Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-08

Yesterday was day Of anxiety, Of
stirring scenes and of wild alarms
along the lines Of the Eastern Ohio rail-
roads centering in this city.
1t is is gratifying TO know, however,
that through all the exciting friction
consequent upon an extended uprising
Of labor and the efforts of the authori-
ties to maintain the supremacy of the
law and protect property in its rights,
there was no outbreak of hostilities in
this immediate vicinity, and no one was
hurt. Near Cambridge, fifty miles out
the B. & O.. in Guernsey county, the
condition. were less favorable, but still
no blood was shed.
What to-day may bring forth no one
knows. That the situation in Belmont
and one or two adjacent counties is pre-
carious, no one can doubt All the es-
sential elements to collision between
the civil and military authorities OF the
State OF Ohio on the one hand and some
thousands of excited and often desper-
ate miners, most of whom arc recent
arrivals from other countries, on the
other, are at hand A momentary want
OF discretion, an ill-consdered act, an
injudicious threat, or an irresponsible
incentive to further lawlessness may
easily pave the way to bloodshed to-day.
That nothing like this may happen, is
the hope and prayer of all good citizens.
That it will not happen, is the firm be-
lief OF many most familiar with the sit
uation. There is an abiding faith in
the minds o. most men closest to the
centres of disturbance that the mandate
OF Judge Taft, of the Federal Court,
will be respected by the miners
along the c., l.. & W., and that the
presence of the military, when distrib-
uted properly along the other roads
will be sufficient TO secure and maintain
the usual running or trains, whether
they carry coal or anything else. To
be sure, few among the miners have
been aud are still counseling violence
and resistance, even as against the mil
itary, but these men are undoubtedly
in the minority, and their advice will
scarcely be listened to by any consider
able number Of the miners.
The centre Of active disturbance was
transferred early yesterday morning
from the c., l. e w. TO the trans.Ohio
division Of the B. & o., west Of Bellaire.
Between Cambridge and Bellairs the
miners were out in force at several
points, and for the sixteen hours be-
tween midnight Wednesday night and
four O'Clock yesterday afternoon the
road was absolutely closed 10 the pass
age OF all trains, OF whatever description.
At the hour last named the vesti0uied
limited, for Columbus and Cincinnati,
which had been lying at Benwnod Junc-
ton, started west through Bellaire, the
blockaded track, three miles west, hav-
ing been opened by the exertions of the
miners themselves. just how far west
the passenger train got, however, is I'M
certain. 1t was probably again halted
at or near Cambridge late in the after
noon. Another attempt to move coal
out OF Bellaire last evening failed.
Troops Will be at St. Clairsville Junction
this morning.
Along the C., L. & W. the situation
throughout the day was unchanged.
The Deputy Q. S. Marshals did not ar
rive soon enough or in sufficient num-
bers to warrant any attempt to reopen
the road to the transportation of coal;
but it is promised this will be done to-
day. They paid a preliminary visit to
points along the road last evening.
On the Wheeling and Lake Erie and
c. & ?. no coal was moved, but other
traffic went on about as usual.
I,ha "details OF the davis events follow: