Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-10-15

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from cover. Eyster dashed ahead amid
t.e rain of bullets to the roof of the
S.eed building, the upper story OF which
is known as Miners hall. He either fell
or jumped through the skylight and
landed i'm the arms of a crowd OF miners,
who seized him and carried him down.
stairs to the street. Other hands seized
the almost unconscious man and he was
dragged into the middle Of the street.
Policemen drove back the crowd and
ca rried Eyster to the City square. across
the street and laid him on the grass.
Eyster was motionless and supposedly
dead The police left him lying there
and attempted to disperse the crowd.
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In a few minutes Eyster was seen to
raise his hand and wipe the blood from
his face. Two men sprang at him and
with the ferocity of tige!s began jumping
on his body and striking him on the head
with stones. With a yell the angry
crowd charged into the square to XIII
Eyster The police charged in body
and fought their way to the center OF the
mob, where they took a stand over the
PROSTATE. battered and bleeding man.
A carrier was procured and Eyster was
taken to hotel. He had Dsen shot
through the groin and is terribly bat
tered about the head. The physician
recovery.
The dead miners were removed from
the vicinity of the stockade to hotels and
stables, and the wounded miners were
| taken ON filters to the station and sent
to Springfield.
| A reporter who secured admittance to
| the stockade found one dead and seven
wounded. Two doctors We're at work
| with the wounded, and communication
| with them was prohibited. The stock
| ade surrounds about 20 acres of ground
| in a square. is made of pine boards an
| inch thick, set edge to edge, and is about
| II feet high. On each of the four sides,
| about midway, is watch tower, con-
| tanning guard armed with winches-
| ter. There are three entrances, which
are closely guarded by half a dozen
armed sentries day and night The fight
| occurred at the east entrance.
Springfield. Ills, Oct. 13.--In an inter-
view concerning the Virden riot Gov
ernor Tanner said: Mr.. LOuck, presi-
dent. and Mr. Lutkin, superintendent, of
the Virden Coal company, made good
their threats to land trainload of i'm
| ported laborers from the south, and at
tempted to put them to work in their
mines at the point of the bayonet and
the muzzle of the Winchester, such Ia
borers being drawn largely, If not en-
tirely, from the criminal class-eX-con-
victs. who learned their trade while do
ing terms in the penitentiary of Ala
! bama-after having been fully advised
and having full knowledge that the land
ing of such imported laborers would pre-
cipitate riot. l had wired them that
if they brought these imported laborers
! they did so al their own peril, and under
! the circumstances would be morally re
spoons ible and criminally liable for any
thing that might happen.
GAS to what happened after the stop
| ping of the train in front of the coal shed
my infOrma ton is based ON Geographic
and telephone communications. and from
those coming from tire scene of the con-
| tict.
18th. reports vary as to the number of
| killed and wourded The sheriff tele-
! graphed that 100 were killed and the bat
tie was still on. However. from conserv-
alive estimates and from all the inform
alton | can get, would estimate the
number of killed somewhere from to
Is, and possibly quite as many wounded.
| In. tai
miners, who We're on the outside. The
others were the hired guards who We're
brought along by the coal company.
Most, if not all of them. were non-resi-
dents of illinois, There Is no means of
learning their names or whereabouts,
for they declined to give them out, know
| ing perhaps that they are criminally
! liable for murder, as they had no per-
mission from any officer in Illinois au-
thorizing or deputizing them to act as
deputy marshals or deputy sheriffs.
INSTANTLY on learning of the trouble
| directed Adjutant General Reece to
order Captain Craig Of the Galesbnrs
battery and one company of the Sons OF
Veterans regiment, now stationed at
Pana, to proceed at once by the quickest
route to the scene of the trouble.
| learned later that Captain Craig met
| with serious difficulties in securing a
| train with coaches to bring his command
and I directed the adjutant general to
advise him to load his troops on freight
cars and come at once to Springfield by
the Baltimore and Ohio and secure q
train on the Alton to carry the comma nd
a,,te
; made, and Captain Craig arrived here
at $50 and at Virden by 1870. General
Reace accompanied Captain Craig, and
/ have instructed General Reece to sele ct
a camping ground most suitable for the
occasion, to Quell the riot and maintain
order. protect life and property. TO dis
arm all persons bearing arms and TAX
| ing the name of the individual owner and
: his postoflice address, such arms to be
held until further orders; and not to al
low imported laborers to unload from
any train within the limits of the city nor
to march in body.
"rhese avarlciOus mineowrers have so
ia. forgotten their duty to society as to
bring about this blot upon the ia ir name
of our state. They have gone far
enough, yes, too far. as they had fair
warning from me by wire and telephone
that the importation of labor which
brings to our state an undesirable class
of citizens had to stop. l say now to
such and all others that this is thing of
the past; that it shall not be tolerated
in Illinois while l am governor. These
men-the president and officers of the
company. who precipitated this riot by
the bringing in of these Imported labor
ers-are guilty of murder. and should
b.. and WILL ! believe. be indicted by the
grand jury of Macoupin county. and
| tried and convicted for this heinous Of
fense'
! Virden, Ill.,, Oct. 13.-"The blood Of
every man shed here Is on the gov
! ernOr's head" said Manager Lukcns