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ROW AT LINTON.Trouble Between White and BlackMiners.One Man Killed.Some months ago the Island CoalCompany, at Linton, imported a largenumber of negroes to work in theircoal mine. It produced great excitement among the white miners and there was a threatened out-break. A meeting of citizens was held and the company asked to send the negroes back. A pony purse was made up and nearly if not all the colored minerssent away.Since the late strike in June, we in-.fer that additional colored miners have been brought in by the Island Coal Company—at least there are colored miners there,and on Wednesday night a colored miner got into a fight with a white one, which fanned the slumbering animosity between the two races into a white heat. A general fight was the result in the vicinity of the mine, which is a mile or so from Linton. In this fight one man was killed. The tel-epkone and telegraph wires were cut to prevent any message being sent to the sherifi at Bloomfield.The hardware store was broken open and looted of all kinds of fire-arms.A representative of this paper went over there yesterday and found the community greatly excited. Wednesday was the first general pay day since the strike and $4,500 were paid to the miners. As a result there was considerable drunkenness, which led to the first trouble. It seems to have been a fight between the union miners of Linton and the negro non-unionists of Island City. In running the negroes out of Linton one of them turned on his pursuers and fired a shot but no one was struck. Another of the negroes, Milt Swaggart, was caught and badly beaten up. They went on to Island City and rallied their friends into an armed mob and attacked several young men from Linton who were there atteuding a dance. In the firing four of these Linton boys were shot, one named Jess Thomas was shot through the hip and groin and is seriously wounded—the other three were only slightly hurt.Bradley Rusher, the Island City mine boss, was shot in the leg, not serious.After ringing the fire bell and breaking into the hai’dware store for guns and amunution the mob marched down to Island City, but only found two blacks. Both were shot and one nearlykilled. These men were taken to*Lyons, where it is thought one will die,John Hewitt, the superintendent of the Lintot mines, incurred the displeasure of the mob and they talked of hanging him. He was sick in bed, but was bundled up in blankets and driven to a station on the I. lt;V. road and sent away for safety.The general expectation is that there will be more trouble grow out of the affair.i1ttc(lt;11(ii]i1(1i1t11cc1cc1sc£11scc(lt;]tt13(131]11
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Sullivan Democrat
Sullivan, Indiana, US
Fri, Jul 27, 1894
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