Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-26
LATE NEWS BY WIRE
Denver Deputies and Cripple Creek
Strikers Fight.
ATTACK ON THE CAMP OF TIE FORMER
Gov. Waite Determined to Stop the
Trouble.
TRAIN wRECKING ATTEMPTED

CRIPPLE CREEK. Col, May 26.-News
has just reached here that about midnight
the strikers seized an engine and cars in
Victor and proceeded to Wilbur ten miles
down the Florence and Cripple Creek rail-
road. where the Denver deputies were en-
camped- battle ensued at a. m. between
the strikers and outposts of the deputies, In
which one miner was killed and three in
3ursd- Several deputies were also wounded.
The name of the miner killed was George
Crowley.
As the wires have been cut, particulars
Of the affair have not been obtained
A non-unton miner was also shot and
Killed In saloon in Victor at noon
Gov. Waite With the Strikers.
DENVER, Col. May 26.-Gov. Waite does
not hesitate to declare that his sympathies
are with the striking miners in Cripple
Creek He asked Attorney General Engle-
ley for an opinion as to the right Of a sher-
IN to obtain an armed force from another
county than that in which he is an officer.
The attorney general returned a written
opinion that IL was contrary 10 law.
All commandaEts OF military posts
throughout the state have been notified to
hold themselves in readiness for an &C
tive service call.
Gov. Waite said: 1T is my duty to stop
this row. i shall probably today issue a
proclamation calling on all armed citizens
10 resume their daily avocations and upon
all lawless bodies to dispense. These men
from Denver who are under arms at Grip
pie Creek are, to my mind, rioters and an
Illegal body. In directing all Illegal bodies
to disperse those deputies must take cogni-
zance OF the warning. just as must any and
all others"
Large quantities of arms and ammunition
have been shipped from Denver to the Grip
pie Creek strikers during the past week
TWO consignments consisted each of SUO
guns and $1,000 rounds of ball cartridges.
Strikers Become Train wreckers.
LA SALE Ill, May 26.-while an ILL
nois Central freight train was bowling
along toward Chicago last night at the
Oglssby incline. just few miles south Of
this city, 1t was hurled from the track into
the ditch. The engineer says that when he
crashed into the obstruction he saw half a
dozen men run away. While the trainmen
were lacking up the first set of trucks Of
was found that strikers had piled railroad
ties on the track.
The Belgian. Polish and Russian strikers
have assumed a hostile attitude toward the
road for the reason that IL has been using
coal from the mines Of tine La Sale SHAFT
where Thursdays riot occurred.
News of the wreck spread rapidly among
the strikers in this city. The city police
made a determined EFFORT to break up the
groups in the streets. but they were scarcely
successful
A company of soldiers was hurried across
the river to the Oglesby mine and thrown
out in skirmish line along the tracks of the
Illinois Central road at that point.
Alabama Militia Assembling.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. May 26.-Birming-
ham is full of military and striking miners
today. Fourteen companies of the second
regiment of state troops are gathering here
aS IN he
on hand in case the threatened riot occurs.
over 1000 strikers marched from Pratt
mines today for the purpose of endeavorins
to settle the strike. The meeting Is In ses-
sion- AL Is quiet.
Trouble Feared i'm Pennsylvania.
CLEARFIELD. Pa. May 26--About 800
miners in the Phillipsburg district visited
the Woodland mine. which employs about
100 men, this morning and will endeavor
to persuade the men to stop work and join
the strike. The situation Is assuming
serious phase and the sheriff of this county
has gone to the scene of the threatened
outbreak.
The mob that attacked the deputies num-
bered about $40. The engagement DID not
last long. The miners retreated to Victor.
The dead miner. George Crowley, Is now in
a bunk house at Victor and the four wound
ed are in hiding with friends in the camp.
1t is not known how the deputies Jared.
The miners who returned claimed that at
least fifteen of them have been either killed
or wounded.
The town of Victor is quiet. armed miners
have resumed their position on Battle
Mountain and Bull HILL
Captured a Freight.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, May 28.-Eight
hundred striking miners In the railroad
yards here are holding a captured freight
train on which they propose 10 ride to
Pana. Ill.
Mayor Ross has refused to interfere I'M
less the company swears out warrants.
Sheriff Stout has been appealed to and gave
the same answer. The men are peaceable,
but do not propose to leave the train on
which they came from Fontaine. At Fon-
tame, few miles from Terre Haute, 100
miners have gathered about coal chutes
and refuse to allow freight engines to take
Supt Neel has wired that If the men are
taken to Pana- there will be bloodshed, and
rather than move the men all the trains
will be abandoned. The situation Is con-
tempt to have warrants issued there will
undoubtedly be trouble.
Tried to Cause Trouble.
CNIONTOwN. Pa, May 26-The strikers
generally attended a meeting in Mount
Pleasant today. and consequently there
was very little marching.
In Federal, Pa, the United Mine Workers
met ana passed resolutions requesting their
Representative in Congress-Wm. Sipe-to
ask Congress to appoint committee to
make full inquiry into the mining trou-
bles and the ''uncalled for shooting" Of
men in the public highways OF Fayette and
Westmoreland counties.
crowd Of about twenty-five strikers
gathered in Fair Chance at daybreak today
and, headed by brass band, marched to
Kyle, Martin and Fair Chance works, where
they attempted to prevent men from going
to work These workmen took no account
or 50 small body, however. and no col
hsion occurred
PROGRESS OF THE INDUSTRIALs.