The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-06-09
ON THE WAR PATH.

Ohio Miners Prevent the Haaling of SORT
Coai by stopping Trains and Cutting
Out Cars Containing the ObiecfionsAie
Freignt-Busine.~ Being suspeaded az
Many Points by Reu-On of Scarcity OF
Fuel. JAy
JscEsoy.ssSQne s.-To usea. popg--
tar eSpreSsidS. the miners Of this
county have ,beerro9 the war path for
the past two.dsys. .fhey have e6ngre-
gated in a<aAgls>pt the various
raiitoad foWhs hnty. Each
crowd has; its eaaars and keeps the
American flag fidSelg I'd the breezes
while they are -1nsb pred 6Sy band of
music. Dr ". s..Hoy, of Wellston, o.,
while he is, NOT Sspployed in any
capacity at the mfha Is the
prime mover and. promoter of
the aggregate body. Dr. Hoy is a
defeated candidate for covnty coroner.
Last evening he marched 1000 to
500 miners from Yellston to H3mden
and stopped every train from the
limited express down to local freights-
All freight rains passing IIamden over
the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
t'Aring the past twenty-four hours have
been held up and seals on cars broken.
Hoy, with 200 of his followers,
stopped the east-bound limited express
and demanded free transportation to
Macarthur junction. The conductor
refused to signal his train out and
Train Dispatcher Scully received or
ders to have the train sidetrackcd until
the mob could be induced to get off.
The doctor did not vacate the coaches
until he was told that he was OBTAINING
United States mail train. The Balti-
more x Ohio Southwestern officials
then agreed to transport 100 of the
miners to Macarthur and return upon
the promise that they would give the
company no more trouble.
Freight trains on the Columbus,
Hooking Valley & Toledo We're held up
and gone through. All coal found was
cut off and sidetracked.
The crowd assembled at llamden. has
disbandcd leaving in charge patrol
committee that holds up every freight
train that passes. A half dozen ears
of anthracite We're set off to-day but
finally they were permitted to go. as it
was not in competition with soft coal
production.
The miners. in their demands to the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern. ask
that not a lump of coal be hauled on the
Parkersburg division. but agree to al
low two ears a day over the Ports
mouth division To be used in firing that
company's passenger engines. This the
railroad officials have not granted. but
have agreed to stop hauling soft coal
in competition with the local market.
The miners also have patrol commit
tees at jackson, CoaltoD. Wellston and
Macarthur junction inspecting all
freight taken on the various roads lead
ing through those places.
so far the thousands assembled have
been peaceable and orderly. Men are
continuing to join the crowds as
scmblcd at the various towns. How
ever. there is no probability of any
violence at the places named except at
Glengean on the Norfolk II Western.
1t has been reported that this rail-
road will refuse to stop hauling
West Virginia coal. which action will
probably incite the crowd to use vio-
lent means to bring about what they
are demanding. Coal is becoming so
scarce that nearly all business is sus-
pended. The Baltimore & Ohio South
western have taken off all passenger
trains but one. which carries the
United States mail. Most all the
freight traffic is stopped and railroads
talk of a temporary suspension of all
business until there is change.
A crowd of 800 miners at this
place marched out to the Pocahontas
mine, half mile south of jackson and
demanded the suspension of business
at once. This was refused and it
looked much like blOOdshed. Miners
with their work tools as weapons threat
ened the crowd and charged them, but
by timely advice of leaders, serious
trouble was avoided. A compromise
was affected, the miners agreeing to
run no more coal after tomorrow
There are now, in the various places in
Jackson county, fully 1000 miners on
the alert, ready for any action neces-
sary.