Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-11

coming back from Benwood, and when
they arrived at the switch, George
Earnest went TO Hartman and told him
not to work against their interests.
! Hartman pulled out his revolver and
told Earnest TO 90 away or he would
shoot him. BY this time Tucker was
running like deer towards the car
! barn, fourishiug his revolver. About
this time Officer Casey, of Benwood,
came up and took Hartman to the car
barn"
! All this created, as a matter OF course,
| the widest excitement 10 the lower
portion of the town, and very large
crowd collected about Forty-eighth
street, where they remained most OF
/ the morning, discussing the various
/ phases of the situation aud awaiting
| further developments. Nothing else
occurred, however, during the day, as
| both the Benwood police and six or
seven city police, under charge Of Chief
| McNichOl, remained about the vicinity
OF the car barn. No cars were run
except on the Island loop during the
/ day.
/ Reporters for the REGISTER inter
viewed both the employees OF the Com
| pany and representatives OF the strikers
during the day. They told different
/ stories, as matter Of course, the strik-
| ers charging that the Company's men
precipitated and brought on the trouble
/ by remarks intended TO eXasperate and
guy the men standing about the
/ barn, and that Tucker aud Hartman
were really responsible for the whole
affair. This is denied by the men
named, and the other employees OF the
company, who say there would have
been no trouble if Ernest and Stegman
/ had not commenced it by the attack on
Tucker before eight o'clock.
WARRANTS AND AN ARREST.
When Tucker and Hartman went to
Benwood in the morning they swore out
warrants for George Earnest and
Michael Stegman, and in the afternoon
Constable Charles Sprouts arrested
Earnest and took him to Benwood,
where he was locked up in default of
/ bail for hearing before Justice Henry
/ Little this morning. At the latest re-
port Stegman had not been arrested.
CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED MEN.
DR.. Baguey was seen last evening as
to the condition of the wounded men,
/ Newton and Hartman. He said both
were terribly beaten up, and it was diff
/ ficult to tell which was hurt the worst.
/ He fears Hartman is injured internally
| by being jumped on while he was lying
\ in the street. The Doctor thought he
| could save Newton's right eye, but
couldn't be entirely sure of this. The
/ left eye is all right.
SCENES LATE IN THE DAY.
From o'clock in the morning till
o'clock in the afternoon cars "Sybil"
| and Nina" stood in front of the barn,
over twenty-five yards apart, those in
/ side the barn not being able to remove
/ them. st ( o'clock in the afternoon
/ Mr.. Tucker came out TO take the car
"Sybil" into the barns, and was aSsailed
with a volley of oaths. A person in
the crowd got large brick, and not
/ withstanding the Benwood force or
police were near him, hurled it at Mr.
/ Tucker, aud his escape was narrow
one. The car was run in, however, and
the nina" was run over the line into
! Wheeling. This car IS very much shat
tered Its front is broken and smashed
and brick marks are on all sides OF IT,.
AT o'clock the nine men from the
barn came out and boarded the Nina. "
/ On one side were the nine employees
and on the pavement was the crowds
| thirsting TO get at the men. Between
the groups were six officers, three Of
Wheeling and three OF Benwood. The
ear was boarded in safety, though 1t re-
quired vigilance on the part Of the OFF,
cials, and the men brought up town.
Last night fifteen men we're on guard
in the barn, but no police were outside,
below the city line. the Benwood OIL