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The News and Observer. VOL. xlv. NO. 31. mm all mm camilm oitiiTllEfs iilliWimiir VOLLEYS TH AT GARRIED DEATH Savage Battle at Station and Stockade at Vir den Between Striking Miners and Ne groes Imported from Alabama* SEVEN OF THE MINERS KILLED And Eighteen Wounded—Fight Began When Train Loaded With Negroes Rolled in-Miners Followed it to Stock ade, While Winchesters Cracked and the Bullets Whizzed—The Fireman in a Panic Jerked open the Throttle and the Train Thundered Away—Eyester’s Heroic Fight on the Roofs—Troops for Virden, Yirden. Ills.. Oct. 12.—The little town of Yirtlen is comparatively quiet tonight after a day of riot and bloodshed, re sulting from the long expected clash be tween the union miners and imported negroes. At 12:40 o’clock this afternoon a Chicago and Alton special train bear ing 200 negro miners from the South ar rived at the stockade around the C'hica go-Yirden Coal Company's mines and immediately the firing began. The list at 10 o’clock tonight stands seven dead and eighteen wounded. THE DEAD. The dead are: Ed Welsh, Springfield; Frank Bilyeu. Mt. Olive; Joe Kitterly, Mt. Olive; Ernest Keutner. Mt. Olive; A. 11. Breneman. Girard; D. 11. Kiley, Chicago and Alton detective. THE WOUNDED. The wounded are: Ansk Ankel, Mt. Olive; Gustav Wevsiep. Mt. Olive; Ed Upton. Springfield; Thomas Upton, Springfield: Thomas Jennings, Spring field; Joe Haines, Girard, shot in leg; Joe Bunk. Girard, shot in arm; George Bunk. Girard, shot in stomach; William Herman, Girard, shot in hand: Joe Bos ton. Mt. Olive, shot in stomach; Joe Sprim, Mt. Olive, shot in arm; Bart Tignr. engineer C. and A., shot in arm; J. F. Eyster. superintendent Climax Trading Company, shot and beaten. It is said that six men were wounded inside the stockade, hut this has not been verified, and those inside the stock s ade refuse to communicare with out siders. For the past two weeks rumors have reached Yirden that a train having ne groes from Alabama would reach the city and the Chicago and Alton depot has been■ surrounded day and night by min ers awaiting their arrival. Today the Chicago and Alton limited, due to pass here at 10 o’clock on route to Chicago, came through an hour late, displaying flags on the rear indicating that a special was following. Imme diately the word was spread and a dense crowd of miners lined the station plat form. while another crowd collected at the entrance of tlie stockade, a half mile north of the station. I>. B. Kiley, a Chicago and Alton detective, stood guard at a switch at the south end of the sta tion platform to see that it was not tampered with. At 12:40 the special passed the sta tion, and signal shots were fired from the south end of the train announcing its arrival. THE BATTLE OPENS. Immediately shots were fired from the moving train and outside, and the battle was on. A few moments after the train had passed the switch where Kiley was stationed, and while lie was talking with two citizens, lie threw up his arms and dropped dead with a bullet through his brain, lie was the first man killed. The train continued to the stockade, the miners firing into it all along the route and the negro passengers return ing the fire. The moment the train reached the stockade the miners opened a desperate fire with Winchesters, re volvers and firearms of all descriptions. The negroes on tin* train answered with a steady fire. The miners and the train were enveloped in a cloud of smoke, and the shooting sounded like a continuous volley. Engineer Tigar received a bul let in the arm and drooped from his seat. Ilis fireman seized tlie throttle, pulled it open and with a jerk tlie Train was under speed, carrying a load of wounded negro passengers to Spring field. llow many were wounded is not •known. The train stopped at the stock ♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 4444444444444444444444444 4444444444444 ! A SAMPLE NEGRO POL ICEMAN | ♦ ♦ | Goes to “ Hell's Half-Acre ” With a Ne- | I gro Woman and a Bottle of Liquor. ♦ ♦ * ❖ (Wilmington Star.) 4 ❖ A gentleman of this city, who is thoroughly reliable, semis the follow *♦ ing to the Star: <► ❖ “Monday night, about 10:30 o’eloek. on the beat on l'nyit, between 4 Dock and Orange streets, a negro policeman joined a mulatto woman who 4 4 came out of a shop with .a bottle of liquor, put his arm around her. and the 4 4 pair went down the alley in the direction of what is known as ‘Hell's Half ♦ 4 Acre.’ and did not return during fifteen minutes 1 waited.” ♦ 4 Now, isn’t this lovely? But it is only a fair sample of Han Kussell’is 4 4 city government. It is horrible now; Inti what will it be if the white men 4 4 of North Carolina do not eontrol the next Legislature? 