The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-26
4 Battle AT A COAL MINE.
Over 100 Shots Fired by Strikers
and Guards at Weir City.

rha Attacking Miners Finally Beat
Retreat-None of the Guards
,ryounded-The Casualties Among the
7riners Unknown-Troops Held in
readiness to be Hurried to the Scene
Negroes to Take the Places of the
strikers Already Arriving.
Weir City, Kan, July 25.-The guards
ot shaft No. 337 had pitched battle with
a mob of strikers last night at 1O:30
o,clocly The mob approached the mine
r,,iotI,- and fred into the shaft. Deputy
liant who was on patrol guard returned
the fire and, calling the other guards,
defended the mine against the mob. over
I06 shots were fired, but none of the
IDENTITIES were injured. When the mob
cav, the guards were standing their
Ground all fed. 1t is not known how
many, if any of rhe mob We're snot.
over 500 negroes have arrived from the
south and are installed within the. stock
ades All are armed and are being put
through a drill. There were six car loads
OF negroes.
MILITIA UNDER ARMS.
topeka, Kan, July 25.-Eleven compa-
nies Of militia have been ordered to be In
readiness to start for the scene of the
miners troubles. The situation is crit
Lieut.. Gov. Daniels, who is major gen
eral of the Kansas National Guard, return
ed late last night from the strike district
and made verbal report to Gov. Lew
cling. The governor promptly turned
the command Of the state militia over to
Lieut. Gov Daniels and two regiments
were at once ordered to be in readiness
IN move on three hours
notice The governor yesterday
afternoon sent his private secretary,
Fred J. Close, to Pittsburg and this morn
inc he received a telegram announcing
that 300 negroes from Birmingham, Ala,
had arrived there and were placed IN
stockades erected about the'Keith and Per
nv mines. Secretary Close informed the
governor that the arrival of the negroes
had created no visible excitement and that
all was quiet this m orning.
THE GOVERNOR PROCESSES PEACE.
The governor continues to give it out
that in his opinion there will be no out
break in the strike district, but his ac-
tions and those of all the state officials be-
lie his words, for most elaborate prepara-
tions are going forward in the adjutant
generals office. In an interview with an
Associated Press correspondent this
morning the governor said that if the ne
grOes We're put to work in the mines and
not interfered with, that it would practi-
cally end the strike by complete defeat of
the strikers.
He nhesitatingly declared himself to
be in sympathy with the strikers, because
he believed that they had been dealt with
unfairly, but he said that as the law was
against them he would not permit the use
of violence. Other shipments of negroes
to take the places of strikers are expect
ed 10 follow rapidly
FIGHTERS SENT FROM PUEBLO.
Pueblo, Col, July 25.-Two hundred
Italians, Austrians and colored men were
shipped from here in body last night for
Weir City, Kansas, for the purpose of
taking the places of the striking miners.
Every effort was made to conceal their
destination by the railroad people, and also
by the men themselves, but the families
of five of the men in jthe crowd stated
that they had gone to Weir City. Many
of these men are desperate characters,
and if they are attacked they will un-
doubtedly fight.