The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-04
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before the train pulled out at full speed for New Orleans
 The train reached the northern limits l about o'clock and while sidetracked il is asserted debarked and gathered d large
 quantity of bricks and stones. | When the train passed through town there were a large number of citizens, including many of the strikers, gathered I at the depot.
 l It is claimed here that no overt act was ] committed by the striKers until the strike l breakers began throwing bricks and rocxs at the citizens. The people then became 1 excited and a regular pitched battle en- sued.
 The strikers asked the United States | marshals, of whom there are 10 or 15 here. to get the man who threw the rock that hit Montgomery, but there arose a conflict between the marshals and the city police and in the confusion which followed they never located the man. Citizens of McComb City claimed hey could have easily identified him. J. D. Holden, legal advisers of the strikers. said that he urged Sheriff Holmes and District Attorney Wall to take steps to protect the citizens of Me Comb City from any more shooting cn the part of the strikebreakers, and ha, this appeal resulted in the governor or dering troops here.
 Hewitt's Statement F. D. Hewitt, police magistrate of Me- Comb City tonight gave out the following statement:
 The clash between the strikers and other citizens of McComb City on ,ne one hand and the trainload of stikebreak- CTS, ensued almost Immediately upon the arrival of the train from the north. With out any provocation the men on. the train began jeering at those on the outside and followed this with shower of brick bats hurled from the car windows and platforms. There were also several shots fired from the train.
 The men attacked retaliated and there were numerous hand-to-hand encounters and occasional shots.
 Almost without precedent the only ger ious injury that resulted at the depot fight was that sustained by Mir. Mont gonery whose skull was fractured by a br1ekbat thrown by one of the strike breakers. Several other McComb city citizens sustained minor scratches and hurts.
 Used Obscene Language
 "One of the features of the trouble re- scented most strongly by our citizens vas the obscene epithets employed by the strikebreakers These were heard by women of the town Soon after the clash a number of the strikebreakers were ar- rested It was not long after this that the train pulled out and when it reached the outskirts of the city 1t was fired on by some persons whose identity is un- known.s The people of the town are stirred up deeply over the occurrence, but I believe otherwise no lawlessness VII be committed by our people and that or der will be maintained by the sheriff and poice.'
 McComb City is place of several th,u- sand inhabitants made up almost entire ly of employees of the Illinois Central railroad shop employees. It is claimed over 1GD0 of the shopmen are on strike
 Generally the people of the town sym- pathize with the strikers and the yer sion of the trouble at the depot as given
 witt is now generally expressed by residents here.
 Durant, Miss, October 3=eev- eral persons were injured today in a clash between citizens of Durant and party of striSebreakers destined for points south of Jackson on the Illinois Central railroad
 Preceding the train came telephone message from Winona asserting that when the train made a brief stop at that point many of the men disem- parked and helped themselves to mer- chandise from the shelves of stores in the vicinity of the station and that pay. ment was refused. F
 When the train reached Durant A number of the men left the coaches and started in the direction of nearby stores. They were met with hail of stones and other missiles and before they had fought their way back to the train three citizens were slightly hurt. Several of the strik kebreakers were in-