The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-10-22
A LULL In iHE SIORnl.
Hs Progress Made Toward q Permanent
Ps2ce-kilIed and Wounded In
the Fight at girden.

but, aside from the restraining intiu-
ence of the militia, no progress has
been made toward permanent peace.
The idle miners are eXcitable and de-
termined, while the Chicago-Virden
Coal Co. has shown nc sign of a pur-
pose to abandon its plan of operating
its mines with imported negroes. Ycs-
deaths so far.
The number of injured will not
much exceed last nights estimate of
20. Of these, few are in a critical con-
dition.
No Evidence of Importance Brought Out.
The coroner's inquest brought out
no evidence of Importance to-day.
After the examination of about 30
miners the hearing was adjourned I'M.
til tomorrow.
The PInker;ons Accessories to Murder.
A meeting of the executive commit
tee of the strikers was held late this
afternoon. Chairman John Belgar as
serted that not 4 man among the
$4,000 'S>HNJ IN my lOlI tClNN-
tives stationed within the stockade
had been sworn as a deputy sheriff.
He followed this statement by declar-
ing that all of them could be held as
accessories on a charge of murder.
He stated there were 20 men inside
the stcckade when the train bearing
the negroes stopped at the shaft yes
terday noon, and that so Pinkerton
and Thiel men, acting as guards, were
on the train. He said none of these
men are residents of the state, and
consequently Sheriff Davenport had
refused to swear them in.
The matter was discussed and n de-
cision made to employ counsel and lay
the matter before the grand jury.
Union Miners Receive Their Semi Weekly
Allowance.
The union miners this afternoon re.
ceived their semi-weekly allowance Of
two dollars from the union. State
Secretary w. D. Ryan and two sol
diers were stationed before the en-
trance of the hall, and the miners
were admitted five at Il time. 1t tool
almost the entire afternoon to dis
burse the money, but there were nc
disturbances among the crowd Of wait.
sng miners.
Excitement Again Runs High.
The excitement of yesterday, prior
TO the arrival of the negro train, was
equalled tonight when it became
known that a special train consisting
of one box car, three apparently emp
ty coaches and a caboose that passed
through here at 5:25 this evening
bore two carloads of negroes takeI
through here to Springfield yestc1-
day. The train went south and, by a
clever ruse, succeeded in passing
through Virden quietly and without
interference. A big crowd of miners
was at the station, but the militia
held them in check.
No Negroes Allowed to Leave the Train.
When the train stopped at the
stockade, Capt. FEWER, who was in
command, shouted: Don't allow
anyone to disembark from that
train"
The gate was opened and a file Of
soldiers rushed out on the double
quick, with fixed b~ayonets, and lined
up alongside of the train. General
Manager Lukens made a formal re-
quest hat their employees be allowed
to land and enter the stockade. Capt.
FEWER declined to grant this.
Th.n NJ Tul-ane nut - - 49, f~r,,
of a demand, but the officer replied
that he was under orders from Gov.
Tanner to prevent the discriminating
of any negro miners at the works,
and he would have t ocarry out those
instructions. General Manager Lu-
kens, protested in vain, and the train
pulled out, headed south.
The Strikers Gathered Mt the Depot.
By this time the advance guard oil
strikers gathered at the depot and adj
vanced up the the track to within 1Oe
yards of the stockade. The presence
of armed bluecoats in the lookout
boxes evidently halted them, as they
remained there until the train passed,
when they greeted it with waving
hats and cheers for Gov. Tanner, who,
they believed, had been instrumental
in starting the blacks on their home
ward journey.
After the departure of the train Mr..
Lukens made this statement:
Statement of Mr.. Lukens.
From my personal knowledge ]
can say that no shots were fired from
the train carrying the negro miners
until at least 500 shots had been fired
into it, and several of the guard
wounded.
The strikers commenced firing on
the train just after it had passed the
depot, and kept it up as long as the
train was within gunshot. When the
train stopped at the gate our guards
We're there to assist in unloading the
cars. But few shots were fired by
them, most of the defense firing being
done by the train guards.
when the special train carrying
the blacks arrived this afternoon at
the mine, the troops, under orders
from Gov. Tanner. refused to LET them