The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15
ALL SORTS OF TROUBLE.

ALL SORTS OF TROUBLE.
Riotous Proceedings Continue In Pennsyi-
vanilla Miners Fight In Illinois Trat.
Wrecking In Oklahoma
MCKEEsPoRr, Pa, June mo at
tempt was made yesterday to start up
the tube works. Before daylight the
strikers began swarming around the
works and the depots. Every point is
being watched by them, and troubls
will surely follow any attempt to in
troduce new workmen or deputies
The company made an announcement
which called for all employees who de-
sire to work at the rate in force May
IA, 1894, to apply before o'clock Thurs
day morning, June Z. Up to date not
a man has applied for work and not. .
single piece of machinery in the inn
mense mill is being operated.
About IL o'clock some one came
among the strikers congregated about
the works and announced that soma
tube work strikers were working at
the slack piles across the river. A mad
rush was made by about 700 or 800 men
to put stop to it. The tipple of John
Davitt was wrecked in few minutes.
From there the crowd made break
for new tipple being erected by John
Mcintyre about mile above. A halt
was made for some little time until the
mob could all be gathered AM then the
| Mcintyre tipple shared the same fate
as the Davitt. These slack piles had
not been made use of for years until
now.
AT 2:30 o'clock about 5000 strikers,
carrying pit lamps, left here for
Duquesne, bent upon destruction
They threaten to cut loose all barges
they meet on the river as they march
down.
When the mob reached Duquesne 10
had increased to 10000 strikers and
sympathizers. With yells they at
tackled the Duquesne tube works, drove
all the men at work out of the plant,
drew the fires and ran the hot metal
from furnaces out on the floors. The
reasons the strikers give for their ae-
ton was that the works were using
black sheep coal.
There were probably 300 men hurt
during the rioting yesterday, some Of
them seriously.
FIGHT IN ILLINOIS.
PEKIN, ILL.,, June There was a
bloody battle at Titles coal mine, five
to-day. Word was received at Pekin
this morning that 500 miners from the
west of the river were about to attack
the mine. Sheriff c. Frederick swore
in posse and set out for the scene.
The strikers assembled at BentOnville
and crossed the Illinois on ferries.
There were about 400 men and soma
women.
The sheriff and his posse remonstrst-
ed with the mob in vain. The leader
of the strikers, with a revolver in each
hand, cried out, Follow mer' and the
crowd cheered on the miners. The two
Titles and their sons and colored
man retreated to the lower shaft and
opened fire on the attacking party,
some of whom were seen to fall. The
fire was returned and hundreds of shots
were fired into and about the tower.
The Littles hoisted white flag, but
the firing did not cease, and the shaft
was set on fire and up shot the flames.
~ was AOoiCo bhC pOWuCI hOuoC
be fired, and the crowd retreated. The
air-shaft was kept closed. The killed
are: Jack jackson, colored. a miner az
Titles; Ed Bloom, one of the strikers
TRAIN WRECKED IN OKLAHOMA.
WICHITA, Kan, June 7.-Twenty-five
armed employees of the Rock Island
left here last night for Round
Pond, Ok, where the citizens have
risen in their indignation against that
The Rock Island COM
pany, at the opening of the Cherokee
strip, started towns of their own in op-
position to the government townsites.
and to crush the latter it gave orders
that none of their trains should stop
there. Recently the city of Round
Pond passed an ordinance providing
penalty for the trains running through
it at greater speed than eight miles
an hour.
The railway company ignored the or
and yesterday the citizens be-
,ame so enraged that they pulled up
I5O yards of the track and stationed
men on either side to signal trains. A
freight train pulled by Engineer Sulli-
ran ignored the signal, fell into the gan
Ind was wrecked. The engineer had
orders, he says, not to stop at Round
Pond, even for danger signals.