Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31


News Of the wreck spread rapidly among
the strikers in this city. The city police
made Il determined effort to break up the
groups in the streets but they were scarcely
successful. A company of soldiers vas hur-
riedacrOss tberiver 10 the 0glesby mine and
thrown OUT in skirnlish line along the
tracks of the Illinois Central road at that
point.
wINCHEsTERs AND POWDER.
LA SALLE, ILL.,, May 20.--One hun
dred Winchester repeating rifles and
several thousands of rounds of ammuni-
ton arrived to-day for the Citizens Pro-
tectiYe Association. Colonel Bennett re.
ceiycd orders to send two companies of
militia TO Vcnona to-day. While the
troops were boarding special, a tele-
gram was received that the rioters had
had word of the movement and had fled.
The police have found the missing
Pole, Birkowski, supposed to have been
murdered. He was concealed in a
neighbours house and badly injured, but
will recover.
STRIKERS CAPTURE TRAIN.
CENTRALIA, ILL, May 24.-A mob of
800 yelling, shouting and desperate
strikers from Duquoin and st. Johns
mines captured an Illinois Central train
early this morning and compelled Engi-
neer Stewart to haul them to this city.
Arriving here, they rushed to the Big
-Four mine, operated by Pottinger d
Davis, and wrecked thousands of
dollars worth of property.
Thirty non-union men found working
in the mine were driven like frightened
sheep from the leads, while the bowling
strikers made several attempts to do
bodily injury, The rage of the leaders
of the mob knew no bounds when the
workmen escaped, and in O few
moments the scarcely less infuriated
strikers spread destruction about the
mines.
When it was learned that the mob
was en- route in "a captured freight train,
a special train was made up for Sheriff
Helms and his posse at Salem, but the
officials arrived only to see the maraud-
ers marching towards Odin. Quickly
recruiting so deputies, Sheriff Helms
armed his party with Winchesters and
100 rounds Of ammunition each at the
local armory, and left for Odin in a
special train.
Governor Altgeld was asked for
troops, but he declined on the ground
that matters were not serious enough to
warrant sucn a course.
CENTRALIA, LII, May 25.-Despite
their defeat and the capture of quarter
of their number yesterday in Odin, the
Duquoin miners made another attack
on the CentGalia miners before dawn
to-day.
just about 3 o'clock about so of the
strikers crept stealthily to the mines,
which had been left lightly guarded in
the belief that any attack, il made, would
be on the arnlory, where the arrested
mon were confined under heavy guard.
The first known of the strikers ap-
proach was tremendous fusilade of
bullets against the mine company's
office. The guards returned the fire with
their Winchesters and tile strikers fed.
So far as known 40 one was hurt.
BATTLE AND ONE MAN KILLED.
BATTLE CREEK, Col, May 26.-News has
just reached here that about midnight the
strikers seized an engine and cars In Victor
and proceeded to Wilbour, ~ miles down
the Florence d Cripple Creek railroad
where the Denver deputies were encamped.
A battle ensued at i a. IN, between the
strikers and outpost of the deputies in
which one miner was killed and three in
iured. Several deputies were also wounded.
The name of the miner killed was George
Crowley. -.. B..
non.union miner was also shot and
killed i'll u saloon in Victor at noon.
RUSHING COAL TO NORFOLK.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 2S.--This
is the day fixed upon by the bituminous
coaI mine operators in the Clearfield
and allied districts of Central Pennsyl-
vania for the resumption of work in
their mines. So far as heard from, there
has not been any resumption, neither
has there been any trouble of any sort.
As predicted by men in position to
know when the operators on last Mon
day issued their ultimatum of 40 cents
a ton, the strikers have remained away
from the mines and the commencement
of the sixth week of their strike finds
them apparently as determined as ever
to await the orders of President Mcbride
of the United Mine Workers before re-
suming.
Meanwhile the coal situation, as far
rs this region is concerned, grows more
serious every day. Soft coal is extremely
scarce and operators are compelled to
pay almost exorbitant prices in order to
ill their contracts. Agents who are
lucky enough to have control of coal are
making profits of from 81 to $1.50 ton,
whereas 10 cents was considered fair
profit before the coal famine set in.
Another serious result OF the strike
that promises to be more lasting in its
effect is the permanent loss of business
because of the inability of operators to
fulfil old contracts or enter into new
ones. The regions that compete directly
with the central Pennsylvania bitumin-
GUS miners are the Cumberland, in
Maryland, the West Virginia fields, and
the Pocohontas, in southwestern Vir-
ginia. Information from the Cumber-
land region is to the effect that men are
going TO work every day and coal is
being turned out rapidly, Evidence of
this is seen in the releasing by the Balti-
more 81 Ohio railroad Of coal which had
been confscated and the delivery of
Cumberland coal in portions of the east
that hitherto depended entirely upon
central Pennsylvania for soft coal.
One reason for the return of the Cum
berland miners to work is said to be the
fact that when the last great bituminous
strike occurred, in 1884, the Cleartield
miners failed to stand by them and the
former arc at the present time settling
an old score.
In the Pocohontas region the mines
and men are being worked to their
utmost capacity. The Norfolk d. West
ern railroad is said to have hired all the
locomotives and cars they could get
from Southern railroads and is at the
present time rushing coal into Norfolk
at an unprecedented rate. From Nor.
folk this coal is shipped by water to
points on the New England coast.
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