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ESTABLISHED I^sT 1S( A DAY OF BLOODSHED. THE STRIKERS IN DEADLY CONFLICT WITH THE DEPUTIES. Six Men mid One Woman Shot Down in St. Loulv?Three Striken* Killed at Kant St. Louis?The Guard at Argenta, Arkan sas. Attacked and Killed by the Strikers. ?St. Louis, April 9.?Tlie outbreak at East St. Louis to-dav seems to have been wholly unpremeditated. The men had been b?sy in all the yards with but slight interlerence until noon, and it was thought the day would pass with out any demonstration by the strikers, and that it would be recorded as one of the quietest days since the strike began. At that hour, however, a number of strikers, without, apparently having formed any preconcerted plan,-congre gated at the relay depot and began the discussion of the general situation. As time passed,, their number was augment ed until the original knot of men In creased to "fully 200. The discussion became animated aud the crowd more demonstrative, till some one proposed that they go to the Louisville and !Nash ville yards and drive out the men em Dloyed there. The cry of "On to the Nashville yards VJ was caught up, and the crowd advanced. As they proceeded their numbers again increased, some joining the mob simply as spectators, while others were, in full sympathy with the movement, until from 300 to 400 men were advancing toward tlie yards. Arriving there they swarmed into the yards and persuaded the men at work to. strike and desert their posts. The crowd, remained in the yards for some tune and, although considerable excitc ?menf prevailed, no violence was resort-! ed to. Just at this time, however, a Louisville and Nashville freight train was slowly passing guarded by eight deputy sheriffs armed with Winchester rifles. Crowds of men, women and children had congregated on Broadway where tlie Louisville and Nashville tracks cross the street and upon Broad way railway bridge which spans the Cohoakia creek and into the open space to the east. Just as this train reached Broadway crossing trouble began. The crowd on the bridge began to yell and jeer at the officers, and it is asserted that stones were thrown, which struck two or three of them, aud it is also asserted that a pistol was discharged. ? The deputies immediately levelled their rifles and fired two volleys into the crowd on the bridge. Four men fell dead aud one woman was mortally wounded. The dead are Patrick Dris coll, a Wabash section hand, not a ? striker;, ^P01" Washington, painter, not ! r; 'Xtikeh J?h^'?ouTOiu toal minors not h striker; Major Richman, mill em ployee, not a strker. Mrs. Ilfeffer, sain to be the wife of a striker, was shot in the back aud mortally wounded. TJie greatest excitement prevailed im medir.tcly aud pandemonium reigned. The crowd tied in every direction, and when the deputies realized how fearful was the result of their fire, sought menus of escape by rushing for the bridge, with a view of fleeing to this city. At the approach, and just at the bridge tower on the east side, they were met by Mayor Joyce, City Clerk Canty and A. Boardman, who seized the deputies' guns aud endeavored to turn them back. One of the deputies in his terror fired upcu the trio, killing a man named C. E. Thompson, who . stood between Joyce and Canty. Some shots were fired by the remaining, deputies at approach ing strikers and all started over the bridge. The sceuc on the bridge was one of the wildest confusion and excitement. Coal teams and other teams with wagons were galloping westward, and their drivers shouting to all pedestrians and teamsters to ruu back. Women and men on foot were runuing toward the city and waving back all they met, while immediately behind came tlie deputies, pursued by the vanguard of the crowd from East St. Louis. One of the frighten ed guards threw his gun into the river, while another hid his weapon in a wagon that was in full retreat. On arriving in the city the deputies went at once to the Chestnut street police station, where, after stating the facts, -they surrendered to the Sergeant in charge and were taken to the Four Courts, where they were placed iu custody, after giving the follow ing names: P. G. Hewlett, John Hague, Sam Jones, John F. Williams, G. Luster, Stewart Martin, George Maruell and W F. Laird. About half an hour after the shoot ing an excited and angry mob gathered in the square between the City Hall and the police station. A man named Dwyer, a gambler, in no way connected with the strike, became the centre of the crowd, who cheered the incendiary state ments which he uttered. He urged the men to "hang and kill." and was In the midst ofan appeal to the mob to follow hira