The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-10
Strikers Board Indiana
Trains and Refuse
to Get Off.
Pay Day at Plum Creek, but
No Money for Men Who
Have Quit.
Pangs of Hunger Being Felt ir
Miners Families of Several
Districts.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Aug. 9.-The
striking coal miners who are marching on
Evansville expect to cross the Ohio River
at that point and visit the Kentucky
mines to induce the men to quit work.
They seized an Evansville and Terre Haute
train at Vincenness last night and the
crew ran it into the yards to await orders
from Superintendent Corbett. Orders
were received to go on. and the miners
boarded the train and refused to get off.
The train was sidetracked at Purcell sta
ton and the ere started back to Vincen-
mes with the engine and cal oose but the
strikers boarded the caboose ana came
back with it.
Superintendent Corbett secured a writ
of injunction against the strikers and
Sheriff Or3dorff served it upon the lead
ers. The strikers made fun OF the officer
and declared they would not obey the
writ but would board the first train for
Evansville, regardless OF consequences.
All the miners of Southern Indiana are
concentrating their forces at Evansville,
whence they will proceed to Darlington,
KY, to persuade the miners there to quit
work. ]. D. Pickens, who led a wing OF
Coxey's army to Washington, is in COM
mand. The miners say they will go on
the first train, notwith standing the in
junction. The situation looks serious.
HILLSBORO, ILL, Aug. 9-The strike
situation a. Coffeen is still strained. The
mine is running as usual to-day with a
full force, but armed pickets are on guard.
The visiting miners were not REINFORCED
so strongly as they expected, and the de-
termined attitude OF Sheriff Randall and
200 armed deputle appeared to overawe
them. They decided to make no attempt
to force the mine to stop to-day, but to
await further re-enforcemen and the re-
suit of General Bradley s visit to Spring
field to confer with Governor Tanner.
The visiting miners have received sup
plies sufficient for ten days siege, and
announce their firm determination to
close the mine. The strikers will not be
permitted to enter the village 10 intim-
idate the miners Deputies are on duty
again tonight, and Will be on guard again
tomorrow TO protect the mine and pre-
vent demonstration.
The strikers with a brass band visited
De Armitt's Turtle Creek mines early this
morning, and so attractive was the music
that the miners failed to 90 to work and
started dancing and singing TO the lively
tunes of the banc.
To-day was pay day at Plum Creek. The
wages due them, while the rest received
cash for work they say they had done.
The strikers say the rest Of the men will
20 out to- m orrow. ". 2. de Armitt says
but few Plum Greek men have gone out.
A mass meeting will be held at Irwin on
Wednesday to induce the employees of the
Pennsylvania and Westm oreland and
other com panies' mployes to strike. Debs
will speak.
PITTSBURG, PA, Aug. 9.-The strike
is beginning to cause hunger among the
miners families along the Wheeling di-
vision and in the Panhandle district. At
the mines where company stores have been
in operation, the restitution is more
marked. In most instances the stores
were closed up shortly after The strike
began and the miners have no places now
where their credit is good. The male
mem bers OF the ia miles are living better
in the camps than the women and chill
dren who are at home.
The applications for an injunction to
restrain the miners from congregating
near the mines OF the New York and
Cleveland Gas Coal Company which was
to have been filed in the United States
Court to-day on behalf of the non -resident
stockholders of the company, had not
been presented to the court up to the ad-
jOurnment a noon.
Judge Atcheson has gone to his home
in Washington County, and it is not
likely that the bill will be filed before to-
morrow.
FAIRMONT, w. VA, Aug. 9.-Still
another effort is to be made to get the
Fairmont district miners out. Samuel
Gompers, Henry d. Lloyd and James
Wood will address mass meetings at this
place Wednesday and at Monongah Thurs
day. The organizers are greatly encour-
aged, as all of the Clarksburg end of the
district is out.
Rurt,d 5Iir. II, N Se,1er Tre,rb