The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-07
Turbulence in the South
Refusal OF Colered Testim ony
Disturbances in South Carolina.
4 UR oPnAN N oTn s.
THE COAL MINING OUTRiGEs.

More VIIlaIny-The Murder of Mr.. Hoffman
B"aso Blown UD with Gsunpowder-Uom-
pIete Expose Of the w. ". 4.
4 The Pottsville Miners Journal of Yesterday
has the following remarkable narrative;-
This community was thrown into consterna-
4 ton on Saturday morning by the teegraphic
announcement that mob had attacked row
of houses at Mount Carmel, blown them M
with powder, murdered one of the inmates and
fired at the otkers, who ran for their lives
We have taken considerable eains to pro-
cure the particulars, cause, etc., which we
here give to our readers. Between / and
|2 o'clock on Saturday morning, while
fourteen miners employed in the co-ope-
rative collieIy of f. Rhoads & Co. were sleep
Ing quietly in their boarding house, kept
by David Williams, one of the men, named
George Hoffman, heard some one making a
NOISE at the door as If trying to pry it Open
After listening some time he got up and looked
/ out of the window, and discovered a large
4party of men around the house. and gave the
Il&arm to the inmates. No sooner had he done
this than several shots were fired in at the win
4 dow, one of them taking effect under his law
Eliminates sprang from their beds, and, without
4 stopping for their clothing, ran out and made
their escape, although the mob, which num-
berea over fifty (some say one hundred) men.
fred about a hundred shots after them
fortunately without effect. The inmates
thad barely escaped from the house when
ia Eeg Of powder which had been carried into
4 the houfe, and ignited by long fuse from the
outside. exploded with terrific effect blowing
the gatle end and side off, and entirely cutting
the building. 1t was the evident intention of
The fiebds 10 hasten the inmates of the house
into eternity without moments warning and
their hellish design would have been accom-.
EpHsbed onlp for the timely awakening of Mr.
Hoffman, who only awoke for moment to gaze
|out into the night upon his as5assins, prepara-
|tory to closing his eyes in the last long sleep
that knows no waking.
After blowing up this house the mob fred
into the Windows of the house of man named
|smeltz, teamster, who had but Short time
|before moved the family and goods of a So
called 'blackleg" from Shamokin. The balls
Flew around his bed, but fortunately none OF
them hit him.
Fends from the lower regions coud not have
fonceyed more hellish plot to destroy Ii fe and
outrage humanity Let us see who Is responsible
Hor this crime, the cause, etc. Some time since
lease was bought on the colliery by a New
a Ork party for SIS, 600.
Stock was being sold and The colliery went to
york on the co operative plan, when some one
Connected with the w. B. A. wrote a communi-
fation to the leaders organ condeDning the
sDtire movement-pronouncing il a swiudle
nd stating that the colliery was not worth
5000, cautioning all the men against taking
fDy interest in it, From that day troubles COM
enced, and have continued at this colliery,
yhe stakeholder in the new Cooperative Col
Fery was shortly afterwards followed to Ash
bnd by party of the w. b. A., aud was
ttacked in the streets of that borough and
keyerely beaten by three men, one OF them
nioeiueht vi u Dranch, ior WHICH Lne latJer
as arrested and held to bail to
nswer. The men working at the coiery since
rat time have been hooted and tantalzed on all
des by the w. b. A.; they have been compelled
go armed night and day for fear of personal
Iiolence; in fact, such reign of terror has
beNer before been known in any of the coal
ields, ard at last they have commenced war
Pgainst those men who were willing to work on
4 plan approved and at first warmly commended
by the editor of the leaders organ of the W. b.
4. Who, then, is responsible for this last deed
sf blood and horror? We submit the question
o an intelligent public for solution.