to the Ohio and Mississippi depot to "hunt for deputy sheriffs," when John W. Hayes, a member of the gener al Executive Committee of the Knights of Labor, M. O'Neill and a Knight of Labor named Brown, arrived from this side. Brown who travels with the General Board in the capacity of the Knights of Labor orator and lecturer, mounted the stairs leading to the police station aud yelled at the mob for atten tion, kit the infuriated men answered him with "Hang the curs!" "Kill tlhetu!11 Hayes, who was standing at Brown's side, turned to a promiuent Kuight and asked him to introduce I Brown to the mob as the representative ; of the General Executive Committee. The man replied in a frightened man? I ner: "It* I do they'll bang me." Brown turned on him and said : "Yes, j If you don't they ought to hang you." j Then, turning to the mob. which kept f up the cry to "Kill, kill and burn."! Brown began au impassioned appeal for j quiet, law and order, and, by sheer force I ? -? >9. OI of* his earnestness, riveted the attention of the crowd, but only for a few minutes at a time, lor they would break away from the spell of bis eloquence and cake up their revolutionary yells. Drown said: '?Men and Brothers! For God's sake keep quiet. I implore you, in the name of humanity, in the name of the great Order of Knights ofLnbor, in the name of every law# both of the Order and of your country, to restrain yourselves and do no violence. Remember that you are sworn brothers. Do not forget that you are Knights of Labor, and that you arc pledged to obey the laws of the order and the commands of your committee men." At this point Dwyer broke in: '"Yes. why don't you talk for Jay Gould and be done with It. Tliey shot down our men, and you ask us to be quiet. I say hang them." The crowd took up the words, crying "bum. kill and shoot!" Brown pointed his finger at Dwyer and asked him: "Arc you a Knight of Labor?" Dwjcr dodged the question and yelled, "Kill the brutes!" "Are yon a Knight of Labor, I ask," said Brown ? "No," answered Dwyer, "but I'm with them on every thing, you can bet." "I knew that you were not a Knight of Labor. I knew that no Knight would talk as you do, Again brothers. I ap peal to you to be calm and disperse to your homes. If you will not obey our laws remember that yon arc foresworn that you are no longer a Knight ol Labor. Brothers. I beg of you do nothing rash. What! o!i! what will the Knights of the couutry think of you? Oh! what will the whole world think of our great order? Don't forget how hard we worked to build up our order. Oh ! do not tear it down in ruin. All men who cite you to strife are not true Knights of Labor. They are worse than detectives of the railroads who are trying to hunt you down. Shun them! Shun them! as you would murder!" While Brown was speaking. Commit* teemaa Hayes walked up and down the I platform, exclaiming in a despairinc manner: '-Oh, my God! my Godl'i wish this had not happened." His. eyes were watery ; he wns al most crying, and when he" addressed the mob fcfter Brown his voicf failed, and he was obliged to pause for utterance. Hayse's speech was of the same tenor as Browns's, as was also that of O'Neil, who followed Hayes. Casper Heep, another prominent Knight who had arrived, was busy among the crou d, trying upon the more excited individuals arguments which the committeemcn were urgiug from the platform. After awhile the temper of t he mob cooled down, and thev dispersed:. With threats to aveuge the deaths caus ed by the deputies. Mayor Joyce, after his encounter with the deputies ou the bridge, when he attempted to arrest them in their flight, went through the excited crowds to his office. He attempted to calm the men. but found it was useless. The streets j and sidewalks were blocked with men, j women and children, who rushed in | every direction. Reaching his office about an hour after the shooting, he at once issued a proclamation to -close nil saloons and warning the women and minors to keep oil' the streets. He was! seen with Bailey and Hayes of the Knights of Labor, who were urging bun to do all in his power to calm the men. lie said that he had notified the govern ment two weeks ago but that they had done nothing, and that he (the Mayor) was utterly powerless. St. Louis, April 9.?At noou the Sheriff telegraphed Governor Oglcsby .1 report of the condition of affairs, and received a reply that the militia would be sent at once. A few of the more vio- j lent of the strikers who had gathered at the City Hall after arming themselves j annouced their intention of attacking* the deputies on gaurd at the Ohio and Mississippi yards, and advanced in that direction. When near the yard