The age-herald., 1898-10-14
DEATH LIST
 SMELLS ID A Number of Men Killed in ViT-
 den Riot TOWN UNDER MARITAL LAW But No Progress Has Been Made
 Toward Peace. ] COAL COMPANY IS DETERMINED To Operate lis Mines With Imported
 Negroes. SMOTHER CAR LOAD ARRIVES Military Authorities Refuse to Let Them Disembark-President Louck Says He Will Proceed Against the
 State for This Action.
To Operate Ifs Mines With Imported
 Negroes.
SMOTHER CAR LOAD ARRIVES

V1rden, Ill.,, OctODef l5.-lne udy paSseu without another outbreak of violence, but aside from the general restraining influ- ences of the militia no progress has been made toward permanent peace. The idle miners are excitable and determined, while the Chicago-Virden Coal company has shown no sign of a purpose to abandon it's plan of operating its mines with im- ported negroes. Yesterdays shooting has resulted in fourteen deaths so far, as fol- lows
 ERNEST BITTERLY, miner, Mount Olive.
 ELLIS SMITH, miner, Mount Olive.
 ED WELSH, miner, Springfield.
 WILLIAM BLUE, miner, Springfield.
 ERNEST EMLER, miner Mount Olive. A. H. BRENNAMAN, miner, Girard.
 FRANK BILYEN, miner Springfield.
 ED GREEN miner, Mount Olive.
 D. H. RILEY, chief detective, Chicago. A. w. CARROLL, guard on train.
 A. w. MORGAN, guard, Chicago.
 THOMAS PRESTON, guard Chicago.
 WILLIAM HARMON, miner, Girard.
 The number of injured will not much ex- ceed last nights estimate of twenty. Of these few are in a critical condition.
 
 thirty miners today the hearing was ad- journed until tomorrow. Nothing essential was brought to light hitherto unknown.
 The town is as quiet as a country church. yard today. Two Gatling guns of the Gales burg battery on the public square and a blue capped infantryman at each corner in the business district Is an evidence of yes- terdays riot near the ONel home, story and half cottage.
 Colonel Mcknight, of the governors staff accompanied by Adjutant General Reece at midnight visited the stockade of the Chicago-Virden Coal company and served formal notice on Manager Lukens, who has been inside the stockade through out the trouble, that the soldiers would visit the stockade today and disarm all in mates Colonel Mcknight says that no ob- iections were offered to this proposition. He anticipates no trouble at that point, and he expressed his opinion that there will be no further outbreak on the part of either the union miners or guards at the stockade.
 Were Well Armed
 Colonel Mcknight said that he drove over from his home at Girard last night. On the way he passed numerous squads of miners returning to their homes in Girard, Mt. Olive and neighboring towns. The parties numbered from half dozen to twenty five or thirty, and in most cases the men were
 
 been declared. the twon is virtually under the control of the state troops. under Cap tain Craig, of Battery B, First Illinois artillery.
 Upon arrival of the soldiers from Pana two Gatlng guns were taken to the public square where they command the business section. Guards were th0rwn out and the remainder of the soldiers were quartered in the opera house.
 Adjutant-General Reece expects Troops A, B,C and D, of the First Illinois cavalry, and four companies of Sons of Veterans from Rockford. Dekalb, Oregon and Macomb. On their arrival the special guard in the stockade will be disarmed and the soldiers will take possession.
 Two hundred of the striking miners who have been stopping in the Miners Union hall for several weeks were somewhat sur- prsed 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," The request was good naturedy assented to, however. Each man was thoroughly searched fruitlessly for firearms. Among the crowd was several negroes, and from outward appearances there apparently existed the best of feeling between the white and black union miners. General Bradley, a unique character among the mine workers and a leader of delegation of sixty miners from Mt, Olive, returned home today with the remains of the dead Mt. Olive miners.
 Gen. BI adlcy's Views
 q think this has been one of the most internal outrages ever perpetrated on laborng public," he said Our men were shot down like dogs. Our men had orders to talk the matter over with the mine peo- ple when 1t came to a crisis and not to shoot unless fired upon. Instead of arbi- tratng the question leave for home with a baggage car of dead men. do not ex- pect any further trouble in virden for the presnt but cannot answer for the future for there Is a day of reckoning when the laboring men will be given bread instead of bullets"
 There is a feeling among the people of the town who are not connected with the mines that the Virden miners are not re- eponsible for yesterdays tragedy. One cit- izen expressed his views in very emphatic manner, saying that: all the trouble had been caused by outsiders, who came here and induced the local strikers to acts of violence A striking incident that bears