Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-05

Early yesterday morning the Gay
lord coal mines at Raineytown, north
of Martins Ferry. was the scene Of a
small war in which a crowd Of about
one hundred and forty miners, nearly
all of foreign nationality, working at
Laurel,on and Dillonyale, were the ag-
/ gressors.
Affairs were quite exciting for a
while. but they quoted down in about
two hours. after two dozen or more OF
I the miners working at Gaylord had
been beaten up pretty badly.
About g o'clock yesterday morning a
mob Of about one hundred and thirty
five or one hundred and forty miners
from Laureltou and Dill0nvalle, headed
/ by brass band, marched down TO
YoriviIle. where they unceremonlous-
Tx boarded q local freight train and
rode down 90 the Gaylord mines, Whefe
about .hrty men We're at work. me
avowed intention of the force was 10
cOmpel the men at work 10 come out.
Some of the miners az WORK helu d
sn0r, parley with the committee OF Jne
delegation. and it was decided the best
thing they could do was TO come out
and have no trouble.
Word was sent about through the
mine for the men to come out, and as
they aid this the men from Laurelton
and DUl0nvale crowded about the
mouth OF the bank with clubs and
+ stones and as the men came out some
were caught and numerically beaten,
while others ran and were followed by
showers of stones.
After each one caught had been COM
PEELED to- rum The gauntlet OF tie IN
vadng miners. who were drawn up IN
two lines at Jbe mouth of the mine he
was picked up bodily and heaVed over
the slack em0ankment, which is forty
or fifty feet high TWenty-0ne or two
men were treated i'm this manner, and
they came out of the rough treatment
covered with scratches and bruises.
Some oil the miners on seeing their
fellow workmen used i'm such q man
ner ran back into the mines and hid
until the affair was over.
From what can be learned of the in
Ured men some are hurt pretty badly,
. but not dangerously.
After the mob concluded that all the
miners were out and they had inflicted
enough punishment, they left about )
o'clock with their brass band, and
glorying i'm their victory
I'm an interview with Mr.. James Nc
GmIey of Mckinley Bros, of this city,
who operates the mines. ne said he
knew OF no reason why the mob should
do as they did as the miners employed
. were receiving the union price-siXty
cents per ton. lie thinks that some one
abou, the mines went out to Laurelton
and misrepresented things. and urged
the men to- do what they did.
Tho Gaylord mines only started to
work last Monday. although some coal
was run out Saturday. Ii is very prob
able the men win go to back to work
. FIN day or so.
About noon yesterday EWart HOben-
+ sack sw0re ont warrants before Justice
Ke.lar for four of the Dill0uvale min
ers. charging them with assault and
+ battery. and other arrests viii probably
follow i'm due time While the mob
was mt the mine Sheriff Darby was no
/ tilted of the trouble, and responded
that he would send deputies at once,
but when they arrived it was too late,
as the mob had left.
Late last night it was stated that
several of the Gaylord miners We're in
pretty bad shape, having been beaten
worse than was at first supposed, but
none are expected to- die of their
wounds