4 4 4 444444444444 4444444444444444444444444 4444444444444 ade lmt two minutes. Its departure did not cause the firing to cease. The tower of the stockade was filled with sharp shooters armed with Win chesters and they kept up a steady fire into the crowd of Union miners. Eye witnesses say the dead miners were killed after the train had departed. It is not known how many men are stationed behind the walls of the stockade, but an estimate places them between 25 and 40. WITHIN THE STOCKADE. It is claimed that six within the stock ade were wounded, but those inside re fuse to hold any communication with the men outside, and nothing authentic can be learned. Word was, however, sent from the stockade to physicians in town that their services were needed. The supply and provision store of the Chicago-Yirden Coal Company is known as the Climax Trading Company, with Superintendent J. F. Eyster in charge. At 2 o'clock, after the firing at the stock ade had subsided, an attack without a parallel in the history of the trouble was made on Eyster, which will proba bly cost hint his life. He was sitting in his store when his telephone rang, and he was instructed front the outside to secure physicians anil hurry them to the place. Eyster jumped into his delivery wagon and securing ‘two doctors, rush ed with them to the mines. He return ed to his store, climbed out of his wagon and was just entering the door when the cry was raised that Manager Fml Lukens of the mines was with him. ONE BItAVE MAN AGAINST A MOB With a rush a throng of infuriated miners pressed toward the store. Eys ter ran behind a counter with a revolver in each hand. The miners pressed hard after him, and as Eyster sprang up stairs he and the miners began shooting simultaneously. He ran to the top of his building and jumped behind a chim ney, while the miners ran into the street and opened fire on him again. Chips How from the brick chimney and Eyster ran from cover across the roof of i another store, firing into the street be low as he ran. From there he crossed to the roof of the Bank of Yirden, where lie reloaded his revolvers. Blood was flowing from a wound in his side, hut with dogged determination against terrible odds he continued his fight. Jumping to the roof of the line and Giseh drug store he halted behind a projection from the roof of the building lie had just left and emptied both of his six-chambered revolvers. Then spring ; fug from cover Eyster dashed ahead I amid the raiu of bullets, to the roof of ! ibe Steed building, the upper story of 1 which is known as Miners’ hall. He ; either fell or jumped through the sky . light and landed in the arms of a crowd i of miners who seized him and carried j him down stairs to the street. ; AS ONE RISEN FROM THE DEAD. I Here other hands seized the almost j unconscious man and he was dragged into the middle of the street. Local po licemen drove hack the crowd and car ried Eyster to the city square across the ! street. Eyster was motionless and sup j posedly dead. The police left him lying ; and attempted to disperse the crowd. In a few minutes Eyster was seen to raise j his hand and \vi]>e the blood from his ! fate. Two men sprang at him, and with i the ferocity of tigers began jumping on i bis body and striking him on the head with stimes. With a yell the angry ■ crowd hurst into the square to kill Eys ter. The police charged in a body and i fought their way to the center of the RALEIGH, XT. C., -THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 113, 1898. in company with a fat ass to get gold. In order to make it easy for him the Rad said to his half brother “You ride the ass while 1 walk” and he did so. But the!.travellers whom they pet going to work said “ For shame that youngster should ride while the broken down old party walks. so the n g'. down and"put the old man astride. Other travellers whom they met cried out ‘How inhuman.that th.s tenderfoot should trudge while the well-fed, hardened old sinner ride* at his ea„e. So he /J 1 n 3 un ec and together they tied fast with withes the fore and hind feet of the fat ass and put a pole bet wee • Then each putting the end