"When the sheriff took out a paper, the strikers grew excited, but did not offer violence. They did not understand English, and it appeared to them that Martin had a warrant for their arrest.  The next thing I knew there was a shot and then a fusillade.  The men who did not drop in their tracks took to their heels.  I saw deputies take careful aim and pick men off as they were running to shelter.  They must have fired at least a hundred and fifty shots after the men started to run.  At last it was all over.  The trolley car in which the sheriff and the deputies came was right in front of my house and the officer got in it.  They were laughing and telling each other how many people they killed.”

- John Alry, passerby that witnessed the massacre, report to The Sun on September 13, 1897

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