| Show SOLDIERS AND STRIKERS LASH THREE TIMES AND ONE CAPTAIN IS WOUNDED Rioters Throw Stones Grease the Track and Otherwise Impede the Troops Five of the Miners Under Arrest m STRIKERS FIRE PIRE ON ou f It MINERS WORKING Jf t f AT CRANE CREEK f If t H- H BLUEFIELD W. W Va Aug Aup f ff 1 f Lt 28 Strikers Strikers today fired on all f ff f the miners and tipple men mon at f f Crano Crane Creek operations T Two o of f ff f guards and two strikers were f F ff killed Several were wounded f If f TAMAQUA Pa Aug Au- The TM The first t clash between the striking miners and the troops occurred this morning and andas andas as ns a n. result five prisoners are arc In the guardhouse and Capt J. J Beaver Gearhart Gearhart Gear- Gear hart bart of oC company compan F Twelfth regiment is suffering from a n. wound on his shoulder shoulder shoulder der made by a stone thrown by a striker Troops Hurried Out This morning a report gained currency cur cur- rency kency enc that the striking miners were gathering in force to make a march on the No 4 J colliery where the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company compan is minIng mining min mm- ing log and cleaning coal coni The colliery is at the tho west vest end of or the Panther Creek Creele valley e Companies F and K of the regiment were placed cl on trolley trolley trot trot- ley cars and run through the valle valley Strikers Hurled Rocks At Summit Hill the cars were surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded by strikers who Iio hurled rocks at nt the tho soldiers and called them hard har names While hUe Jimmy Mat Mal teen an nit Italian Ital Ital- ian fan was In in the act of Jan hUlling ling a a. stone at ata 0 a car several soldiers Jumped off and attempted to capture him Marteen l of offered offered of- of resistance and arni the soldiers were compelled to fix their bayonets In the melee Marteen was wounded Mounded slightly in n the left side Rails Greased The troopers started back to camp and as the cars rounded a curve just out outside Q of Summit Hill at a 1 point where where the tracks take talc an abrupt dip the motorman on the first car made mad the discovery l that the rails mils had been greased The cars were vere stopped and nod soldIers were sent nt ahead d to place sand lipon tipon upon the rails ralls When this had been done It was p possible by Jy moving the the- cars car slowly ly to rca roach reach h Lansford in safe safe- t ty Another Mob Gathers A mob had gathered there and antI for a time it looked loola d like liko riot As the first car was passing through the mob Capt Gearhart was vas struck on the right shoulder shoulder der by a stone Several soldiers Jumped from the car In pursuit of or the slone- slone thrower After an exciting scuffle the they captured Joseph McCann a young ml- ml nero ncr Third Encounter The They proceeded again but had not Cone gone far fa I when another crowd crow was encountered encountered encountered en en- countered and the soldiers were sere ere again taunted and stoned Half a n dozen lozen soldiers soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers jump Jumped l of off ott and captured three men who It Is said were urging the crowd to attack the troops fhe The men menSIe gave e their names ar nr John ling King Timothy Timothy Tim Tim- oth othy King and John Kell Kelly The They ere cre taken to c camp mp at Manila park where together with ith McCann and Marteen the they were placed under a heavy guard suard Situation Serious The officers of or the Twelfth regiment nil all agree that the situation Is serious They say 81 the feeling against the soldiers soldiers sol sol- so- so diers Is very intense in Coaldale Lansford Lansford Lansford Lans- Lans ford and Summit Hill HUl |