they were met by several deputies and fired on. One of their number was killed. They say some of the deputies who failed to escape with those who fled to this city were chased by the crowd into a freight warehouse, and the offices ot the Louisville and Nashville Company warehouse was surrounded by an im mense crowd, who howled and yelled and urged one another to attack the stroughold and drive the deputies out. The men went among the crowds, urgiug that arms be procured and all the depu ties they could fiud be shot, Some of the deputies, watching their opportunity, slipped out and worked j their way among freight cars unobserv-! ed. A Louisville and Nashville freight car backed down alongside the platform ! aud took away the others to a place of I safty. Two deputies were sighted by the strik ere, who procured arms, and were chased j under the bridge. One of them was caught in front of Tonev's House on the j levee and was beaten to death by the j mob. Another was reported to have been shot as be was escaping under the approaches to the bridge. A Dangerous Drug. The use of cocaine hi Detroit is be-1 coming alarmingly prevalent. A Hank; cashier named McDonald and J. A. Fisfc, proprietor of the city laundries. I are the two latest victims. Fisk began i using cocaine last summer for catarrh by painting his nostrils with it, and later' took it internally. On Wednesday he j was removed to Harper hospital for treatment, lie is lull of vagaries, al ternately imagining that he is the Al mighty and Immaculate Conception and again asserting that he iias been raised from the dead. McDonald wandered to Toronto while suffering from mental aberration caused by fhe drug. Several other more or less prominent Detroiters arc known to be in a bad way from using the drug. JAKGEBTTftGr, S. C, TH1 ? ELEVEN LIVES LOST. A TRAIN MAKES A TERRIFIC PLUNGE OF 200 FEET Full Particulars of the Railroad Accident at the Deerfield River?Thirty Wounded ?The Cars Burned to the Water's Edge. Greenfield, Mass., April 7.?A terrible disaster occurred on the Fitch burg Railroad to-night midway between Card well's Ferry and West Deerfleld SUttion. The east bound passenger train from North Adams, due at Green field at G 05 1'. M., went over nn em bankineut 200 feet in height. The traiu consisted of a baggage car, a smoker, a sleeping car, a mail car and two ordina ry passenger cars." The point where the calamity occurred is the most dangerous point on the road. The track runs on tlie edge of an embank ment two hundred feet above Deerfield river. The bank is steep and is covered with huge boulders and masses of 3hale rock with which the road bed has been filled. When the train arrived at this point the track commenced to settle ! uuder it for a distance covering ih length. The coaches broke from their trucks and went rolling over and over down the precipice. The engine broke from the tender, tearing up the track lor twenty * feet. Below rolled the Deerfield river, ' on the very edge of which the cars were ! thrown. As soon as they struck they j caught fire from the stoves. The shrieks of the wounded aud dying filled the air and for a time the scene was terrible. The sleepiug car was an en tire wreck. It was occupied by several Dhsscngers, not one of whom at this hour are kuown to have escaped Injury. Throughout the night the train men work ed in removing the wreck. Up to noon ten bodies, nine of which were removed from beneath the submerged wreck, and the other from the car In which the vic tim had been burned to death, had been found. As nearly as can now be ascer tained, thirty persons were wounded. Engineer Littlejohu died this morning. Conductor.Foster is not as badly hurt as was^reported. He escaped witli a few severe cuts. It is imposible to obtain the names, of some of the sufferers, tlie physicians brohibiting?nny questioning. The extent of the damage to the train could not be clearly seen until daylight. It was then found that the cars that had been hurled down the embankment were, with one exception, burned to the water's edge. All were utterly ruined, and the engiue, although it remained on the bank, was almost completely demol ished. GEORGIA REGULATORS. T.vo Women ami an Oia Man Crnelly Whipped. Dalton, Ga? April 6.?Mr. B. C. Coyle, an old mau and respected citizen of Dalton, who has been working in the gold mines upon Cohutta mountain, in Murray county, was recently taken at night by. twelve -masked men and severe ly beaten. Two women were also taken from the house where he was boarding and were severely whipped?one of them, a young women, fainting uuder the severe and brutal treatment. Mr. Coyle was taken of" some: distance and his" bodv was literally