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Show BEATEN BY A MOB. Man Escorting Miners to Work Is Fatally Injured. Scranton. Pa, Oct 11 Orlando Kcheeley, who was taking a crowd of newly-ieciulted men to work at the Hdgertnii colliery In Jermyn this afternoon, after-noon, was set llliou hv a mob of 100 nnd beaten so badly with clubs and stones that It Is feaied he will not live. When taken to the emergency hospital at Caibcindale, It was round that his hack was broken The recruits who weie with Scbteley were allowed to go unmolested un-molested upon their ngieelng to take a train out of town. They said they came from Noxen "'joining muni), and that they were to be given Jobs as llremen nt t! a duv A compiny rrnni the Thirteenth regiment camp at Ollphant Oll-phant arrived nt tha scene or tho us-sault us-sault In a special train after the mob had dlsnirsed Accoidlng to the claims of the operatois, opera-tois, work wjs icsuincd tod ly nt four collieries In Ihls district, but the strikers strik-ers denied this, Tho North Unci Hee club, numbering seventy-llvo voice composed utmost exclusively of striken gave n complimentary compli-mentary concert last night to the out. cers and men of the Twelfth nglment at ItB camp In North Scranton. |