The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-06-28
ARREST THE RIOTERS
FEDERAL MARSHALS AT MOUNT
OLIVE TAKE FORTY.
Seventh Regiment Fills strikers with Fear
and They Offer No Resistance to Officers
Guilty Ones Being Ap~prehended Wher.
ever Found.
COwed by the Troops.

Among the coal-mining districts
which refused to abide by the Colum-
bus agreement was Mount Olive. III.
Strikers there interfered with the
running OF coal trains on a road which
Is in the hands Of q receiver, and
threatened other lawlessness. Deputy
United states marShals from Chicago
vent down 10 enforce order, ut we're
routed Saturday in a pitched battle.
governor Altgeld then Ordere out the
Seventh Regiment, |. N. g., and the
troops reached the scene Monday
morning. Then the mar3hals revenged
themselves on the strikers. Forty a.
rests were made. and the troops took
charge OF the prisoners. 1t is expect
ed hat fully as many more will be APP
pretended. Almost without exec tiOn
the miners arrested are nOn English
speaking Slavs, Huns, Italians and
Germans. The miners were fright
n V G before the arrival of the
boys in blue. In the morning a large
~ attended meet ne mad been held and
II telegram had been sent to Governor
Altgeld asking him to have the troops
called home and agreeing to surrender
al the prisoners hat had been taken
fr m United States Marshal Br. nton
and his deputies Saturday night.
Those who were foremost in the as
sault upon the marshals were o in
mo t abject fear of the troops. They
knew enough to be aware of the fact that
in interfering with a government Off
cial they had committed a grave ~Otfense.
Deputy She if Henry Hitler has State
warrants for more than one hundred
additional strike s. He has Il large
force of deputy sherifls with him, and
he will prosecute the search until he
is sati. fled that every man in Mount
Olive who inundated train crews or
interfered with traffic in any way has
been arrested. 1t is feared that many
Of the guilty will secretly Lave the
city.
After the troops arrived and pitched
camp in the yard of the Zion Evangel-
ist Church. the real work began. Mar
shall BrintOn had United States war
rants for the ur men whom he and
his deputies had under arrest for a
short time on Saturday. He also had
an order from Judge w. O. Allen, O.
the United States District Court at
S ringtieid, to arrest everybody who
could be identified as having aided in
the rescue f the four prisoners on
Saturday evening.
If YOU want t. make some arrests"
said Colonel Colby, i have some men
ready to take care of them. This was
addressed to Marshal Brinton and Act
ing Sheriff Hitler. BY this time the
old-fashioned board fence around the
churchyard bore a wall of humaeity.
The deputy marshals and deputy sher-
ifs had been carefully watching the
faces of the men along the fence.
Among them was an old man with a
sheer on his face, and in broken Ger
man he was m9cking the Commands of
the officers of the guard. Two deputy
marshals walked out to where he was
standing. One got each side of him
and re was made a prisoner. He pro-
tested against his arrest, but he was
hurried back to the west side of the
churchyard and placed in care OF the
guard.
iii never forget that fellow" said
Marshal Brinton. "For al instant last
Saturday evening | was of the opinion
that he was the instrument by which l
was to be ushered into eternity. In
the thick of the fight, when we were
trying to retain u prisoners, he
showed a revolver into my face and
held it there long enough for me to
feel it's muzzle grating against my
teeth. How it happened I do not know,
but one of the deputies managed to
knock the gun from his murderous
grasp. | am sure that this action saved
my life." Rapidly the prisoners were
brought in. and as familiar faces ap-
peared the mob of women around the
fence jeered at the soldiers in a frenzy.
The prisoners are in all at Springfield
and Carlinville.