The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30
RIOT AND DEATH.
Illinois 0olliery Troubles Wind Up
With a Fusilade.
The Militia. Attacked With Stones
Clubs and Guns, Opens Fire,
And Death and wounds Follow ths.
Crack of the Rifie--sequeit to
the March of the Am
MzRms.

Az8US-
CoLIINsvfLLE, ILL.,, May 20. The bnnd OF
$50 women, composed of the wives and
daughters of the striking miners in this vicin-
ity, who, armed with heavy clubs, appeared
at the Rose Hill mine near West Beileville,
yesterday morning, and compelled the men to
quit work were the cause of pitched battle
between the militia and the strikers, in which
one miner was killed, another fatally hurt,
and half dozen seriously wounded. After
driving out the non-union men,
the women drove back a sheliff's
posse which started out to guard
the mine. Leaving guard at Rose HiIl the
women marched to Reinecke's mine, and drove
out the men working there They tore up
the railroad switch. and threatened to burn
the surface work of the mine, Men had
joined the women by this time. The women
are said to be the most unmanageable of the
crowd. Word was sent by the sheriff to
Governor Hamilton and the commander of
the militia, and three companies arrived at
Belleyille in the afternoon. They took the
train to the Reinecke mine, arriving at 80,
in ravine between two high hills, which
were covered with strikers, the women on
the summit. AS Deputy Sheriff Anthony
addressed the strikers from box
on the depot platform, saying they
had come to have no trouble but to see
the laws complied with, a shot was fired
at them from the hill, which came so near
that he drew a revolver and fired at the spot
whence it came A general fusilade from the
mob followed, and soldier, getting out of
the cars, dropped with a bullet through his
knee. Deputy Sheriff Anthony asked Col
Barkly to give the troops an order to fire,
which he did, and the militia poured volley
into the strikers. The mob retreated and re-
turned the fire, when a second volley greeted
them. The miners and women scattered like
sheep through the gulleys and ravines. The
exact number wounded could not be learned
but twenty-six of the mob We're captured
and are guarded at Edwardsville by company
F. The following list of casualties is au
thentic
Fred Hoffmester, glass blower, killed-shot
through the head William Starkey, shot
through the head; viii die. James Blanchard,
wounded in the side; dangerously. Martin
Carroll, wounded slightly in the left leg. Ell
mer James f, of Edwartisville, one of the mill
tia, shot through the heshy part OF the leg;
not dangerous
ST. LOUIS, May ga special from Belle
vile, H., to the Associated Press says:
Everything quiet here this morning An in
quest on the body of the dead striker began
at IL O'Clock
Reinecke mine, where last evenings I'M
fortunate affair occurred is working this,
morning under the protection of the mill
tia. This is a machine mine and does
not employ regular miners, and was
working yesterday under agreement made
with the miners some days ago. III any
further trouble occurs it will he at mines
some distance from there which at this writ
ing have not been heard from The sheriff
reports all quiet at the pits in this immediate
vicinity. The streets of this city are crowded
with miners and citizens, discussing the events
of yesterday
The firing by the militia is not generally
viewed in favorable light.
The Edwardville militia remain at the Rein
eeke mine, but the Verden and Taylorville
companies have returned home.
There seems to be doubt that Deputy
Sheriff Anthony ordered the troops to fire ON
the mob, but not until several pistol shots had
been fred by the strikers, two of them aimed
directly at ANTHONY and General Reese who
were standing by the side of the train con
sulting as TO what should be done.
Greatly exaggerated stories of the affair
were circulated IN Beileville last night, and
no doubt many of them were sent the
giving a wrong impression of the
and seriousness of the trouble.
THE SITUATION AT CoLLINSVILLE.
CoLLINsvmLE, Ill, May 29-The Abbey
mines Nos. 8 and are working with full
of men, and no trouble is an
n
been in the employ of the company many
years, and are satisfied and willing to work
They are paid by the day at the wages
liked when the miners were receiving at
other mines 8 cents per bushel and was en-
5irely satisfactory. While the wages of the
coal miners have been reduced from 33 to 80
per cent, the wages of the men employed at
mines Nos. 8 and have not been reduced
The affAmnfS tn SfOn these mines Eysfassa
merely to stop the supply of coal for St.
Louis, and not on any demand for increase
Of pay.
A special grand jury has been convened at
pose of indicting those who composed the
mob who took possession of mine No. f. and
the men employed there
There aresao indications of mob law in this
Vicinity to-day, and from the expressions of
citizens in this locality heard on all sides it
would not be well for a mob of any kind to
assemble with the idea of violating the law
again by attempting to interfere with the
lights of Others
THE LATEST.
ST. LOUIS MAY 29.-The Post-Dispatch re-
port from the mining districts says: All is
Iuiet this morning. The Abbey mines at
Collinsville, and the mines at Marissa are in
operation The militia still remain at West |
8elleviIIe. All the mines there are stopped |
lilu bkl6 UNION anu uOil-uElOH In6A are us
;ussing last nights fatal melee
The miner who was killed has been identi- |
led as William Anderson. He worked at |
Dutch Hollow, and came here from Allegheny |
City, Pa. He was 26 years of age An in /
quest is now proceeding. Thirty-two of the |
strikers have been arrested.
THE IRON MEN.
CINCINNATI, May 29-Workmen in the
,olling mills have agreed upon a scale of
prices of So per ton, to be presented to
he manufacturers, and it was ex-
,ected this would be done to-day
The manufacturers, however, are unan-
nous in saying they win agree
o no bill of prices not in accordance with the
agreement made with the men q year ago
which Was to abide by the scale agreed ON at
,ittsburgh.. They say, further, that if the
men insist on demanding other terms, and
hus violate their agreement, they viii make
10 new agreements with them.
Fatal Accident
NoRRTsTowN, Pa, May GA gang OF