Show COAL MINERS HARD STRUGGLE their ranks have been strengthened by recruits plenty of coal said to be on hand i ln the large cities men go out pittsburg Pitta burg pa august 4 the striking miners gained another victory at ahlum creek this morning by inducing twenty more diggers to join the ranks this leaves the mire working with about half the force of yesterday committees are working industriously in he houses of the miners they first enlist the sympathy of the women and then the men are easily induced to follow the strikers are turning their attention entirely to the diggers knowing if they come out the other employed emp loyes will bo forced to follow the new york cleveland nJ gas coal company claim eliat all the plum creek miner are working while abo strikers ea y that not more than forty men in the pit the full force of the mine is men when the campers came the I 1 cutout was from to cars a day this was forty cars above the average when the other mines are working the output yesterday yeat erday wee thirty alne cars with twenty more men out today the output ia not expected to exceed twenty cara the com closing of the mine may be expected in a few days athe march to creek mine was commenced at 1 abie moraine by e simpere at centre school bouse they were reinforced by large bodies om San the combined forces arrived at the mine at 3 a ni remaining until 6 when they marched back to camp taking with them in triumph the twenty diggers who came oat the cambeis at sandy creek had to do the mine is to all intents and purposes shut down the output is bol more than two cars a day the capacity of the mine has been cars a day the normal output with the three mines in operation is seventy cars there has been no change so far at oakhill statement made by the minere that only two men were working may not be true in that care the output of eight cars claimed for monday ind tuesday will be to one car the extraordinary capacity of the ine is and the normal capacity 90 cars the demonstration de armitt baa bad the effect of decreasing the capacity of cars to 42 cars the probability of it being further reduced the campers at turtle creek were on the march at 3 a m and went to the oakhill mines they marched back at a ni and had breakfast camp life has been reduced to a system a hundred men were bent to plum creek and bent home leaving COO in camp they have divided into companies of each under a lieutenant provisions seem to be plentiful toe camp will be policed by strikers etri kers borough police the hearing of president dolan and the other miners charged with riot and unlawful assemblage is set for 2 chii afternoon the case will be dropped by alie defendants giving bail for court and nolle being entered later ono of abo notable features of the strike of the minere baa been the absence of effort by the operators to get their miners to work there has been no meeting by them to consider the situation nor have there been any attempts to start mines wilh new men this was explained today by an operator who said he ia satisfied to have the strike continue until january as he baa enough coal to last him or cm get it at prices which will enable him to make the lower river markets are reported to be well stocked with pittsburg coal and by reason of almost continuous navigation trim january until july large etolka have been accumulated in the orleans louisville Loui eville and cincinnati markets and no coal boat stage ot water can be expected now before november some of the rail operators have plenty ot coal one producer claiming to have not lees than tone tor contract and others can buy at a price almost as low as they can produce it COAL GOES UP the miners at ch micke mine on the redstone Re detone branch of the pennsylvania railroad came out today and the mines are once more clofed down when the newe was received in this city the price of coal jumped to 1 a ton and brokers eaid prices were likely to advance to before next week president W P dearmitt of the new fork and cleveland gas coal company baya bis men are not on a and not in sympathy with the movement they have been intimidated he eaid and I 1 have no doubt all would return to work if the strikers encamped at the different mines were withdrawn loscko wheeling W va aug 4 except in the fairmont regio oe where J W aas and joseph wood appear to be making some headway alie strike leaders are losing courage the arike in the kanawada Kana waha valley is a failure ahne far while in the new river region there has been little to lend encouragement on the norfolk western there is nothing to indicate that the strike was ever ordered miners day tomorrow is locked forward to with the hope that it may effect a change especially in the wheeling district where eo much was expected and to little accomplished all the miners but fifty being at work again the disorder at corinth last night leads to alie tear that serious trouble may follow an attempt to arrest the foreigners who were mixed up in it there is a between the italian and hungarian miners and bince they have taken opposite sides in the strike they a rrt decidedly dangerous |