The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-05-14
MINERS MEAN WAR.
THEY USE DYNAMITE AND BLOW UP
ENGINES AND PLANTS.
Freight COrs Are Blown to Pieces and Others
Sent WildrNeErLes flushed to the Pat
ton Mtnes-Other strike News.

VINO are now working and against all OPP
orators who have been trying to break the
Dig strike by putting into the mines negro
labor. AT an early hour this morning these
threats were carried into effect An arm
ed mob Of about two hundred supposed
strikers assembled at Horse Greek and be-
gan the destruction of mine property gen
orally. The mob first went to Prices mines
which have been working at the union
rate. and placed dynamite in the boilers
and among the machinery as vail as in the
head of the slopes. This was touched Off,
and everything in sight was complete
wreck. The engines were torn up and the
mines blocked by the explosion of the dyna-
mite
Then the strikers went to sldetracK,
where there were several cars loaded WIN
coal. These too were given dynamite ana
were torn up. Another string of ears was
turned loose down a heavy grade and they
were wrecked. They then proceeded 10
the Vicot mines. where the scalehouse was
oiled and fired
All this time dozens of volleys by the
riotouS miners were being fired and not
single person would venture out. The rea-
son that no people We're killed is that none
interfered with the miners. The MOB lett
coming eastward. but quickly dispersed.
Sheriff Gatterie, of Walker county, has
called upon SnerllE MOTION loi ASSISTANCE
and in view of this Governor Jones has
placed the militia at his disposal. Special
deputies We're sent to Horse Creek to queli
any further disturbance, for 1t is thought
that the mob was formed of Horse Creek
miners
Negroes Arrive ut Patton.
A special from an Age-Herald staff CORE
spondent at Patton, Ala, says: ION the
Commercial Club express, leaving Birming-
ham at AS o'clock this afternoon, We're
eighteen negro miners from Gadsden on
their way to Patton mines to go to work.
AT the mines the negroes We're received
with cheers from all the miners who are
still at work. All is quiet at Patton. About
eighty men are at work. Those who have
quit had no grievance, some of them going
out through sympathy and others from fear.
1t is the intention of the Patton operators
to protect, at all hazards, all their men who
want to work. 1t is reported here tonight
that attempt will be made to prevent
the Gadsden negroes from going to work
tomorrow, but no Importance is attached
to the report"
Strikiuk Miners Seem Cent on Mischief.
Birmingham, Ala. May l0.-tSpeclal)-
Everything in this district is in a state
of excitement and it looks like blood Will
flow Last night, in the woods near Pratt
mines, 250 armed miners held a secret meet
ing and made demonstrations OF an attack
upon the stockade where over 1900 state
convictS are confined. This meeting of the
strikers was discovered and the state of
affairs reported to Sheriff Morrow, who i'm
mediately ordered under arms the six local
military companies BY some means or 9TH
these strikers learned that the military
ready to march, at the command, and
fearing the state loops kept themselves
hidden and made no attack. AT 1880 o'clock
this morning, no further trouble being fear
ed, the troops were dismissed.
AT o'clock about forty armed strikers
who had been in attendance upon this mass
meeting, at a drift between Pratt and Coas
burg mines, operated by the Tennessee
company, started to wreck a string of
loaded with coal. After they had begun
this work, deputies who were guard, and
who were concealed, fired upon the strikers.
The fire was returned by the strikers and
volley after Volley was exchanged until the
miners retreated, they realizing that the
deputies had all the advantage of them.
Very little damage to the coal cars was
done and none of the deputies We're hurt.
Whether any OF the strikers We're shot is
not known, for they disappeared in the
darkness, going in the direction of Coalburg.
For fear that another attempt would be
made to attack the stockades an additional
posse of deputies was sent to Pratt armed
with Winchester rifles and an immense sup
ply of ammunition.
AT Horse creek today Sam Pierse and fif-
teen armed men took from Deputy Sheriff
G. w. Jones one Nose Sewel, who is
an important witness against the members
OF the mob which blew up Prices mines on
Sunday morning. The deputy sheriff and
others who are in position to know, say
that it is the intention of the men who
arrested SeWell, to take him out and make
short work of him so that he cannot testify
against any member of the mob who may
be arrested.
At Adger today negroes We're put to work
and officials expect a resentment here by
strikers. Lieutenant James b. Erwin. of the
United States army, is at Horse creek to-
day Investigating the blowing up of Prices
mines on Sunday.
AT BroOkside today four miners, two
white and two black, We're arrested and are
now in Jail here under four charges, arson
intimidation, trespass and riot One miner
was arrested at Adgar for trespass.
Non-union Men sent Home.
Montgomery, Ala, May 7.--(Special)-A
house builder of this city named Bierce re-
Gently contracted to erect a large building
at Houston, Ten, finding that brickma-
sons there We're rather high priced, he took
along with him about u hundred Mont
gomery negroes to do the brick work AS
soon as they arrived at Houston they were
met by delegation from the BriclIayers'
Union of that city and We're notified that
they must pay SIS initiation fee into the
uIllOi ana IllSL CDdISS union rates, ABOUT
81 per day, or they had best not go to work
The Texas mechanics showed the emgrauts
that they meant it, and the negroes We're
forced to return home. One of them was so
badly frightened that he went crazy. Con-
tractor Bierce stuck to them and paid their
fare home.
Negro Miners go Out.
birmingham Ala, May 9.-(SpeCial)-.
What was expected last night in the man
ner OF march to Blue Creek to aid the
strikers who We're being eVicted proved
a failure from the fear of being severely
dealt with If any violence attempted.
Inc only feature of the situation today
the TACT that the negro miners at Milldale
went out from fear of being dealt with
by strikers. Notices at Milldale had been
posted threatening the miners with death
If they did not cease to mine coal. The
notices We're signed with daggers and cross
bones. The negroes positively refused to
work for this cause.
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