Miners Are Out

PROM MINKR8' HKADQ0ARTKR8. Columbus, O., April 23.- President John McJiride, of the United MineWorkers, has watched the newspapei reports of the big coal miners' strike, which bepan at noon Saturday, very carefully and made comparisons with the information received by him. He estimates the nuraber on strike at 128,100, as follows: Ohio 26.0O0lKentucky 4.00C Pennsyivania 60,000 Iowa 1,801 Illinois 24,000 Missouri 1,800 Indiana 6,000 West Virginia.... 2,003 Alabama 8.000 Indian Territory . 1.70Í Tennessee 4,000 This estímate does not inolude Colorado, from which state contradictory reports have been received. A few days ago word as received from northern Colorado that the miners in that state vvould join the strike. There are about 3,000 miners there. Since that time no definite information has been received. Strike a Complet Sacoesa. The strike, so far as Ohio and Pennsyivania are concerned, seems to have been a complete success. The results in Illinois also have been much more encouraginjr than was anticipated. The advices from the southern Illinois mining región are rather meager up to this time. P. H. Penna, national vice president of the United Mine Workers, is at Pana, one of the largest inining centers in that seotion of the state, and the latest information from him was to the effect that a raajority ol the men there had voted to strike. t iKlit In Illinois and West Virginia. It now seerns that Illinois and West Virginia will be the battle ground in the competitive district. President McBride estimates that in West Virginia out of about 9,000 minera '2,000 have suspended work. William raüy, a member of the national executive board, and Edmund Thomas are at work in that state and wül address a larjje number of meetings this week. A dispatch was received from the miners at Moundsville, W. Va., statinff that the miners had been offered the seventy-cent rate demanded, and asking whether they should accept it and return to work. President McBride wired them not to accept under any conditions until further advised. lie says that this will be one of the greatest thingis to be overeóme in the present strike, as no doubt in many places offers will be made to pay the prices demanded and the miners will be inclined to accept AU Out In Ohlo. In Onio there has not been a single report of a ref usal on the part of the miners to join the movement. President McBride says that so íar as he can determine there is only one place in Pennsylvaniaoutside of the anthraeite and coke regions where the miners have not quit work and that is at Tuttle Creek, where about 1,500 men are emnloved. strike Extendt to lona. Press dispatches from Iowa indícate that none of the miners there have struck, but President McBride has a telegram f rom Julius Froh stating that all the southern part of that state is out. There are about 3,000 miners in the section indieated. Cause of the Strike. The miners are striking for the restoration of the inter-state wage ageement which was abandoned during the summer, first voluntarily by a small number of miners in the Pittsburg district, and thus torced a reduction in every competí tive district in the United States. Many operators in this district declare that it is impossible to pay the wages asked by the miners, and say they are satisfied to permit the mines to remain idle. But this does not represent the sentiment of all the ' operators, many of whotn aeknowledge j that the wages demanded could be paid if all would keep faith and not seek an ' advantage. Kiiilromls Aflfocted. The suspension of work by the miners will seriously affect the business of many railroads, and from one-half to four-fifths of the train crews will be laid off pending the settlement of the strike. Among the roads most likely to be thus affected are: The Hocking Valley, Toledo and Ohio Central. Ohio Southern, Columbus, Sandusky and Hocking, Wlieeling and Lake Erie, Cleveland and Marietta, Cleveland, Lorain and Wheellng, Cleveland and Cantón, Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, and nearly all the Unes in Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Illinois, Indiana and I other states where the strike prevails. i:iïim'I win Be s.tUiuk. Should the strike be effectlve to the fullest extent anticipated, the effect upon the country will be incalculably injurious, as the strike will enforce the suspension of many trades dependent upon the coal industry, and may seriously affect the operation of the railroads of the country in the states ! where the miners will go out. Where the Strlkcrs Are. Con Mms, O., April 24.- The great miners' strike continúes to grow. Telegiams poured into the national headquarters of the United Mine Workers in this city Monday indicating manv additious to the ranks of the ■trikera and giving assurance that thosealready j out would stand by the order or a geueral suspension. President McBride's estímate of the number of strikers in detail is as follows: Alaban 8,000 Indian terrilory.. 2,000 Tcnnessee aud üllnois S7,ftiO Kentucky s,000 Missouri 1,300 West Vlrguüu. : svlvunia .... 60,000 In liana 5,00"! Mtohlgan 300 uhio ' Iowa 18.00d Total 140,00 Kiri] to Hay (lul. Chicago, April 24.- Fifteen hundred miners from Beighboririg towns marefaedto La Salie, 111., and prevented the local raen from entering the pits. Several were badly injured.