Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-04
SULLEN STRIKERS.
Likelihood of More BIoodshed
in the Coke Regions.
NOT ovERaWSf BY THE MILITIA.

Significant Report of n Soldier Who
Went Among Them and Took Notes
Nearly All of Thew Armed with Guns
-A Feeling of Contempt for tho
Guardsmen Abroad-The Leaders Look
for Terrible Outbreak After the Fun
eral of Those Slain Takes Place.
Mt. PLEASANT, Pa, April 4-tien. Wiley
yesterday detailed Private Kellar, of the
Eighteenth regiment, who speaks seven
languages, tocirculate among the Hunga-
ran and other strikers. Last night when
Private kellRr returned to headquarters
ne reported to Gen. Wiley as follows:
Where is going to be trouble between this
and Monday. The strikers are all indig-
nant because the soldiers have been sent
here, but they don't seem to fear them. I
was in two houses this aftern ION where
they threatened to attack me until adj
dressed them in their own tongue.s In
one house saw five guns and number
OF revolvers. In the other / saw three
guns and several revolvers. Five out of
every ten of these men have served in tbs
armies of the old country, and they know
what soldiers are.
Not Afraid of state Militia.
"They say that the soldiers who have
been brought here are simply working
men like themselves and will not inter
fere with their movements. In one of
their papers of to-day that / picked I'D
was an article saying they need N OF be
afraid of the militiamen, who were
novices and did not know any more about
warfare than the strikers themselves.
Ihey also know about all the members of
Fac Tenth regiment, and / heard them
ridiculing them to-day So far as / have
discovered there is going to be trouble
and it will come within the next two
days. All of the Hungariaus are in a
dangerous mood over the killing of their
fellow-workmen at Morewood, which they
claim was entirely unjnstifiablen
A Feeling of Great Uneasiness.
With the militia hurrying through the
streets, and restless, nervous strikers
crowding about the sidewalks and cross
ings, Mt Pleasant was a decidedly lively
place yesterday. The presence Of the SOL
diers has, to au extent, driven away
the uneasy feeling. STILL there is too
puch uncertainty Cor comfort. Another
ueadly conflict will not surprise any one
mere. The strikers are in sullen mood.
The evidence before the coroner's 1urv.
given so far by strikers and their friends,
and tending, as it does, to show that the
firing was hasty, has cnraged them, and
their suppressed wrath may take fire at
any time. Not less than 5000 miners hung
around town all day, and the main street
In front of the armory where the two COM
panies are stationed was choked up from
morning until night.
Soldier and strikers Fight
A collision between two strikers and n
soldier occurred near the Baltimore and
Ohio station yesterday morning The
guardsman was worsted in the fight, and
was taken off by friends. The fight tend
ed to unsettie the general feeling, and was
accepted as an alarming indication. At
late hour last night the strikers we've
holding big meeting, aud a feeling of
nervousness prevailed among the soldiers.
Instructions to Gen. Wiley.
Gen. Wiley is instructed from Harris
burg to give strict orders to the troops
that no firing is to be resorted to unless
by order of the officer in command, and
said officer shall not give such order until
every other means of restoring order has
been exhausted. The commanding officer
will call upon the strikers to disperse in
all cases before firing upon them. But if
they refuse he is empowered to order the
troops under his command to open fire
and keep it up until the mob has fed.