The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-26
Posse Of One Hundred Men to
u Serve Federal Injunction.
MINERS RESISTED
WITH FATAL RESULT
Miners Were Practically AIlsForeigners
and All Led by Jess Bollnski, Who
l8i5 Figured Prominently il the ss
Homestead Strlke-Martlal IN
Law DecIared-M 4
Trouble IS Feared.
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RALEIGH COUNTY, #s W.
VA, FEB. 25-Ten striking miners are
dead nnd twelve nro fatally wounded at
{Atkinsvillc, mining town near here,
ns result Of an attempt to so:re5 @
blanket injunction Issued ~ the Fed
oral authorities. f:5 4;
~ United States Deputy Marshal Dan
Cunningham 4 Of Charleston. and Sheriff
John X. Cook. Of Raleigh county, and -
a posse OF one hundred men went to the
scene OF tie strike this morning and att
tempted the serving OF the writ Of in
junction. when $50 miners, armed With
fHVinchesters, opened fire from ambush
ion the officers and posse, when was
returned with gvolley a fter vo:.ay Ten
miners were Killed and twelve fatally
wounded. One colored deputy, Walter
Freeman, was killed, being shot through
head and breast. 4. 3 II $S .s4Ss .iS
After the return fire from Tie posse
the miners made a retreat .c, the coal
sheds o NJ the Wright Coal l%S Company,
where seventy Of them were "a kell} pr rs,
oners aud disarned The ot tiles #:led TO
the woods, and moro trouble Is eypected.
The wounded miners w ere 5tak kell $ by
special train on the Piney Branch Of
the chesapeake and Ohio to the Miners
Hospital, at M cIlendree and the sew,
enty prisoners were brought hero and
lodged In the Z r aleigh h jail 81
"a AN OLD GRIEYAN CE. .5
This Is the recurrence of an Old Griav-
ance, alleged by the miners, and which
was the cause Of a great deal tof$ treu-
Hble last summer, and mos t all the stTik-
Eers are Foreigners they being chiefly
made up OF Poles, Hungarians and TIA
alians, some of whom are avowed sanar-
chists Of the worst type he strikers
the legal authorities. and CAM B:,res
are blazing tonight in the mountains,
and probably a battl may result before
morning, as IT. Is believed thu th9 nn-t
ers will attempt to- release those nov
III jail. say Martial n law has been dacln RED
and everything has taken OIL WarllKe
appearance. Z. 2, Il
+ The leader OF the strikers, Jess Bollnski,
is a tough character, who figured prom
}tnently in tho Honest cad strike few
wears ago, ana Z is looked upon by his
followers as al, oracle. and being des-.
perate character. there Is little hope OF
the trouble being settled without more more
8bloodshed. IS 5 4 #ts t8
Tho killing Of their comrades after tho
first brush Of the battle has not laun4ed
them In any degree, and they re as bcl-. bel.
iieerant and warlilte to-nlg &as ever. M
MO RE TROUBLE FEARED.
The sheriff. who came to Beckley With
the prisoners will return to ne scene
Of hostllitles tonight, and All attempt.
will be made again to-morrcw to cap
turo the rest OF the strikers. j is
feared that the strikers viii make !. =
wholesale distinctions of property to-
night, as 1t is impossible to secure
guards enough to protect both theeHrail-
road and collieries.
q 1he bodies Of tho strikers killed To-
day arc tonight ina couple ol caoans 1.,''
bo Inferred tomorrow There viii be
but few tears shed. as but one or tWo
Of those killed were married.
A preliminary hearing VIII pea gwen tsn
Tomorrow morning to the strikers VINO
We're captured to-day before United
states Commander Watson, and u held
to Federal grand jury,'whlch they sure
~ will be- they Will be conveyed 10 tIle
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