The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-07-06
DESPERATE STRIKERS
WEST VIRGINIA MINERS DETER.
MINED TO DRIVE OUT "sCABs.v
RiOting and Incendiarfsm Reported
i'm the EIkborn ReHion-State
Militia in Readiness.

PITTSBURG, July 5.-A dispatch from
Charleston, W.. Va, announces that Gov
ernor MacCorkle has ordered the Second
Regiment under arms in readiness to pro-
ceed TO the Pocahontas coal fields. The
miners, with Winchesters. forced fifty of
the foreign laborers TO quit work and leave
the field. Last night band of armed
strikers met the Norfolk Western trains
az Eckman and refused to allow any one
to leave the coaches. United States Mar
shall Garden was notified, and he has or
dered all the deputy marshals in the State
to mass at Huntington tomorrow in order
to protect the. trains.
Another special from Huntington tonight
says: 1.-The situation in the Elkhorn coal
region is very serious tonight, and Cap
tain Lyons. OF the Second Regiment. has
ordered all companies to assemble and be
ready TO move to Elkhorn at a moments
notice. $780,
WHEELING. w. va. July 5--A special
just received is TO the effect that the miners
throughout the Elkhorn region are .ioting,
having burned houses and committed other
depredations. The Elkhorn mining
region is on the Norfolk q
Western road near the boun-
dairy of Virginia, and is on the West Vir-
ginia side Of the line, at which the Gov
ernor of West Virginia has had troops for
two months past. The present trouble is
supposed to be due to the long strike. dur
ing which the strikers have been driven
to desperation through hunger. Governor
MacCorkle has been watching affairs close
ly and has matters we'll in hand. Ii neces-
sary troops will be on the groual by noon
tomorrow, and there is little doubt that
they will be able to cope with the stua-
tion.
CHARLESTON, WA. July 5-At mid
night, In the Elkhorn region, two hundred
armed miners are marching from mine tc
mine driving out nonunion men. threatening
to burn and destroy. but neither burning
nor destroying anything. Four hundred
strikers went to Crozier's works, but were
driven away without bloolsh ID. The sit
uatlon.l however. has become SO threatening
that Governor MacCorkle tonight ordered
eight companies OF State troops to 5e III
readiness TO march. kilograms to the Gov
ernor from that region to-day state tha
strikers are arming and say ,.lsv Will driv.
out the scabs with which some of the opera
tors are trying TO run mines, ari cpsratcr:
have moved part of these inen over In,
| Virginia line. Strikers are massing at vari
Gus points. all pretty we'll arina1. and. a,
| the strike has been Oh abolt two month.
and the men are almost starving, they ar,
desperate and serious results are feared.
| Wire Drawers Strike Spreading.
| CLEVELAND. July 5.-The wire drawers
strike, which was inaugurated at the Amer
lean wire works on Wednesday. has spread
to the Baackes Wire Nail Company and
| fhe II p Nail Cou,nony' uorkc Eiffaar
| hundred men are now out, and wire-draw-
| ing is practically at standstill. The clean.
| ers and laborers at the American wire
| works have joined the strike. and tha,
| plant is idle in all departments as a result
| The increase demanded by the strikers
| amounts TO about IL per cent. The men are
| all members OF Wire Drawers UnfSn, No
| 5114 and are well organized