The age-herald., 1898-10-12
NEGRO MINERS
 UNDER GUARD Leave for Illinois to Take Strik-
 ers' Places. THEY WENT ON NEW ROUTE To Throw Committees of Miners Of Scent York Has Established Shotgun Quarantine
 on Man Who Stopped.
THEY WENT ON NEW ROUTE

Another big gang of negro miners left the city yesterday bound for the coal mines of the Springside Coal company of Illinois, where they will take the places of the strik- ing white miners at Virden and at Pana. This makes about 800 negro laborers who have left the district for Illinois in the last two or three months.
 There were over 15O men in the gang yes terday, many of them being accompanied by their wives. They left the union depot just before Il o'clock on a special train made up of three coaches and a baggage car. The Kansas City, Memphis and Bir- mingham railroad handled the train, and it is understood that they went through Mem phis and Cairo, instead of through Holly Springs, the usual route. The route was kept as quiet as possible, in order that none of the committee of white miners might hear of their coming and meet the negro miners before they arrived in the striking district.
 Charley Jones' travelling passenger agent
 
 train. There were also four Pinkerton detectives along, as well as William Yorke, brother of the millionaire mine operator in Illinois.
 It was very sad scene at the depot, as there were number of wives and children of the men there begging their fathers and husbands not to go. The miners seemed to have but little enthusiasm, though ali of them went without the least compulsion.
 Shotgun Quarantine
 York, Ala, has about as strong shotgun quarantine as any of the Mississippi cities, which are so famous for this method of preserving the health of the community They have compelled the Alabama Great Southern road, running through that place. to lock the doors of the trains before ar irving anywhere near the city, and to keep all the passengers on the inside.
 The quarantine officer running on the train which arrived here at 4:20 yesterday morning. tells of an exciting incident which happened at York on his run. He says that the vigilant citizens of that place are never asleep when there is train coming, no matter how late at night. When his train stopped at the station, they saw a man get OH the lTdiI anu SldTl OH d uedu run for the woods. He supposed to be tramp who wanted to change cars and go in another direction.
 But this was too much for the outraged quarantine committee, and they blazed away at the fleeing figure with their shot guns. About ten shots in all were fred but the hobo never stopped The quarantine officer said that when the train pulled out, they had not caught him. and he doesn't know whether they have succeeded yet or not f- The Alabama Great Southern railroad last night published a bulletin saying that the city of Meridian had declared an iron-clad quarantine against the world. Also that the state of Texas had declared a quaran- tine against all passengers from the state of Louisiana.
 -. There are a great many soldiers passing through the city these days going south to Jacksonville to rejoin their regiments, after spending long furloughs at their homes in the north. Most of them are members of Illinois regiments.
 Captain P. Sid Jones, immigration agent for the Louisville and Nashville road, is very much interested in the Vinemont News, bi-weekly newspaper, published in the town of vinemont, in Cullman county vinemont is one of Captain Jones' pets and everything coming from that place is of great interest to him. The Times is a four page. seven column paper, handsomely gotten up, and printed on excellent paper. Contrary to most country newspapers, 1t is not filled up with "pot-meal." The first is- sue appeared on September 20.