The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-08
ALL Tl,AFFIc STOPPED,
by tho Coal Train Held up on tho u. s o.
West OF Beliairc.

West OF Bclinirc.
There was great uneasincss felt in
Bellaire oil day yesterday over the
situation among tho coal miners, and
the people were out upon the streets
anxiously inqu.iug about tho news.
The fact that 600 miners wcro masaed
only three miles west OF tho city, and
that they had stopped coal train, was
generally known from tho morning
papers, but when tho furthor nows
came that tho coal train was In possess
sion oil tho miners and was standing
upon tho main track OF tho Baltimore
& Ohio railroad oGssruc,ing all trains,
the anxiety became intense.
No passenger or mail trains passed.
that point from o'clock Wednesday
| evening, No mail was received, and all
these things accumulated to increase
the uncasiness OF the people, who had
learned that the United States marshal,
Henry BOIL, nnd posse OF deputies, to-
GcllIer with 1,900 state militia, were on
their way. Tho news had become go
mixed in the minds OF nearly everybody
that they thought 4 conflict between
| the troops and miners was imminent.
Hundreds walked out onto the hills
overlooking McClainvills ani remained
there most Of tho dag. During tho
morning number OF miners in Bellaire
gathered together quantity OF food for
tho miners niassed at McClainvIlle.
Two wagon loads wcro sent out carly in
tho morning, and the local committee
proceeded to provide additional sup
plies that were sent out later.
Tho blockade continued until eight
passenger, mail aud expro,s trains were
blockaded on either side Of the coal
train. The mipcrs had been informed
that this would bring United States
regulars to the scene to get the mail
trains through, and about 10 o'clock
they gave the conductor OF tho coal
train an hour 10 move his train oil tho
main track and raise the blockade, ac-
compapying tho notice with the further
information that il he did not do 30
they would move it. The conductor
wired this to Newark and awaited in
structions, but as the superintendent
was on the train carrying the United
States marshals and tho state militia,
he received no orders, hence did not
move the train. At noon the minors
cut tho train in parts and ran 1t down
10 tho switch just at the mouth OF tho
yards in Bollaire. The switch was
locked and tho train OF coal was run on
the main track beyond the end Of the
switch, 30 that passenger and mail
trains can get through all right.
Thcre were twenty-five cars OF coal in
the train, but the engineer in charge OF
tho engine near the centre got pormis-
| sion to run the cars ahead OF him onto
the sido track at McClainvile. This lett
eighteen cars on tho main track and
these aro the ones the min ere ran back
into tho yard by hand.
This opened the road for traffic, cx-
ccpt coal, and eight or ten passenger
tralns passed Bollaire within two hours.
The miners were bitter about the way
the train had been left on tho main
track, and said it was 4 scheme to get
them into trouble, and gave that as
their reason for taking hold OF the cars
and running them back into tho yards.
They wanted them out OF the road be-
iore tho troops arrived, they said, honce
about fifty Of them engaged in tho work
of running them back into the city.
Sheriff Scott was in the vicin-
ity OF tho trouble all day.
but he was not among tho
mass engaged in this work. One OF
his deputies, James Richardson, accom-
panied BY Officer Jack Burke, ofthe Bal
timore & Ohio force, wont out where the
miners were masscd. Il. McClainvillc.
and Deputy Sheriff Richardson, in tho
name OF the state OF Ohio, commanded
tho peace and ordered tho crowd to dis
perse One man among the iour or five
hundred interrupted the officer, but ho
was quickly hushcd up by tho crowd.
After this tho officers ordered the crowd
to quit tho promises Of the Baltimore l.
Ohio Railroad Company and to cease
trcspassing and intcrfcrin. with the
coinpany's property or tho trains OF any
character or kind. Not word came
from the miners. They lIatened a,ten.
lively and quietly and received the
speech in silence. but did not heed the
warning words OF the officers.
The state troops were not called to
Dc!laire or Bridgeport at all. They
were summoned by the sheriff OF
Guernsey county to Cambridge in tho
following dispatch.
To HIS Eseeg,ncy Hon. WILLIAM lcKInsev,
G0p:rIor Of Ohio:
A mob OF five hundred men have
iorcibly taken possession OF train OF
cars belonging to tho Baltimore {; Ohio
company at Mineral Siding in this
(Guerusey( county, and upon demand
by the undersigned refused to rclcasc
tho same or disperae as required by
law; and they threatened TO stop all
trains and arc destroying property OF
said company by fire. The railroad
company has made demand upon mo to
disperc the mob and rescue the prop.
erty from their control. The mob is or.
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