Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1894 — COAL MINERS’ RIOTS. [ARTICLE]

COAL MINERS’ RIOTS.

One thousand foreign miners raided the shaft of the LaSalle County Coal Company, at LaSalle, 111., Thursday night. In a conflict with the sheriff and his deputies the sheriff and two deputies were painfully wounded. Five companies of the militia were ordered out by the Governor to preserve order. There*was serious trouble also between strikers and officers at Centralia. At Bull Hill, Colo., there was trouble between strikers and mine owners. A wagon load of powder was backed up against the shaft and exploded. Further details from the Bull Hill, Colo., riot, state that eleven men were in the shaft when the load of powder was exploded. All were killed. This mine is in the Cripple Creek region. There is a reign of terror throughout the mining camps of Colorado.