The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-06
MINERS IN ARMS.

A. lsfuriated Mob Of Strikers Attack .
Coal Mine In the Hooking Valley District
Several Hundred shots Fired, Result
Ing in the killing OF Guard and Wound
ing Several-State Troops Ordered Out.
COLUMBUS, o., Sept AT two O'Clock
yesterday morning three thousand miners,
representing the entire Hooking Valley
district, attacked the guards at the Snake
Hollow mines killing one and vomiting
two The miners had previously cut the
telegraph wires to prevent the Sherifs from
calling on the Governor for help During
the battle which eusued the hoppers were
found to be on fire. Sheriff McCarty, of
Athens County, sent a telegram 10 Governor
ll0adly, in which he said that the miners
had blackened their faces before making
the attack. They quietly surrounded the
guards and opened fire without proyocation.
The battle which ensued lasted for an hour.
1t was not known whether any of the
miners were hurt. At Jacksonville the
mines were surrounded and the hopperS
burned before the guards were aware of any
evil intent on the part of the miners. The
telegraph wires had previously been cut,
The name of the man killed at Snake llol-
low was William Hare, an elderly man.
The two men wounded were shot in the leg
and head respectively. The striking miners
are concentrating at Murray City The
Deputy Sheriff has asked the Sheriff for aid,
and it is thought troops will be called out
before morning.. Elsewhere everything is
reported quiet.
Jne rioters are firing on the guards 1T
Sand Run and Longstreth mines Both
ntanns hpNa pallnI fNr hahn and tho mititip
at Lancaster and New Lexington have been
ordered to be in readiness for marching or
ders Owing to the cutting of the wires
particulars are obtained with difficulty
Governor IIoadly has telegraphed the
Shertfs of Athens, Hooking and Perry
counties that all means in their control
should be exhausted to suppress riotous
proceedings and protect life and property
tefore the aid of the State Is called for.
On Governor Hoadly arriving at his office
at midnight he received the following:
LOGAN. o., Sept AN the means in my
rower are entirely exhausted to rcprcsS the
disorder ana TO protect lie ana property.
The strikers are cutting all telegraph wires.
! am worn out; have been gong day and
night for two months. Please send militia i'm
medtatey aud save further bloodshed. The
jail is threatened.
}. +. NJ CNRTY, Sheriff Hooking County.
The Governor at once ordered out all of
the Fourteenth Regiment, the Duffy and
the Governors Guards, the Lancaster Cir
cleyile and New Lexington companies, and
replied to Sheriff McCarty that troops were
on the way, and asking if more were need
ed. The Lancaster company, being only
twenty miles from Logan, was sent
to that place TO guard the jail. One
OF the leaders in the riot at Snake
Hollow yesterday morning, and the one
believed to have killed Ouara, was
arrested and brought to the Jail at Logan
The mob was coming in on the town to re-
lease him. Special trains have been put
on the railroads at the Governors disposal
At late hour the last wire was cut so that
there Is no communication with points be-
low Logan, except as carriages reach south
ern points, and send to the city by circultOus
routes. This does not enable the authorities
to know what is going on till two or three
hours time has elapsed, and it is be-
heved that riot has prevailed for hours at
certain places. The bank bosses at New
Stratsville report that no men are to be
found in that town, and the women refuse
to tell their whereabouts They are be-
lieved to be out IN the riot according to
general and preconcerted plan. Adyices
are meager and unsatisfactory
CoLUMBUS, O., Sept E.-Goyenor lload-
ly and others, who had been making an in
spection Of the mining situation in Hooking
Valley yesterday, returned to the city last
night. The Governor says the situation Is
a perplcXing one, and is Of threatening
character. lie thinks that, with the men
in their present temper, it will be some
time before the struggle is over unless
the operators should determine to make
some concessions. He made a personal
visit to the mines, with the hope that the
situation would prove to be such that there
would be no necessity for sending troops.
In this he was disappointed. At five o'clock
last evening he honored the requisiton of
the Sheriff for troops, and sent three com
panleS to the most critical points, Long.
stretch, Snake Hollow and Sand Run,
Frank Woody, in jail here, who was
arrested for participating in the riot on Sat
urday night and for shooting William Hare,
one of the guards, made full confession
this morning, in which he has given the
names of five or six leaders In the attack
of Saturday night Sheriff Mccarthy will
furnish the names OF those implicated RS
soon as the arrests can be made. Woody
is in jail here, and the presence OF the mill
tIa about the Jail seems to have had the eff
feet to make him weaken