The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-14
BATTERY B. ARRIVES
MINERS DETERMINED: NC
WEAKENING AMONG TIE
OPERATORS.
RETURNING NEGROES DRiylN OFF
Troops Would not Allow them 10 Leave the
Train. Deputies Said to have Begun
the Firing. Alger Prof
fers Troors.

Nirden. Ills, Oct 13.--The day pass
ed without another outbreak of violence,
but aside from the restraining influence
Of the militia no progress has been made
toward permanent peace. Battery +.
First Illinois artillery arrived this morn
ing fom Pana. The idle miners are ex-
citable and determined, while the Chi
cago- Virden Coal Company has shown
no sign of a purpose to abandon its plan
of operating its mines with imported ne
groes.
( Yesterdays shooting has resulted i'll IA,
deaths so far. as follows
Ernest Kitterly, miner, Mt. Olive.
ELLIS Smith, miner, Mt. Olive.
Ed Welsh, miner, Springfield
William Blue. miner, Springfield.
Ernest Kenller, miner Mt. Olive.
William Harmon, miner. Girard died
at Springfield tonight.
A. III. Brennan, miner. Girard.
Frank Blyen, miner, Springfield.
Ed Green. miner. Mt. Olive. died in
hospital at Springfield yesterday.
Ernest Long. miner Mt. Olive, died
in hospital at Springfield to-day.
Eli III. Kelly, a detective, Chicago.
w A. Carroll. guard on train. died in
hospital at Springfield yesterday.
Al w. Morgan, guard, Chicago. killed
in stockade.
Thomas Preston, guard, Chicago, kill
ed at stockade last night.
The number of injured will not much
exceed last nights estimate of 20. OF
these a few are in critical condition.
The coroners inquest to-day brought
out no evidence of Importance. After
the examination of about 80 miners, the
sitting was adjourned until tomorrow
DEPUTIES NOT SWORN IN
A meeting of the executive committee
of the strikers was held late this after
noon. Chairman John Belgar asserted
that not man among the Thiel Agency
and PinkertOn detectives stationed with
in the stockade had been sworn III as
deputy sheriff. He followed this state
ment by declaring that all of them could
be held as accessories ON Il charge OF
murder.
He stated that there were twenty men
inside the stockade when the train bear
ing the negroes stopped at the shaft yes
terday noon. and that 80 Pinkerton and
Thiel men acting as guards We're on the
train. He said none of these men are
residents of the State, and consequent
~ Sheriff Davenport had refused to
swear them in.
The matter was discussed and Il decf-
sion made to employ counsel and lay the
matter before the grand jury.
The excitement of yesterday prior
to the arrival of the negro train was
equalled tonight when it became known
that special train, consisting of one
box car, three apparently empty coaches
and caboose that passed through here
nc 3:2J this morning bore two car loads
of negroes taken through here to Spring
field yesterday. The train went south,
and by clever ruse succeeded III pass
ing through Virden quietly and without
interference. A big crowd of miners
was at the station, but the militia held
them in check.
NEGROES AGAIN FORCED AWAY.
When the train stopped at the stock
ade Captain FEWER, who was in com
mand, shouted:
Don't allow any one to disembark
from that train
The gate was opened, and a file Of
soldiers rushed out on the double quick
with fixed bayonets and lined up along
side Of the train. General Manager Lu-
kens made formal request that their
employees be allowed to land and enter
the stockade Captain FEWER declined to
grant this. Then Mr. Iukens put it
in the form of a demand, but the officer
replied that he was under orders from
Governor Tanner to prevent the dlSem-
barking of any negro miners at the works
and he would have to carry out these in
structions. General Manager Lukens
protested in vain and the train pulled out,
headed south.
BY this time the advance guard of the
strikers gathered at the depot had adj
vanced up to the track to within 100
yards of the stockade The presence
of armed blue coats 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 Governor Tanner, who they believed
had been instrumental in starting the
blacks on their homeward journey.
After the departure of the train Mr..
Lukens made this statement:
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 guards wounded.
The strikers commenced firing on
the train just after it had passed the de-
pot and kept it up as long as the train
was within gunshot. When the train
stopped at the gate, our guards were
there to assist in unloading the cars. But
few shots were fired by them, most of
the firing being done by the train
guards"
THE DETECTIVES DISARMED.
st. Louis, Mo-, Oct ia special to
the Post Dispatch from Virden, Ills,
says:
captain Charles A. Fervier, COM
handing Company b, Sons of Veterans,
of Elgin, Illinois, is in charge of the
stockade built by the Chicago Virden
Coal Company.
with part of his men he entered the