The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-05-25
A Horde Of Slavs Move ct Night
to . Coke Plant.
THEY CAPTURE soN-un,on Men.
Deputies Fire Upon the Strikers. Who
Flee With Their Wounded.
Intense K1etss0ess n the District
Deputy sAssiGs - kessss ssrskers
Marching - Cripple Crssk-Mi.srs
Riss In lilinsss.

tfse pkts OF the W aSnfnH.o .ou Noal ana Noke
Company. ~ Stsck!e Hollow, in the
fourth pool dissriet on the Monon river.
was made today. involving another grim
tragedy. The feht vas one OF the fsercext
in the history of mining troubles in West
ern Pennsylvania, and in the section
where IL occurred. as veil A. throughout
the whole coke region. the situation Is one
OF excitement and dread uncertainty.
Tonight four strikers are lying dead. and
double that number are badly wounded,
some Of them moftslly. Thomas keenan,.
OF Woods Run, 10 she only American
killed In the encounter with the deputies.
The other dead men are Slavs. The
wounded men Who fell under the 6rst
voilsy from the deputies were taken of
the field by the rstreating strikers. and
even now she actual number of the
wounded is not definitely known. their
friends having the strongest motive for
concealins them.
II 10 perhaps too so,,n TO place the re-
sponsihsiity for the killing. In the mass
OF confused and contradictory statements
there 10 testimony to show that the strik-
ers. while threatening an attack, had COM
mittsd no act Of lAslessness: that the
deputies fired on them absolutely without
provocation that would warrant the use OF
deadly weapons. and that the killing vas
cruel and uujustifiab.e. Then there In tes-
timony to show that the deputies de-
Tended themselves and their charges from
the assault Of an armed and bioodthirsty
mob. The strikers furnished all the dead
men. not . deputy being fatally hurt. and
only three OF them we're wounded. The
fight occurred At the public roadway 20
to the sickle Hollow plant The deputies
had specific orders. and II il admitted that
thu company had conveyed 70 them direc-
sions 70 shoot TO kill.
Shortly before midnight 900 rioters ~
ssmbled at the Sickle Hollow plant Some
we're armed. but the majority were not
They went into camp near the plant At
5 O'Clock they adjourned TO . public road
over which the workmen would have 20
pass. They stoppsd the irst delegation Of
miners, rho. aftsr . little psrsuasion. turned
back. At that moment the deputies were
ordered to shoot st range of about fifty
yards. Al shs dFst sollsy the striksfs ran
in every direction. The deputies nred two
more vollays and we're shooting when the
last striker disappeared.
The company ofhcials say the strikers
served notice on them thas they expected
70 assault the works, and the deputies con-
ssdsrod interferenc& with the vorkmsu the
beginning Of the assault. The strikers had
made demonstrations oil night, even
threatening 10 Wait the houses Of
workmen and give them the
choice 10 quit work or die.
An eys-witnsss says the shooting vas
not all on one sids. The workmen were
A.
home. whom the deputies rushed into the
strikers. got posssssion Of the captiv
vorkmen. and marched them 70 the pit
A deputy sheriff cred the shot
which opsnsd the battle. voiisy
after volIsy was fred By each side
at closs range. The strikers ammunition
gave out and they were forced TO dec. A
large number of strikers we're arrested To-
day who had guns and ammunition.
Rainey has ordered four Gatling guns for
his plants.
A battle was narrowly sverted at Fair
Chance last night. When Eve deputies
got OF = train the strikers, who thought
they were new workmen. took them to
camp, where they we're hsid prisoners un-
Gil others deputies put the strikers TO
fiight.
Today tbs situation at the Farm Hill
mines. where the company has been run
ming full force, ~ decidedly alarming. AZ
2 o'clock 500 strikers from the southern
end OF the region marched to Hill Farm
and are said 10 b. planning an attack on
the works. The plant IL guarded by fifsy
deputies. and conflict would result seri-
ousiy. The strikers are determined to
force ell the plants to shus down, regard
loss OF loss Of life superintendent KIM
ball. Of the Hill Farm mines. - getting out
IN injunction TO restrain the strikers from
camping near the works-
Sixty-six strikers were placed under
arrest and taken hack to the company's
ground. where they were closely guarded.
This evening they we're brought here 70
iail. The situation as the miues tonight 10
alarming. and more serious trouble 10 ex-
pected within the nsxt twenty-four hours.
DssvxR. Msy 2a--The Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company will attempt TO pre-
vent the army Of 600 strikers uho are
marching south from Flnrence from in-
ssrfsring With the miners working at
Waissnburg and other places In the Trini-
dad district. The company has secured
an injunction against the invading miners,
and the sheriff viii meet them with
mounted deputies ct the Huerfsno county
line and fofbid their entrance into the
county. IL 10 thought that ne has . snf-
sseient Number Of men TO prevent the
miners crossing the line. Ii they show
fight the sheriff will call out . posse
comisatus Of the county.
sAspovAIs- H., May 2A-Two hundred
striking miners arrived from Centsaiia
today. Soon sfterwsrd Sheriff Heimand
and 100 deputies arrived on = special
train. The strikers voted 70 20 TO Odin.
The miners are not working here
DAsvrLLx, III. May PA convention
OF coal operators of Central and Southern
Illinois hss been Called - Springfield.
President Mcbride. Of the United Mine
Workers, viii attend, and efforts will b.
made 20 end the strike
EvsysvsILK Ind. May 3A-Ths story
of shs riot and bioodshed u Little's mines
was exaggerated. Miners from Washing
ton vent to Litsis's to persuade the men
20 come out. and . slight contest arose.
With no serious rssusta
CKxrxALIA. IiL. May 24-Fivs hundred
striking miners from the Duquosn Hnd Sc.
johns misss arrived here today on .
freight train. and at the Big -Four mine.
operated By PotsDges A Davis. demolished
machinery. niisd the shsft with about
rfseen fs<s of debris and smashed al the
glass and sxsA- The total damage IL