Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1894 — BLOOD MAI FLOW. [ARTICLE]

BLOOD MAI FLOW.

Serious Situation. In the Southern Indiana Mining District. A dispatch from Washington, Ind., June 1, says: The situation is very grave in the mining sections of this county and the minors seem desperate and determ’ned. This town Is excited and it looks as if blood must flow soon. Miners at Cannelburg and in this vicinity have detained and placed on switches thirty-five car-loads of coal that were being sent through from Ohio points to St. Louis and western towns. Several hundred miners have held Cannelburg for several hours, so that a reign of terror exists there, and the people aro terrified. The sheriff wired the Governor for troops.