The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-13

VIRDEN, Ill, Oct. 12.-The little town of
Virden is comparatively quiet tonight after
a day of riot and bloodshed-the long ex-
pected clash between the union miners and
imported negroes. At 1910 o'clock this
afternoon a Chicago & Alton special train
bearing two hundred negro miners from the
South arrived at the stockade around the
Chicago-virden Coal Company's mines, and
Immediately firing began. The list of
casualties at II O'Clock tonight stands nine
dead and twenty wounded.
The Dead
ED WELSH. Springfield.
FRANK BILYEU, Springfield
ALBERT SMITH, Mount Olive,
JOSEPH KITTERLY, Mount Olive.
ERNEST KEUTNER. Mount Olive.
A. H. BRENEMAh. Giraro.
A. w. MORGAN, Chicago.
ID, Fl. KILEY, Chicago & Alton detective.
THOMAS PRESTON. Chicago.
The Wounded
ANSK ANKEL, Mount Olive.
GUSTAV. WEvsIEP. Mount Olive.
ED UPTON, Springfield.
THOMAS JENNINGS. Springfield.
JOSEPH IiAINES, Girard shot in leg.
JOE RUNK, Girard, shot in arm.
GEORGE RUNK, Girard, shot in stomach.
WILLIAM HERMAN, Girard. shot in
hand.
JOSEPH BAsToN. Mount Olive shot in
stomach.
JOSEPH sPRIM. Mount Olive. shot in
arm.
BART TIGAR. engineer C. & A., shot in
arm.
]. r. EYSTER, superintendent Climax
Trading Company, shot and beaten.
ID. GRITGEZELIJ, shot in shoulder
o. j. SNYDER, shot in face and legs.
JAMES SICKLES. Chicago, shot in leg.
FRANK WILDER, Chicago shot in arm.
THOMAS NJ M'ENTEE, Chicago, shot in
leg.
]. w. MooNAN. st. Louis slightly in
jured.
p. ]. HANAN. slightly injured
]. H. SMITH. Chicago, slightly injured.
ARRIVAL OF THE TRAIN
For the past two weeks rumors have
reached yirden daily that a train having
negroes from Alabama would reach the
city, and the Chicago & Alton depot has
been surrounded day and night by vigilant
miners determinedly awaiting their arrival
To-day the Chicago & Alton limited, due
to pass here at 10 o'clock, shot through en-
route to Chicago, an hour late displaying
flags on the rear indicating that a special
was following. Immediately the word was
spread. and a dense crowd of miners lined
the station platform, while another crowd
collected at the entrance of the stockade,
a half mile north of the station. d. B.
Kiley, a Chicago & Alton detective, stood
guard at a switch at the south end of the
station platform to see it was not tamp-
cred with.
At 1910 the special train passed the sta
tion, and signals shots were fired from the
south end of the train announcing the spe-
ciars arrival. Immediately shots were fired
from the moving train and outside. and the
battle was on. few moments after the
train had passed the switch where Kiley
was stationed, and while he was talking
with two citizens, he threw UP his arms
and dropped dead with bullet through his
brain. He was the first man killed
The train continued 10 the stockade. the
miners firing into it all along the route and
the negro passengers returning the fire.
The moment the train reached the stockade
the miners opened desperate fire with
Winchesters. revolvers and fire arms of all
descriptions. The negroes on the train an
swered with steady fire. The miners and
the train We're enveloped in a cloud of
smoke. and the shooting sounded like a
continuous volley. Engineer Burt Tiger re-
ceived a bullet in the arm and dropped from
his seat His fireman seized the throttle.
pulled IL open and with a jerk the train
was under speed. carrying a load of
wounded negro passengers to Springfield.
How many were wounded is not known
The train stopped at the stockade but two
minutes. Its departure did not cause the
hring to cease. The tower OF the stockade