New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-01-07
A STATE OF WAR.
6EEMS TO EXIST IN THE OHIO MINING
DISTRICT.
Guards Driven Away from Tunnel by
Armed Men and the Tunnel Fired
Movements Of the Bel
ngerent Forces.

-~AOMbOS, OAAO, JAIL CsT1u0 guards
v'pre driven away Thursday night from the
Bristol tunnel, on the Newark and Shawnee
branch of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
This is strictly coal road, thirty five miles
long, over which immense quantities of coal
arc carried to Newark and thence to the
lakes and in all directions The Hook
ing Valley and Ohio Central are the
other two roads reaching the coal
region, but they are hindered by the
strike, while the Baltimore & Ohio branch
has been getting out large quantities of coal.
The destruction of the tunnel will stop the
output. The guard was light New Years
night and easily driven away, When SUR
prised and overpowered they stood the fire
for some time, but finally fled. The tunnel
Is between Somerset and Shawnee. After get
ting possession combustibles and dy-
Mantle were used. The fuses and
kindling were found when the tun-
mel was discovered on fire Friday morning
at both ends. 1t was also found that it had
been filed with hay. The tunnel is heavily
timbered with solid walls of coal on either
side. Although the Newark, New Lexing-
ton, Somerset, and Shawnee fire departments
are playing on it, they have hard work to
get at the fire, which has worked in. Four
hundred feet has caved in. The loss will be
heavy, and the officials can not tell how
long it will take to open up the valley. A
number Of arrests have been made on s,ls-
picion, and a lot of arms were stopped at
Newark.
The companies having put in new men in
all other parts of the Hooking valley, on Fri
day moved on New Straitsville with a large
force of Pinkerton men and special guards,
who were attacked before they got fully at
work on their fertilization. The guards
held the fort, but Sergt. Wood, who was in
command. was arrested by the marshal Of
StraitsFille an affidavit Of three strikers
whom he forcibly elected. The sergeant did
not want to go over into the town, and gave
bond. Guards are being enlisted here
and elsewhere to double the force
on the Hooking Valley e. Ohio Cen
trail bridges and at the mines. A late
telegram from Shawnee states that the reg
ular watchmen, after escaping, heard the
blast in the tunnel, They say that they
tried to get to the tunnel, but were fred on
BY unseen men whenever they tried to ap.
proach it.; that the fire was started between
II and 10 o'clock, and was watched all night
by the bushwhackers, who were in ambush,
and who fred on any one in sight coming
toward either end Of the tunnel. BY day
1SAV VIZ uI0 was uuueT 4uu sway, ana the
tunnel Is total wreck.
LATER.-The entire Bristol tunnel has
caved in its whole length. The loss to the
Baltimore & Ohio road is at least 1900.
The fire is still unextinguishably raging in
the heart of the hill. Passengers are trans
terred at the tunnel. Freight is not 70.
eeived by the company for points beyond.
OoLUMBus. Ohio, Jan. a-The officers Of
the Columbus & Hooking Valley road are in
fever heat Of excitement over the compli
cation Of affairs in the valley, and the pros.
poets Of further trouble and the destruction
Of property at any moment Between and
4 o'eleoA Sunday morning 4 bogus dis
patch was gqnt TO thu CONDUCTOR Of a
special train, which was being held
at Bqchtel, TO make q run to straibvills
ahead Of tine, and pay no attention tc Nos.
and 10. This purperted to have come from
the train-dispatc her, and had not the train
been discovered in time there might have
been great loss Of life and destruction Of
| property. II IS thought that tho idea
tyas bring ..tana,4s 8 collision 81 81
the tIflps gn the road, and ct tha
same Zine make y appear there W ~