Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-07-27
eLooDsHED IN KANSAS.

The Crisis in the Miners Trouble in Kan.
sxs Arrives-A Fierce Battle at Clements
Pit, Near Weir City-Five Hundred
Strikers, Headed by Hundred Women
Drive the Men from the Pit After .
Desperate Observation-Disclosures at Pitts
burgh-Negroes to Take the Place of the
Miners.
WEIR CITY, Kas-, July 20.-The ex-
pected crisis has come in the Kansas
! miners strike. Miners who were will
ling to work quietly and peacefully
have been attacked and blood has
been shed. The feeling which has
been growing more and more bitter
for several days eliminated to-day
in fierce battle at Clements pit, one
mile south of here. All the forenoon
there were mutterings of the approach
ing storm, and the feeling was univer-
sal that serious trouble was at hand.
| Just before noon band Of 500 of the
strikers, headed by 100 women, which
had been marching to the various strip
pits, reached Clements pit, and a COM
mittee tried to persuade the miners
there to quit This they refused to do,
and when the committee reported the
entire body of marchers moved onto
the works to force the men out.
The strip men were ready for them,
and when they had passed the tres
pass line they were fired upon and a
| general battle ensued in which Win
chesters. pistols and clubs were used.
Over 100 shots were fired, and it is
| nothing short of miracle that no
body was killed. One man was in
jured in the forehead and another in
| the leg, a boy was shot in the foot and
one of the women got a ball through
her arm. None of the injuries are
fatal and it is believed that none of
them are dangerous A number on
both sides were badly beaten up with
| clubs and dubbed guns.
AS a result of the battle the men in
the strip pit were routed by the strik-
ers, and were forced to flee for their
lives, pursued by bowling mob, which
would have 1ynched them had they
been caught.
There is an Enclosure around the pit,
which was broken into by the strik-
ers. The owner of the strip. Clements,
his son and a man named Big Dick
Reed, are said to be the ones who did
the shooting, and they have given
| themselves up and were run out of the
| county for safe-keeping.
The excitement was intense after the
shooting. and it was feared that mat
ters would become worse, but a prom
inent striker, George R. Fulton, made
the crowd speech, in which he adj
vised them to keep cool and counseled
peace. 1t is rumored that a quantity
of firearms have been received here to-
night. The excitement is still at fever
heat, and there is every probability
that further demonstra ton will be
made during the night.
Intense Exc itement at Pittsburgh.
PITTSBURGH, Kas.. July 2O.-The
miners in this vicinity are in state of
intense excitement tonight over the
rounding of four of their number at
Weir City this afternoon. Many ex-
press the opinion that this is but a
starter and will result in more blood
shed. That they are more wrought up
now than at any time during the strike
is certain. and there is no telling what
the end will be.
4 meeting of miners and strip men
is called for tomorrow in Henry's hall
in this city, when it is expected num-
Der of miners will be present from the
lower part of the district, and it is all
most certain something new will be
decided upon regarding the matter Of
work
A telegram was received to-day stat
ing that Assistant Acknowledgement
Clarke will arrive in Pittsburgh to-
night to afford the miners all the le-
gal protection to which they may be
entitled.
No attempt was made to disturb the
strip pits in the neighborhood of Pitts
burgh to-day. Those operated by
Beck, Beasley and Lanyon are running
the same as usual. The stockades
around the Kansas & Texas shaft
No. IL at Litchfield is about one-third
completed and the men are working
night and day upon it. Considerable
uneasiness was felt at Lees pit last
night from the fact that number of
men marched up and down the road
there shouting and firing guns. No
other demonstration was made. Min
ers, having provided themselves with
guns, it is feared that to-days erup-
ton at Weir City will result in COLI
sion here.
COlOred Men TO rake the race OF StElcR"
ing Miners.
LEAvENwORTH. Kas., July Git is
current runor here, with the railroad
officers as authority, that 1000 colored
men were put on the cars at Birming-
ham. Ala. Wednesday night, and
started for Kansas. to take the places
of the striking miners 1t is thought
they will go to Pittsburgh, and from
that place be distributed to all the af-
iected mines in the state. Trouble
and perhaps bloodshed will undoubt-
eddy follow such an attempt
New ORLEANS, July 21.-Yesterday
afternoon James w. Bowling, of the
United States mint, was arrested on a
charge of enbezzling S25, ZOO from the
government. made by the district at
torney at the instigation of the depart
ment at Washington. This was the
result of the mysterious fire in the
vault of the mint. said to have been
caused by an electric wire, by which
the bills in tin box were reduced to
an unrecognizab mass Of charred pa
per.
Three Men Burned to Death.
LONDON. O.. July 21.-Three men
we're burned to death in a fire at an
oil we'll near here yesterday. Between
and o'clock the we'll was being
drilled on a farm belonging to the
Ohio Oil Co.. about halfway between
Freeport and Woodside. The last way