Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — NEWS OF THE STRIKE. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE STRIKE.

Gov. McKinley Order, Soldier, to Take Poaseealon of Bridgeport, Ohio. New Philadelphia. Ohio.—Company M, of the Seventeenth Infantry. was ordered back to the armory. Sheriff Adams was appealed to, and at 9 o'clock read the riot act from the pilot of an engine. The respectable citizens dispersed, but about 210 miners and millmen congregated in groups to prevent the train from leaving. Section-men went down the track five miles and found ties, bridge timbers and rocks on the track, and the trestle burning. The track was cleared, and the fire extinguished without interference. The car containing the soldiers was fired into. Martin's Ferry.—An unsuccessful effort was made to run two coal trains on the Cleveland, Loraine and Wheeling Railroad, after a week's tie-up. Ties were placed on the track, dynamite was used, a revolver fired, and knives exhibited. Four deputy marshals and two reporters wore on the. train. Their lives, together with those of the trainmen, w< re threatened if the train was not run back, and this was done. The mob, inc.uding women, increased from 5J to 400 in ten minutes. The bridge at Whisky Run was burned, and troops have been ordered to the field. Columbus, Ohio.—Sheriff Scott, of Belmont County, teleg aphed Gove -nor McKinley that the miners at Wheeling Creek burned a bridge < n tho Cleveland, Loraine and Wheeling Railroad and that about five hundred men were in the mob and were still threatening lives and property. The Governor wired Adjutant General Howe, now in Guernsey Count .- with troops, to send some of the military in his command to Belmont County. The Governor also wired Howe that if more troops were needed he would call out the Fifth Regiment at Cleveland. John L. Gehr Arreated. Peoria, lll.—John L. Gehr, leader of the striking miners in the attack on the Little mine Wednesday, was arrested at his home at Edwards station. Gehr is District President of the Mineworkers’ Union. He was taken to Pekin on the first train. He insists that he did all he could to prevent the men from attacking the mine, but admits that he went with them anyhow. The Sheriff’s pbsse is still under arms and expect to be ordered to Collier's mine to serve a number of warrants there. The local militia is also still under orders. Threw Stones at the Pickets. Sullivan, Ind.—Last night at the military camp was one of tumult. Numerous assaults with stones were made upon the picket-lines, and as a result the cry, “Corporal of the guard ’’ rang through the camp often, and was usually followed bv firing in the direction from which the stones came. So far as known, however, no damage was done, though there was fear that the miners might, as they threatened, hurl dynamite at the soldiers. Toward morning an effort was made to burn the trestle-work of the Evansville and Terre Haufe Road near here, but the incendiaries were driven away by the guards. Try to Wreck a Train. Uniontown, Pa. —Near Evans station on the Baltimore & Ohio railway a desperate effort was made at train wrecking. A young man walking along the track discovered part of a freg tightly clamped to a rail and other material piled on the track in such shape that trains approaching from either direction would certainly be thrown from the rails. The obstruction was removed. Tic Up the Freight Tarda. Wheeling, W. Va.—Striking miners at Benwood, below this city, created a blockade in West Virginia coal and have tied up all the coal ip the Baltimore and Ohio yards. About 200 men are encamped at Benwodd Junction with the firm determination of preventing coal from moving.