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Show A FREE FICHT WITH SAILORS. They Mart Oeeretat.l Iheir Tlma on Sliora ami le.ulie War A'ter the llewairt San lm ::'. Julv 15. YesVrdav afternoon. af-ternoon. Deputy Tinted Stales Marshals Mar-shals l!red!ove. Webb, Wilson and G tether entered a ;i!omi ami attempted In arrest eleven sailor of the steamer Charleston who. had ovcistayed their shore leave. A Marshal liredlove arrested ar-rested one, the others surrounded him an. I prevented him from taking tue sailor. The deputies drew clubs, and a Ireo fight ensued. The street became, crowded w ith sailors and citizens, nnd the light became g' ""' 1 'l0 Ptrot wagon arrivintr with reinforcements.' the aneted sailnr was taken to Jail, hut when the patrol lelt tho crowd again attacked the officers with P'ek hnndles paspip'-f and ether weapons. Officer Grcther drew a pistol as the crowd was clamoring fur h.s life. Another An-other constable dr'vo up iu a buggy and took Grcther aay j1'"1 " ""' !',r tha crowd had pown desperate. 1 he other officers finally B"t. away a"" 'nu woiinded wi re picked up. Robert Brown, sailor, died i" few mintiti s from the elfeots of a blow on the boa I. Another sailor named ISurns Is dying with a fractured u''- Depu-ties" Depu-ties" liredlove and Crether ate badly t rulsr,!. and a number of other persona ar" injured. Th community is greatly excited, and tha sympathy serins to bo with tha sailors. Threat of lynching aro inane a':imMhn deputies. "if sailors can put their ham's on them. H is aaid teat deputies, fur H o sake, of reward nfler-d for deserters, undertook to arrer.t the Bailors, tor wl.om shore leave bad not expired. Wilson. Hrediove and Crether have disappeared. Warrants have baeu issued tor ail deputies concerned. |