Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-14
A SERIOUS ROW
JUST WEST OF BElLAIRE, SAIUHDAl
NIGHT,
In Which More Than a Dozen Non TOOK farL
and Several of Them Are Seriously
Wounded.

Yesterday evening it was rumored
that row had occurred at ST. Glars
Vile Junction, four miles west OF Bel
laire, on Saturday evening, in which
about thirty men were engaged, ana
that two men at least were fatally In
iured and several more badly hurt
No definite particulars could be learned
in Bellaire, however, and a REGISTER
reporter at once repaired to the scene
Of the ARRAY, where the following facts
concerning it were gathered:
In April last number of the miners
EN- ployed in Kldd's mine, at st. Glars
vile Junction, were supplanted in their
positions by non-union men, and an Ill
feeling has since existed between the
union and non-unlon workmen, and
ouarrels have been Of frequent occur
renee, but resulted in nothing until
Saturday evening. On Saturday sew
eral OF the union and non-union
them had been drinking pretty freely,
and as they were going into the b. ~ "
depot TO take the evening train home,
Fritz Elsliger, union man, remarked
to William Cash: "You are one OF them
blacksheep out there, and I've got IL In
for YOU" Considerable wrangling was
INDUCED in while on the train. When
il arrived at the Junction q crowd OF
men were standing at the station, and
one OF them, William Workman, nom
union man, followed "Hurrah for
Cleveland! I'm the best man in the
place" Immediately coats were thrown
of and both the union and non'union
men sailed unto each other ElsIiger
and Cash became engaged and Cash
pulled out his pocket knife and cut
! Elsiger in the left side, the blade
penetrating the lung, although IT first
struck a rib and glanced off, making
cut about two inches long. Several
knives were drawn and used, and a
deal OF gouging and cutting was done,
William Workman being cut and bit on
the shoulder, and Samuel Scott bit on
the arm. Miles O'Grady, q union man,
had William WOrkman's head under
his arm, and his knife out, prepared to
draw il across mis- throat, when Robert
Lovejoy, d bystander, pulled O'Grady
of Workman. 0'Grady then chased
Loveioy a considerable distance, knife
In hand, but did not catch him. There
were a number OF broken head and
black eyes among the rest OF the COM
batants. ElSliger was at once taken 10
his home about mile above the
Junction, and medical aid summoned. AT
| first it was thought he was fatally hurt,
and would live but few hours, but DR..
West, of ST. Clairsville, after an exam
nation said that the wound, though
dangerous, would not prove fatal. None
of the rest were seriously hurt.
Cash at once made his escape to Bell
aire. After arriving there he went to
the tailoring establishment OF h. j.
| Steger, where he had ordered suit OF
clothes, and had paid some money on
it. and countermanded his order for the
clothes, asking that the money paid be
given back, as he was going 10 Steu-
benville.
About twelve or fourteen men were
engaged in the row, all being young
men with one or two exceptions. Els
! Tiger is a married man, perhaps TWEEN
ty.five years Of age, while Cash was I'M
married and only about twenty-five.