Show BAYONETS ISO USED i s i iON ii ON mm STRIKERS i Military Force Is Turned 4 Against Marchers i 1 t f D r i WOMEN CHASED BY SOLDIERS 4 f Troops Take TaIe Action Without Waiting For Disorder d j Lansford Pa Oct 16 About men and sixty women and girls girts marched eighteen miles mile from the south southside southsIde southside side of the Hazleton region during durine the night for the Panther Creek valley t I i where they expected to clove close the ten i collieries of the Lehigh Coal Navigation tion company but just as the weary j marchers were nearing their destina destination destination destination 1 tion this morning they were met on oa a mountain road by three companies of infantry and at the point of the bay bayonet bayonet bayonet onet were driven back four miles roBes to Tamaqua and dispersed I Another crowd of SO strikers from t the north side of Hazleton also I marched here and succeeded in closing the s No Xo 1 colliery at Nesquehoning honing near Mauch Chunk before It was scattered The presence of oC the soldiers was entirely unexpected and t the strikers rs were much crestfallen that they failed in accomplishing the object of their long march r It was probably the most exciting morning that the Panther Creek acid ami an Nesquehoning valleys have haye ever eyer ex experienced experienced pei Strikers were ere scattered over i ithe i the various roads and companies of f soldiers were scurrying in all direr diree directions j Lions heading off the marching men For a moment just after the two forces fore s smet met on the road in the darkness It looked as if a clash would come but the good sense of those who had charge of the strikers prevented any conflict Object of March The march on Panther Creek valley t for was on the strikers several days The United Mine Workers Work Workers the strike started ha have bave e ers em ever eyer since been attempting to close the collier collieries of the Lehigh Coal Navigation com company company I pany in this region Organizers were were constantly in the region but as a rule t they did not meet with much success j so it was decided to use stronger meth nieth methods t to get the men employed in the ten t strike Accordingly it f mines out on 1 was arranged that a big demonstration should be held in the valley It was to f but have been held yesterday morning owing to the heavy rain nUn and muddy roads it was called off until this morn morning morning t i strikers ing Those who took part were from McAdoo Yorktown Yorkton Bunker Hill Hilland f r rand I t tand south side and Sliver Silver Brook frem from the of Hazleton and the Freeland Drifter Drifton f Jeddo and Beaver Meadow strikers t from the north side The women and t girls all came from McAdoo which f borough is the only one in the Hazle Earle Hazleton Earleton ton region which has bas organized female f f t marchers two f t like The marchers ea came e armies the south side men marching i iq fr q t way wa ot o Tamaqua while the strikers f the r from the he north side went we t over mountain at Beaver Baver Meadow Ye dow and en entered he an r ybY ay r J I k kY kF Y F L I of ot NesQuehoning The louth side ar my concentrated at McAdoo and the order order to march mareb was given at 1080 1030 clock o last night There Ther were several F fife ife and arid drum corps and a brass band In the line The women othen and girls were vere conveyed in two to t o large omnibuses The I whole town of MAdoo was out to see the marchers marc start Until 12 the night was very dark it being dim difficult cult to see any distance in the moun tain tam passes I but after midnight the moon came out from behind a bank of i e clouds and nd for the remainder of the Journey the tho marchers had aad plenty of i light As the town of TamaqUa was I entered at 2 a m the strikers began to make as much noise as they could in order to awaken the people veople who I were wore unaware of the t e coming of the strikers The marchers went through the town stopping stoP for rest and headed for Coaldale four and a half miles away Carriages containing newspaper cor correspondents correspondents respondents who bad had been trailing along at the rear of the procession J r were requested to take the lead so soi i they would not interfere with the plans 1 of the strikers Following the news newspaper newspaper I paper men came the two conveyances I containing the McAdoo women and then followed a long line of Hunga Hungarians HungarIans Hungarians rians Italians Poles Slavs Slays and Eng mineworkers Soldiers Order Halt Hait At a point half a mile from Coaldale there is a sharp turn in the road and andas andas andas as the newspaper men rounded it there came a command of Halt and about fifty feet in front of them stood solid rows of soldiers who were I stretched across the road with bay bayonets bayonets bayonets Used fired Sheriff Toole of Schuylkill county was with them The command commander er r of o the troops speaking to the wait wail waiting wailing waiting ing crowd said In la the name of the people of the state b of Pennsylvania I 1 command you to disperse dis and return whence you came The strikers began to protest that they could not be stopped on a public highway and many of them showed a a disposition to resist the soldiers The officer in charge of the troops how however however however ever kept his men in position and the strikers seeing that the soldiers evi evidently evidently evidently dently meant business slowly began returning toward Tamaqua Mother Jones Fones vehemently protested against the action of the troops in stopping the marchers but she was shut oft off of and ordered to move on The McAdoo women had to be almost pushed along so slowly did they walk I They continually Jeered at the soldiers I calling them all kinds of names and threatening them with punishment if they should dare to visit McAdoo It took from 3 8 until after 6 to drive the crowd back to Tamaqua During all of this time the identity of the troops was unknown owing to the darkness and It was reported through the tho crowd that they belonged to the Thirteenth regiment of Scranton ton The he soldiers were really reany members of the Fourth regiment which has haa been sta stationed stationed stationed at ot Shenandoah for three weeks it R of f the left Shenandoah at 1230 a m leaving two companies cT behind Brigadier General Gobin was in iii command On their ar arrival arrival arrival rival at Coaldale Coal dale three companies un under under under der command of Colonel ONeill were sent out ito the south side marchers Three companies were left at Coaldale while two companies under command pf of General Gobin came here Troops In To Pursuit When the soldiers had driven the strikers over ver the mountain one com corn company company pany was sent ent back to Coaldale where the soldiers boarded coal cars and were sent to Tamaqua to So quell any disturb disturbance disturbance ance anee the scattering strikers might stir up there Further along the road a company was deployed to protect a 0 col colliery liery While the marchers were passing K tot and later it was also alsa sent to Tama Tamaqua Tamaqua Tamaqua qua The three companies combined in inthe inthe inthe the latter town and soon oon had the marchers well scattered While all this had been going on the north side marchers had everything their own way in the Nesquehoning valley They reached there after aCter 2 and succeeded su in persuading enough men to remain away from front the Lehigh Coal Navigation No 1 colliery to compel its shut down General Gobin sent two companies of soldiers over there and soon eoon had order restored S Superintendent W D Zehner of the company started to a representative of or orthe the Associated Press Iress that if Sheriff Sherif Brislin of Carbon C county in which the colliery is located had performed his duty in a proper manner the ing colliery would not have been shut shutdown shutdown shutdown down Mr Zehner said the remaining nine collieries of or the company are working most of or them full lull handed It was long IonS after nightfall when the theIst last of the Che strikers who marched to Panther Creek valley returned to their homes They Thc were for the most pant pact footsore and weary The distance of eighteen miles from Hazelton to Coal Coaldale dale is principally down d wn grade and the wall walk valI there was scarcely noticed by b the strikers The uphill march back bacIe home however h wever with the added facts of a 3 night and a it t failure to accorn accomplish accomplish their purpose tended to dampen their ardor somewhat |