gashed from head to foot." After the kuklux had left him he followed aud over look them at ;i i neighboring house, seeking, if he could, to recognize them He was then taken t and whipped again fliorc severely than at first. The reason they gave for whip i ping him was that he had been report ing upon them for running illicit distil I lenca, and the women were whipped for the same reason, so alleged. Mr. Coyle after laying up for some considera ble time, was able to get home, but is still Buffering, and is under treatment of a physician. He is a man of excellent character, aud is deeply sympathized with by all the people of Dalton. What Can be Dono By tryiug again aud keeping up courage many thiugs semingly impossible may be attained. Hundreds of hopeless cases of Kidney and Liver Complaint have been cured by Electric Bitters, after everything else had been tried in vain. So. don't think there is no cure for you, but try Electric Bitters. There is no medicine so safe, so pure, and so perfect a Blood Purifier. Electric Bit ters will cure Dyspepsia. Diabetes and all Diseases of the Kidneys. Invalua ble in allectious of Stomach and Liver, and overcomes all Urinary Difficulties. Large Bottles only 50 cts. at Dr. J. G. Wannamaker. Fickle Woman. A short time a?:o a certain young lady in this county became engaged to j the youug man of the old ladies choice j aud the young couple were to have been ! married within a few days, but about J three days before the event was to como i oft' one of her other suitors came in and i persuaded her to clone with him. and they I soon found an accommodating preach er to tic the knot that binds them to ! gether tor life, leaving behind the oM j lady aud the disappointed young man to ! sigh over the fickleness of woman,? Camden Journal. A Horrible Occurrence. ! Chicago, April 8.?The mail car re ! ported from Cleveland as burned on the ' Lake Shore Railroad was a bullet ear. I not a regular mail car. It was divided ' into three compartments?baggage, kitchen and smoking. In the baggage department were eleven mail pouches and two corpses. The car ami entire i contents were destroyed. The gin house on Mrs. M. E. Gil liain's plantation, in Xewberry County, fell doing considerable damage. Fif j teen hundred bushels of cotton seed ; was mixed with the ruins of the house, 'and will be nearly a total loss. There ! were two gins and a small thresher in j the gin bouse, and these were more or 1 less injured. QKSmY, APRIL 15, ISS m& VICTIM TO OPIUM. AYoum> Woman Killed l>y .Smoking tJie " - 1 Drug. Chicago, April 5.?A dozed looking, well-dressed young num. not more than 25 years old. carried an unconscious womaiv into a house in West Madison street early this mornimr. Where a sigu aiinounccs that furnished rooms arc to let* Dr. C. J. Adams, who was summoned at once, found the woman dead,ihud upon statements made by the young.man declared that her death was due toopium smoking. The woman had been' known as Jennie E. Woods, bear ing the name of a man with whom she had lived In Dearborn evenue. She was 21 yearsjold, and a bright attractive girl. Eighteen months ago she loft a local theatrical troupe with which she had been playing and began studying short hands. Then she returned to the staire and utent to New York playing there in minoi*parts. and with a company which travelled through the State. In Novem ber she returned to Chicago and had since lived with Woods. La$| night she and the young man who took her to the house in West Madi son street went to the house and engag ed a ro?m. The young man was known only^sr Burns, but seemed to be In good circumstances nnd was fashionably dressed. According to. the story he told Dr. Adams Jennie Woods, and he went'to Sam Lee's opium den in Fourth avenue, about midnight, and there she smofe?d rciglit or teu pipes of the drug. WhetJ*'she become unconscious Burns put lier in a carriage and took her back to the West Madison street house. After telling the doctor this much Burns I cleared out, and has not yet been found. I It la-Y'said that Jennie Woods was a member of a good family. She wore cosily clothes and a wedding ring upon which were Inscribed the Ieters "T. H. R>? LEVEL-HEADED FARMER. - Farmers Alone to Blame for their Pov erty-Stricken Condition. Editor of the Ntncs and Courier : I^have Been reading with great inter esttfo your valuable paper about the farmers' movement, and while I am under the opinion thtit something should be done to assist the farmers out of their present condition, I cannot believe that this -can be done by assailing our Gov ernment and trying to attach the blajie to those who are in office. Does any one^eheve that the cause of the