St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-10-07
STRIKE RIOT
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Strikers and Strikebreakers
Have Pitched Battle.
Over Five Hundred Shots
Were Fired In Half Hour
McComb City Scene of the
Worst Stir Up. |
1ov. Noel Ordered State Mi
litia to the Scene.

If A train load of strikebreaker
v seven coaches, containing betwee
s four and five hundred men, gather
ed at some points in the North, start
ed through Mississippi yesterday
and it had stormy career.
At Durant, it is claimed. tn
strlkebreakers committed depreda
tlons, raiding kitchens and stealth,
hal1-cooked food and otherwise mis-
, conducting themselves, until there
was clash, in which brickbats fig
ured extensively, but no one was
hurt. O.
At Winona, where the trair ston.
ped again, the occupants scattered
ever town, and it is claimed they
7 RACED grocery store and cleaned
It out, which resulted in another
clash, but no one was badly hurt.
When the train reached McComb.
II ls claimed, the men gathered up a
I SUPPLY OF stones and brickbats, and
as the train passed through the main
part OF the town they started a
p.sched battle, which resulted in
ABOUT live hundred shots being fired
put only one man was seriously hurt
II. II. Montgomery, citizen of Me-,
comb, who sustained a fracture ofi
the skull. VI
The train then speeded IN. and.
never stopped until it reached thal
Iiaranan yards in New Orleans. n
wHefe II looked as though il. .hadi|
peen Inroaghs thasReeE Druises,
resulting from -brickbats or person.
al encounters. Y
News of the battle ct McComb
spread rapidly, and was greatly ex-
measure dh55v4erhRGaf dh54 a NR8tf R8Etaffa eaaagE
three companies of militia to the1
scene under General Fridge:
McComb City, Miss, Oct. 3--Tnere1
was an exciting time here this after
noon between 4:50 and . O'CLOCK,
while a special train of seven cars
raported to contain 450 strikcbreak-a
ers. bound for New Orleans, passed
through McComb City.
There was a regular fullisade OF
SLOTS, it being estimated that at
| least 500 shots were exchanged be+,
tween those on the train and the
strikers in McComb before the train,
pulled out at full speed, headed for
New Orleans.
| IF there were any casualties on the
train, it is not known, but there was
only one man in town hurt, Il. II.
Montgomery, who was hit on the
1head, supposedly by stone thrown
bv some one on the train.
The train reached the northern
limits about 4 p. M, and while side
tracked to permit of the change !o1
crews, it is reported here among the
strikers that the strikebreakers de
barked and gathered large quan
j, II tity of stones and bricks. =
When the train passed throughlth
town there were large number o
citizens, including many OF the ,Strlk
ers, gathered to see it go by, and 1T i
claimed that no overt act wascom
: mitted by the strikers until tn
j. strikehreakers
@ BEGAN THROWING BRICKS
. and rocks at the citizens Then tn
y people became excited, and a regu
II lar pitched battle ensued. TIL
1t strikers asked the United States maj
1t shals, of whom there are ten or fl
n teen here, to get the man who ha
=, thrown the rock that hit .Montgon
Ia cry, but there arose a conflict b.
lie tween the marshals and the city p
n lice, and in the confusion which fo
ID lowed they never located the ma
= The citizens Of McCombs claim th'
e could easily Identifying.
st J. D. Holden, legal advisor Of tt
ed strikers, urged Sheriff Holmes al
District Attorney Wall to take sor
:. steps to protect the citizens of M
le' Comb from any more such outbrea
he on the part of the strikebreakel
lin and the sheriff and district attorn
at went to Jackson and conferred wi
the governor, with the result th
1.-TWO companies of militia We're ord
oi- ed out and are expected here
J. 1890 o'clock tonight.
d. While feeling continues to +
F. high following the battle, the sit'
rn- tion at O'Clock tonight had assn
ar ed more peaceful aspect. Few p
ar sons are on the strets of the ci
of and county and municipal autht
tide ties express the belief that seri
ore trouble is not now eminent.
on A number of strikebreakers W
bita arrested and placed in the McCo
ad- Jail.
the F. D. Hewett, police magistrate
Lud- McComb City, tonight gave
he THE FOLLOWING VERSION
G to Of the trouble which occurred at
dell station:
eek The clash between The stril
hing and other citizens of McComb
On on the one hand and the train
for of strikebreakers ensued almost
ress mediately upon the arrival of
win train from the North here late
.iver afternoon. Without any prov
ar tor the men on the train began
,wns ing at those on the outside ana
lowed this with a shower of bl