The Portland daily press., 1897-09-13

SnanUOS, the eighteen year Olu Doy WHO
was shot through the head, and the an
nouncement this afternoon by the hospital
doctors that six more will die Ten more
will be buried tomorrow, and here the
trouble is likely to occur. It has been ar
ranged that ten coffins shall be carried on
the shoulders of the strikers from the un-
dertakers shop to the front of st.
Joseph's church. In front of the church
a platform is to be erected upon which 1T
is the purpose to place the ten coffins so
that they can be viewed by the crowd.
After.the services the procession will go
to the Polish cemetery, where eight of the
cofins, those containing Poles, will be
placed in one large grave. Seventeen
societies, all but one made up of Poles,
Hans and others of the Slav race, and one
of Irish, are to march in the funeral pro-
cession. If General Goblin executes the
whole programme will be upset, and it is
feared that the men will resent any inter
ference with the disposition of their dead.
representing the Polish societies of that
city. arrived here today. He is empowered
to assist the strikers in every possible
way, to help them to gain their demands
| from the operators, and to arrange for the
prosecution of the sheriffs and deputies
| DR.. Thodorovicfh, secretary at the
Austrian consulate at Philadelphia, is
ioi fipo IN irrhf
considering methods of prosecuting the
deputies. He obtained afidavits from a
| number of the miners who were in Fri
| days affair, which throw some new light
on the shooting. They declare, in sub
stance, that on the morning of that day,
a messenger arrived at Harwood and
asked the foreigners to come to Latimer,
as the employees of coIliery number one at
| that place, were about to strike. Later
a second message to the..same effect, ar
| rived, and then the men started over to
Latimer. At Hazleton.. ..colliery, SO the
affidavits continue, Sheriff Martin met
them and warned them not. to go through
Hazleton, but to go around the other way.
They did SO, but on arriving at the fatal
bend in the road at Latimer, they again
found themselves confronted by the
sheriff, this time backed by the army of
deputies. AS soon as they reach the spot.
it is declared, Sheriff Martin stepped out
by his coat collar. With his other hand
he thrust revolver into his face and
used abusive language. The miner
knocked the sheriff's revolver arm from
in front of him and tried to wrench HIM
self free of the officials gasp. Almost in
stantly, the saffidavist.. :. says, thesorder to
fire was given. The deputies were lined
up in hollow square, the fourth side of
which was formed by the body of strikers
This would possibly account for the fact
that SO many were shot in the back and
side
| During the day rumors were current
that the deputies had left town. A re-
porter located eleven deputies. One of
these said:
1.-THE affair of Friday could not be
avoided For two weeks the committee
has suffered from the lawlessness of men
who had no respect for law and order,
and who seemingly had no respect for
human life. Scarcely day passed in
which some one was not assaulted, and
one died on Thursday as result of
beating. How far this condition would
have gone, I cannot say, had it not been
suddenly stopped by the action of Sheriff
Martin and his deputies at Latimer. 1t
resulted only after we felt that our lives
were In danger. The strikers were far in
excess of us in numbers and came toward
us in an ugly. threatening manner
| Sheriff Martin met them and he was as.
ranks, and one of us was hit. did not
hear Sheriff Martin give the order to fire
but it was given and we fired but only
because our lives were in danger
| The Polish citizens tonight held long
meeting at which it was decided to begin
prosecutions tomorrow morning
Clement Pollpslack, aged So years, one
of the strikers who was injured in Fri
day IS riot. died late tonight, making the
23rd death.
| In the office of the Lehigh Traction
company is d brown cutaway coat which
one of the men now dead wore on Friday
last. There are three bullet holes in it,
one through the front; one through an
arm and the third through the tails. In
an inside pocket was found cheap nickel
32-calibre bull dog revolver. This had not
been used In the riot because the cham
bers contained neither empty nor loaded
shells, and it could not have been fired
before the man was shot because he
would have had no time to unload it. 1t
established that this is the only weapon
contained in the whole mob of miners
and the conditions indicate that the first
shot could not have como from their
side.
| Busy at Gov Hastings Office.
Harrisburg, September 12.--The execu-
tive mansion has been the scene of much
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