The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-04
TWENTY EVICTIONS
OF TUE FAMILIES OF MISGRs
Homeless and Exposed to the Fury OI
wtntry HlAItS-TroubIs ThrSateuSd
When Attempts Are Made to EvIOt
the More Dstsrmlnsd sttiksrs.

CoNNRLLsvlLLR, Pa, Feb. 3.-Twenty o
the striking miners OF the coke region ant
their families are homeless tonight annie
the fury Of snow. They were evicted to
day by the strong arm Of the law invoked
by iron.clad leases under which they haC
an uncertain tenure OF their rude ant
cheerless habitstions. Last night and al
day the work OF eviction went on until, a.
above stated, twenty families were with
cut shelter, They did not remain out IL
the cold long, however, as the more lOrtu
nate ones who have not been forced oul
took them in and kindly cared for them
The condition Of few Vi the eYiCted fam
lilies is pi:iful, but in tho -maia- they az
we'll provided with this world'sgo6da, hay
ing been thrifty and laid by considerable
money,
So lar the shsriffs Of Westmoreland
and Fay0tte counties and their hordes
OF deputies have met with no resist
auCe, The evlctiOns thus ilr, have
been confined to the leaders oil the strike,
but few being singled cut from the
several different works. The eyiCtions
will become general Tomorrow. The
operators claim that the backbone Of tho
strike IL broken and before the eviction
becomes general the man will submit aud
return to work quietly. A few hours
more and the result will be known,
TROUBLE JUST DEGuS.
Tho minerIand coke drawers occupying
houses owned by the operators have a
different story to tell. They say the great.
est trouble the ConuaIlsvils coke region
ever witnessed has only commenced, and
before thoy will submit blood will flow.
No attempts have been III sde 10 OviCt any
families at the larger works, where the
greatest resistance and most violence has
been enacted, AT such works rs the
Standard and MoOrewooi, at Mount
Pleasant, where several thousand Hun
gsrians are employed, the houses are
castles, containing Tesolute men well arm.
cd. The sheriiis aud deputies will not
take them by surprise, as they have done
the others, whose goods tonight lie along
the sides Of tho public roads half.buried
beneath the drifting snow.
A few OF the fresh importatons Of Hun.
gariRns that were brought into the region
last night were put TO work to-day, but
their Countrymen claim they will have
them ON the aide Of the strikers before
morning. Alter evclipg tho families In
this end OF the region to-day, Sheriff
Sterling aud deputies, OF Unionto wn, pro-
Ceeded to the Valley works, near Scots
dale, tonight, where they will commence
the work Of eviction in the morning II
the men at the works do not resume. 1t
10 not probable that they will, and the
trouhle will commence.
WHERE THE FEoHT Is CENTEaING.
The strikers are now Gsntering their
whole fight on the works operated by the
fyndicate, which controls one.half OF all
the coke ovens in the region. A few in
dlvidual operators and al the furnace
operators have granted the advance. The
syndicate has not one hundred men at
work,
There Is considerable destllutiop among
tho strikers, mostly on account Of fuel, as
the opsrstor5 In many ipstanpea will not
allow them to mine coal enough 10 keep
them from freezing, thinking by this
means to force the mento work. In some
cases men have torn down hog pens and
COW houses for fuel, and suits will bs In
stitpted against them for damaging pro.
perty. The demand for coke is now great
and furnaces and mills are Dhutting down
all over the country for want Of it.