, 1888-02-04
RI0T0US MINERS.
Serious Outbreak Among the
Shenandoah Strikers.
Crazed With Drink, They Turn
Loose on the Town.
And Many Broken Heads is the
Result.

SHENANDOAH. PENN, Feb. 3.-The
striking miners here have at last over
stepped all bounds and have been riotmg
up and down the streets in full possession
of the town. At 5 O'Clock, when the
non-union mmer left their work in Shen
andoah City and West Shenandoah col
lier, a lot of striking Polanders attacked
them with stones. A squad of half a
dozen coal and iron police went at once to
their assistance. They caught one of the
rioters and were Fastening him off when
the strikers rallied and rescued him and
began to handle the officers roughly. The
latter, however, succeeded in breaking
away and started for the Shenandoah City
mine, followed by a crowd of riotous
strikers, who now numbered about a
thousand and who continued their at
tacks on the men and boys coming from
the mine. Six policemen accepted the
long odds against them and returned to
the attack. They made a sharp attack
and took a couple of prisoners, one of
whom landed in Magistrate Shoemlker's
office, but the crowd rushed for two po-
licemen with another prisoner and began
to club and beat them.
Finding themselves down and their
lives in danger, they drew their revolvers
and fired into the crowd, which scattered
in all directions.
Mike Hebron, q young man, received a
ball in the mouth and is badly injured.
John Gather, an iron founder, was shot in
the arm, and a Polander was shot behind
the ear. A borough officer then arrested
both policemen for shooting in the bor-
ough. They were taken before Squire
Monaghan, while the warrant was sworn
out by the Polander, charging them with
assault with intent 10 Kill. They pleaded
guilty under the advice of Capt. Christian
and were awaiting committal to Pottsville
jail when things took another bad turn.
The two magistrate officers are on the
east center of the street and a square and
n half apart. That whole space was
densely packed with people, a large por-
ton Polish, who were wild with passion.
They surrounded both the officers yelling
for the officers and saying: Lynch them,''
Kill them, y etc.
Suddenly a stone was thrown at Squire
| Shoemaker's window. In a minute the
fronts of both offices were riddled with
stones and their inmates had a tough
scramble for safety. Some bruised bodies
resulted, but no serious damage was done
except to the offices, which are wrecked.
The town is in a perfect uproar. The
men are mad with passion and drink and
no one appears to have any power to quiet
them. The borough authorities are pow
erless and no one say how the mob's fury
may yet vent itself. Capt. Christian will
move his whole force of focal and iron men
here tomorrow with Capt. Linden's
Pinkerton men.
Sheriff Duffy swore in tonight the
three fire companies Of the town as a
posse commltatus preparatory for trouble
tomorrow. The borough council also
held a special session, and have instructed
Chief Burgess Bochm to swear in special
officers for emergency.
John Durkin, assistant foreman at
the Kohinoor collieries was shot at
this evening by a Polander, but es-
capped injury. His a~ssailant was arrested.
A later dispatch says: AT midnight
the mob dispersed and everything is now
quiet. No further trouble is apprehended
for the present.