The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-18
STRIKERS USE GUNS
NINE GUARDS AND N0N-UNION MEN
ARE ATTACKED IN KEN
TUCIxY
ONE KILLED, FOUR INJURED
SpitefuI Battle Of an Hour and
Half. when Strikers Were Driv-
en- OE-Militia Ordered Out
by Gov. Beckham.


ing troubles in this district brought more
bloodshed today. James III. Smith. a
negro striker, is dead George ~ .uch,
another striker, is fatally wounded,
while John West. Hut Dawson and Ma
than Bush, all guards, are wounScd,
none of them dangerously.
The trouble. occurred at the mines of
the Providence Coal company, seventeen
miles from here, where an attack be-
gan at about 4:30 O'Clock. The attack
ing party, some seventy-five or eighty,
first fired on the engine house and tnen
in few minutes the companys stables
We're surrounded. A horse and a mule
Were killed and several other animals
disabled.
by this time the guards were becom-
ing active, and the attackers formed in
semi-circle over the brow of the mill
From there they poured well directed
fire upon the houses occupied by the
non-union employees and their families.
Men, aroused by the crash of bullets,
rushed to small timber piles, arranged
Tor use In such an emergency, and from
behind these returned the fire. The at
tacking party, while sending volley after
volley into this quarter, kept up "a steady
hre on the tipple, engine room, stable and
other buildings of the company, while
the guards, for their part, We're dong
effective work.
Assaiiants Driven Off.
The battle ragged for almost an hour
and half. when the assailants with
drew, leaving Smith dead and Crouch
shot through and through on the field.
How many wounded they took with them
is not known, but the leader was seen
to fall, and it is believed some of the
party who went to his rescue were nit.
County Judge Hall, at Providence.
started an investigation. An INQUEST
was held, the coronerS verdict being
that the negro came to his death at the
nanos OF the guards while defending
life and property, and they We're justifia-
BILE. Adjt. Gen. Murray at once com
menced an investigation, opening up
communication with the governor
FolloW1ng the battle at the Providence
mine there were riots at other Kentucky
mines. An attack was made on the
mine guards at the Monarch mines. three
miles from Darlington, tonight, l,at il
was repulsed. Two employees of the St
Bernard Coal company at Morton's Gan
We're nred upon by man who sprang
from behind tree. There was much
trouble at other places. but neither in
jury nor loss of life followed.
Owing to the days riots and the Sc
r1ous situation in the mining field of
Webster and Hopkins counties. the gov
ernor has ordered out the militia. The
troops will leave for the scene of from
BILE before daylight.
Mifitfamen Reach the Scene.
The Madisonville company is doing pa.
trol duty in the outskirts of town anf
the ei1opklnsville company of the Ken.
lucky state guard, under command OF
capt. H.. Thomas and Second Lieut.. Rob.
ert d. Bellamy, reached here late tonight
Ihere are but thirty-five of the men, as
orders reached Hopkinsville but short
while before train time. The company
mas an enlisted strength of seventy men
and those who could not be found tonigh,
Will follow in the morning in command
OF First Lieutenant George w. Phelps.
Maj. E. d. Bassett, of the Third regi-
ment OF Hopkinsville, accompanied the
troops. Adjt. Gen. Murray issued a
statement tonight in which he declares
he is determined that lawlessness shall
be suppressed. A detail of twenty men
has started for the Providence mine.
Tonight. as the train having the troops
aboard passed the Nortonville camp. To-
Gated in the woods near the railroad,
camp fires could be observed and the
scene was one of hustle. Several shots
were fired, but not at the train.
AT the Madisonyille camp the strikers
are astir A searchlight recently placed
on top of coal tipple near Madisonville
was thrown on the camp. About $50 men
were there, handling their arms and
walking about between their tents.