of the pole on his shoulder, they toted the ass, much to the amusement j i people and the ass, but greatly to their sweat and swearing. This fable shows what a load professional humbugs have to tote when they are once in tn... a. and that while it is great spoit for the ass it is death to the pall bearers. mob. where they took a stand over the prostrate man. A carrier was procured aim Eyster was taken to the Buckles Hotel. He had been shot through the, groin iitnl is terribly battered about the I head. The physicians state that he, has barely it chance of recovery. The dead miners were removed from the yi-' einity of the stockade to hotels and liv ery stables, and the wounded miners; were taken on litters to the station and: taken to Springfield to-night. MORE DEAD AND WOUNDLD. An Associated Friths representative; secured admittance to the stockade late to-night. Tlie list of dead am! wounded inside tin* stockade follows: Dead: A. W. Morgan. Ulrica go. Wounded: 11. Gritgesell, shot in the shoulder: O. J. Snyder, shot in face’ and legs; James Sickles, Chicago, shot in leg: Frank Wilder, Chicago, shot pm arm: Thomas MeEiit.ee, Chicago, shot hi leg; J. W. Mooitnn, St,. Louis, slightly injured: F. J. Hnnan, slightly injured; J. 11. Smith. Chicago, slightly injured. There are about thirty-live strong nu n stationed inside the stockade to-night, each keeping watch through a loophole. The four towers have been deserted. Manager Lukens remained at his disk in the office till night issuing orders to his men. Manager Lukens said to-night: ‘•The blood of evejr.v man shed here is on the Governor’s hands. He is ab solutely outside of the law. and has no jurisdiction in refusing to send- troops.” the negroes at sfringfield. Springfield, Ills.. Oct. 12. —The special train on the Chicago and Alton, which brought the Alabama negroes from Yirden had eight wounded men —all deputies, except one. a colored miner— who were taken to the Springfield city hospital. Os these men one died to night, William W. Carroll, a deputy sheriff. He was shot through the thigh. Another train which arrived at J) o’clock to-night, brought up six wound ed men, who are at St. Johns hospital. Those at the Springfield city hospital are: >. 1 William H. Clarkson, an inmate of the Old Soldiers Home, at Leavenworth, Kansas, deputy, skull crushed, will die. 11. A. lvygcr, of on train, shot through the arm. William Massey, of St. Louis, deputy, shot through the head, shoulder and hands; will probably recover. James Fainter, deputy, shot itt the lett side of face, arm and side; will recover. Fulmer has just been mustered out of the Third Nebraska regiment. He re fuses to give bis home. Fatrick Mack, of Yirden, employed by the operators of the Chicago-V’irden shaft; bullet went through his thigh; will recover. Earnest Ryan, a colored miner from Alabama; bullet went through his head; will recover. HURLED FROM THE TRAIN. John M. Hunter, of Routine, tlie president of the Illinois District of the United Mine Workers of America, lies at the Collins House in a critical condi tion. Mr. Hunter, got on the train which here the colored miners to litis city, this afternoon, and engaged in con versation with two of the colored miners. Some of the deputy sheriffs saw Hunter, and when the train was between North avenue and the North Shaft, and was going at the rate of 18 miles an hour, it is estimated, the deputies attacked Hunter and pushed him off the train. A man happened along later in a buggy and saw limiter lying near the track in an unconscious condition, and placed him iu his buggy and took him to the Collins House, where a physician dress ed his wounds. He is terribly cut about the face and his ribs are injured. He is still unconscious. Governor Tanner to-night wired the War Department, asking if the Fifth Illinois infantry could not he placed at his disposal for use at Yirden. Colonel Culver, the commander of the Fifth, has tendered his services and those of the regiment to the Governor. (Continued on Second Fage.) THE MP CROWDED 3t Caused Much Sickness at Camp Alger. SHORTAGES AND DELAYS ABUNDANT MEDICAL SUFFLIES BI T SOME ATTENDANTS INEFFICIENT. INDIVIDUAL INSTANCES OF NEGLECT Some Office s appointed from Civil Lif.i Proved Fffir.en’; Others Were Incorrigible; Sonne too C ld to Learn. Meade an Ideal Ctrnp I Washington. Get. 12.