The Telegram. — 1893-09-12 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE COAL CRISIS.  THE DEAD MINERs.  Thousands of people visited the Acton Hall Colliery at Featherstone, on Senday, the scene of the recant terrible riots, but perfect order prevailed. A large wooden shed on the it top is occupied by a company of the South Staffordshire Regiment, and the private road between the pit WA the highway is being patrolled by about half-a-dozen soldiers and a number of policemen armed with cutlasses. The damage done during the riots has been considerably overestimated. and will not amount to much more than £2,000. The funeral took place at Luscoe on the same day of the miner, James Gibbs, who was fatally shot on Thursday, and was attended by hundreds of friends and sympathisers. The deceased, who was only married in May last, is declared to have been in no sense one of the rioters. He was a quiet and respectable man, and had just left a church choir practice on Thursday, when he heard of the slisturbailee, and went out of curiosity to the scene. The other collieiies in the neighbourhood are twig protected by budiee of military and armed police. Notwithatanding the alarmist reports, Saturday and Sunday passed without thy outrages at Barnsley, but it has been thought advisable to obtain further military aid, and acc.ndingly 100 men of the Stiffulk Regiment, /rum Colchester, arrived early on Siinday morning, N men of the Metropolitan police arriving shortly before them. Mont of these have been drafted to points where it is thought probable attacks will be made. The Leeds miners were to resume their processions on Monday to collieries iu the out-districts, where it is believed that coal is being surreptitiously obtained by " blacklegs" under the pretea of keeping the werkungs in order. The 'Millary are atilt in the town. On Sunday morning, four squadrons of the 17th Lane-re arrived at Fulwood Barracks, Yrest.on, atter an all-night journey from Swindon. They rec,dved marching orders on Saturday, as it WAS feared there would be riots in the Wigan coalfields.  ID-L. he colliery districts of Derbyshire, despite the prer.ence of the military, numerous cßses 0 highway rubbery and ants ot Lei rorisni, animated by organised bands, are reported, 1111.1 the police are to piirol all the country lanes in cungsquence. - At Nuttingliatu all pas quiet via Sunday, but OD SAfartiaty pittAt sh nas 114c,tetueut, sa it flenifed that trek "vb., .be made dpon, the traders in the mar et place. he strikers, however, behaved well. In some of the mining villages outside the borough, tbers weie slight digurbances, butchers, bakers, and provision dealers' shops heing raided, but there was nothing to call for military interference. Further detacninents of military arrived in the town on Saturday. News has been received of souse rather sei lame Fitting in North Derbyshire, anu a Jetachinent of Dragoons Das been moved out.  IS* .4,13  On Saturday evening, the staff of the War Department magazine at Barlby, Selby, near York, wan reinforced by a detachment uf Royal Scots from York, information having been received that rioters meditated seizing the htores there. . .  On Sunday night, thenmilitary were hastily stunmoned from their 01i16GB in Wakefield, and sent off to the nits at Topeliffe, near Morley, where it was reported that a midnight attack wee expected. A rumour was also circulated that a mob was about to make an attack on the large circus in Wakefield borough market, and the building was being closely watched. . .  ACthe inquest held at Fetherstone, on Sifterday, respecting the death of James Gibbs, who was shot during the riots at Petherstone, on 'Thursday. Mr. Bernard Hartley, the magistrate, who read the Riot Act, said he reluctantly ordered the soldiers to lire, but suggested to Capt. Barker that blank cartridge be used. The captain, however, said that was contrary to regulations.—The jury expressed themselves dissatisfied with the inquiry, and it was adjourned. At Bristol on Saturday, the following resolution was carried :—"That this meeting of Bristol workers pledges itself to support by all legitimate means the miners who are fighting so gallantly against the tyranny of capitalism, and also denounces the action ef a Government which orders troops into the otreets to murder men and women driven to desperation by starvation, such starvation being caused by the greed and rapacity of unscrupulous employers. It also recognises that no better condition of things can be hoped for until the workers wrest the land and means of production from the idlers, and work them for the benefit of the whole community."