The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-09
COMING OUT AT PLUM CREEK.
LESS THAN 200 MEN EXPECTED 70
BE AT WORK TODAY.

The Decision 10 strike the Result of
Mass Meeting Gotten Up by the
strikers in Camp IsOIation-Wives
of strikers Persuade wives of Mi
ners Stin at Work to Urge ThcIr
Husbands to Leave the Pits-Py-
phOid Fever Epidemic at CamD ne
termination.
Pittsburg. Pa, Aug. S-Although this
was considered a day OF rest among the
strikers. probably the most effective work
among the Plum Creek miners was per-
formed, and as a result the strikers have
been assured that considerably less than
200 men will be at work tomorrow at this
mine
A large mass meeting was held at Camp
Isolation at Plum Creek this afternoon.
which, in addition to about 200 others
was attended by about 200 women, the
wives and daughters Of the miners who are
still at work in the Plum Creek mine. Not
withstanding that deputies visited the
homes of the people and advised them not
to attend the meeting. nearly every wife
brought her husband with her.
Because of the many restrictions nut on
the strikers they have hitherto been un-
able to get chance to argue their cause
with the Plum Creek workmen. ana the
occasion given them to-day was taken ad
vantage of to the full. The usual on
portunlty to-day was the result of the
missionary work Of the wives of the
strikers from Mcdonald, Finleyviue and
Carnegie These women have been work.
ing assiduously during the past week and
secured the promise of the wives of the
working miners to attend the meeting and
bring their husbands
The result of the meeting was the as
surance from nearly 100 men that they
would Join the strikers tomorrow. The
plan is for the men to work until thew re-
ceive their twenty days pay, which VIII
De gwen them tomorrow, and then they
are to desert the pit. leaving only eight
days wages back, which, judging by the
action of the company in the case of the
Sandy Creek strikers yesterday will be
refused them. If this plan does not mis-
carry the strikers think 1t will only be
a question OF very short time until the
DeArmit mines are tied up completely.
The meeting to-day was inaugurated bv
coin Lash, assisted by a choir of 20 color
ed jubilee singers. after which Mrs. Mary
Jones, the Chicago agitator, spoke for
about an hour, putting the case very
plainly to her women auditors She placed
the responsibility for the strike or failure
of the strike on the wives and made a de-
cidedly favorable impression.
An epidemic of typhoid fever in a mild
form Is raging In the vicinity of Camp De-
termination at Turtle Creek, sixty cases
having developed among the citizens OF
that borough.
The campers have not been attacked as
yet and as a precautionary measure the
health officer has introduced new sani-
tary measures. Bad water and lack of
sewerage in the borough is assigned as the
cause of the disease Five deaths have
resulted up to date.
Only twenty-five strikers were in Camp
Determination to-day. but toward evening
il began to assume its normal condition
by the return of the men who had gone
TO freshen their apparel and otherwise
prepare for the new weeks work Be
fore morning the usual complement Will
be on hand and the forces are to be di-
vided into three bands, who will march
to the three pits and guard them at as
close range as the deputies will permit.