Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-12
THE BIG STRIKE.
Twenty Cents Granted by One
 Mine Owner.
TROUBLE LIKELY.
Armed Negroes and Strikers Like ly to Become In
 vOlVed.

PITTsBURG, Aug. 7.-Psn ding devel-
 opments later in the day the miners in l the three camps besieging the Dear
 mitt miners are resting. At DO time
 during the strike has the situation been
 so critical.
 It is not believed tbat the miners will
 be drawn into the fight. If trouble
 does come it will net bs between the
 strikers and deputies, but between the
 strikers and negroes in the camp at
 Unity who are employed on the Pitts
 and Beessmsrs railroad. The deputies
 will be drawn to quell the trouble and 8
 shree- cornered fight is not improbable.
 I the camp of the negroes depraved
 men sud women arc together in hUts.
 Every one hos terrorizsd the commun-
 ity for miles around and shooting ef- trays form almost daily occurrence.
 The strikers camp is separated from
 that of the negroes by the township road leading from Uaity to Williams burg. Already there have been several
 orawls between the two parties. The negroes are walking araenals, while the strikers have no weapons.
 Thomas B. DssFmitt says he has out witted the strikers and made gain at the Plum Creek mine. He says there are now 315 msn at work there. He de- nies that payday has been deferred st Sandy and Plum creeks. The men will be paid today and Monday. The ex- pected importation of negroes from Vir- gi1is for Oak Hill has not taken place yet, but the strikers gre keeping 8 strict lookout for them and think they can bs persuaded 1ot to work when they do arrive.
 NASHVILLE, H., Aug. 7.-The strike in this vicinity will probably be short lived as the men in the Boyn mines and those of the Randolph Coke and Go al Company lave received 8 raise of twenty csnts per too and have all re- turned to work.
 PITrzBURo, Aug. All the miners of the Nsw York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company are still at work and were paid today but those who struck did not receive any money, the company upon the terms Of the contract by which the men agreed to forfeit all reserve in such case, but the strikers say the men promised to quit as soon ss they got their pay but Dsarmitt de- 3isrea that the strikers will not take bhe men out of the Plum Creek mine. | The strike is beginning to cause hun ger among the miners families along | the Wheeling division and in the Pan Handle dietrcs The male embere are living much better in the camps l than ths women and children are at nome.
 WHEELING w. Va, Aug. 10 West Virginia was peacefully invaded by Ohio miners this morning. One hundred | and twenty @ miners from the Mill | Creek region marched through the city spd reached BoGR's Run mine just ) low Wheeling at o'clock. The Ohio miners onms for the purpose of closing | lown she Boggs run mine, the only rail ,oad mine in Wheeling dissricb now be Dg operated. They announced that | they will stay until the B )ggs Run miners join the strike and today 200 | nore from Barton. Maynard and Pas I ,oe, other mining communities in east I srn Oaio. are to come. Tbe miners along she Wheeling and Lsks Erie have also announced willingness to perti- pate ;n this demonstration which may $ st for several days.