The Portland daily press., 1898-10-15
Warrants Sworn Out Against Mine
Officials.
WILL NOT BE SERVED UNTIL
AFTER THE INQUEST.
Continuation of Testimony Before Cor
oner's Jury-Witnssses tsay Train
Was Fired On Before Any Shooting
Was one by Passengers.

was u one by Passengers.
of leeting held by number of union
mine S during which the hght OF Wednes-
day was discussed, a warrant has been
sworn out by Virgil Bishop. union
mines. charging the managers of the
Chicago. Virden Goal company, Messrs.
Lukens, Loucks, Yorke and others, with
murder.
Bishop is one of ths leaders among the
| union miners. The warrant was sworn
out by him before Police Magistrate
Roberts Of Virden.
The complainant names Fred W.
Lukens, T. G. Louoks Mr.. Yorke and
others as accessories before and after the
fact and as principals.
| AT first it was decided to serve the war
rant today but after a deliberation 1T was
thought to be best, in order to avoid COM
plications, to hold 1t until after the
inquest had been completed
| Magistrate Roberts who is foreman of
the ooroner's jury. begass today's session
j. W. Patton of Springfield, ILL.,, who is
Manager Lukens's attorney, wa present
as was representative Of slegal depart.
ment of the Chicago & Alto railroad.
DIR. Preston of the Thiel detective
agency. was the first witness called. He
recited the incidents leading up to We'd
nesday's 8 battle and told the story OF the
| fight at the North Gate where he wac in
charge Of the company guards. He was
sure that his men did not open the battle
and he asserted that he cautioned them
| not to fire on numerous occasions during
| the battle.
/ @. A. DeBarrow of East St. Louis, who
was in charge Of the special guards on
one OF the cars of the train fired on In
Wednesdays battle, testified that when
the trai n carrying the imported negroes
had reached point 100 yards south Of the
depor. the firing began from the exterior
on tie other side of the tracks; De gave
the car. He stated that the occupants of
the car were colored men, women and
children, and that when he gave those
l orders he could hear ths women and chill
dTen screaming that thy had been shot,
After the depot was passed he said the
ire became very fierce again on the out.
hide and continued until the train reached
ghe. sto,kade. When the train drew up
lei, al, the enclosure, he said thtst it
4 viii mother volley OF shots
Il l.-sass ii 4sgsas~s. .-za43 trsack opposite
ito :he stookade. After the firing ceased,
stockade: "Come out, pile out quick, !"
which he thought came from DR.. Preston,
captain of the stockade guards DeBar-
row stated that he and six negroes ran
straight into the enclosure without
stopping. He claimed that the guards
on the train had not fred a single shot
during the whole engagement.
The afternoon session lasted several
hours {; The wounded guards, eleven in
number, who were on the train with the
negroes, testified that the firing was
begun by the strikers. Some acknowl-
edged that the guards returned the fire.
but none would aoknow ledge that he in
dividually had fred. The men said they
were under strict orders not to fire ex-
cept in self defense. One of the wounded
guards who had been at the stockade
previous to Wednesday, stated that he
positively knew there were no guards in
the tower over the shafts and that none
of the firing came from the stOckade.
At 4.30 the jury took recess until
tomorrow morning.
General Manager Lukens of the coal
| company today made a statement in re-
gard to the wages paid by his company
and the demand OF the strikers.
| He said: "Under the wages demanded
by the miners, 40 cents per ton. an aver
age miner can make from So to "a per day
aud a good workman would have no dlffl-
Guilty in earning So per day.
tIhe pay rolls show an average OF ". "
per day net for every miner in the mine,
with a range of $l.10 to 81. Sc per day,
| The price OF powder has been reduced 50
cents keg since then which makes a
material increase in the miners wages.
ALI desire is an opportunity to get our
| cOalSdug at price that will allow us TO
onter the market and sell our coal with
out loss to ourselves and this is impossi-
BILE at the rate of pay demanded by the
union workmen.
"The state has taken absolute posses
sion Of our property and has practically
Shoriff Davenport, who left Virden dur
ing the battle on Wednesday, returned
from Carlinville today. He was sum-
moned here to appear before the coroners
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