New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-07
IN THE NOES POW WEIR.
REIGN OF TERROR IN THE COAL REGION.
CoLLTERrEs STOP RUNNING AGAIN-RIoTERs IN
POSSESSION or sHEYANDoAH-PEACEABLE
ADVICE FROM THE PRIESTS.
IBT TELEGRAPH To THE TRrBusEy


SHENANDOAH Penn, Feb. 6.-This section of the
Schuylkill coal regions IS under reign Of terror
Shenandoah is at the mercy of desperate foreign
element Tie authorities are thoroughly alarmed
but the force which they have mustered IS entirely
Inadequate to suppress an extensive outbreak The
Reading Railroad Company has at Its mines In this
vicinity 200 special officers. During to-day Sheriff
Duffy succeeded in mastering 200 citizens from all
over the county willing to fight tho Poanders and
IIungarlans should they show fight. They are now
quarered In several of the largest halls in this place
ready at a moments notice to reply to any attack
They are armed with revolvers. muskets and rifles
Here IS force of 400 TO cope with the foreigners
who declare that work shall be done
at any of the collleres. The latter
number fully 1900 strong muscular, active men bent
on destruction. Many of them have been long enough
In the country to become naturaned and are voters
For ti' the local authorities lukewarm in
exercising their authority. Some of these Polanders
power I'm the politics of Shenandoah. The Bur
g and other city officers candidates for re election
They fear the political power of the MOB
Captain John Christian is in charge of the cOmpanys
spec al officers, and has instructed the latter that IN
Of another outbreak they should not fire over the
hoads Of tn, rioters as en- Friday and saturday nights
but t) shoot TO kill. Not a revolver or Other frcarn
could be purchased I'm any of the Shenandoah stores
to-day. They had all been bought up by the rotine
Poland rs and IIungarlans. Except the leaders, tho
foreigners, the most part live In houses holding from
half dozen to a. high as twenty persons. To-day
they drank the vlest the place afforded and raced
up ard down the streets after shooting OIL Their re
volvcls and sending bullets through Windows moi
closed by shutters. There is great fear thi ougou
the region that his element Will attempt TO burn some
of the breakers the mines These breakers are FUR
nlshcd with valuable machinery and cost from Sio'OO'
to 100000. There l. at every
mlde The special officers are scattered
among these breakers to guard them
such violence certainly does not meet with the appro-
baton Of Lee and the other strike leaders OF the
res pcctabc element Of the mining community Will
lam Penn Collcry the only mine in operation IN
this vicinity to-day. 1t IS owned and operated by a
priS ate company. The owners have large force
of armed officers stationed their property. Many
of their miners visited at their homes by armed
officers early thi, morning and escorted TO the mines
That IS the only way in which any of the miners nor
identified with the laWlcSs element and wiling ana
anxious work could be induced to go into the mines
The ninos ct all the other colcries were so thor
Oughly Inundated that NOT man was on mana When
the Whistles blew 10 20 10 work. about doleu ot
the hands employed at Kelley Rup and Indian Ridge
COlllerc5 this morning found nailed 20 their doors
circular printed ln red letters reading follows
You are warned 10 remain away from work We
are willing to use persuasion, but viii act Otherwise
At midnight last night three masked men called at
the house OF the stable boss Of the William Penn oer!
and left note threatening him with death if he dared c
20 10 work today They then went to the house of
another boss left similar note and fired hve shots
before departing These notes were like the old
Mollle Mcclure coffin, skull and crOssbOne msSives
OF the bosses who remembered the death penalty
frequently paid In the past by men who refused to obey
remained at home. but the other boss went TO WORK
Mr.. VeIth superintendent of the Reading Company, S
killed OIL. II they want work they must come In
a body and show the right disposition 60 work We
can't 90 In this way
| Father O'Reily. the Catholic priest of Shenandoah
I'm his Sunday DISCOURSE was particularly severe II
| denunicatioD of the rioters Tho Polish priest o
Shenandoah, at this mornings mass. also denounced
! the rioters and eXnOrted them to dcSist from any
| further lnfracton OF the law. admonshng them thai
| they would be promptly punished by the law OF M
land which recognized no mob violence or force. Th
| strikers held a big meeting in the Opera hOuse this
afternoon and were addressed by two Polish priests
who cOunSelled peace. This had the effect of quetne
! them somewhat.
As far as the other cOlliercs concerned only
few at extreme ends of the region working TO
day. The effort to mine coal with Xpcrlcnccd hand
has been abandoned Lawrence COIllery, at MaianOy
Plane. which has been working but was rot permitted
TO ship began shipments this morning