Garland Globe | 1906-05-07 | Page 2 | State Constabulary Fires into the Crowd

STATE CONSTABULARY FIRES INTO TRE CROWD 8erlous Disturbance In Anthracite Coal Region, Caused by Foreigners Attacking State Police. Mount Carmel, I'n. Tho first serious seri-ous collision In tlio anthracite coal regions re-gions since mining wns suspended on April 1 occurred hero Monday between be-tween r mob of Idle mine workers nnd n platoon of tho now stnto constabulary constabu-lary forco nnd resulted In tho Injuring Injur-ing of probably twenty men, threo of whom will likely die. Tho disturbance wns caused by an attack on n detail of tho stato pollco by sovoral hundred foreigners, who beenmo Incensed nt tho presenco of tho constables. They threw stones at tho policeman and othcrwlso endangered tholr lives to such an extent that they wero forced to llro on tho crowd, which had swelled Into thousands. Tho greatest excitement wns caused In tho many mining villages of tho southern coal fields, where It beenmo known thai mine workers had been shot down, but tho affected territory Is comparatively compara-tively quiet.