poverty strieken condition of our farmers rests upon our Government? I admit that our (axes are growing too fast, but with this ??xception I see no reason for ^ora vla^j;. I am a farmer myBelf. nnd I *6?w.e ??rc debts than yTought to owe, and I am poorer than I ought to be. but I do not blame oiTr Government for that. It is my own individual fault. If every office in the State was filled with far mers. I would not expect them to pay my debts, nor cultivate my land. T must do this by my own Industry and economy. In my opinion the farmers' great need is to learn to he more syste matic in their business, and lo raise i more supplies at home and depend on ; cotton less. Wp bin* too much com-i j mercial fertilizers and allow too much j j manures to waste around our premises. : We buy too many things at high prices i on credit. I would advise my fellow ; farmers to try to improve in these re-1 i spnets, and to work more like business I j men, and to pay less attention to politi- i ; cians and politics. il. A. Ml ms. j Cartersvtlle, S. C., March 30. i Selling Her Soul to Satnu. Omaha, Neb., April 7.?Laura Phil lips, a pretty and well educated young lady from Valiscoe, Iowa, committed suicide yesterday in a very sensational manner. She took blood from her own veins and wrote with it the following note, which was found on her pillow: I, Laura Phillips, hereby sell my soul to the devil, in consideration for which he agrees to give nie wealth, beauty and pow er to overoomc all my enemies. She had taken a heavy dose of mor phine. Her home offered her every comfort, but she left it nnd eamc here three years ago, and step by step she went to destruction. Taken the Cake. We have been shown a shawl which, for age. we believe will lake the cake over any of the family keepsakes hereto fore recorded in the Monitor. The shawl is now in the possession of Mrs. Barbara Gunter, wife of Mr. Elias Gunter, near Batesburg. It was pre sented by Marv Taylor to Mrs. Gunter's grandmother in 1757?129 years ago. She was then ten years of age. The shawl is about three-fourths of a yard square, of white frabric, and is bordered with a light fringe, about one inch in depth. It is in a remarkable state of preservation and is highly prized as a family relic?Johnston Monitor. Kxelti-ment In TeTU*. Great excitement lias been caused in the vicinity of Paris, Tex., by the remarka ble recovery of Mr. J. E. Corley, who was so helpless he could not turn in bed. or raise his head ; everybody said he was dying of Consumption. A trial bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery was sent J him. Finding relief, he bought a large j bottle and a box of Dr. King's New Life I Pills; by the. time he had taken two | boxes of Pills and two bottles of the; Discovery, he was well and had gained in llcsh thirty-six pounds. Trial Bottles , of this Great Discovery for Consump tion free, at Dr. J, G. Wannaniakcr. Rioting has been renewed in East | St. Louis ami the police had to bring their Winchester rillcs to bear on toe crowd before they could be made j to retire. Logan's army bill has been killed in I the Senate. Logan has been making slow haste with his Presidential boom of late, ?6. p?ic: BLOODY RIOT AT LAREDO. A Cannon Clyirgi'd With Nails Fired Into the Surging Mas*. Galveston. April 8.?A special to tlie News from Laredo says: The in tense excitement and lawlessness which has prevailed here the past fortnight, culminated last evening in a bloody riot. The immediate cause is attributed j by many to a circular which appeared yesterday morning, announcing that the I Democratic party would hold funeral services at 4 o'clock in the afternoon over the party known as the "Huarches." Directly . after the appearance of the circular, it was announced that the "Huarches" forty would prevent by force any such demonstration. At 4 o'clock the streets leading to .the point where the Democratic procession was to start were crowded with armed men. For a half hour the suspense was in tolerable. It was then announced that there would be no efTort to bury an effigy of the defeated party. This had a pacific effect, and the crowd began' to disperse. Suddenly the music of the Democratic band struck up and the pro cession moved out to and down Main street, and turned into the street lead ing to the main plaza. When the hend of the column had reached the front of Martin's store a party of men armed with Winchesters and revolvers charged the procession. Instantly over one hundred men became engaged in a dead ly contlict, and for half an hour a regu lar battle raged along the street near the river. During the heigth of the conflict a small cannon which had been used by the ?'Huarches" party, and