The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-09-18
RIOTOUS
AWHZONS !
Still Causing Trouble in the Anthracite
Coal Region.
TEN THOUSAND MEN STILL OUT
The Few Who Show a Disposition to Work
Are Assaulted by the Women SYM
pathizers Of the Strikers and
Driven Of.
TEN THOUSAND MEN STILL OUT

Hazleton, Pa, Sept. 1s.-The strike
situation may be summarized thus:
over 10000 men still out, with no ap-
parent prospect of settlement. Sporadic
outbreaks of violence are occurring
near the outlying collieries, and the
withdrawal Of troops Is not only with
out consideration, but the guard lines
Of several of the camps are being con-
Htantly strengthened, and the wisdom
OF bringing more cavalry is being dis
cussed. Colonel Case, of the Fourth
regiment, and Colonel Magee, of the
Eighth regiment, are both complaining
of lack of cavalry to cover the large ex-
tent Of territory under their com
mands, and It is said that If the
soldiers are kept here much longer
the Sheridan troop, of Tyrone, attached
to the Second brigade, will be ordered
out.
A captain Of General Gobin's staff is
authority for the statement that an
uneasy feeling prevails at headquar-
ters in consequence of the little out
breaks of the past few days and the
indication they hold Of the underlying
disturbance.
mitted last night that the action of the
raiding women was giving him much
perpleXity. He does not care to use
force against them, and has instructed
the soldiers, in case Of necessity, to
use only the flats of their sabers upon
the amazons. The story reached the
general that many men were in the
attacking crowds of Thursday and yes
terday disguised as women
The strikers no longer disperse when
the troops appear in their territory,
and yesterday while a body of Eighth
regiment officers were taking a look
over the Honey Brook district a burly
Irish woman who stood at the head of
crowd of foreign women and men
shouted to the captain: Say, cap. di-
vide your guns with us, and wen give
you a - of a fight" The soldiers ir-
nored the challenge. Similar taunts
have been thrown at bodies Of militia
in the Drifton district as well.
Yesterday violent scene at Auden-
ried was almost an exact repetition of
Thursdays at the same place II arose
from another attempt to start the Mon
arch and Star washeries of the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre company. About a
| hundred men reported for work at the
former, when the wild band Of women
swooped down upon them with an
armament of sticks and stones. Others
were stationed on top of an adjacent
culm bank, whence they showered mis-
| siles upoR the would-be workers, and
large bSdy of nsn and boys waited
in TOsaFvS behind the bank. The men
promptly qult work before any injury
could be indicted. At the Star wash.
erNy WI Of
work. like assault stopped them. No
further attempt was made to work the
Carson washery. A squad Of the Gov
| ernor's Troop went there to uueI the
disturbance, but all was quiet when
they arrived, except that the rabble
OF the women hooted and cursed the
military who made no response.
A call for troops came from Gran
berry at o'clock yesterday morning
and was the act Of a scared watchman.
who mistook soldiers for strikers. All
the dynamite that can be found in the
region is being collected and stored in
Turnbachs powder house, to keep it
from the hands of the miners, and a
hundred men from the Ninth regiment
were sent over to guard the house. The
Watchman saw the lights and moving
figures, lost his nerve and telephoned
that an attack was threatened.
Late Thursday night another terri
tory was turbulent. A body Of strikers
at Lattimer No. quarreled among
themselves, and bloodshed threatened.
when Company e, of the Thirteenth
regiment, which is camped at Lattimer,
restored quiet.
Deputy Coroner Bowman will begin
the inquest over the bodies of the dead
miners at 2 o'clock next Tuesday after
noon. These attorneys will be present:
Robert ID. Coke Of Philadelphia, for the
Austrian consulate of that city; John
T. Lenahan of Wilkesbarre and George
S. Ferris Of Pittston, for Sheriff Mar
tin, and John McGahren of Wilkes
barre. for the prosecution 1t is said
that the Democratic state chairman
Mr.. Garman, will also represent the
| prosecution. over a hundred witnesses
Will be examined. One of these was a
deputy who did not take part in the
shooting, but was hurrying to the
scene when it occurred. This man says,
| according to County Detective Eckert,
! that the deputies kept on shooting
when the strikers were 200 yards away.
Mr.. Eckert added that the evidence of
| five Of the wounded corroborates this
! allegation.
General Goblin will not interfere with
| tonights big mass meeting, unless
| highly colored speeches are made. The
principal speakers are TO be p. ]. Ma
guire, vice president of the American
| Federation of Labor, land George Chance.
Of the United Labor league of Phiadel-
phia. As a precautionary measure a
guard of soldiers win be present.