Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-10-14
Guards Are Placed on Every Street
Corner Of the City and Crowds
Are Dispersed.
NO REPETITION is
NOW ANTICIPATED.
The Guards In the Sioekade 70 BE Dis.
armed. aud Soldiers Will Take
Their Places The Town l.
Now Quiet.

20 wounded, seriously. Il tho result of
wednesday's riot here
The town b. a. quiet a. a country
churchyard Two Calling guns Of the
Galesburg battery are on the public
square and a blueciped infantryman at
each corner Of the business district u
about the only evidence q yesterdays
riot outside Of the Omen home, a story
and a half cottage. In the front yard
Of this humble home stands five black
covered collins. and on each h a simple
plato on which is engraved the words
Eat rest" Under the lids are the NOR
ial remains Of five victims u the battle
At the stockAde Of the Chicago Virden
Coal company. They are;
Ernest Kiuerly Of Mt Olive, Ellis
Smith Of Mt Olive, Ernest Keutner OF
Mt Olive, Ei wetz Of Springfield and
William Blue Of Springfield.
Coroner Hart has impanelled jury,
and will cndeavor 20 place the response.
bility Tor the shooting
Colonel Mcknight Of the governors
stafI. accompanied by Adiuiant General
Reese. visited the stockado Aof the Chi
oago.Virden Coal company, and served
a formal notice on Manager Lukens, who
has been inside the stockade throughout
the trouble, that the soldiers would visit
the stoclnde and disarm all the inmates.
/ Colonel Mcknight says no objections
were offered % this proposition. He an
/ tcipatcs no trouble on that point, and
be expresses the opinion that there vii
bo no further outbreak on the part d
either the union miners or the guards a
the stockade.
Uolouel Mcknight said be drove owe
from his home 10 Gimrd Wednesday
night and on tine way be passed numer
ous squads OF miners returning % thei
homes in Gimrd Mt Olive and neigh
boring towns
While martial law has not yet boei
declared, the town is virtually under th
control q state troops, under Cap,ail
Craig, Of battery b, First Illinois Artil
lery.
Adjutant General Reese expects troop
A, B, g aud ID, First Illinois cavalry
and four companies Of the Sons Of Vet,
nns from Rockford. Oregon and Ml
comb On their arrival special guard
NJ the stock yards will be- disarmed an
the soldiers will take possession.
There u a feeling among the people 4
the town who are not connected wit
the mines that the virden miners Al
not responsible for Wednesdays tragi
dy ono citizen expressed his views /
a very emphatic manner, saying that a
the trouble has been caused by outsider
who came here TO induce the local stril
ers to violence. a striking incidor
bears out this statement, for Il l. "a,
that in the bloody work not sing
Virden miner was killed, and only on
slightly injured.
There was n report on the streets this
100 negroes at Pana had been killed an
one shaft burned. The report came froi
Springfield, but was only a rumor
Notwithstanding a raw, cold win
swept the dust In binding cloud
through the streets, crowds began I
congegate today In the vicinity
the public square. The people, howe
er, were kept moving by tbs soldio
patrolling the streets.
An incident showing tho intense Zoe
ing of the miners developed whom woi
was passed that man from the stoc
ade was m "A barbouhop on JaoksC
strcot near the square. In few m
monts a crowd gathered In front Of Il
place Tho news was passed by Il
soldiers on picket duty TO headquarto
and reinforcomonts were sent doub
quick aud dispersed the gathering thor
Tho man returned to tho stockado a
molosted.