five o'clock
Who had started the clash was uncertain and , perhaps in essentials , immaterial ; so perfectly and fatefully had the stage been set for mutual murder . At the close of the fray there were ten dead . One was a guard : the rest , strikers or their dependents , including a woman and a six-year-old child , both shot down while running away . By five o'clock that afternoon Banneker was in the train returning to the city with a board across his knees , writing . Five hours later his account was finished . At the end of his work , he had one of those ideas for `` pointing '' a story , mere commonplaces of journalism nowadays , which later were to give him his editorial reputation . In the pride of his publicity-loving soul , Mr. Horace Vanney , chief owner of the International Cloth Mills , had given to Banneker a reprint of an address by himself , before some philosophical and inquiring society , wherein he had set forth some of his simpler economic theories .