Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-07
Terms Accepted
 by Gold Miners
MAY END REIGN OF TERROR AT
 JOHANN EsBuRG.
DYNAMITE AND TORCH
Buildings Blown Up or Burned by -Boters-Federated Unions Stop
 Publication of the Newspapers.

B. situation in the Rand district remains critical and armed police are every where guarding property,s there has been no further serious rioting today among the striking gold miners, fol- 1 lowing the encounters Friday and Sat- l urday between miners and the police and troops which resulted in many persons being killed and wounded Strike leaders assert tonight that the terms of settlement of the strike which the government arranged with a committee of miners yesterday are being accepted all along the reef. Strikers Celebrate Victory.
 Revised figures show that about twenty persons were killed and fifteen wounded Saturday and fifteen killed or wounded Friday. Two officers, three soldiers and several policemen were wounded Saturday. huge meeting was held this morning to celebrate the strikers victory. The leaders counselled the men to retin the upped hand they had gained, but strongly deprecated the proposal to employ force to liberate the rioters arrested during the disturbances They in V1ted the men to attend tomorrow the funeral of those killed. whom they described as martyrs to a glorious cause.'' The suggestion that the recall of Nfscount Gladstone, governor gen. eral of the Union of South Africa. be demanded because he employed troops to suppress the strike was greeted with cheers.
 Mob Hoots and Jeers Troops. A ballot of the Amalgamated So- ciety of Engineers of the whole reef gave a vast majority in favor of &C., cepting the proposed settlement The counsel of the society adopted a reso- lution providing for the calling of a strike a month hence should the a od 4-oTI- ed. The mobs reassembled today. All trains and street cars suspended service, the crews refusing to work. No newspapers were able to publish today Additional troops guard the Rand club, which was the scene of serious encounters Saturday. A great mob assembled outside the building hooting and jeering. the troops.
 Government RIundered.
 The opinion is very general that the government has made serious blund- CTS throughout the present situation. When General Louis Botha, the ex- premier of the Union of South Afri- interior mines and defense arrived at Johannesburg they were amazed at the strikers organization and the desperate spirit of the leaders.
 Government Fears Natives.
 The federated unions are flushed with success and confident that they are complete masters of the situation. The trades unionists are ready to obey any order that is given to them. The leaders have already command ed the nekspapers to cease publication until further notice. They count on the governments fear of the natives, 100000 of whom are locked in the compounds at the mines. They might start footing and killing if unloos- GO,
 i Police Were About to Fire.
 A great crowd of strikers wearing red badges surrounded the Carlton hotel while the terms of settlement were being arranged last night. When the leaders announced from the bal cony that q settlement had been agreed to, they were greeted with shouts of: What about the dead ?' You've been bought
 The uproar brought a platoon of police, who thinking that the hotel had been attacked, started to fire General Botha and General Shuts from the balcony signalled to the po- lice to stop and just ayerted a trag edy.
 Union to Publish Paper.
 Afterwards, the mob surrounded Q department store owned by Chud leigh Brothers, one of whom is ac- cused of having fired a revolver at the strikers from a window of the Rand club. The rioters threw three sticks of dynamite into the store and were preparing to loot the place when the dragoons charged charged and dis persed them.
 The editors of the various newspa perS conferred with the federated unions leaders tonight with the re- suit that the typographical union will publish a paper giving colorless re- ports of the events, without comment
 Dynamitina of Residences.
 Except at the time of the James, son raid in 1S96 and the outbreak of the war in 1899, this city has not ex- perienced such q day of terrorism as Saturday. The chief difference was that the populace was involved in a larger spirit and with a greater dis play of bitterness.
 The mobs in the business section of the town caused less fear than the desperadoes who were beginning to dynamite the homes of the wealthy in the outskirts. All places of business were closed and the troops were de- pended upon to guard them, while bands of citizens armed with rifles patrolled the residential quarter. Every male resident capable of bear ing arms was on duty.
 Newspaper Office Blown Up.
 The first outbreak of natives occur red at Randfontein, where 1500 of them broke out of their compound Hussars charged and drove them back.
 Rioters have burned many small shops and cottages at Benoni and have also blown up the Star Newspa- per office.