And then another and another.

Then a dozen all to oncet, and away off through the night a woman screamed.
I seen the man in the telephone place fling down his book and grab a pistol from I don't know where.

He stepped out into the street and fired three shots into the air as fast as he could pull the trigger.

And as he done so they was a light flashed out in a building way down the railroad track, and shots come answering from there.

Men's voices began to yell out; they was the noise of people running along plank sidewalks, and windows opening in the dark.