The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-23
RAroHFoRD IN WEST VIRGINIA.
Sttn Confident That MINERS There Will Go Gu
Outbreaks Among the strikers

Outbreaks Among the strtkers-
WHEELING, W. Va, July 22.-The apparent
lull in the coal strike in the Paramount district.
the storm centre OF the strike in West Virginia.
10 said by President Ratchford and his men to
be simply the calm before the storm. This after.
noon the district operators and strike leaders
said that the chances for success in West Vir-
GINA were greater than ever before. and that
within a week the mining Of coal in the Monon-
gahela Valley will be suspended completely.
In case President Ratchford. who Is now here,
consents to remain, the parade OF union miners
and their wives. which proved q failure yester-
day. will be undertaken tomorrow. Ratchford
will also hold a mass meeting at Willow Tree.
An ~incipient riot was suppressed at Kings
mines this afternoon by Sheriff Cunningham.
who with five deputies saved thirty miners from
injury at the hands of 200 strikers and sympa-
thizers who had driven the diggers from the
mines. In southern West Virginia all OF the
mines are working. Three agitators who ap-
preached a group of miners In the Flat Top dis
'F ship weee aFt oven a sne Ra ~ ihoset and Ohio to-day
from central West Virginia were largely in
creased. To prevent disorder At Dillonvale,
the Baltimore and Ohio. Railroad officials dis.
credit reports that the railroad brotherhoods
einia coal, should it become necessary.
~PrTTsgURe. Pa. July, 22;-Commissioner
land. He said tonight that the operators there
had generally promised him to sign the uni
Commissioner Little said tonight that the
Westmoreland and Penn Gas companies and
other companies in that region do not stand in
the way OF the success OF the uniformity agree
ment. This is construed as meaning that these
companies will sign the agreement.
The strikers marched on the Bunola mine this
morning and induced the miners to refuse to 20
TO work. There are no other new developments
nonsburg miners are still working. and this
afternoon the strikers we're Reported as intending
to make a march on the mines tonight or to-
SPRIN6FIELD. H., July 22.-News from the
strike district in Illinois is not encouraging.
miners Who are at WORK. Five bundled men
from other regions have arrived. and affairs
delegation of visiting miners visited the
region and not a pick was handled. At
t lee09 Business sas mem msn urge arg them he nG to remS Sht' h Hna
The mines at Roanoke have been running
steadily; but today Obligations from Minonk.
a band. After a brief conference with the men
at work the latter threw down their picks and
quit. This closes every coal mine In that part
I%NpIAN4PoIIs July 22.IThe commissioner
striking coal miners met with many meritorious
cases to-day at Lyford. Geneva, Clinton. and
other places. and will report to the Governor
that there Is some distress. and the prospect OF
n good deal moro unless the strike is brought to
an early close and the miners return TO work.
gone into the harvest field to work, and this In.
crease Of labor has brought wages down 10 81 a
day. sui IL gives a support to many who would
otherwise be In actual want.
The family OF David Powell was visited, the
fh@ ar~esFs fai eId.s II IRE fF family i sl OF seven SSS TO e EHsf IN h ,hi
nothing to eat except what the neighbors fur.
nished them. ard that WAS hardly enough &c
keep body and soul together. In Frank Carne's
house in Geneva there was nothing to eat and nc
money with which to buy food. In all the casci
visited the. same conditions were found, the
miners being worthy people but %entirel,
destitute owing to the strike. As a, rule 1t wal
found that none of them ever handled none,
even when they worked. as their wages wer,
paid In goods at the company's store.