People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — BATTLE WITH STRIKERS. [ARTICLE]

BATTLE WITH STRIKERS.

Guards at a Kansas Mine Have an Engagement with the Mob. Weib City, Kan., July 25. The guards at shaft 47 had a pitched battle with a mob of strikers at 10:30 o’clock Monday night. The mob approached the mine quietly and fired into the shaft Deputy Sheriff Grant, who was on patrol guard, returned the fire and, calling the other guards, defended the mine against the mob. Over 100 shots were fired, but none of the deputies were injured. When the mob saw that the guards were standing their ground they fled. It is not known how many, if any, of the mob were shot. Topeka, Kan., July 25.—Many calls have been made upon Gov. Lewelling for guns with which to arm persons engaged in the strike in southeastern Kansas. President Walters of the Miners’ union has asked for arms for the strikers, claiming that they need them for self defense. C. E. Arnold, sheriff of Cherokee county, has also teleg’raphed to the governor for guns, to which the governor replied as follows: “Under no circumstances can the state authority permit violence. Strikers must not trespass nor e assault United States marshals nor destroy property. Read this to the miners.” The governor will not send arms to the district and will not call out the militia unless it is absolutely necessary. He has secret agents on the ground who are keeping him informed of the situation.