—General G:a-j j ham eon limn'd his testimony before the: ; war investigating commission to-day.. , Ho believed that the proximity of •In tents to one another at Gamp Alger; i was responsible more than any other j cause for the sickness thcr*. and said ihe medical officers also were of opinion. lie thought tin* want •* l water j for bathing purposes and the habits «*l . the men in eating other food there than! I prescribed by the regulations had a bad; ; influence. At the beginning of the camp j there were no bathing facilities, nut later the men were marched seven miles , in brigades; once a week for baths, j There had been no lack of medical sup- j ! plies, but some of the medical,attendants ■ j were inexperienced and inefficient. General Graham stated that while the] i commissary supplies were plentiful the ; n en were often without the prescribed food because the regimental officers were not sufficiently impressed with the i importance <>f drawing their food. This was especially true in the matter of fresh meat. OCCASIO NA I, SHORT AG E. lie said that the corps was for a time , short of wagons for transportation, i owing to shipments to Florida. Thus 1 deficiency had occasioned sum* hard ' ship to the men. General Graham said that in the case | of most of the regiments there was con ! siderable delay in supplying them with j arms and ammunition, first attention i being given always to the troops to be' j forwarded to the front. ! For a time during an epi leniic of, measles there was a shortage of hospi ! tal linen for the hods, bur the deficiency ( was only temporary. Secretary Alger had spoken to him personally about j keeping up the supplies for the sick, i asking that he (the Seen‘aryl be per sonally informed when ther - was a de ficiency. and assuring him Unit Mm de- ( mand should be immediately met. i here wore occasionally shortages 'ti other sup plies, such as ice, hut he dal not believe that any deaths had been due to this cause. Ex-Governor Woodbury and Dr. Con nor examined General Graham in regard to the space occupied by the camp. THE MOVE WAS SEN'TMENTAI Dr. Connor said it had teen definitely; stated to him by a medical officer that! surface drainage had fount, its way into, the wells. ‘‘l positively deny it.” responded Gen era! Graham. Taking it all in all. General Graham said lit' had no doubt that the medical j department at (’amp Alger was admin-j isiered in a competent milliner. No. doubt, he said, there wore individual in-; I stances of neglect, hut they were not I the rule. With the reforms inaugurated Camp Alger would have been very : healthful, and the removal to Camp Meade was largely sentimental and in obedience to public clamor. General. Graham declared Camp Meade to he an] i I ideal camp, splendidly located and w-J, I supplied with camp necessities. At tin* afternoon session Generali Graham was examined with reference to some criticisms of Camp Alger made, by General Smart, Deputy Surgeon Gen eral of the army. j General Graham said he remembered Colonel Smart’s visit, hut that the Col onel had made no complaint to him be yond pointing out verbally that the lamps of the TVniisylvania troops were too close together for sanitary purposes. A change of site was immediately order ed so as to permit expansion. HAMPERED BY RED TAPE. Referring to officers appointed from j civil life. General Graham on id that j some of them had proved efficient, hut. j that others were incorrigible. Some of j them were, lie said, too old to learn. General Graham said he had no com-j plaint to make as to the management of | the War Department, but be thought > the war was such an emergency that tlu*j Department was not tit first prepared to: meet its demands as promptly as might have been considered desirable. ITe j thought, however, that the criticisms of j citizens concerning the conduct of the war were due To the ignorance of thej people who meddled without sufficient' information to enable them to speak | wisely. He had experienced some delay] ! in the beginning of the camp’s history on , account of red tape methods, hut when the Secretary of War heard of this he told him to report directly to him, (the Secretary.) i j TO EXTEND CUBA’S RAILROAD. I I A System to Traverse the Island Will Be Recommended to Congress. Washington, Oct. 12.