which is said to have been charged with uails and stones, was fired down the street. By 5 o'clock the mob spirit was supremo, and it was feared that the women and children would be at the mercy of the rioters. At"this critical moment word was dis patched to Colonel Barnard, command ant ?t Fort Mclntosh, that the heavy firing in the city was caused by an at tack by Mexicans from the other side of the Rio Grande. It took but a few moments to double-quick two companies ofiufantry into the town, before whom the mob quickly dispersed, and in n short time every armed man oa the street had his weapons taken away from him and order was restored. The casual ties so far as known are live killed and three wounded. All the killed were Mexicans except one young American named Brecker. The wounded are Hancha Garcia, Mr. Paggcnpohl and a nephew of Dario Gonzulcs. Paggcnpohl is a promiuent citizen, and was wound ed by a stray bullet while standing in the front of A. G. Dickinson's law office. Those who took part in the Democratic procession claim that they were fired into and only acted ?u the de fensive. The excitement l.i3t night was intense, but it is thought that further bloodshed will be avoided. TEN MEN CRUSHED TO DEATH. A Frightful Casualty Keeallcd in which a Hundred Liven were Lost. La whence, Mass.. April 10.?Flic broke out in the picker room of the Pemberton Mill 10 o'clock this morning and gained great headway before the firemen could get to work on it. At 11: 40 n general alarm was rung, summon ing the whole lire department. All the operatives were sent out. Might men j were in the room when the fire started and a large quantity of material was in j the building. The structure is situated j on the river bank in rear of the mill and is three stories high and -100 feet long. The mam "mill itself is seven stories high. The looms and machinery were at the south end of the mill. The mill next to the reservoir was much damaged early during the lire. At 12 30 the walls or the rear build ing gave way. burying ten persons, including four firemen, all of whom are probably killed. Engines from North Aodovcr. Andovcr and Methuen arriv ed at 1 o'clock and joined the Lawrence lire department in lighting the flames. At 1.30 P. M. the fire began to succumb to the efforts of the united departments, and it is probable that the mam mill will be saved. This is the mill that fell in 1860, when 100 lives were lost. A Sad Tale. Maj. William M. Cl'me died on Mon day at the poor house near Griffiu, Go. In the lifties Major (Mine was one of Griffin's most prosperous and popular citizens. He was an officer of the Macon and Western railway. He was mayor of Griffin in 1S58 and 1859, and frequent- j ly au aldermen before and after that time. While in the zenith of his pros perity and good fortune he began to j drink. Steadily the habit grew on him j until he lost his position, property and friends and became a begger on the i streets. For a number of years he liv- j ed in a little room over one of* the stores ! and subsisted on the charity of his former filends. About a year ago he was led "over the hills to the poor honse," and the once gifted, promising Mayor of! Griffin died a pauper. "In the Negro a Failure?" At a meeting of the Washington D. C. Presbytery recently, Dr. Phrnner said: j "Unless one had seen it personally he j would never believe that such scenes ] could he enacted in churches as arc seen ' daily in tlie colored Methodist and Bap tist churches throughout the South. It is tlie opinion of many noted men that, the colored race is generally deteriorat-. ing, and while some of Ihcnl, under good instruction, are advancing rapidly, generally they seem" to be losing ground. The separation between them and the whites is greater than ever, and left to themselves they are plunging into the darkness of ignorance und superstitious enthusiasm regarding religion." A negro in Williamsburg died from lockjaw caused from having two fing ers slightly mashed in a straw outter. E SI..50 PEE AXXI'M. JAY GOULD'S CRIME. DEATH OF THE EIGHTH VICTIM OF THE EAST ST. LOUIS RIOT Casting up Casualties?Forty-Two Freight Cars Burnett uml 832,000 AVorth of Prop erty Destroyed?.Seventeen Companies of Troops Preserving Order. East St. Louis. April 10.? The fires of last night are now under control. Fifty freight oars, the scale houses and lumber \ards were completely dcatroy I ed. The round-houses and shops were j partially -saved. No railway officials are around to direct troops where they will be most needed. The fires were all incendiary nnd started about 0 o'clock last night. Large crowds of strikers and citizens are collected in groups ovor the city and