Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-04-29
.EFFBCTSOF THBSTRIKH.
INDUSTRIES BECOMING SERIOUSLY HAN
PgRED FOR COAL.
A Probability that twenty-five Hundred lror
Workers Will be Idls Within a Few
Days-Ths Situation at the
Hills and Furnaces.

As the REGISTER predicted, the
Riverside blast furnace was banked yes
terday morning at Z o'clock, the cause
being no coke. The furnace has been
in steady operation for several months
and by It's shutdown over two hundred
workmen are Idle.
The steel works at the Riverside iron
works, employing three hundred men,
has been idle for few days, but will
90 on in the morning, good supply OF
coal from Fairmont having been re-
ceived
The skeip mill at the Benwood pud-
ding mill will go on next Tuesday.
There is enough coal stored away TO run
the mill a week. What will be done
after that is not known as the miners
are striking. The skelp mill will en-
ploy about 100 men,
The REGISTER stated few days ago
that McMillan's miners in Benwood
went to work at the old price Of 20 cents
ton for mining. They quit again yes
terday and now seem to be in line with
the strikers to stay. These mines sup
piled some Of the coal for the lower
Benwood mill.
Another complication threatens to en-
ter into the strike as affecting the mills.
Many OF the workmen were heard to re-
fuse to work at any Of the mills which
shall use coke manufactured by non
union men, or to be employed by any OF
! the factories using coal mined nom
union.
T. 10 tbo,obt tkat Dloobes tOhaccO far
tory can be run seven weeks at least on
the coal supply in sight.
Last evening at S o'clock Manager
Nicholas Riester, of the Belmont fur
mace, started force of men at work to
bank the furnace. This work will be
completed to-day, and the furnace Will
be idle this evening.
In this locality now only the Bellaire
furnace is in operation. They have an
extensive coke yard there and 1T Is
we'll filed. There is enough there yet
to keep the furnace in operation prob
ably this week, after which it will be
closed down if there is no change In the
strike. What will enable the furnace
to operate longer is the fact that the
Connellsville coke is mixed with that OF
| the Ealrm0nt region.
The Belmont mill is idle indefinitely.
All the works, where last week over four
hundred men found work, will be idle
this week with not man working. The
Belmont miners have joined the strik-
ers, and it will be impossible TO operate
the mill In any OF It's departments.
Since the beginning of the coal strike
the miners Of the Bellaire nail works
have been at work. Last evening they
all, forty in number, joined the strike.
| This makes it impossible for the steel
works, which have been running very
steadily, to go on in the morning. This
alone will throw over three hundred
men idle. The plate mill there, how
ever, will go on In the morning, but
they have but enough coal to keep II in
operation for two days. Then 1t will be
idle. It is safe to predict that before
the last of this week the entire plant
will not have turning wheel.
Twenty carloads of coal was received
last evening at the Riverside tube
works. This will keep the works In
operation for a part of the week, at
least
Gas pipes are being put in the Bell
aire water works, so that in case coal
cannot be had they will be on the safe
side.
For two hours yesterday afternoon
there was delay on the street car line
across the river. No coal at the power
house was the cause. A supply was
soon received and the service was re-
established.
Miller Bros, OF the Fortieth street
tool works, reported last night that
they now thought they would be able
to keep the works going. The firm
sees a way of securing enough coal.
they think. Besides this encourage
ment yesterday morning they received
a very large order for oil we'll supplies.
This order is to be sent to Canada. Be-
sides this they are already behind with
orders.
The big Etna-Standard mill Will be
idle this week and over fifteen hundred
men will be out of employment. The
coal miners all joined the strike last
evening.