The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-14
ANOTHER ACCOUNT,

The Scranton Republican gives the
following account of the riot:
Yesterday was a day of lawlessness
and riot, in sad contrast with the usual
observances of holy day, Good Friday.
Early in the morning large mob, com
posed of w. b. a. men of Hyde Park
and neighborhood went to the coal
works of Messrs. HILL & FELLOWS,
and drove the men who are employed
there from the premises and stopped the
works, threatening to kill every i'd
blackleg" who attempted to resume
work. About the same time another
body of the same class of men proceed
ed to the Connell mine, few miles
down the river, where the same scenes
of intimidation, threats and lawlessness
were enacted, and the workmen forced
to join their ranks. A body composed
principally of the same men, number
ing about 500, next marched to mo. s."
l.. l. & G. Company's works, where,
after heaping curses and abuse upon all
employed in the mine, they demanded
that the miners throw down their tools
and come out, and after several hours
parley the demand was complied with
and work ceased. At about so clock in
the morning the rioters commenced
assembling at the TRIP Slope (where
an attempt had been madeo on Thursday
to stop the works. and in several hours
the mob had increased to nearly a thous-
and. Here the most infamous and MUIR
derOus Outrages were committed out
RACES so brutal and unmanly that none
but base and cOWardly wretches would
have committed them. After some of
the men attempted to leave the works
and proceed to their homes they We're
set upon with pistols, stones and clubs,
and injured in such brutal manner
that the lives of some are despaired of,
and they may even now be dead. DU-
LOSS MOORE was pursued by six men
and escaped with his life by fording the
river. He was repeatedly stoned but
kept the villains ut bay with his revol-
yer. His brother THOMAS did not
escape 80 fortunately. He was over
taken and beaten and kicked in a most
shocking manner. He would undoubt-
edly have been killed on the spot, had
not still another brother-WILLIAM
MoORE-fortunatel come upon the
scene, and by few well directed blows
scattered the assaiants. The injured
man was taken to his home and his
wounds dressed by DIR. ROBERTS. Mar
shal SUZEE was also terribly beaten and
cut in the back, legs and head. He was
cared for by DR.. HoLLIsrER. Another
man, whose name we could not learn
was shot in the face, and is now in a
very critical condition-perhaps dead.
After clearing out the works the crowd
marched to the Notch to attack the
works of Mr.. ED. Rock, (the breaker
at the Clark shaft,) who had a few men
at work, The same cOwardly and bru-
tai scenes were here repeated, with the
addition that the gates were hoisted
and the pockets emptied of all the coal
in them. The rioters then proceeded to
the old Rockwell breaker which they
fired and burned to the ground.
Early in the morning, or during
Thursday night, the rioters made raid
upon the coal works of Mr.. joseph
CHURCH, leased to Messrs. NORRIS d
WEEKS. Here they tore up the track
from the slope to the screen house, and
blew up the mouth of the slope. The
destruction here is complete, and it will
take long time to repair the damage.
The whole affair was evidently we'll un-
derstoOd and deliberately planned by
the Ku-Klux branch of the w. b. A.
The plan was to permit no miner, or
any one else, to cut pound of coal for
any price, for any one, or for any pur-
pose. They will find that the very end
they hoped to accomplish by deeds of
murder, violence and outrage is beyond
their reach forever. They have brought
disgrace, odium, and condemnation
upon the very name of their Organiza-
tion-a loss which they will never again
recover.