Evening journal., 1902-06-06
Strike Situation III Wyoming
Region Is Serious
.KON-UNION MEN ATTACKED
Torch and Pistol Enter Into the
PuEpmen'S Strike and Affairs
Become Alarming

a tOlil6Ig 6udih oN WihNoDeeAAN AN ie't
evening, firing at a crowd that was de-
stroying a stockade, shot a boy, per-
haps fatally
A number of foreigners, recently ar
rived. reached Hazleton, where, it is
understood, they will be put to work in
mine.
4 All the coal companies in Schuylkill
oounty have called on the sheriff for
protection to the workmen and prop
critics.
The several classes Of mine bosses,
who never have been organized, have
taken steps toward forming a union.
Coal companies continue to lose en-
gineers, firemen and pumpmen, many
OF the men quitting work through fear
1 Of bodily harm.
Under the protection of coal and iron
police, armed with Winchester rifles,
non-union men were placed in charge
of fires and pumps at Tunnel Ridge col
. liery of the Philadelphia and Reading
\ 1Coal and Iron Company, at Mahanoy
ICity, yesterday.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, June 6.-The
spirit of unrest that has been mani
Testing itself more or less in this city
and vicinity during the last few days
broke out in earnest at two places
in this city last night, and as a result
a boy was dangerously, if not fatally
shot by a guard at the Stanton cOlliery
and a considerable portion Of the fence
around the Murray colliery was de
stroyed by fire. Last night while
4 Charles Mccain, aged 13 years, was
walking along the field outside the
fence. it is said that a guard on the
inside fred a revolver or rifle at him
The bullet struck the boy in the back.
The shot was heard by the people In
the vicinity, and IL looked for a time
as though there would be serious trou-
BILE. Tho boy was quickly removed
TO the Mercy Hospital and the police
notified The chief of the Wilkes
barre police. with a squad of men.
went TO the colliery and arrested the
guard, but the crowd on the outside
was so great and threatening that the
police did not take him from the place
until early this morning.
At the Murray colliery a crowd Of
boys succeeded in burning about 400
feet of n high board fence that sur.
rounds that company's property. The
trouble al that place began when a
foreigner was arrested for disorderly
conduct and throwing stones. Shortly
afterwards a number of boys set the
fence on fire, but the fire department
quickly extinguished the blaze. Nc
sooner had the firemen left the scene
than the fence was again set on fire
The crowd, growing bolder, started
20 tear down the board fence, which
drew the FIRE of several guards on the
Inside Some one in the crowd fired
back, but all the bullets went wide
so 49, ,5F'Ei lf
Roanoke, Va, June 6.-From present
indications it is believed here that the
general strike among the soft Goa
miners of Virginia and West Virginia
which has been scheduled for tomor
Wv. will so into effect, and that prac
1cally all the fields will be tied up OF
that day.
w. r. Shets, purchasing agent of the
Turkey Gap Coal and Coke Company
of West Virginia, who has been en-
gagged in the fields for more than ter
years, says a strike cannot be avoided
He says that the trouble is beinl
brought about by men from the anthra
cite regions. who wish to tie up tn,
soft coal mines and hasten the end o
the anthracite strike. The mine OF
orators are anxious now that the strik
shall take place, as they believe tha
this is the only solution OF the trou
BILE. Supplies have been provide
against a tie-up. and the men hav
been notified that they can either wor
or quit. but that if they choose the lai
ter course they must Immediately ge
off the mine reservations.
J. X. Hill, president of the Wester
Kanawha Coal Company, which cor
trolls almost all the mines in tn
Guyandotte Valley, w. Va. state
last night that he would comply wit
the demands of the United Mine Worl