are still de termined to have reveuge for yesterday's massacre. Public sentiment is running high. ? Firemen and engines were sent from St. Louis to help put out the fire, but their hose was cut and the men intimi-* dated. They returned without being able to render any assistance. St. Louis, April 10.?The Executive Hoard of the Knights of Labor, when news of the shooting reached them, pro ceeded' at once to East St. Louis and there conferred with a number of citi zens and got the general opinion as to the affair. After advising every one against violence the Hoard returned to this side and prepared the following tele gram and sent it out as an expression of the Board'j opiuion of the affair: St. Louis, Mo., April 9, 1886. To Jay Gould, New York, The following advertisement appeared m many of the leading papers of the 7th instant: "Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co., Office of The Agent, "April G, 1880. "Ten good meu from here are wan ted as deputy Marshals at East St. Louis, to protect the Louisville and Nashville employees. Five dollars j#r day and board will be paid. Also, a number ol platform men can be given em ployment. Only men who have plenty of grit aud menu business need apply. Ap ply at once. T. S. Genung, Agent." How well this advertisement has been answered is seen by their work of to-day in East St. Louis?six men and one woman were murdered by those who had "pleDly of grit and. meant buisness." By your action in refusing the peaceful negotiations solicited by the Board of Arbitration, you, and you alone, must be held responsible by the I world for the lives of these luuocent people. John W. Hayes. Per order of the Board. East St. Louis, April 10.?The city has been in a state of panic during the entire night owing to the numerous incendiary fires, but with the presence of the military which is guarding all the main lines of track diverging from ihe relay depot, something like order ap pears to promise for the day. It is impossible at this hour to more than approximate the damage by last night's lires. They were all confined to railroad properly, and the officers sent j with the troops report about twenty to j thirty cars destroyed, loaded with mer chandise and coal. The greatest dam 1 age occurred at the Cairo Short Line yards, about one mile from the relay depot, where probably fifteen cars were destroyed, and the flames for a time I threatened the destruction of one or two hundred curs in the immediate vicinity. ! The yards were unprotected by the prcs ; encc of an active Deputy or an ofiiiccr I of any kind, until Company D ofCham } paign arrived at the scene of the fire, j Until the arrival of the troops the lire j was permitted to burn at its will. Two I members of tins company were fonnd j who could (ire and run locomotives, and i a switch engine being placed at their J disposal, they succeeded in dragging j away from the burning cars fully'one. hundred box and coal cars. Three companies of troops from Greenville, Paris aud Champaign arc now stationed at the Louisville and Nashville and the Cairo Short Line yards. The main body of the troops, beyond a few sentries stationed at the railroad switches, remains in the vicini ty of the relay depot. No serious opposition ot any character has beset the troops. A man named Andrew Jones, n Knight of Labor, was shot yesterday and is not expected to live through the night. He will make the eighth person killed thus far. The city remains quiet. A walk I through the buisness and residence I streets gives the impression that It is dc ! serted and dead, except that now and ' then clusters of sullen men are to be seen at the street intersections watch ing the movements of the troops. The J saloons arc closed and nearly every store is closed with the windows and doors barred. The troops have been distributed in platoons and compnuics at the principal yards and shops and in the vicinity of the large elevators on the levee along the Mississippi River. Kills Wir.- und Child. St. Fkancis, Ark., April 7.?Wm. Ellis, n hard drinker, habitually abused his wife. Aller being badly beaten yesterday, Mrs. Ellis took her child in her arms and started for n magistrate's otlice to procure a warrant for Ellis' arrest Ellis followed, and shot at her with a Winchester rille, the ball passing through the bodies of the mother and child, killing both. Ellis was hurried to jail at Boydsville to save him lrom lynching. The month of March, with its dry winds, has always been a disastrous one in the lire record. The waste for this country and Canada for that month has averaged 87,000,000. Last vear the March losses footed up 89,000,-, 1000, and this time are *10,o50,000.