Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1901 — MINERS FIGHT IN KENTUCKY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MINERS FIGHT IN KENTUCKY

Blood Jest Battle of Mining Trouble in Webster County. ONE KILLED AND FOUR HURT. striking Coal Diggers Fight Guard, and Nonuuion Ist. Near MadinonvlUe — Concentrated Fire from the Brow of a Hill—Other Conflicts. Madisonville, Ky., dispatch: The bloodiest battle of the mining trouble in this section was fought about 4:30 o’clock a. m. Following is the result of the conflict between the striking miners on one side and the guards and nonunion men on the other: The dead: James Smith, striker. The injured: George Crouch, striker, fatally wounded; John West, guard, shot in leg; Hut Dawson, guard, shot in both hands; Nathan Bush, guard, shot in forearm. The battle occurred In Webster county at the mines of the Providence Coal Company, seventeen miles from Madisonville, commencing with an attack on the engine house of the works and the company’s stables. The striking miners were about eighty strong, and when the shooting at the stables commenced the guards were aroused and commenced to return the fire. Strikers then opened on homes of the nonunion employes, a :oncenlrated fire from the brow of a hill being kept up on buildings occupied by the nonunion men and their families. Occupants kept close to the floors or the death list would have been larger. The battle raged for an hour and a half. Following the fatal battle there were riots at other Kentucky mines. An attack was made on the nine guards at the Monarch mines, not far from here, but was repulsed. Two employes of the St. Bernard Coal Company at Morton s Gap were fired upon while driving in a buggy by a man who sprang from behind a tree. There was muen trouble at other places, nut neither injury nor loss of life. Owing to the day’s battle and ripts and tbe serious situation in> the mining field of

Webster and Hopkins counties tlie gov- i ernor has ordered out the militia. The troops will leave for the scenes of trouble at midnight.

Fishing Fleet I* Raided. Deputy Stato Game Warden Brewster of St. Joseph, Mich., made a raid on fishing tugs off Michigan City which resulted in the ramming of one of them by the big tug Dormas, which Brewster had hired for the occasion, and its subsequent capture, with two others. Brewster chased the boats for fishing out of season. Six tugs were chased by the big boat with the game warden and his deputies aboard, but three of them got away.

REV. DR. PARKHURST. (Whose advocacy of open saloons on Sunday is attracting attention.)