Evening star., 1898-10-13
The Casualties Were Ten Killed and
Twenty Wounded.
The TOWN ALL QUIET TODAY
State Troops Disarm Both the
Strikers and Special Detectives.
BAD FEELING STILL EXISTS

| "A Snarp HSnt look place yesterday atter-
| noon at Virden, H., between the coal
miners on strike there and a force Of de-
| tectives employed by the mine owners. The
| fight was precipitated by the arrival at
Virden of a train loaded with men, mostly
| negroes from the south, to take the places
| of the strikers.
| Governor Tanner had earlier in the day,
refused TO send state troops to the scene
| where trouble was expected, asserting that
the men who were being brought in to take
the places of the strikers We're ex-convicts
| and worthless characters generally, who
would likely become charges on the state.
! After the fight took place he ordered troops
| to the scene of the disturbance
| NIRDEN, H., October 13.-After a care
| fui investigation of the results of yester-
| days fight the list of dead and wounded
| remains at ten killed and twenty wounded.
| 1t was believed that the list of injured
| would be found larger than reported last
| night. but with the exception of the eigh-
| teen men taken to Springfield and Eyester
| lnere is only one wounded man remaining
| mere: His injuries were slight and he was
| on the streets today enthusiastically cham
| poning the miners cause.
Coroner John Hart today went to the
| stockade and subpoenaed number of the
| companys miners witnesses. 1t is a
| question as to whether any violence will
| miners thew
| come from their barricade to attend the
| inquest. Coroner Hart expressed himself
| as positive that no demonstrat ton would
be made, saying that all feeling had at
| least temporarily been subdued by the
| presence of the soldiers. but at the same
time adding significantly that the subpoe-
| naed miners would be looked after care
! tully While en- route to the town hall.
Town is Quiet Today.
| The town is as quiet as a country church
| yard today. Two Gatling guns of the
| Galesburg Battery on the public square and
| blue-caped infantry man at each corner
| In the business district is about the only
| evidence of yesterdays riot, except some
! sadder evidence at the O'NeiU home n
| stofN-and-a- a-naf cottage. In the front yard
| OF this humble Eome stand five black
! covered collins. on each of which is a SIM
| rest
| Coroner Hart has impaneled a Jury and
| VIII endeavor to place the responsibility for
| the shooting.
| Colonel Mcknight of the governors staff
! accompanied by Adjutant General Reese
| at midnight visited the stockade of the
| Chicago-Nirden Coal Company ana served
| formal notice on Manager Luklns who has
! eeen inside the stockade throughout the
| trouble, that the soldiers would visir the
| stockade today and diSarm all inma tes
| Colonel Mcknight says that no objections
| were offered to this proposition. lie antici-
| pdlcS io at Indt point, and ne OK
| presses his opinion that there will he no
| further outbreak on the part of either the
| union miners or guards at the stockade.
| While martial law has not yet been de-
| clared, the town Is virtually under control
! of the state troops, under Captain Craig of
! Battery B, 1st Illinois Artillery.
! Upon arrival of the soldiers from Pana
| two Gatlng guns were taken Ia the public
square, where they command the business
| section. Guards were thrown out and the
| remainder of the soldiers were quartered in
! the opera house.
| Adjutant General Reese expects Troons
| A, B. c and D of the 1st Illinois Cavalry
| and four companies of Sons If Veterans
from Rockford, Dekalb Oregon and Ma
comb today. On their arrival the special
guards in the stockade will be disar,ned
| and the soldiers will take possession.
! Striking Miners Disarmed.
Two hundred of the striking miners. who
have been sleeping in the miners union
| hall for several weeks, We're somewhat SUI
| 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,. The request was good
! naturedly assented to. Each man was
thoroughly searched fruitlessly for fire.
arms. Among the crowds were several
| negroes, and from outward appearances
| the best of feeling existed between the
| white and black union miners.
/ General Bradley, a unique character
| among the mine workers. and leader of a
aeiegalon OF sixty miners from Mount
onVe' returned nome today with the re-
mains of the dead Mount Olive miners.
| Il think this has been one of the most
internal outrages ever perpetrated on a
| laboring public he said Our men were
| shot down like dogs. Our men had orders
TO tank the matter over with the mine peo-
| pie when 1t came to a crisis, and not to
shoot unless fired upon. Instead of arbi-
| trating the question, leave for home with
| a baggage car lull of dead men.
l Il do flr bar
V1rden for the present but L cannot an
| swer for the future, for there is a day of
reckoning coming, when the laboring man
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-
sponStble for yesterdays tragedy One
citizen expressed his views in a very en-
| phatic manner, saying that all the trouble
had been caused by outsiders who came
here and induced the local strikers to acts
OF violence. striking incident that bears
| out this statement is the fact that in yes
terday's bloody work not a single Virden
miner was killed and only one slightly in
| jured.
Latest reports are that j. F. Eyster su-
| perintendent of the Climax Trading Com
pany, the establishment controlled by the
Chicago- lrden Coal Company, who was SO
severely beaten in the scrimmage has i'm
proved slightly.
Crowds at the Public Square,
Notwithstanding the raw, cold wind that
swept the dust in binding clouds through
| the streets, crowds began to congregate
today In the vicinity of the public square
The people, however were kept moving by
| the soldiers patrolling the streets Soon the
white tents of Battery dotted the square
and the conmissary served hot coffee to
the shfvering members of the battery.
An incident, showing the intense feeling
OF the miners, developed when word was
passed that man from the stockade was
in barber shop on Jackson street near
the square. In q few moments a crowd
gathered in front of the place. Word was
passed by the soldiers of the picket duty
to headquarters. and reinforcements sent
on the double quick to dispense the gather
| ing throng. The man returned to the
stockade unmolested.
Adjt. Gen. J. N. Reese came from Spring.
| field with the militia last night. He said
that ex-Police Lieut. Preston was not kille,l
by the militia. He said that when the
guard at the stockade had lodged into The
entrance at the militia orders of Hands
up revolver was fired from the darkness
and Preston fell mortally wounded Gen.
Reese said the militia did not fire shot.
Evidences of the Fray.