Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-07-29
MORE ANARCHISM
SILVER BROOK RIOTS THREATEN
GREAT TROUBLE.
Waving the Red fiag-A Small Amount
of Work Done In the Dif-
ferent sections,

the Red flag-A Small Amount
of Work Done In the Dif-
ferent Sections.
LOFTY STATION, Pa, July 28-Th,s
IS the top of Broad Mountain, 2200
'eet above Philadelphis the highest
point on the sky plotting Catawissa
Branch of the Reading and the centre
Of the Hungarian disturbance. Captain \
Dando, Of Shenandoah, who is well
heeled with D navy six, seven special |
policemen, and, still more to the point, |
a bronze Grand Army button, has Just |
come in from the neat ambush on the
bluff overlooking Contractor Church's
section, No 4, where he has been watt
ing since morning tor o foreman's
whistle to call him into action. Down
in the valley shanty the strikers Of
Contrscto. Klotz's section, No. 3, are
either singing Or making speeches, but
there is 80 much "pelinkr' in their
5clavonic utte-ances that no one can
tell which IL il, aud Contractor Shields
Is off for Pottsv!.ie trying to 9e: supiue
5aeriff Duffy 20 do what he has perth
naciously refused TO do-his plain duty
The situation stands tonight that
Contractors Church and Brown, of Sec =
tions 2, and ! have been able to work
part OF their men today, az has Cor
tractor Kerns, Of Section 8. All the
men were under special police protec
ticn. Con,rAc'oTs Shields, of Section l.,
and Klotz, Of 5, have not been 30 for
tupate. The road covers eight miles,
with more loops along the mountain
| sides than there are in All Odd Fellows
badge. Between Delano and Silver
Brook, where the schuykill Valley Line
wants to tap huge new breaker, which
is just finished, the Lehigh Valley IL
building the track for the Schuykill, In
pursuance OF the agreement lately pub
lisbed In The Press. A II the Contrac
tors tried to get their men out this
morning. Mr. Ohurch's who were par
Hnr and part Italians. covered like
lsheep in their sLanties. They wer,
afraid of the strikers from Section No
IL, which 10 the Silver Brook end of tn
jjine.
The contractor grasped the situation
land o Smith & Wesson, and he toll
Them partly through an interpreter, bu
more vividly by N cans of the Smith
| W esson 10 pautomime, that they woul
lhave to get out of the shanty and eithe
get to work or leave the promises. Be
tween the present fear of the revolve
land the remote one of the pick handle
1.-The men turned out and marched to th
!pits. They shouted and gesticulated o
1.-The way, for Hun can do nothin
iquietly. When they reached the pi
/ 200 yards from where Contractor MI
lone's men were Just getting to work o
the adjoining Section 3, the contractt
took the advancing rabble for riote
and quickly formed in order of bsttl
tTben he charged on them double qulcl
followed by his men.
lFRIGHrENTD BASD OF DEsPERA DOE
Mr.. Church's son, lad of 20, wi
thad charge of section contingent,
lturn imagined that the Malone's no
were Anarchists. He hastily arn'
his cohorts with pick.bandles and, ha
ing fired three pistol shots, the agre'
signal to Captain Dlndo on the blu
Awaited the onslaught. he was Il
only one VINO did await 1t. kossu
might have seen his compatriots the
among the s.umps and laurel busht
but no one else could. They fled pc
nell, and Captain Dando's men, you
1 Church and Contractor Malone join
forces and laughed at the mistake at
same momen.. The men were then
to work.
Up at Silver Brook matters were Il
Rmusipg. NJ. Shields got two gan
of about a hundred men to work eaI
III the morning; ais section is known
the branch to The breaker, and wiI
r., along the side Of Spring Mountain
* laround Spring Valley, by g'gan
in horseshoe, ~ is further side, where
huge unpaint.d white hemlock sha
" of the new breaker looms above
ta scraggy second growth Of the mounta
te sight that may be seen for miles.
soon as word got down to Quakake I
Element, where yesterdays ARE
we're made, the call to quarters W
Through the sLal;iss, and, melted
hesd Anarchist LaZsar's wife,
IN Huns took np their line of march.
w They bore The red flag, 1t Is
handkerchief s.ed u sapling, and
color bearer ned it in both hands b
above his head AS the mob sw
r. along the mountain roads they shou
., a set war cry, bat !. was 80 full of {
III sonants and kerosene that not even
INTERPRETER could make it out. w
od they marched into the pits on
lbreaker branch section Contra
IShields, with Messrs. Wallace
Bradbury, were there in waiting
tarmed. There was an armed truce
few minutes, during which pa
Twas held. The Hungarians deman
the increase 10 s. 80, which was refu
the argument ended. and, brandisi
their pick handles and looming t
flag, the rioters came on.
FIRING OVER THE RIOTERS HE1
II fitbad been a question of igh
NJ the COL tractor and his men could
~, shot q half doz-n of their oppone
and the rest would have fled.
though o dead Hungarian is consid
the best Hungarian in this part OF
country, Contractor Shields knew
bloodshed would not finish his sec
lany sooner, so, under cover OF p
voiley fired over the rioters heat
ls' retard their progress, the contra
drew off in good order and aband
The works. There way no more tro
during the day. A band of kl
men, -four miles from Silver BI
marched to within pistol shot OF
tain Daudo's post on the bluff Q
lChurch's section, shouted and Il
ISclay curses AZ the policemen,
then took to the woods This Is
second large decamping party sine
trouble began. Like yesterday
Numbered about twenty men, even
the HunRsrians in steady employn
Young Lady Surprised.