Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-12-31
PLEASANT VALLEY IN ARMS.
Striking Coal Miners Beeouning Ugly.

A Scranton tPenu.) special o. the 29tb
says The breaker OF The Hillside Coal and
Iron Company's consolidated colliery
which oyerloOks the mining town OF
Pleasant Valley. Is filed with armed men
tonight. The little town has been III d
feyerish tumult for the past twcnty-iour
hours, and bloodshed has been tire II
ened several times, owing TO the Bit
ter feeling Which has grown up between
the strikers who quit work at the c0nsoll-
dated mine on october Isl because the com.
pnny would not cOncede their demand Of
.04 cents Oh ton instead Of payment by the
car. and the strikers who took their places,
snd who were freely denounced rs Scabs
and blacklegs. The strikers number
about 400, and the placklegs not more
than fifty, OF whom teyerai are Hunga.
riaDs. But the latter are guarded
at their work 10y strong force Of spe-
cIally. selected men, including Charlie. Il.
Holland, OF Beach Haven, chief OF the coal
and iron police OF four counties; Deputy
Sheriff Mulaly, Of Wilkesbarre; Detective
Andrew Reed, Of Elmira; superintendent
Michael Dolphin. and several others. The
intensity OF feeling almost reached deadly
crisis last evening when the blacklegs were
on their way home from work through the
tONHs n tUOft llOul TUT III titI
street they were stopped by the chief Of
police Of the borough and q party OF
constables, who demanded their arms aud
charged them with violating the law against
carrying concealed weapons. The black.
legs, who were at fist Stalled by this Off
cial accusation against them, surrendered
their reyolyers, but they had immediate
cause TO regret II, a. they were at once sur
sAnnHaH har axg,fgI ornN1 - nj
boys, who knocked several of them down
and kicked them. The assaulted party
showed fight, but were speedily over.
whelmed by numbers and compelled TO run
for their lives.
The town was soon IN an uproar. and the
greatest excitement prevailed during the
night. This state Of feeling was aggravated
upon the arrival Of the late train from
Wilkesbarre, when Deputy-Sheriff MUllaly
and his aides arrived upon the scene.
Their arrest bad been planned upon the
ctsrge Of Slrrying concealed weapons, but
ihey showed light and made q successful
resistance. Mullaly commanded his com
rades 10 draw their reyOlyers. and so,
standing back 10 back, they resolved on
selling their lives dearly, and declared that
they had better right TO carry concealed
weapons than the chief Of police had.
Several revolyers were brandishe1 in the
crowd. hut after stormy scene, which
TIN eatened every moment 10 result m blood
shed, The Mullaly party was peri ntted TO
proceed TO the mine.
The town was wide awake and much
agiiated al! night, and large crowds OF eX-
cited persons met in the streets and vigor-
ously DENOUNCED the scabs and blacklegs
who had taken the places Of the striking
workmen. This morning Superintendent
MAY, armed with a repeating.ride, marched
at the head Of q small parry of workmen
that he had transferred from the Hillside
Coppany's colliery at Glenwood 10 the
consolidated mine, where they were put 70
work. The men In the engIne-ho and
around the breaker are armed all the time.
prepared TO resist an attack. The work
men whose reyolyers had been taken from
them in last nights collision were furnished
with new weapons to-day by the company,
and went 10 work IN the mine.
The sympathy OF the workingmen Of the
entire neighborbood Is with the striking
miners. II Is said that the Hillside Coal
and Iron Company is determined on crush
ing out the Knights Of Labor ia Pleasant
Valley, and the eidisc order throughout
this section is aroused. An order has been
issued by local assembly In Carbondale
calling on the scabs and blscSlegs who have
taken the places OF the striking miners
at the consolidated colliery to re-
consider their conduct or suffer the
consequences Of having their ante
cedents and actions made public. Ii isnow
reported that the district assembly will
consider the case Of the striking workmen
at an early date and take some definite &C.
ton in regard to the strike. either 10 order
ing IL of or standing by the Pleasant Val.
ley miners In what they conceive 10 he
their Just demand. THIS has bad much TO
do with sllsyiEg the local excitement, yet
the feeling IL 10 bitter against the blaekicgs
that II il difiicglt TO predict the result.