St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-08
YORKSHIRE RIOTS.
Ten Thousand Miners, Enraged al
Soldiers, Do Damage.

Ten Thousand Miners, Enraged at
Soldiers, Do Damage.
LONDON. Sept. Alarming reports
were received last night from the riot
Gus districts in Yorkshire. and it is ex-
| pected tha: 1000 members of the Lon
don police force will start on a special
train early in the morning for
| the scenes of disturbances The
| strikers in the various districts
| of Yorkshire have started
| campaign of open violence. At Feather
stone today they wrecked the Office of
| Lord Masham's collierv and drove off
| the officials, and are now in sole possess
sion or the town. The police tried to
hold back the rioters, were attacked
with clubs and stones and were put
to flight. Troops have been dis
| patched to FeatherstOne to restore
order. More than 5000 strikers marched
over into the Llanelly district and
seized the Offices of several collieries.
Many of the buildings were wrecked,
and those lett whole are occupied by
the strikers. The nine officials we're
expelled. More than 500 cottages of
nOn-unionist miners have been torn
down, and an attempt was made early
this morning TO blow up managers
house.
Dragons are out scouting for the
rioters and have dispersed many small
mObS. The miners have resisted the
troops and not Il few have been injured
in the encounter. Many miners have
been arrested. While rioting was in
progress at MeSham;S colliery at POnte-
tract, Yorkshire, today the mob show
cred stones and other missiles upon a
company of firemen who were trying to
put out a fire. a detachment of soldiers
were sent to the scene, and. the riot act
having been read. two vOlleYs-the first
of blank and the other of ball cartridges
were fired into the mob. Four rioters
fell wounded, one dangerously.
The riotlng lasted from dusk until
midnight. 1t is estimated that the riot
ers numbered 10000. All had armed
themselves with bIudgeons from a
neighboriDg timber yard. ROnfires
were made in the timber yard by apply
ing barrels of oil to piles of timber.
The flames Illuminated the country
for miles around. All the build
ings at the pits mouth were wrecked by
the strikers. The flames spread from
the timber yard to some jOiner;S shops,
and all of the shops were Quilted. The
loss amounts to many thousands of
pounds. The mob was exasperated at
the presence of the soldiers ana de
ulduuSu LlClL hlIilul dn de lnC ldlcSb
report is that one OF the men wounded
by the soldiers has died.
The miners of Durham have decided
to pay a levy Of SIX pence per man
every fortnight in order 70 aid the
strikers ia the Midlands. About a
thousand pounds every fortnight will
thus be realized.
There were miners riots at Sheffield
today. Thousands of strikers surrounded
the coal depot OF the Sheffield railway,
and there they prevented the transpor-
tation of coal. A large force of mounted
police was Oh hand to prevent il
ference with the movement of the cGrs.
Similar rioting is reported in the Dews-
bury, Burstal, Rotterdam and Noting
ham districts.
All the collieries i'll South Wales and
Monmouthshire have resumed WORK.
Nearly all the 100000 miners. who
struck for 20 per cent increase in
wages, have gone back under the old
conditions.