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Show KILLED BY STRIKERS A NON-UNION CRAKEMAN SHOT DOWN IN COLD BLOOD. Situation at Jackson, Tenn., Becomes Serious, and Railway Company Will Ask for Federal Troops. The strike on the Mobile & Ohio railroad is becoming serious, especially especial-ly at Jackson, Tenn. One man killed, two trains blocked and business badly tied up is the result of Sunday in Jackson. Early in the morning Chief of Police Gaston and his force were called to the Union depot on account of a wreck, alleged to have been e work of the strikers. A fishplate had been laid between the rails of a switch and a monster engine was ditched. The engine was placed again on the rails, but when an attempt was made to pull out a train the switch was thrown and another delay occasioned. occa-sioned. Later, Will Yarboro, a young man, was shot and killed while on the tender ten-der of his engine. Yarboro boarded the train Saturday as a brakeman. The train on which he was killed was the same as that manned by Captain Pringle, a bridge foreman, and his crew of negro hands. South of Jackson Jack-son the negroes were run off the train and at Bethel, Yarboro joined Pringle's train. The strikers say that they know nothing of the identity of che man who did the shooting. The railway company will ask for troops to preserve order on their line. |