The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-08-06
STRIKERS ARE HOPEFUL
Turtle and Sandy Creek Mines
Are Both Closed.
HARD TIME FOR DEPUTIES
They Are Under q Constant Strain and
Get No Reside Armitt Has a
Brush With the Strikers
Negroes to Be Employed.


was caused in the miners camp last
trfcal storm which passed over the
Turtle Greek valley, doing great da'.,-
age. AT Standy Creek a tree in the
yard Of the Jefferson school house, un-
der which was a group of striking
miners. was struck by a bolt and
shattered into splinters. Vincent Cof-
fic and George Sedgwick were shocked
into insensibility and their condition
Is critical. The occurrence caused the
widest excitement among the striking
miners.
Colonel A. T.. McCandless, surgeon
in-chief of the Pennsylvania National
Guard. and Colonel A. j. Logan, quar-
termaster general, were I'm Turtle
Creek to-day. II is said they were
looking for a suitable camp in case
troops should be called out. Colonel
McCandless refused to affirm or deny
that he was In the district in connec-
tion with inquiries being made by the
governor.
President DoIan has announced that
the next demonstration at Camp de-
termination will take place Saturday
evening. All the steel workers from
Homestead and Braddock Will be
present. Plans are being ma.urei for
the strikers to march to Braddock and
there meet the visiting contingent with
bands and march back, gathering up
recruits all along the route.
Next week the strikers say they will
move into the Westmoreland fields.
and II successful in causing suspen-
sion there. the march to the Central
Pennsylvania fields will be taken up.
n,,t - H.. % t,.tl rh.s ,oA
at Turtle Creek last Saturday, barely
300 now remain at Camp Determina-
tion. In addition TO the large num-
ber turned out of camp and cut OFF
from the free lunch distribution yes
terday, many were drafted to Psum
Creek. where the great struggle for
supremacy between the strikers and
the New York a. Cleveland Gas Coal
company will be carried on.
At Turtle and Sandy Creeks the
strikers have practically won. Turtle
Creek mine. known as No. 4. Is closed
down as tight as the strikers can
hope to close II. The same holds good
at Sandy Creek. Reports from Plum
Creek are conflicting. Superintendent
DE Armitt claims that 255 men are
still working. while the strikers say
they counted but 30 going into the pit
this morning.
The deputies at Plum Creek are hav-
ing a hard time. Many are complain
Ing and a number have resigned.
There is no such thing as uninter-
rupted rest for the deputies. They
are under constant strain. All the
mines are connected by private tele-
graph and telephone wires aud every
stranger or body Of strangers moving
along the highways Is Immediately
reported to the nearest Office by scouts
and the foreman or managers ce all
the pits get notice. AT the point nron
which any march thus reported
seems to be directed. there IL stir
among the deputies AS these marches
are matters of almost daily occur
renee. day and night, in all directions,
the deputies are in state OF appre-
hension and activity. The feeling and
lodging facilities are limited and are
not adequate to the demands made
upon them. And what adds tc the
deputies discomfort is the fact that
none of them are used to hardships.
There are 20 deputies on duty here and
IL was stated that this number has
been retained for the present.
This morning Superintendent DE Ar
mitt had brush with the marchers.
They were on march and as they ap-
preached they opened ranks for him
To pass through. When they neared
the end of the road leading into the
Murray road he stopped them. say
ing the road was the private property
of the New York e. Cleveland Gas
Coal company. The men held con-
sultation and concluded to march on,
which they did. DE Armitt marcse ed
with them threatening them with ar
rest, but no arrests were made.
II became rumored about among the
campers to-day that President DE Ar
mitt had made arrangements to bring
800 colored men to the mines from
Virginia. and they would be here by
Saturday.
The officers OF the company. when
seen. denied the rumor and said nothing
of the kind was contemplated. Citizens
of the south side. who are In sympa-
thy with the striking coal miners. un-
dertook in a novel way to-day 10 secure
contributions of provisions from the
merchants of the south side to be sent
to the commissary department Of the
miners. A local band was engaged. to-
gether with several large express
wagons. and a procession headed by a
stand of the national colors was FORM
ed. The band played patriotic music
and slowly moved up Carson stres {,
stopping at each corner. The mer-
chants all along the ioute came for
ward with liberal contributions and
soon the wagons were filled. At the
South Side Market liberal contributions
of vegetables we're placed in the
wagons.
A large mass meeting OF the miners
from the Monongahela valley was he'd
at Roscoe this afternoon to devise
means for carrying on the strike and
induce men at mines at Elizabeth. Blu
nota and Webster to come out. II was
decided to organize a marching party.
and this will be done in a few days.
The miners families along the Mo-
nongahela river are reported u he
wanting the necessities OF life. Desti-
tuition is prevalent at every mining
hamlet and hundreds of families have
moi had enough 10 eat for sever DAYS