The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-08

nounGed that Tyler was gone; that he
had escaped by the back door. The
greater part Of the crowd started to
leave, but many remained, watching for
something 10 happen. When Fars and
Carnahan reached town they began 20
Inquire for the missing man and a
crowd soon gathered around them.
They finally reached Blum's store and
stopped there for a few minutes The
crowd again sWelled In the street out
side until Marshal Bahra and Officer
Johnson reached the store, gave tidlngs
OF the missing man, and escorted Faris
and CarRahaR from the store to the
mill. They passed out through the
crowd and were not molested In any
way until they reached Thirty-seventh
street, FOUR squares north OF the square,
Just as the officers and the men turned
down that street to the railroad, some
one heaved brick and 1t struck Faris
In the back. The big crowd that had
followed through the four squares had
only hooted up to that point, and when
this break came both officers stopped,
told the two men to go on, and they
drove the crowd back and dispersed 1t.
The two men went on to the mill with
out further molestation.
All OF the towns policemen were sta
TONED at different points and after the
crowd had grown to such threatening
proportions, Officer O'Nell, at the city
buildings, was put on duty In town and
John S. Ehler placed at the buildings.
The assault upon Tyler and the me-
naclng attitude and assault upon Faris
and Carnahan We're the result OF the
excitement that had been growing all
evening, and the whole matter died
down so far as public demonstration
was concerned, after the crowd was
dispersed by the marshal and officer
Johnson. There was no organized mob
by any means. It was simply motley
crowd that was permitted TO gather by
reason of excitement occasioned by fire.
quent collisions between Il few Of the
men who work at the mill and others
who sympathiZe with the strikers.
None of the strikers, so far as could be
learned, was even upon the streets any
where while the excitement was going
on, 1t was their regular meeting night
and they were all In their hall except,
perhaps, one metal wheeler, who was
tanked up, and he narrowly escaped
punishment at the hands OF the crowd
The marshal sent him home.
During the little scrImmages early in
the evening one of the colOred men
noted above was struck near Squire
Mgson's office just as the squire was
leaving for home, and he commanded
the peace. There was ne, further
trouble at that point, but 1t was only
transferred to another, and so it went
throughout the evening until the end
flor TDl1Dtubf Hon
had with Sheriff Darby at st. Glars
Vile, and also with Governor Bushnell,
at Springfield. The mayor was called
out OF bed and talked to both men, CIV
ing them assurances that the situation
was not as bad as the reports sent out
made II. He said all that was neces-
sary was TO keep crowds from congre-
eating; that the crowd assembled was
ninety per cent. boys and others at
tracted by curiosity to see what would
happen. The governor was called at
the suggestion Of one Of the men con-
nected with the mill.
The whole affair is deplored by every
body and II would not have reached the
threatening character 1t did had 1t not
been for the two colored men named
who furnished half a dozen excuses for
row, They had more money than
they usually have and boosted and pa
raded until the feeling was aroused to
such an extent that the crowd was
ready to go after anybody who was con-
nected with the min company. A de-
termlned early effort would have pre-
vented the assembling OF such a crowd,
but 1t was probably not looked for
The whole town is aroused, especially
over the threatening character of the
crowd about Blum Bros store.
The steelworkers who went to Wheel
ing and who returned on an early
morning train, went to the mill with
out being molested or disturbed in any
way At the suggestion Of the mill
folks, the mayor ordered the police to
meet and accompany them to the works
which they did. but at that hour every
thing was quiet.