The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-07-21
BLOODSHED IN KANSAS
Battle Between Striking Miners
and Men at Work. ..
W0MBN LED THE BELLIGERENTS,

Fired Upon by the Workers and Four
People wounded-The Workers Driven
from the Minc-Further Trouble Feared
when Negro workmen Arc introduced.
WEIR CITY. Kan, July 21.-The ex-
pected crisis has come in the Kansas
miners strike. Miners who were at work
have been attacked by the strikers, and
blood has been shed The feeling which
has been growing more and more bitter
for several days eliminated yesterday In
fierce battle at Clients pit, one mile south
of this city All the forenoon there were
murmurings of the approaching storm,
and the feeling was universal that serious
trouble was Mt hand
Just before noon a band of 500 strikers,
headed by II hundred women, which had
been marching to the various strips,
reached Clients pit and sent in n commit
tee to persuade the miners working there
to quit. This they refused to do, and when
the committee reported the entire body of
marchers moved on TO the works to force
them out The strip men were ready for
them, and when they passed the trespass
line they were fired upon, and general
battle followed, in which Winchester
rifles. pistols and clubs were used. Over
short of a miracle that nobody was killed
One man was wounded in the forehead,
another in the leg, a boy in the foot and
one OF the women got a bullet through her
arm. None of the wounds are fatal and
1t Is believed that none of them are danger
Gus. A number on both sides were badly
beaten up with clubs and clubbed guns.
The wounded were quickly removed by
their friends, and their names have not
been learned.
As result of the battle the men in the
strip were routed by the strikers and were
forced to flee for their lives, pursued by the
bowling mob, which would have lynchcd
them had they been caught 1t is rumored
that a quantity of firearms have been re-
ceived here. The excitement continues at
high pitch, and further bloodshed now
seems inevitable.
PITTsBuRG, Kan. July o1.-Two warrants
for trespass are out against President Wal
ters, of the Mine Workers union, one for
Crawford and the other for Cherokee
county. Notices have been posted for
some time forbidding the strikers to enter
upon the coal lands, but these have been
disregardcd. The miners say their presi-
dent is able to give all the bond necessary
In the action, and that it will make no
difference In the strike. Others believe it
will have the effect of preventing further
visiting Of men at work and compelling
them 10 quit. The miners are in state of
intense excitement over the wounding of
four of their men at Weir City. Many ex-
press the opinion that this is but the start,
and will result in more bloodshed That
they are wrought up more now than at
any time during the strike is certain, and
there is no telling what the end will be-
LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, July 21.-It is re
ported here by the railroad authorities
that 1000 colored men were put on the
cars as Birmingham, Ala, and started for
Kansas to take the places of the striking
miners. 1t is thought they will go to
Pittsburg, and there will be distributed to
all the affected mines in the state. Trouble
and perhaps bloodshed will follow such an
attempt.