Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-05
PACIFIC COAST.
UNION MINERS SHOT DOWN By
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
Spokane Wants DifferentiaI Rates
Fatal Powder Explosion
Wellington strike.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO TIE REcoRD-UsIoN.l
A DEADLY RIOT.
knights of Labor Shoot Down Members
of a Miners' Union.

of a Miners Union.
SEATTLE w. T., January Aha terri
bic riot occurred at the Newcastle coal
mine, nineteen miles from here, to-day, re-
sulting in injuries to many and in the death
of at least two men. The wires were cut,
and information of the affair has been
cleaned from passengers and others who
arrived to-day with only excited and vague
ideas of what took place. The story is
about as follows:
In Newcastle there are two labor organ
izations of Knights of Labor, comprising
the worst and mos, quarrelsome element in
the camp, and the Miners Union, formed
by men who believe in exercising reason.
The latter largely outnumber the Knights
of Labor. The Knights, however, always
settle their difficulties by sending for help
to other mining camps, but the Union has
no such resources. By daylight to-day the
arrival of number of Knights from other
camps indicated that the trouble started
yesterday had come TO climax.
t. S. Crobert, a member of the Union, is
confined to his bed here. He tells the fol-
lowing story: He arose as usual at 6:15,
and started out of his cabin and was star
tied by pistol ball whizzing by his head
He started to run, but was overtaken by
crowd of assailants, who knocked him
down and beat him till he was left for
dead. He afterwards recovered and walked
to Renton through the woods, and was
found there. He came in on the train and
put himself under the doctors care here.
Crobert is a man over so years of age. He
says the whole trouble originated over the
fact that one Union man was put to work
where the Knights thought that one
them should be.
BOY sHAMEFULLY BEATEN.
One of the passengers on the only train
from Newcastle says that one of the train
hands attacked was boy of only 10 years.
When the attacking party assembled,
woman rushed out crying "Save my boy"
and throwing her arms about the young
STRIPPING. The maddened men tore them
apart and beat the boy shamefully. The
lad finally slid out of his coat and ran away
TO TIE woods, followed by his feeble mother
A bystander was attacked by the infuri-
ated men, and had to flee to the woods
The last seen of him by the passengers he
was hid by the smoke from volley fired
by the rioters. The men did not hight with
clubs and stones alone, but they used eff
fectively
sHoTGUNs AND wINcHEsTERs.
The conductor of the train says that as he
nf fa,x
passengers and lot of frightened women,
he saw several men behind stumps and
barns shooting, and he saw at least one
man fall. After that the train came OF the
trestle and the telegraph wires were cut.
The Sheriff and posse hastened to the
scene, and in short time the Sheriff sent
a courier to the first telegraph station call
ing for aid from the militia. In a short
time
SEVENTY MILITIA-NEN WENT FLYING
On special train. but unfortunately the
engine broke down, and the train slowly
returned by force of gravity. Then it was
learned that the Sheriff was on his way to
town, and that the militia should be ready
for action at moments notice.
LATER-Two cotfins were sent out on
special train with the Coroner and physi-
clans. The names of the dead and
wounded cannot be learned until the
Sheriff arrives here, probably about mid
night.
LATEST FROM THE SCENE.
MIDNIGHT-A train has Just arrived with
the dead body of NJ. Rusted, one of the
miners killed at Newcastle to- day in the act
of shooting women who were standing over
defenseless and badly-beaten man named
Howell Jones.
One Mullerhey threatened to bring over
reinforcements from Gilman, but the militia
will be on the scene by daylight to prevent
any more bloooshed, if possible.