The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-09-12
TWENTY-ONE CORPsEs
Ghastfy Result Of Deputy Shsrlfts Firing
upon Unarmed Men.
FORTY WOUNDED TOSSING IN AGoay
Citizen's Condemn the shooting rs
Official Murder-ShepiT ana Depu-
ties Avoiding Arrest-Great Mecs-
insa OF ssrikers-supprcsse Ex-
cisement-Troopn Binintatn 0rder.
Hazleton, Pa, Sept. II, 1897.

Iwenty-one corpses lie tonight in ram
shackle frame shanties scattered about
this hill top town. Forty manned,
wounded acld broken figures toss on the
marrow cots Of the Hazleton Hospital.
" these 1t Is almost u certainty that
HVe VIII be added to the death list be-
lore another day dawns. Such was the
execution done yesterday afternoon by
LUZ Deputy Sheriffs, armed to the teeth,
upon about one hundred and fifty igno-
rant foreigners whose total armament
consisted OF two little pen knives. These
facts are undisputed
me situation tonight is intense, as
ene DAY was full OF event and incident
flrSt and foremost, the purpose that
these men had in view when their
march received its tragic end, was con-
summatcd. The 1900 workers at the
Latlmer mines. to wnom they were
pound In an effort to induce them to
JON the strikers ranks, have laid down
their picks and sworn to do no more
work until ali the demands of the men
at all the mines In the district have
been conceded
Next In Importance was the issuance
OF warrants this afternoon for the ar
rest OF Sheriff Martin and the one hun
ureo ana Two deputies. They were is
sued at the Instance of the United
hungarian Societies. They were made
out In the name OF Joseph Mehaua
president OF the st. George Society, of
which nearly all the dead miners were
members. Robert P. Riley, manager OF
1he anthracite Detective Agency took
Sharse OF the documents, but up to q
late hour tonight they had not been
executed. Sheriff Martin, who spent last
nisht at his Wilkesbarre home under n
stronE guard, came 20 Iiazleton tbls
morning with the Ninth Regiment OF the
ta nara brigade. His presence in the
soMs' was not known until late in the
oay. Then 1t was found that he was
still under the guardianship of the SOL
olers, and he could not be reached. This
AFTERNOON Constables AIrey and Gal
lagher made an effort to arrest A u
ness. who led one company of the depu-
ne, .as iastl night but he had sought shell
Ter within the military lines kent bv
the Ninth Regiment. and they refused TO
permit the Constables TO pass the guard.
Inc warrants charge murder, assault
ana battery and threatening to kill.
tnlrd event of no less Importance
was the oner made by Superintendent
laval OF the Lehigh acid WiIkesbarro
collieries. to grant al Increase OF 10
per cent. over the LehIgh basis to the
men or the company, about 1000 In num-
per big meeting was held at Nc
Adoo In the afternoon to consider thie
oifer, and after much discussion oc,d
epeech making 1t was decided to accent
the propositions the men TO return 70
work next Tuesday morning.. But little
conildence follows this decision, as II ia
taken Tor granted that as soon MS the
men return to work, pressure from the
men still out Will be brought TO bear to
restore them to the strikers ranks, and
IL IS admitted that there will be no re-
slstance ~
Ihls was only one of three mass
meetings held to-day. Another at Har
wood adopted resolutions expressing
sympathy Tor our murdered brothers
VINO were shot down at Latimer,"
me thlrd meeting was the most large
~ attended. 1t began at Halle Park
about o'clock this afternoon and ad-
oourned to Donegal Hill. an open place
al one end of the city, where II was I'm
progress tonight The purpose of this
meeting was also to extend sympalhv
and to decide upon the course Of action
IN consequence of last nights catastro
phe.
Throughout the day the city has been
given up to excitement which by It's
suppressed character has been more on
NOUS than turbulence would have becn
inc incoming Of the State troops whio,,
began at an carly hour this morninS
served TO COW the strikers and their
sympathtZers, and no further demon
stration was made than the gathering MT
street corners of knots ofmen and wo-
men In muttered but intense discussion
or dhe shooting. Tonight there are fully
z'ooo soldiers camping in town. The first
10 arrive was the Ninth regiment, under
Colonel Dougherty. from Wilkesbarre.
General Goblin. commander OF the Third
brigade. arrived early in the morning
and established headquarters in the Of
nee or the division superintendent of the
Lehigh Valley Coal Company, from
which point he assigned the commands
to points on the outskirts Of the city.
General Goblin epressed his satisfaction
with the pronlptitude of the response to
the call to arms The Ninth was called
out at O'Clock this morning In Wilkes
barre by the ringing OF fire alarms. and
at o'clock 400 Of the 45O were on the
train travelling towards Hazleton.
The first volley from the deputies un-
expected as Ut was, created such indcs
crihnbie CONSERVATION that the men
stnmpeded and fled, and 1t Is not cues
toned that while they were thus I'm
headlong flight, the deputies poured vol
ley ahter Volley into the terrOr-stricken
crowd, and they went down like straws
Many prominent citizens OF the town
inciuding Rev. Father Moylan, Of ST
Hazle's church. Rev. Mr.. Spaulding. OF
the BAPTIST, and Rev. Mr. Wagner, ofthe
Lutheran Church, have drawn I'D formal
protest not only against the acton OF
the sheriff and his deputies, but against
the calling out Of the militia, which they
declare was unnecessary. Tn spite OF
law however the uneasy feeling in
creases 1Me strikers have made up
their minds, as several OF them said to-
day, to remain in perfect quietness until
Monday.
At II o'clock in the morning of that