Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-28
THEY WANT TO RESUME.
Homecoming Miners Anxious to Return
to Work.

Homecoming Miners Anxious to Return
to Work.
A Frostburg. Nd. dispatch sent last
night says:
Tonight the whole Maryland mining re-
gior Is excited. Deputies and strike leaders
were movirg hurriedly and mysterlously
about town, cycling each other with mean
ing glances.
At $50 a special train pulled almost ST.
lently into Frostburg station. Gov. Brown.
States Attorney Sloan. Sheriff King and
Superintendent Hamilton Of the Cumber-
land and Pennsylvania railroad alighted
They entered a carriage and were quietly
driven to the camp. A conference was held
with Col Wilmer. at which 1t was arranged
that the latter should go In the morning to
Homecoming. study the situation and, il
necessary send a detachment there. as the
sudden break today portends trouble.
For the first time since the great struggle
for better pay Of the coal diggers begun
q number of miners went to work in the
coal pits about LonacoEing this morning.
1t was authoritatively stated tonight by
one Of the strike leaders that few days
would see the end Of the strike. The con-
here. the fact that at the other end Of the
region the men were toiling in Elk Garden
and that a break has occurred in Lonacon-
ing cause the strikers to feel that they
must give up the nght.
Meetings will be held tomorrow at the
mines and the operators will be asked
that all the old men be allowed to return
to work at the Accent rate. II the oper-
ators refuse to allow ali the men to resume
their tasks 1t Is now believed the strikers
will have to accept the inevitable and do
the best they can.
I'VE are beaten here and in Elk Garden, y
said leader late tonight, and there is a
hollow in Homecoming. We are borne
down hlt will fob IN oil
old men to return to work.
However" he added. I'm a few days the
struggle will be over"
Gov. Brown would have nothing to say
concerning his second unannounced visit
to the region, except that he came because
he thought the situation was such that
his presence was needed. No one can tell
what tomorrow may bring forth. but it is
not thought that there will be any trouble
Gov. Brown returned Immediately after
the conference and left for Cumberland on
special train. The town was in ignorance
of his sudden arrival and exit.
A Homecoming, Nd. dispatch sent last
night says:
The wedge for break in the strike has
been Inserted here and now trouble or q
rapid settlement seems to be the only al
Tentative Twelve men went to work in
Old Coney Mine No 1. One Of these whose
Eame is Patrick, was the treasurer Of a To-
cal branch of the organization, but after
going to Frostburg and Investigating the
trend Of affairs there he resigned his posi-
ton In the assembly and has gone to work
What will now follow could Only be sur
missed
The strikers here, though they will not
admit 1t. are becoming discouraged. Dis
patches received from Elk Garden say that
the strike there is broken, and 38S men
are at work. it is also stated that Upper
Potomac Is now turning out more coal
than at this time last year.
Not striker Is in sight. The men who
have been in the Elk Garden region for
some days past were last seen this morn.
ing, when they were engaged In wading
the river. disappearing on the Maryland
side. Great quiet prevails and the aspect
has changed from utter darkness to one
of happiness and contentment About
100 tons of coal was mined today at Elk
Garden and 400 tons at Upper Potomac
The operators feel that the men are Der.
fectly satisfied and no more trouble is like
ly to occur. Such Is the news which Is
fast sending encouragement through the
ranks oe the strikers in Homecoming.