The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05
MINERS IN ARMS.


An Infuriated Mob of Strikers Attack .
Coal Mine in the TIbcking Valley District
L Several Hundred Shots Fired, Result
ing IN the Killing Of Guard and wound
ing SeyerAI-State Troops Ordered Out.
CoLuMBUs. O.. Sept 1-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 wounding
two. The miners had previously cut the
telegraph wires to prevent the Sheriffs from
calling on the Govenor fer help During
the battle which ensued the koppers were
found to- be on fire. Sheriff McCarty, lof
Athens County, sent "a telegram to Governor
| Hoadly, in which he said that the miners
had blackened their faces before making
the attack. They quietly surrounded the
guards and opened fire without provocation.
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 HoI-
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. ~
Inc rioters are firing on the guards at
Sand Run and Longstreth mines. Both
places have called for help, and the militia
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 Hoadly has Iteiegraphed the
Sheriffs of Athens, Hooking and Perry
counties that all means in their control
should be exhausted to suppress riotous
proceedings and protect life and property
before the aid of the State IS called for.
On Governor Hoadly arriving at his office
at midnight he received the following:
1ouAN, ~, Ioept ls-TAHs the means IN my
mower are entirely exhausted to repress the
disorder and to protect life and property.
The strikers are cutting all Telegraph wires.
am worn out; have been gong day and
Aight for TWO months. Please sendmititia i'm.
| mediately and save further blOodShed. The
| jan is threatened. rs I
y. f. McCAIsnYs Sherif Hooking County.
The Governor. at once ordered out all Of
The Fourteenth Regiment, the Duffy and
| the Governors Guards, the Lancaster, Cir
clevllle AND New Lexington companies, and
| replied to Sheriff McCarty that troops were
on the way, and asking if more We're need
ed. Inc 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 Rhave killed O'Hara was
arrested and brou sht to the Jail at Logan.
Inc 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 circuitous
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-
| heyed that riot has prevailed for hours at
! certain places. The bank bosses at New
| StraitsvIle 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 i'll the riot according to a
! general and preconcerted plan. AdViceS
are. meager and unsatisfactory. Z, fsWt33
LATER Sheriff McCarty, of Hooking
County, telegraphs from Logan that he has
| five points in his county where the riot is
| Beyond control and is unable to get at
them so as ogive definite information as
to what is being done. The Governor re-
piled that $50 troops were on the way, and
more were under marching orders if needed.
Owing to- lack of communication advices
directly from the point. of attack can not be
! obtained. s..,...ss,sg Il s.s.;s. .s.t4.
3:l5 a. ln.-The military are being held
| for further, orders. The Lancaster COM
pany is at Logan guarding the jail. The
Circleyille and New Lexington companies
| have been taken by special Srain to Ian
caster, and all the rest of the troops or
dered out are being held at Columbus. The
! Governor has just left on a special train for
the scene OF the trouble. to investigate the
matter for himself, and will then order
| troops if he thinks necessary. He can
reach the point In one hour and thirty min
utes.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept L. 1t is re-
ported here that two hundred striking
miners at the Warrior coal mines, twelve
! miles from here, had fired on recently inn
ported Italian miners, killing ten of them.
There is nc positive news, but the military
companies of this city expect tdebe ordered
to the mines.