The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-14

vanced up the track to within 100 yards
of the stockade. The presence of armed
blueCOats in the lookout boxes evil
IDENTIFY halted them, as they remained
there until the train passed, when they
greeted it with waving hats and cheers
for Governor Tanner, who, they be-
lieved, had been instrumental in start
ing the blacks on their homeward jour
ney.
After the departure of the train Mr.
Lukens made this statement:
When the special train carrying the
blacks arrived this afternoon at the
mine the troops, under orders from
Governor Tanner, refused to let them
get off the train, and they were com
PEELED to go through.
4 protested to the captain in com
mand of the guard at the mine at this
action and told him there was no law
! except the law of force, that would
justify this action. He replied that he
had strict orders from Governor Tan
ner not TO permit the blacks to land
and that he was compelled to follow
instructions"
While martial law has not yet been
declared, the town is virtually under
control of the State troops, under Cap
tain Craig of Battery B, First Illinois
Artillery.
Upon the arrival of the soldiers from
Pana two Gatling guns were taken to
the public square, where they com
mand the business section. Guards
were thrown out, and the remainder of
the soldiers were quartered in the opera
house.
Two hundred miners, who have been
sleeping in the Miners Union Hall for
several weeks, We're somewhat sur
prised on coming from their quarters
at daybreak to find soldiers on picket
duty at the door. Each man was met
with Hold up your hands" and the re-
quest was d-naturedly assented to-.
Each man was thoroughly but fruit
lessly searched for firearms. Among
the crowd were several negroes, and
from outward appearances there appa-
rentIy existed the best of feeling be-
tween the white and black union
miners.
General Bradley leader Of a dele
CATION of sixty miners from Mount
Olive, returned home to-day with the
remains of the dead Mount Olive
miners.
II think this has been one Of the
most internal outrages ever perpetrated
on a Iaboring public" he said. Sour
men were shot down like dogs. They
had orders to talk the matter over with
the mine people when it came to a
crisis and not to shoot unless fired up
on. Instead of arbitrating the question
I leave for home with baggage car
full of dead men.
II do not expect any further trouble
in Virden for the present, but | cannot
answer for the future, for there is a
day coming when the laboring man Will
be given bread instead of bullets"
There is a feelir~ among the people
Of the town not connected with the
mines that the Virden miners are not
responsible for yesterdays tragedy.
One citizen declared that all the trouble
had been caused by outsiders who came
here and melted the local strikers to
acts of violence. A fact that bears out
this statement is the circumstance that
in Yesterdays bloody work not a single
Vfrden miner was killed, and those hurt
were only slightly injured.
J. f. Eyster, superintendent of the
Climax Trading Company, the estab-
lishment controlled by the Chicago-Vir-
den Coal Company, who was so severe
Iv beaten in the scrimmage. has i'm
proved slightly.
This afternoon all the arms and am
rnunftfon Of the Chicag ago-Virden Coal
Company were confscated by Captain
Fervier. commanding the State militia.
There are 125 Springfield rifles and 250O
rounds Of ammunition.