The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-13
ALLEGED Failure
10 DELIVER GOODS
Suit Instituted Against the
Chesapeake and Ohio.
EMPHATIC DENIAL MADE
Officials Declare Allegations of
Plaintiffs Are Baseless.
GR0CERs ARE COMPLA|NANTs
Charged That Goods Consigned to the
Striking Miners in West Virginia
Have Not Been DeI;vered; and
While No CoIlusiohis;Chars
ged, Court is Asked 10
Compel Delivery.
Officials Declare Allegations Of
Plaintiffs Are Baseless.
GROCERs ARE COMPARTMENTS

Court at Covington, Ky, yesterday against
the Chesapeake and Ohio by Shaw, irwin
& Company, wholesale grccers of Gin
cinnati, Ohio. aliegine the failure of the
railroad company to denver groceries.
consigned to the striking coal miners In
the West Virginia district. The company
is not charged with co!.usion, but the
court is asked to compel the delivery OF
the goods, the petition stating that other
wise the miners either buy from commits
saries operated by the coal companies
or else starve
Officials of the Chesapeake and Ohio In
this city deny most emphatically that
there has been any Intentional delay in
the delivery Of goods shipped to the
miners. II there has beeil any delay.
and they know of none, it has been purely
accidental.
Ask Immediate Hearing.
The following special dispatch was re-
ceived last night from Tho Times Cln-
cnnati correspondent:
Suit was filed in the United States
Court at Covinston, Ky, to-day by Shaw,
Irwin &; Company wholesale grocers of
Second and Vine Streets, TO compel the
delivery of groceries for the striking
coal miners in the West Virginia district.
The suit was fled by Attorney E. e.
Pyle on behalf of the Cincinnati grocery
concern George Shaw. OF the firm men
toned. left for Maystieid atEl2 o clock TO-
day to importune Judge Cochran to give
the suit an immediate hearing.
IN the petition which Was fled In
court the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road Company, which has ,gast coal in
terests, is not charged withY.oiiusion, but
the corporation is chargeGfwith failure
to delivey seven carloads OF provisions,
which are valued at about $li.D0.
1T is claimed by the plant If that these
carloads of groceries were consigned to
the towns of Mt. Hope, Montgomery.
Sewell and Glen-Jean, and failed to reach
their destination. The court is asked to
see that these goods are delivered and
that the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
be compelled to deliver all goods con-
signed to mining districts in the future.
'.The plaintiff alleges that within the
past three months about 100000 worth
of groceries have been sent to the West
Virginia coal fields by them. 1t is also
stated in the Petition that the miners
at present are in need OF supplies and
that they have only two sources from
which they can get groceries at present.
One is to set scrip from the coal opera
tors and buy provisions from the COM
nlssaries operated by the coal companies,
and the other is to buy from independent
sources. such as the plaintiff claims to
be.
The seven carloads of goods which it
is alleged were not delivered We're shipped
from Cincinnati in the latter part of Au-
gust and on September Cd and 4th.
Make Emphatic Denial,
General Freight Traffic Manager F. N.
Whitaker of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, when seen last night enlphati-
caIly denied that that system was con-
spring with the coal oprators to starve
the striking miners by failing to deliver
provisions shipped over their line to the
coal fields. He said that the allegation
of Shaw, Irwin and Company, in The
United States Court at Covington, Ky,
in which they claim that the Chesapeake
and Ohio is delaying their shipment OF
supplies to the mines in West Virginia,
is utterly without any foundation, and
if such delays have occurred, it has
been from natural causes. and was not
intentional on the part of the railroad.
There is no cooperation Of the railroad
company and the operators in this strike.
said Mr.. Whitaker.