The Greenville times., 1897-08-07
IN 70 WESTMORELAND
--LATEST Move Of the Pittsburgh
'A' District Miners.
eNTRlL PENNSYLVANIA FIELDS NEXT.
,.,.,s mbilant Over Their Success
,5b DeArmitt's Men-A Big De-
nonsuation to Be Made on
Saturday Evening.
p,oD,rlag to Cover New Fields.

p,rrsRrRGu Pa, Aug. 5.-The strik-
are preparing to march on the
q. ,;,os operating in Westmoreland
c,npty o and central Pennsylvania.
''ln ln advance guard will go to Irwin
u5orq camp will be established.
Cber o bodies viii follow, the advance
,nom simply being silent notiica-
I'm that the men are coming.
rpr wrsTMoRELAND COUNTY MOVE.
p, the first of next week, when the
,+ite leaders say they expect to have
~ tbe New York Il Cleveland com
ronv's mines closed tight, the strikers
!, Turtle Creek Plum Creek and Sandy
c,osl; will move on into the Westmore-
land field and locate camps at the diff
ferept mines there.
An Of the Westmoreland mines are
.cnning and it is to stop the putting
n coal into the Pittsburgh market
fom these mines that the move is in
augurated'
WILL BE TREATED AS TREsPAssERs.
The managers of the Westmoreland
. coal Go. state that they will not en-
/ ;oin the strikers, but are ready for
them. They viii be treated as tres
nossers. The men at work for the Penn
Gas Coal Co. are IN the same position,
and the company will pursue the same
tactics.
There is an agreement between De
Armitt and the Westmoreland COM
pany. and the former ships west only,
the latter east.
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA NEXT.
II the strikers are successful in caus-
ing suspension of work at the Vest
moreland mines the march to the Cen
tal Pennsylvania fields will be taken
up The miners in this district are in
sympathy with the movement and
convention of Clearfield and jefferson
county miners was held Wednesday,
The strike leaders were requested to
rive some attention to central Penn
syyania, with a view to holding gem
enral convention of all mines shipping
coal to the eastern seaboard,
JUBILANr OVER THEIR SUCCESSES.
The strikers are jubilant over their
successes at De Armitts mines. The
total output Wednesday was IS gondola
cars, Supt, De Armitt says the Plum
Creek output Tuesday was 30 cars, ten
more than the mine was given credit
for by the strikers. Col. A. L. Nc
Candless, surgeon-in-chief of the Penn
glyania national guard, and Col. A. j.
Logan, acknowledgement, are in
Turtle Creek. 1t is said they are look
Ing for suitable site for a camp in
case the troops should be called out.
DEMONSTRATION FOR SATURDAY EVEN
ING.
President Dolan has announced that
the next demonstration at Camp De-
termination will take place Saturday
evening, 1t will be record breaker,
All Of the steel workers from Home
stead and Braddoclt will be present.
Plans are being matured for the strik-
trs to march to Braddock, and there
meet the visiting contingent with their
bands and march back, gathering up
recruits all along the route. In this
way they exect to bring in an enor-
nous crowd Atleast 4, 600 are expect
ed from the two towns of the Monon-
gahela.
CONSERVATION In the Miners Camp.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. Aug. 5.-Consterna-
ton was caused in the miners camp
Wednesday by terrific wind and elec-
lrca storm, which passed over the
Turtle Creek valley, doing a great deal
Of oidamage. At Sandy Creek tree in
The yard of the Jefferson schoolhouse,
Under which was group of the strik-
1g miners, who are in camp at that
place keeping a watch on the De Armitt
MINES, was struck by bolt and
BATTERED INTO MATCHwooD sPLINTERs.
Two Of the men, Vincent Coffin and
george Sedwick, were shocked into in
%hsl0ility, and their condition is
critical, Six others were also shocked.
lhe occurrence caused the wilde st ex-
g'ement among the striking miners.
Inc storm came upon them without !
warning and there was wild scurry |
'or shelter, of which there was none |
except that afforded by their small
tents and trees. AS soon as it was seen
that
avn of THE MEN WERE IN A SERIOUS CON |
nITIpN
several of their comrades were dis
patched for assistance while others !
carried the men into a nearby farm
house
When the storm came up many of the
oIlNers forgetting that they were go
TX on company property took refuge
u pe Armitt's stables, where the dep
=, l'les are quartered. They were not
1iSeoyered until the storm had passed
anu they were Immediately ordered
away.
-"e tslrmont TIe-up Doesn't MaterialiEe.
WHEELING, w. Va, Aug. 5.-At Fair
y D'Out the tie-up promised by Organizer
nae mas not materialized, and aside
'On lew men at Clarksburg, there /
''y no additions to the strikers.
~ Aanawhd valley, all but one mine
''e working. On the Norfolk & West
W. W. 'ne strike has entirely disappeared.
.''lers .ai day is being celebrated by la
,os 'o.'ng people generally in Wheeling
lua vicinity.
.ne eastern Ohio miners are getting
w. ,rHgry and have soliciting committees
N.Y. NV. WIN wagons securing food The
,aop'e ,sol are contributing literally, and
~. ,,e1..'e'ary Lewis thinks they can hold
'u' another month at least.
1e situation Viewed with Apprehension.