Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-10-14
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ALL UVEK LIE WUh| u !.
BLOOD SPILLED AT vlRDEN.
Arrival Of Non Union Miners Precipstates
y . Serious Engagement With Strikers. y
VIHDEN, Ill, Oct. 13.--The arrival OF
negroes from the south yesterday AZ
ternoon was followed by desperate
battle, Five hundred shots We're exaa
changed between the strikers on one
side and Sheriff Davenport and his
deputies on the other. 1t is thought
ut least twenty men on both sides were
killed and wounded. The best inform
ation is that ten were killed and five
fatally wounded, five seriously. A Chi
cago & Alton policeman named D. Xii
ey was among the killed. When the
train arrived bearing the negroes, fully
1, 500 armed miners lined up on each
side of the track. The train stopped
in front of the gates of the stockade
and the trouble began. Dozens OF
shots were fired from the stockade at
the white men and white strikers half
q mile away. Kiley was killed by a
shot from the tower. The widest ru-
mors are af,oat, one to the effect that
fifty miners were killed. There is the
greatest excitement. The men are Sc
curing whatever arms they can to de-
fend themselves if the trouble spreads.
Women and children are fleeing to
their homes and barricading the doors,
1t is reported that the miners were
fired upon from the stockade after the
train went through.
1t seems that the union miners were
looking for the train bearing the
negroes. Upon it's arrival 4 shot was
fired from the train. Firing began on
all sides and the engineer Of the train
was hit. The fireman jumped to the
throttle and threw it wide open and
the train, which had stopped at the
mines but two minutes, and from
which none of the negroes had
alighted, was pulled on to Springfield.
The fighting continued between the
miners and the sharpshooters en-.
ployed by the mine owners, and it is
said all of the dead miners were killed
after the train departed. J. F. Eyster,
superintendent Of the provision store
of the mining company, was telephoned
to send physicians to the stock
.ade. He went there with two,
and upon his return the union miners,
learning what he had done, chased him
into his store. He rushed to the roof
of the building, from which he crossed
to the roofs of other buildings, amid
the fire of Winchesters. He wasarlned
with two reyolvcrs. He was finally
wounded, probably fatally. and cap
tured, after which he was brutally
treated. Inside the stockade two were
killed and eight wounded. Outside
eight were killed and fifteen wounded.
On the train which pulled into Spring
field one deputy was killed, Engineer
Kyger was shot in the arm and eight
negroes were wounded, one of which
died afterwards. .... 3D.. -... -.
Gov. Tanner had been appealed to
by Sheriff Davenport for troops, the
sheriff declaring that the situation
was absolutely beyond his control.
To his appeals the governor replied
that so long AS the coal company per-
sisted in importing labor he would not
furnish troops unless rloting occurred.
After the fight troops We're sent to the
scene of the fight. Upon arrival at
the stockade guards were ordered to
surrender. One failed to do SO and
was shot. Squads of militia were sent
out over the town and every man
found was disarmcd.
SPRINGFIELD, Oct. 13.-1n an inter.
view, Governor Tanner said he had in.
structed the militia sent to Vlrden to
disarm all persons bearing arms, and
to not allow imported laborers to un.
load from any train within the city
limits nor to march in in "a body. He
declared that the officers of the com
pany, who brought the negro laborers
into the state against his protest, were
guilty of murder, and should be in
dicted and convicted and he believed
they would be.
| VlRDEN, III. Oct 1.-the day pass
ed without another outbreak of VIC
lence, but aside from the restraining
influences of the militia no progress
has been made toward permanen,
| peace. The idle miners are excitabl'
and determined while the Chicago
virden Coal company has shown nc
sign of purpose to abandon its plal
of operating it's mines with imported
negroes. The shooting has resulted
in fourteen deaths so far.
V1RDEN. Ill.,, Oct. 14.-At 5:25 las
evening train arrived here from
Springfield bearing two carloads o
negroes taken through to Springfield
on the previous day. Manager Lukens
of the mining company, demanded o
Captain FEWER, of the militia, tina
they be permitted to discmbark, bu
the captain would not permit it, ant
the train proceeded south.
| Spanish Change of Sentiment.
LONDON, Oct. 1O.--The Madrid cor
respondent of the STANDARD says
There has been remarkable revulsio,
| of ,,,,h1;o foa1;nr nro;nSt Sn,ip's ira