Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-13
.BloodShed at thePits.
A State of Instruction at the
German Galleries.
THE MEN DESPERATE AND DEFIANT


Whom the Strikers Taunt and Insult
An Occasional FusilIade Leaves It's Tale
of Dead Men-A Woman Wounded and
a Little Girl Killed at One Fire-The
Men Out by Tens of Thousands-For-
eign Miscellany.
LONDON, May 13-The Golfers strike in
Germany attracts the greatest attention in
every European capital, and may prove to be
the biggest thing of the year. In England
the great miners societies are watching the
struggle with the keenest interest and sympa-
thy, and there is talk of sending their German
brethren help in the substantial form of
money. The number of men on strike is esti-
mated variously ut from 100, 900 to $50, 600,
and their temper is decidedly ugly. At Ko-
nigstelle, for instance, bands of young fell
lows, mostly armed with revolvers and dag
gers, are roaming about the district insult
ing and maltreating every one they meet,
and seemingly ready for more serious work,
while at Aarhen Belgian workman was ar
rested Friday at the railway station with a
ticket for Gelsenkirchen and six packages of
cartridges in his pockets.
Assaulted the Troops with Rrick-Rats.
An instance of the temerity of the strikers
in Westphalia is given in the fact that Fri
day the miners in the Count Won Moltke pit
at Dortmund suddenly attempted to burn the
works. The official in charge communicated
with the military at Gelsenkircher and in
twenty minutes a company of infantry ar
rived The strikers received the soldiers
with shower of brick-bats and the officer
commanding the troops thrice demanded
that the rioters dispense The demands were
answered with volley of stones and the Off
Ger ordered his men to fire
Three Strikers Killed.
The order was promptly obeyed, and three
miners were killed and four wounded. The
strikers were about to advance upon the sol
diers, but hearing the officer command his
men TO fire again they sought shelter in the
houses at the mouth of the pit, whence they
threw another shower of missiles The mill
tary then rushed upon the rioters and dis
persed them, taking many prisoners SINH
liar scenes have been enacted throughout the
district.
Desperate and Defiant.
The strikers, despite the fact that the
region is overrun with troops eager to obey
an order to fire on the disorderly crowds, are
becoming holder as the strike progresses
| The hatred of the miners for the troops has
reached the boiling point and the soldiery,
perhaps in view of the fact that the orders
given by the military authorities in Berlin
| to the local commanders do not extend be-
yond their prevention of disorder are openly
| defied. Everywhere they are goaded to ex
| asperation by taunts of cowardice, and their
| temper has been clearly shown in the number
| n hail laHi nf
orders to fire on the mob.
Working for Popular Sympathy.
Nor have the rioters stopped at this, but
| have resorted to every conceivable means OF
provoking the troops to aggressive action
| with the object of creating popular sympathy
| for themselves. The number of killed and
| wounded in the several collisions which have
taken place is unknown, and it is impossible
to form an approximate estimate, as a great
many of the dead and injured have been
hastily remove from the scene of battle by
their friends and secreted in out of the way
places. Col Michaelis is in supreme com
mand of the troops in the disordered dis
tricts, and is literally carrying out the or
ders he received from Berlin, otherwise the
destruction of life would be much greater
than it has been.
Incendisrism Resorted to.
The entire military garrison of Dusseldorf
Is now in the district disturbed by the strikes.
At midnight Saturday the rioters set fire to
an oil factory at Dierenfeld, causing the
complete destruction of the works. The
miners Mt Muelbern and Duisberg have
joined the strikers and the strike is still
spreading. The pit men at Schleswig at
tackled their foremen with daggers Satur-
day night and drove them from the works
The Soldiers Do Deadly Work.
The military was sent for and arrived at 8
o'clock yesterday morning. The rioters
separated into two bodies and took refuge
behind railroad embankment, where they
hooted and jeered at the troops The com
mander of the soldiers thrice demanded that
the rioters disperse and upon their third re-
fusal ordered the men to fire. The order was
obeyed and six persons were killed, including
a child years of age, and a woman was
wounded The rioters then dispersed
Meeting of the Mine Owners.
The mine owners had meeting at Essen
yesterday, which was also attended by gov
| eminent officials, and passed a resolution to
increase the wages of the miners to the ex-
tent of their demand, but firmly refused tc
conceie the demand of eight hours per day.
They also resolved to cease work to-day in
forty-two collieries. Popular sympathy is
largely with the strikers, in spite of their
turbulence