The age-herald., 1897-09-11
The Sheriff Was Attacked by the Strikers and His
 Deputies We're Given the Word.
oBEYED ORDERS WITH DISASTROUS RESULTS
Many Found Scattered Along the Line Dead Dying Sheriff Gives His Version and Contradcts Him. self-The Other Side-Gov Hastings
 Orders Out the State Troops.

suit, chung to the newcomer and begged his protection.
 At Farley's hotel there were two men lying on the porch. Both had been shot in the head.
 One had three bullets in him.. His groans and appeals for doctor or death were heartrending. All along the road the wounded men who were able to leave the field of battle were scattered and had sought shelter for protection. But there was no need of that then. When approaching the place where the shooting occurred, people were met qwrfnging their hands and bemoaning the catastrophe. They could not talk intelligently, and it was with the great est difficulty that information could be gleaned. All along the road men lay in every position, some dying. Three bodies, face downward lay along the incline, and three others were but a short distance away. On the other side of the road as many bodies lay The school house was transferred into a temporary hospital, and some of the wounded were taken there. The col fiery ambulance was summoned to the place as soon as possible, and immedi- ately upon it's arrival two men, both shot through the head, were laid in it. All along the hillside wounded men were found. Others who had been car ried to a distance could not be found. As soon as the news of the shooting reached Hazelton there was consterna- tion. Within ten minutes the streets were blocked with excited people. The Lehigh Traction company immediately placed number of cars on the Latimer line and doctors and clergymen re- sponded promptly. Amid the excitement the deputies turned their attention to the wounded and carried many of them to places where they could be more comfortably treated.
 Martin Roski, an intelligent Hungarian from Mount Pleasant. who was shot in the arm, was seen by a reporter coming over and gave his version of the affair:
 We were going along the road to Latimer and the deputies were lined across the road, barring our progress. We tried to go through them and did not attempt to hit or molest them when they fired on us We ran, but they kept on shooting on us while we ran, It is all their fault"
 Citizens meetings were he'd in various parts of the city tonight. Opinion was divided about the responsibility for the shooting. At one meeting held in Van Winckle's Casino, attended by bankers, coal operators and prominent business men, resolutions were adopted calling on Gov. Hastings to send the militia here Immediately. At other mass meetings. attended by thousands of people, the sen- timent was against bringing the troopa here, and it is asserted by these that there was no necessity for having the deputies here.
 It is estimated tha when the strikers began marching on the Hazel mines they numbered about 200 Many of the men at the Hazel mines quit work ard joined in the march on the Latimer mines. The body did not move with any precision, keeping to the public highway and avoiding private property.