The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-09
At CAMP DETERMINATION.
TYPHOID FEVER ADDS TO THE
STRIKERS OTHER MISEEIES.
Big Meeting Held at Camp Isolation
at Plum Creek-Strikers Rested
Comparatively Quiet Yesterday,
Preparing For Another Weeks
Battle.

Pittsburg, Pa, Aug. S-AIthough today
was considered a day of rest among the
strikers. probably the most effective work
among the Plum Creek miners was per-
formed and as a result the strikers have
been assured that considerably less than
200 men will be at work tomorrow at the
mine.
A large mass meeting was held at Camp
Isolation at Plum Creek this afternoon,
which, in addition to about LOCO others,
was attended by about 200 women. the
wives and daughters of the miners who
are still at work in the Plum Greek mine
Notwithstanding the fact that deputies
visited the homes of these people this
morning and advised them net TO attend
the meeting, nearly every wife, brother or
husband with 1ler, attended Because OF
the many restrictions put on the strikers,
they have hitherto been unable 10 get a
chance TO argue their cause with the
Plum Creek workmen, and the occasion
given them today was taken advantage
of to the fullest extent The unusual OPP
portunity today was the result of the
missionary work of the wives OF the
strikers from Mcdonald, Finleyville and
Carnegie. These women have been work
ing assiduously during the past week, and
secured the promise of the wives OF the
working miners to attend the meeting,
and bring their husbands.
The result of the meeting was the assur-
ance from nearly a hundred men that
they would join the strikers tomorrow.
The plan is for the men TO work until
they receive their 20 days pay, which
will be given them tomorrow, and they
are TO desert the pit, leaving only eight
days wages back, which, judging from
the action of the company in the case of
the Sandy Greek miners, yesterday. viii
be refused them. If this plan does not
miscarry, the strikers think it will be
only a question of a very short time until
the De Armiut mines are tied up COM
pietely.
The meeting today was inaugurated by
religious exercises conducted by Rev.
Lincoln Lash, assisted by a choir of 20
colOred jubilee singers, after which Mrs.
Mary Jones, the Chicago agitator, spoke
to her women auditors. She placed the
responsibility for the success or failure of
the strike on the wives and made de
cidedly favorable impression.
An epidemic of typhoid fever in mild
form is raging in the vicinity of Camp |
Determination, at Turtle Creek. 60 cases /
having developed among the citizens of
that borough. The campers have not been
attacked as yet, and as a precautionary (
measure the health officials have ordered /
extra sanitary measures. Bad water and /
lack of sewerage in the borough IS as
signed as the cause of the disease. Five |
deaths have resulted up to date.
Only % strikers were in Camp Determi- |
nation today, but towards evening it be- /
gan TO assume its normal condition by I
the return of the men who had gone home /
10 freshen their appetites ana otherwise
prepare for the new week work. Be- 4
fore morning the usual complement Will I
be on hand and the forces are TO be di- !
vided in three bands, who will march TO /
the tJaree pits and guard them a as close {
a range as the deputies will permit