The Delta independent., 1894-05-30
THE GREAT COAL STRIKE.
Railroad Cripplea By Shortage OF Fuel y
Violence Of strikers.

Railroad Cripplsa By Shortage Of FueLA
Violence Of strikers.
The great coal strike while not universal
throughout tho country ia beginning to bo
seriously felt In the East.
The effect Of the coal strike is being felt by
the Philadelphia, Reading and New England
railroads, tho companies' supply Of soft coal
being entirely exhausted at all stations, from
Hartford to Haybrooke, New York. All pas
senger engines have begun burning hard coal
At etannton, Illinois, the Consolidated
Coal Company In order to protect It's miners
from strikers, have secured 100 Winchester
shot guns, with several hundred pounds Of
shells, loaded with buckshot, reports having
reached staunton that the strikers intended
TO return there and force the working miners
10 stop work. Deputy Sheriff Hoadley in
tends to protect all men wishing 10 work II
he has TO call on every citizen In the city.
Both mines arc working full force.
dispatch from Akron, Ohio, on the 22nd
said: Serious trouble 10 apprehended among
tho coal miners Of Tuscarawas county, where
several mines are being worked To-day the
men were driven out Of one mine by the
strikers and tomorrow the same fate is
threatened TO the other workers. The sheriff
telegraphed Major E. &. Bryan of the Eighth
regiment for aid and he Immediately left for
the seat Of trouble, asking Adjutant Genera!
Howe to meet him, and ordered his companie.
TO hold themselves In readiness The strikers
are belligerent and demand that work .hali
not be continued
serious riot occurred at La Sale, Illinois,
on the 22nd In which several men we're in
In Fra Ill ~
Union Coal Company has kept some men nj
work TO clean up entries. Nothing was said
against It by the strikers, but Tuesday even
ing As the men came from work they we're set
on by the strikers and brutally beaten by a
mob OF At least = thousand. Some sought
shelter In the company's office and barricad-
ed the door and windows with office furni-
ture. This only added TO the fury of the
mob aud the door were battered in and the
victims set upon. Benjamin Hetheringto
was pounded into insensibiliiy. Edward
Cumming vas savagely beaten and several
other men roughly handled. The sheriff ar
rived In the evening and after swearing in
deputies went to the mines and dispersed the
mob.
Another riot occurred al La salle on the
24th. mob OF 900 coal strikers raidcd the
shaft OF the La salle County Carbon Goa
Company in the evening, and, In a conflict
with the sheriff and his deputies, FIVE strikers,
Sheriff Taylor and Deputy Sheriff. Hoolihan
aud D~yer we're painfully wounded. The
mob closed In on the officers and hand To hand
nght ensucd. Three men were arrested bu,
they were released on the men threatening to
tear down tho jail and burn the city hall
The situation being alarming, the govern
or WAS ,elegraphsd to for state aid.
News was received at Evansville, Indiana,
Thursday night Of serious trouble at Li,,lc's
coal mines at Lit,le's station on the Indian
apoli. * Evansville railroad. Two hundred
aud City armed men marched to the mine In
the afternoon FOR the purpose OF compelling
the force Al work 10 joln in tho strike. A
battle occurred about 5 o'clock between the
strikers and those who have continued AT
work, In which nve men were wounded aud
Two killed
For come days past deputy shcrlNa have
been stationed As gnards at the mines. but
they were disarmcd and driven away by the
sirikers. The strikers evidently intend to
remain At Litue's, as they have gone into
camp and taken about 20 days rstIons with
them.
II 10 expected that the militia from Evans
VILE will be ordered to the scene
Miners Al Cherokee, Kansas, have resumed
work.