—Secretary Alger J will recommend to Congress that the ex . isting railroad system in Cuba be ex ! tendril so as to form a line running di ] rectly from Cape Maysi at the cast end of tiie Island to Cape Antonio on the | western extremity. He will al o reeom ! mend that this work he undertaken by the United States Government, and that Congress appropriate the necessary funds. This road is a military necessity. The existing railroad system in Cuba its ex tremely crude; it is not possible to get j troops within time or lour hundred miles of Santiago by rail from Havana. No less important service to be serv ed by tin* construction of the road is to restore* prosperity to the island at the earliest possible moment and alleviate tin* distress now existing among the na tive Cubans. The construction of the railroad will give work to many of the | unemployed native laborers. -Vs the* | road progresses, sections of tlie country j will be opened up that sire now imu*- j feasible to trade. | ONLY ONE DEATH YESTERDAY. 1 Yet Fever is Reported at 10(5 Places in M ississippl. I Washington. < let’. 12.—4 lie official dis patches to the Marine Hospital Service today show that on yesterday there were 10(5 places in the State of Mississippi with yellow fever: G7 eases were reported and one death, which occurred at Har rison. At Franklin. La., there were , 20 new cases, hut they are reported to ibe of n mild type, and there are no deaths there. The outbreak reported at | Bay St. Louis. Miss., proves to be at | Wa vela nil, a lithe village four miles i this side of the centre of the bay. The , report today shows nine cases there. * HALF HftS NOT BEEN TOLD. | ❖ ♦ (Greensboro Record.) ($■ <S> Mr. Win. E. Worth, of Wilmington, was .at the Benhow today. <> When asked about the political situation in his section, and if the new spa- ❖ <> pel* reports had been exaggerated, he said: ♦ "No. the half has not been told. The city for the past two years has ♦ practically been turned over to the negroes. You people in this section ♦ cannot realize the situation in Wilmington unless you could come down ♦ 4* and see for yourself.” ♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦**♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ THIRD EDITION. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LO HILL SURREHOER Will Return to Agency When Terms are Arranged. A GREAT HAND-SHAKING i PEACE COMMISSIONERS WARM LY GREETED BY TIIE IIOSTILES. | LO HASHED HIS LITTLE TUT--S 0 CALLED Now his Bowels Ya rn f.r the Sugar, Flour, Bacon and Ti bacco his Uncle Samuel Provider, So He’ll Bury the Hatchet. | St. Paul. Minn.. Oct. 12— A Walker. Minn., special to the Dispatch says: “The Bear Island or Pillager Indians will surrender and war has been averted. It only remains for the terms to he ar ' ranged before the hostiles will come into I the agency. Father Aloysius lloma mitz. (Jus Beaulieu and Chief Gay Gwa Che Way Binning, the three peace com missioners who left on the I lora last evening for the hostile camp got hack at ■ 4 o’clock this morning. They reached the camp at Black Duck Point at the mouth of the Boy River at 1) o’clock last night. Indians on watch responded to signals, and the three peace commis sioners went ashore in a skiff, carrying flour, bacon, sugar, rice, tobacco and canned goods. r l hey met a large number ! of the Indians back in the woods and were given a cordial greeting. Hands were shaken all around, and the battle |of a week ago was talked over. The Indians alluded to it as a little fun. They asserted that none of their number was I killed or wounded. The emissaries refused to make public* j their report until submitted to Commis- I sioner Jones, further than to say that the Indians will come to the agency : when a reply is sent hack to the settle* I incut til Black Duck Point. THEY NOW ASK FOR GRUB. Cass Lake, Minn.. Oct. 12. —Fewer Indians are seen going to Leach Lake and the Indian villages are filling up. Councils held at central points almost without exception declare for peace and ask for grub. Stage communication i with the interior has been resumed and work has been started on the great northern extension to Park Rapids. Pope Leo has appointed Archbishop Chappelle, of New Orleans, as apostolic delegate to Cuba. The particular duties of the new apostolic delegate will he to provide for the proper assimilation of the church in the West Indies to the Ameri can church. Tin* annual meeting of the Arch bishops of tlit* Roman Catholic church was held in Washington yesterday. The proceedings being confined to tin* inter nal affairs of the church, nothing was given out for publication.
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