| Show RIOTERS riGHT WITH STRIKERS THE MOB AND TUB POLICE rhe Alarm niR ai abe reading coal beading pa feb 3 this mom ing the miners while going to the pennsylvania colliery were met by strikers shots were exchanged and stones thrown the police charged the strikers who fired at them one manyas arrested Sherian doah pa feb 8 the striking miners here have at last over stepped all bounds and been rioting up and down the streets in full possession of the town at five when nonunion non union miners left their work in shenandoah city and west shenandoah collieries colli eries a lot of striking poles attacked them with stones A squad of twelve coal and iron police at to their assistance they caught one of the rioters and were hustling him off when the strikers rallied and rescued him and began to handle the officers roughly the balter however succeeded in breaking away and started for shen anolah city mine followed by the crowd of riotous strikers who now numbered about a thousand and who consumed their attack on the men and boys coming from the mine the six police accepted long odds against them and returned to the attack they made a sharp fight and took a couple of prisoners one of whom they landed in magistrate shoemakers office but tho crowd rushed for the two police with the othea prisoner and began to club and beat them finding themselves down and their jives in danger they drew revolvers and fired into the crowd which scattered in all directions mike heffron a young man received a ball in the mouth and is badly injured john gather an iron founder was shot in the arm and a was shot behind the ear A borough cec both policemen for shooting in the borough they were taken before squire Moni ghen while a warrant was out by a charging them with assault with to ddll they plead guilty under the advice of capic christian and committal to potts ville jail when things took another bad turn magistrates offices are on fast centre street square and a half block apart the whole space was densely packed with people a large portion of them being poles who were bild with Dassion they surrounded both offices yelling for the officers and saying lynch them kill them suddenly a stone was thrown at squire shoemakers window in a minute the fronts of both offices weib riddled with stones and their inmates had a tough scramble for safety some bodies resulted but no serious damage done except to the offices offic vs which were wreck edT is in a perfect uproar the men are mad with passion and drink and no one appears to have any power to quiet them the borough authorities ara powerless aad ilone dan sav how the mobs fury may yet captain christian will mass hi whole force of coal and iron menhert men here to bonow anth captain lindena lindens Lin dens pinkerton men sheriff in tonight to night the three fire companies of tho town as a posse committee preparatory for trouble tomorrow to morrow the borough council also heldi a special session and have instructed chief burgess barhm to swear in special officers for an emergency john Duo rikan assistant fore the Kohin colliery was shot at anis evening by a but escaped injury his assailant was arrested at midnight the mob dispersed and everything is quiet no further trouble is apprehended for the present Wilkes barre pa feb 3 district assembly 16 which closed its three days session at pittston this morning officially announced this afternoon ahat it was resolved to demand an advance of 15 per cent of all mine operators in the lackawanna and valleys philadelphia feb 3 an officer of the philadelphia au reading company estimated to day that five thousand miners returned to work during the week and baid there are enough mines being worked to avoid any inconvenience to the company or consumers feb 4 accounts from shenandoah this morning report all and the collieries colli eries where the resumption of work cheout break aro steadily at work no further arrests have boon reported the shenandoah affair has occasioned a marked revulsion of feeling not only among the general public but also among tho moru conservative and intelligent classes of striking miners and it is believed will exercise the desired effect in breaking alio b of tho strike nd bring about an early general resumption shenandoah feb L the riot of last night waa renewed thib evening it was generally known during the afternoon that the Po landera were buying all the revolvers that could be had in town and that they were holding meetings at central points for the purpose on concerted acton yet beyond the swearing in of twenty special of whom were in sympathy if not engaged in iad strike Chief burgess did nothing to avert tho storm that was impending while tho sheriff was absent at tho county seat the poles wera open in their intention to stop the kehley run colliery from doing any work after today to day and a warning that they would suffer from the coal and iron police had no effect on them their being wo had earty hands last nighal pistols now kill business P and so proved towards 3 thoy begin to gather on tho small circus grounds bouth of kehley bun colliery and on the hillside and all tho streets alleys aad yards of by 4 when the gap bell rang the signal ta quit work there were fully SOW men women and children congregated in waiting workmen not all of iheke wore poles bu those in tho front raak were and armed withro and stones thoy fer the coming of the hun employees they regarded tho other thousands who stood behind them da passively endorsing their work if not actually engaged in it the breaker boys were first to quit work and start for home it was si 0 not thought by the mine managers j that the mob would molest these J mere boys but this was bad edg I 1 j ment for they lucked stoned and beat them as though they had been responsible adolfe ad A few men braved the mob and ako met the same fate and if soon became evident that if the rioters were to be checked at all it must be by the authority of the coat and iron police and cold lead the borough specials were non est and while the not was going on chief burgess were running around trying to hunt ahm up suddenly tha coal iron men to the number of twenty two formed on a flat a distance of about fifty yards below the breaker in the very front of the howling mob who continued to pelt them with As they formed a company front with drawn revolvers heavy and fc elf cock ing weapons the mob recoiled and stood abbay its tamper temporally cooled by the knowledge that they were facing death the conservative part of the crowd that which was only there as spectators drew back to a safe distance the poles however still remained in the foreground waiting for a move on the part of the officers the latter at tha command from their leader made a wheel to the left and marched off along the pike road leading to alie east and toward bed bridge which spans the valley railroad were the beading crosses it and connects the gap cof hery with indian the poles slowly followed for A while in the rear under the leadership of a big brawny individual who nourished a large revolver and seemed determined to use it the platoon of officers marched slowly on up a slight elevation of road which as it rose formed an embankment for the lehigh valley boad As they neared the top of the road they were suddenly fired on by a few poles who had credi along under the shadow of the bank one of the officers oscar williams fell with an ugly wound in the inner part of the left thigh the physician called has not been able to find the bullet the police then turned and fired repeatedly in the direction of the mob but without hitting an yoneso far as known the mob then retired and shot back the officers marched off again along the railroad through a bridge and don to the indian bidge breaker here th eyare quartered in the offices A part of the mob followed and bo them there but made no attack athe officers have their carbines car binea there and the poles seem to have a wholesome fear of the sixteen shoot ers after the shooting had been done chief burgess with a few specials and members of the strikers advisory board appeared on the scene and succeeded in getting the majority of the crowd not the combative part though to disperse to their homes and temporary peace was obtained the worse element of the poles however remained near indian eidge mine waiting for a I 1 chance to get at the officers who remained inside about p m four car loads of coal andiron police came to town over the beading road from mahoney plane and other points and the train was run past the depot and under the indiala ridge breaker where they remained pittsburg feb 4 As was feared a collision occurred this evening between the nonunion non union men at the solar iron works and the strikers in which 1 three persons were injured and one 16 year old lad named joseph kenna fatally shot the works which have been idle for the past two months on account of i strike resumed operation with eight colored men formerly members of the amalgamated As non unionists were escorted to and from their homes by the police this afternoon a large number of strikers and sympathizers gathered about the mill and when the nonunion non union men came out surrounded by officers the strikers followed applying many offensive epi to the negroes after a couple of blocks had been thus passed the strikers began throwing rock when without warning several drew revolvers and opened fire upon the crowd the mob broke and ran m all directions while the officers rushed among the excited colored men and endeavored to stop the shoot mg between thirty and fony shots were fired however before they wore gotten under control besides young kenna three men are known to have been but their names or the extent of their injuries connot e ascertained as they were taken away by friends it is presumed that others received injuries of the same kind |
