cairo.
Slain in Battle in Texas.
Houston, Tex, Oct. 4.-One of the
men guarding the Southern Pacific
shops, J. ]. Pipes of Athens, Tex,
dead; another, S. d. Crockett of Ath-
ems, Tex, shot and seriously wounded;
Gordon Knight of Athens, also a strike
breaker, badly cut and bruised, and
Capt. S. D. Knights, special guard, bat
tered, Is the net result of a melee that
followed the Decentralization here by
number of strike breakers brought
from New Orleans to replace en-
ployees in the Houston shops of the
Hartman lines now on strike.
Conflict of Responsibility.
Conflicting statements are made as
to the responsibility for the opening of
the affray.
According to the story told by one
of the guards, the train bearing a mum
Der of strike breakers from Athens,
Tex, was met by crowd of strikers
and sympathizers near the shops,
where the cars stopped. An endeavor
was made by the strikers to persuade
the men from going to the shops.
There was interference with the pro-
gram, and then it is said, a fight be-
gan. The men were rushed to the
shops and when near the gates shots
were fired. Crockett says the guards
inside the gates fired them; Captain
Knight states that the strikers fired
them.
Ultimatum at Omaha.
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 4.-The striking
Union Pacific shopmen were given an
by the company, when no
tees were posted at the shops that the
old men would have twenty-four hours
to return to work.
Chase Strike-Breakers Out.
DeniSon, Tex, Oct. A party of SO
en- route from the
north over the Frisco lines to Hous.
ton. was attacked here by mob
armed with clubs and beer bottles.
Several persons were hurt and the
breakers were chased out of the
city.
Government to Take Hand.
Chicago, Oct. Especial: That the
federal government will be involved
in the railroad strike if there is more
bloodshed is conceded today. The
Illinois Central railroad has already
secured sweeping injunctions. If the
strikers refuse to obey these, federal
troops will be called out.
McComb City Miss, Oct. A. Spe-
cial: This city is under martial law,
three companies of state troops hav.
ing been called out on account of riot
ing strikers and strike breakers on
the Illinois Central railroad.
McComb City, Miss, Oct. A. Spe-
cial; An explosion, said to be dyna.
mite, occurred in the railroad shops
at 100 o'clock this Wednesday,
morning in the vicinity of which one
hundred or more strike breakers are
quartered. The explosion was fol-
lowed by several shots.