The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-28
COAL MINERS RIOT.
Imported Savages Destroy Much
Valuable Property.
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ia whose train followed biooished, arson
and destrucsien Of property. passed over
the Aansield coal region today. IL began
Ut dawn. and st dusk Is VS. Estimated that
$4,000 worth Of property had been de-
stroyed- Maddened by faneied grievances
and Hqcor. several hundred foxeigners,
Hnngarians. Sgavs and Italians, swept
over the country surrounding Mansfield
and through the valleys Of Teens and
Painters runs: attacked mine owners,
miners and the few scattered deputy sher.
IFS and wrecked ears and destroyed rail-
road property.
Until noon the mob met hardly any re-
sisfance. IL reached the mines of Bead
ling Bros. near Federal, on the P.tssburg,
CHARTERS * Youghiogheny railroad. Here
the rioters met determined resistance
and were checked. With repeating VIM
chester rifles, Thomas 4. Williams and
Harry Beading stood together and opened
frr upon the mob. They fired four voileys
IN quick succession, fatally wounding one
and inluring half q dozen others. The
man fatally wounded is Frank Stable, o
Frenchman. who was shot through the
body and 10 probably dead before this.
After tho fourth yo!Iey the rioters
fed precipitately down the hill. At this
moment train bearing Sheriff Richards
and forty deputies pulled into Beading.
and the officers started in pursuit of the
rioters. lighting IS they ran. The chase
was long and hot one. but finally sixteen
we're overtaksn, captured and marched to
Mansfield Jail at rhe point Of reyolvers.
As matter OF precaution the prisoners
were brought to this city, and are now
safely lodged In the county Jail. They
will be held for riot and arson.
The riots were provoked By the English
speaking miners returning to work at
reduced rate. The foreigners set cut to
drive the Americans from the mines.
Tonight everything is quiet. A force Of
deputies is on guard AZ every mine In the
district, and no mere trouble is appre-
hended before Monday. Another out
break is anticipated then. and it was
learned that At yesterdays meeting 1t
Mansfield 1t was decided that if the men
now AZ work refuse to join the strike by
Monday all the tipples in operation viii
be burned. Nearly 1900 miners, all for
eigners. attended the meeting, and in the
speeches it was declared that all the min
ers in the district will be compelled to
quit work. Sheriff Richards has now sew.
ing in others as rapidly as he can secure
them. by tomorrow night he expects to
have at least two hundred men armed and
equipped for any emergency. Citizens
Of Mansfield, Bridgeviile and Woodyille
arc also organizing,l and If another out
break should occur there Is little doubt tho
mob would be quickly dispersed.
Trouble Is feared in the Washington dis
frfN AtevA kot< - rfst
break among the miners in the Mansfield
neighborhood has excited the foreign eie-
ment among the miners in the Mcdonald
and Ridgeway sections and violent demon
STATIONS are feared. The energetic meas
ures that quieted the lawless class in the
uprising today have had an effect on their
imitators in the other districts named.
Had there been any temporizing today
there is no question that the trouble
would have spread throughout all this
region. As it is the other mine owners
fear an uprising. Twelve deputies are at
the Robbins mines at Mcdonald. and
another squad has been dispatched to the
Ridgeway mines. IN the vicinity of Bridge
vile. The sheriff had calls this evening
by wire for protection at the points
named. Still another message has been
received from Canonsburg, an operator
fearing raid on his works, and another
force OF deputies will probably be sent
there.
A Mcdonald. Pa. dispatch says: Asa
precautionary measure at the Robbins
mines the sheriff has been called on to
send deputies to protect the works. There
is feeling of insecurity fully warranted
by the situation. The striking miners,
particularly the foreign-born classes, are
restless and ugly. and spark in the shape
of an accidental collision between indi-
viduals may result in an explosion that
will involve a multitude. Tho fact Is, the
men are in dreadful plight, owing to low
wages and uncertain work. and, lacking
the respect for the law that governs the
native element, the pinch of poverty has
made them desperate. There is much ap-
prehension that serious times are coming.