Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-01
The Puget Sound Coal Miners
Troubles.
Funeral of the Victims of Last
Sundays Riots.
NOn-UniOn Men Being Put in All
the Mines.
More Bloodshed Expected-The CalifOr-
mia Hot Wave COntinues-Field
Fires sRaging-ConstableG Cav
tits Sad Fate.
Associated Press Dispatches.

SEATTLE, Wash, June 30.-Everything
was quiet at Franklin today, the pres
ence of the militia on the ground be-
tween the hostile forces restraining both
from continuing the race war; but from
Newcastle and Black Diamond come
threatening rumors that denote serious
trouble in the next forty-eight hours.
There are now 200 negroes at work at
Newcastle. The strikers have done
nothing yet, but are reported to be max
ing secret preparations for some decisive
move. Company d, National Guard of
Washington, at Franklin, has been
placed under marching orders, and will
be taken to Newcastle, thirty miles
away, in special train held in readi-
ness for the purpose, at the first intima-
tion Of trouble there.
At Black Diamond the situation has
changed for the worse, when the miners
struck six weeks ago, it was not because
of any dissatisfaction with the Black
Diamond company, but because OF SYM
pathy with the miners who had been
driven out by the negroes
taken into Franklin by the
Oregon improvement company, which
is rival of the Black Diamond corpora
ton, and it was supposed the men
would return to work as soon as matters
could be settled. The miners agreed to
return to work upon the old terms, but
today they notified the superintendent
that if they returned the Miners union
must have the employing and discharg-
ing OF all men. This the superintend-
ent refused to accede to, and he imme-
diately posted notice that any white
man who wishes work may secure it
whether he belongs to the union or not.
Black Diamond is only short distance
from Franklin, and the camps will
probably join forces in fighting the two
corporations. A detachment OF militia
is held in reserve to 60 to Black Dia
mond upon moments notice.
At Gilman, the home guards, coea
posed Of miners, are drilling
daily. The Seattle Coal and
Grain company has been sending
they have been met at the train by
large body of armed men. large
number of guards and deputy sherffs are
at Gilman for the pupose of protecting
all those who wish to work, but out OF
100 men sent, only eight or ten have
dared to stay, and these have strong
guard protecting them day and night.
1t is thought that the company will
take on several hundred men tomorrow,
protected by Company E,now assembled
at the armory here, and that the mill
tary guard will be maintained until the
strikers give up the conflict A large
number OF rifles were shipped to Gil
man from Tacoma today.
1t is thought that within the next
forty-eight hours every coal mine in this
county will be manned by non-union
miners, working under the protection of
the National guard. 1t is feared that
serious trouble will result at all places,
as there are over 1000 strikers who
will see in the introduction of negro
and non-union labor, the disappearance
of their last hope of employment in the
mines of King county.
A special from Franklin says This
was day OF quietness and mourning in
the camp of the strikers. The funerals
OF the men killed in Sundays riot occu-
pied nearly the entire day. The SER
vices were held at Black Diamond, four
miles distant, in the afternoon. Every
white miner in the camp, headed by the
Franklin band, composed the cortege. A
committee called upon the military to
protect them while passing through the
black camp, and an escort was furnished.
A patrol was also put on the flats
to protect the homes of the miners
while they were deserted by the strik-
ers, rs the negroes had threatened to
seize the first opportunity of cleaning
out the homes of their enemies. The
bodies of Morris and Williams, the dead
strikers, were put on freight cars, and a
line of militia stood between the funeral
cortege and about four hundred grinning
negroes while the prepara tions were be-
ing made for the train to leave. Not
word. however, passed between the two
parties.