Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-10-13
DETECTIVES AND DEPUTIES DISARMED
Manager Lukens Makes Statement so Also Does
One of the Labor Leaders.
CHAPLAIN M'INTyRE IS DECLARED GUILTY

VIRDEN, Ill, Oct. 13.-The town i
quiet today. Two Gatling guns of th
GaIesburg battery on the public squar
and infantryman at each corner ar
about the only evidence of yesterday
riot outside of the O'Neil home, in tn
front yard of which stand Eve blacl
covered collins on each of which is
simple plate engraved "At Rest" Un
der the lids are the mortal remains o
the five victimsof yesterdays battle a
the stockade of the Chicago VirdeI
Coal Company.
THE DEAD ARE:
Ernest KitterIy, Mount Olive; Eli
Smith, Mount Olive; Ernest Keutner
Mount Olive; Ed Wetz, Springfield
William Blue, Springfield.
Coroner Hart impaneled "a jury ant
will endeavor to place the responsible
ty Of the shooting. The investigation
will be rigid and thorough and will re
quire some time.
LUKENS Is MEEK NOW.
Col. McKnight, of the governor 8
staff, accompanied by Adjutant Gener-
al Reese, at midnight visited the stock
ade of the Virden company aud served
formal notice on Manager Lukens that
the soldiers would visit the stockade to-
day and disarm all inmates. Colonel
Mcknight says no objections were Of
fered to this proposition. He expresses
the opinion that there will be no fur
ther outbreak.
Adiutant General Reese expects th,
troops A, b, G, d, First Illinois Cav
airy, and four companies of the Sons oil
Veterans, from Rockford, De Kalb
Oregon and Macomb today.
ALEADER TALKS.
General Bradley, leader of the dele
cation of sixty miners from Noun
Olive, returned home today with tn,
remains of the dead Mount DIV,
miners.
II think this has been one of thl
most internal outrages ever perpetrate(
or the laboring public" he said sou
men were shot down like dogs. Oul
men had orders not to shoot unless
fred upon. 1 do not expect further
trouble at Virden for the present, but
cannot answer for the future, for ther,
is a day of reckoning coming wheI
laboring men will be given bread in
stead of bullets.'
THE LOCAL SENTIMENT.
There is feeling among the people
of the town not connected with tn,
mines that the virden miners are no
responsible for the tragedy. One citi
zen said all the trouble had been caused
by outsiders. The striking incident il
the fact that in yesterday bloody worl
not single virden miner was killed
only one slightly y.wounded.
DETECTIVES DIsAR MED. K
VIRDEN, Oct. 13.-Captain Charlie
A. Fervier, commanding Company B
Sons of Veterans, Elgin, Ill, with par
of his men entered the stockade at
o'clock this morning and disarmet
Thiel's detectives from ST. Louis an(
the local deputies employed by the Goa
mine operators. They offered no OBJ
jections. t
LUKENs HAS AN EXPLANATION
Manager Lukens said: "The troubl
ofyesterday was not our making. Th'
strikers simply surrounded the stock
ade. There must have been at leas
1000. They opened fire. The fact tha
we only had one man killed and Isl,
slightly wounded l consider miracle
There were thousands of shots fired
For time the shots fred were directet
at the train. After it pulled out tn
strikers turned on us. We returne'
the shots. | never supposed such
thing would result when we brough
the negroes here.'
Lukens would not say whether o
not he would import other negroe
q when the soldiers leave. Lukens give
the following official list of the kilIe'
and wounded within the stockade:
A REVISED LIST.
Dead-Al. w. Morgan, Thos. Preston