THE COLLIERY RIOTS IN SOUTH YORKSHIRE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3930, 28 March 1870, Page 5

THE COLLIERY RIOTS IN SOUTH YORKSHIRE.

The colliers on strike in So,i\th Yorkshire made an attach an ifhe non-unionists on Januaiy 2'i,, and caused serious injuries fco some and great loss of jirope7ty to others, and, although, no actual outbreak has occurred since, the district around the pita has been in a very excited state. Some Q f the workinaii l^ye since T^een. employed in rapamng the sacked houaes, and rendering them as comfortable as possible. On January 22, the soene of the previous day's riot was visited by Earl Pitzwilliam, Lord Lieutenant o! the West Riding, and by Viscount Milton and Lord Wharncliffe. The state of the district was so alarming at the time of Lord Wharncliffe's last visit that he at once put himself in commuuicptiofl with Colonel MelSTiel, the chief c-1 the W-est Riding eonstar.iil.-yrc, who called out a party of the 2*n4 Infantry; stationed at Sheffield. The soldiel-'s, 1 who numbered abo^t 50, were under the command of Cap,tain L\a<{a,a^ ancf were stationed at" and s^QUt the/faukersle'y farm to gl^u<i i*. '^c, co.naiii'o^i qf xgp\imionis^s 1 sliocking. Most'of tljam'have lost the whqje of apparel as we s m %m> gooda. Great sympathy ia. e^P4'essed for them, and it is unde,rsstoo4 that Earl Fitzwilliam and l^ Whav-nclifife have assisted in prQyi^ing- clothes for the destitute people,