The Red Cloud chief., 1897-09-10
MOB I'll DEPUTIES.
OFFICERS WITH EVICTION
WARRANTS ROUTED.
Miners, Led by Women, Roughly Treat
Armed OmciaIs - BesIcge Them for n
Time and Finally Force Them to Depart
u. - Roughly Handled.

news that evictions from the houses
of the Pittsburg & Chicago Coal com
pany at Orangeville were to be Mt
tempted, all of the strikers about
Finleyvillc, G~astonville end Orange
vile became excited and gathered at
that place.
About 7 o'clock last night twenty
deputies from Washington. Pa, In
charge OF Chief Deputy Joseph II.
Wetherill, reached finleyvillo and
were met by n large crowd of strikers
and their friends. Each deputy was
armed with q Winchester rifle and a
revolver, but the strikers, headed by
100 Polish women, closed In and the
deputies were gradually forced back
and finally retrcated to Gastonville,
where they were followed by about
200 men and women.
AT Gastonvillc the deputies took re
fuge in the Office of the pan
where they we're kept all night, dur
ing which the building was lombard
ed with stones and brick and an occa,
sional hot was fired.
At Z o'clock this morning the depu-
ties rushed out OF their besiegcd quar-.
tiers, each one carrying his Winches-
ter In his hands and having his revol.
yer exposed, but headed by the women
the strikers rushed upon the deputies
with stones, clubs and pick handles.
and blows fell thick and fast. One of
the women wrestcd a rifle from "a dep
uty's hands and struck him on the
head with it, inhicting IA serious in.
jury.
DEPUTIES FORCED TO RETIRE.
by this time 1000 men. women and
children had joined the crowd. They
came from Venetia. Snowden, Calam-
ity and Finleyville. The deputies
slowly made their way to Orangeville
without firing a shot. They finally
took refuge In a vacant house, closely
followed by the mob, which quickly
surrounded the building and threat.
cned TO burn IL.
Finally n OF tho strikers an.
preached the house and n conference
was held. The deputies were ordered
TO leave town and utter q short
parley decided to do SC. They emerged
from the house n badly scared lot
OF men and walking between the
opened ranks of the strikers, started
for Gastonville. Almost every man in
h posse was cut and bleeding and
several were seriously hurt. Tho
right hand OF one was almost severed
by q sharp stone. ,
As the defeated deputies ran the
gauntlet they were greeted with
misses, curses and ridiculc. The s,rik.
ers then closed behind them and
marched them TO the station. where
they took the train for Washington.
After their departure the mob dis
persed and everything Is quiet now.
The officials OF the company say no
further attempt will be made to evict
the miners for the present.
r ILLINOIS DISSATISFIED.
BRAIpwoop H., Sept s.-Sccretary
Ryan, OF the Illinois miners, before
leaving for Columbus. to-day, said:
"The proposed settlement of the
miners strike has'caused considerable
excitement among the miners of ILL
nois and particularly in the northern
coal fields. The fact that the oper-
ators of Northern Illinois have re-.
fused to attend any conference look
ing toward a settlement of the pres
cnt trouble also establishes the fact
that there can be no general settle.
ment Mt the present time. Should the
Pittsburg miners accept the sixty-fve
cent rate and resume work, history
will repeat itself and the Illinois
miners will be left to hold the bag.
A resumption OF work In Illinois at
the reduction mean the loss to the
Pittsburg miners Of the advance in
side OF sixty days. Tho strike was
i~naugurated rs u national issue and
should end tho same way, win or
lose"
UNIONISTS STAND TOGETHER.
BIRMINGHAM, England, Sept s.
When the British trades union con
gress resumed it's sessions to-day Pres.
idcnt Stevens delivered his annual ad.
dress. He said that the marine en-
gineers' strike was an instance of one
of the best organized and most pow
erful combinations in tho world
being In the throes of a great
struggle with q powerful com.
bination OF capital. 1t was certain
that the struggle would be prolonged
and that the engineers would have tn
appeal for help to the trade union
lists throughout the country. That
help should be given, for under no
circumstances could they allow the
engineers to be defeated,
The delegates then unanimously and
enthusiastically adopted a special reso-
luton pledging moral and financial
aid to the strikers. Mr.. Pickard. NJ.
r., president OF the Miners Fedora
ton OF Great Britain, in supporting
the motion, said that all trade union
lists should tender eight hour notices
and sink or swim" with the engin-
GERS.