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| CHAPTER XXX. IN THE FIELD AT FEOSTBURG. A PROMPT RESPONSE TO A SUDDEN SUMMONS.—THE COAL MINERS STRIKE OF 1894. On the morning of June 5, 1894, came a call for the performance of a duty that is a possibility in the experience of every national guardsman, but happily for our State, her troops have but seldom been called upon to perform it. For several weeks the press had been acquainting the citizens of Baltimore with the spread of the dissatisfaction and resulting strikes among the miners of West Virginia, Pennsylvania and the West, and of the visits of the agitators and organizers to our own mining region around Frost-burg, ana ttieir en- FIELD CULINARY DEPARTMENT, ISQS. deavor to induce the men to stop work, yet hardly anyone thought that serious trouble would result. Violence, however, began to crop out in the West and the strike to assume serious proportions. Discontent seemed to reign throughout the whole mining region, and each day found fresh accessions to the ranks of the strikers. Feeling that-they could not hope to succeed unless every mine that supplied the Atlantic seaboard was closed, the leaders of the strike concentrated their entire energy in an effort to induce the Maryland men to |