The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-11
MINE STRIKE TRAGEDY
Deputies Fire Into an |nfuri- ated Mob of Striking Workmen Killing from
 Fifteen to Twenty.
FORTY OR MORE WOUNDED
STATE TROOPS VILE BE CALLED
 OUT TO QUELL RIOT.

AD AhONIo WALL bE CALLEI
 OUT TO QUELL RIOT.
 Scene of the Terrible Crisis on the Out
 skirts of LatiIner In the Eastern Part oi
 Pennsylvania--Sheriff Endeavored to
 Intercept Body of Marching Miners
 The Chief Sheriff Read the Riot Act and
 Ordered Them to Desist and Disperse-
 The Men Were Sullen and Moved For
 ward-In the Excitement the Sheriff Was
 Struck and the Command to Fire Was
 Given-The Men Toppled Over and Fell
 Like Ten Pins Before the Storm of Bull
 lets-The Uniniured Miners Fled in
 Peril and the Greatest Excitement Ex-
 isted.
 Hazleton, Pa., Sept. 10.-The strike situation reached a terrible crisis on the outskirts of Latimer this after noon, when band of deputy sheriffs fired into an infuriated mob of miners.
 
 the excitement since has been so in- tense that no accurate figures of the dead and wounded can be obtained
 Reports run from fifteen to twenty odd killed and forty or more wounded. Many of these will die.
 One man who reached the scene to- night counted thirteen corpses. Four other dead lie in the mountains be- tween Latimer and Harleigh. Those who were not injured carried their dead and wounded friends into the woods and an estimate is baff1ed.
 Some of those known to be dead are:
 Mike Cheslo1l Harwood.
 Frank Cheka, Harwood.
 John Staniska, Crystal Ridge.
 George Kulick, Harwood.
 Steve Horrick, Harwood asy Among the injured are:
 George Krafho, Harwood, bullets through leg, hip and knee.
 John Kerlovishi shot in neck
 
 Andrew Shabolick, shot in breast.
 John Kulich, shot in stomach.
 John Damfnsko, shot in both legs.
 George Verckf, shot in both legs.
 John Forti, shot in head, will die
 Kazimir Dulis, shot in breast
 Jacob Sukold, shot through body,will die.
 Steve Resquik, shot in body.
 John Koti, shot in arm and left side. Joseph Bobick, shot through neck.
 John Treble, deputy, shot in arm. Three bodies were found tonight on the road near Latimer. The strikers left Hazleton after 3:30 o'clock announcing their intention to go to Latimer As soon as this became known band of deputies boarded a trolley car and went across the mountain to where the con- fict followed. After reaching Latimer they left the car and formed into three companies under Thomas Hall, E. A. Hess and Samuel B. Price. They drew up in line at the edge of the village, with a fence and a line of houses in their rear. Sheriff Martin was in command and | he walked up and down in front of the | line urti, the strikers approached. | Thsy were seen coming across the ridge and Martin went out to meet them. The men drew up sullenly and listened ia silence until he had once more read the riot act.
 This finished, a low muttering arose among the foreigners and there was q slight movement forward. Perceivin~ this the sheriff stepped toward them and in a determined tone forbade the advance.
 Some one struck the sheriff and the next moment there was command to the deputies to fire
 The guns of the deputies instantly belched forth terrible volIey. The re- port seemed to shake the very noun tains and roar of dismay went LID { from the people The strikers were .aken entirely by surprise, and as the men toppled and fell over each other I hose who remained unhurt stampeded ( The men went down before the storm ( ,f bullets like ten pins and the groans /, of the dying and of the wounded rent f he air. The excitement that followed t vas simply indescribable. The deputies seemed to be terror 7 stricken at the deadly execution Of heir guns, and seeing the living strik- ITS fleeing like wild men and others dropping to the earth, they went to the f id of the unfortunates whom they had | a brought down. | The people of Latimer rushed pell : nell to the scene, but the screams of V he wounded drowned the cries of the