The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
WARRANTS OUT FOR DEPUTIES
WHOSE WINCHEsTERS PLAYED SUCH
HAVOC WITH UNARMED MEN.
Sheriff Martin, Who Is Charged with
Responsibility for the Tragedy,
Kissed and Tainted.

HAZLETON, Pa, Sept. u.-Twenty-one
corpses lie tonight in frame shanties scat
tered about this hilltop town. Forty
MANNED wounded and broken figures toss
on the narrow cots of Hazleton Hospital.
OF these it is almost a certainty that five
will be added to the death list before an
other day dawns. Such was the execution
done yesterday afternoon by 102 deputy
sheriffs, armed to the teeth, upon about $50
ignorant foreigners whose total armament
consisted of two little penknives These
facts are undisputed. Here is the ghastly
list as it stands tonight.
Dead-Andrew Nickowski, John Choben-
ski, Steve Urich, Andrew Yerham, John
John Zaslack John Sheka, Anton Greekio,
John Turnasvich and Andrew Yurick, all OF
Harwood; Andrew Zimenski, Adam limo
ski. John Buski, Stanley zagdrski, Sebas-
tian Bozostoski, John F'uta, Albert CZata,
all of Crystal Ridge; Andrew Collick, Ra-
fael RekeWicZ, of Cranberry
Injured who are at deaths door-Clem-
ems Plotack, Caspar Dulass. John Bonke,
Andrew Slabonic and Jacob Tamashonks
Chrtz. Andrew Meier, Andrew Urban. Ka-
smir Duls, Josef Sapar, Josef ltatek,
Poles; Frank Tegios, Andrew Ezmpnd,
Cleshock, Thomas Borio, John Slebodnik,
John Bak, George Kasper Anthony Ml5ata,
mir Maiisico Kiemans Platek, Adolf Kin
zelewiz, Adam Lapinsk, John Kulik, Ber-
nard Romin, Konstanti Moneinski, Frank
Roman, George Krezo, John Kerlivish, An
drew Shabolick, John Darmensko, George
Verchrek Steve Erskul1, John Postki, john
Koti Josef Bobick, John Treble deputy.
SITUATION LAST NIGHT.
All these men range in age from
eighteen to forty-hve years, and all are
foreigners - Hungarians. Polos - Lithuani-
ans and Slavs. The situation tonight is
intense as the day was full of event and in
cident. First and foremost, the purpose
these men had in view when their march
received it's tragic end was consummated
The 1900 workers at the Lattimer mines,
to whom they were bound in an effort to
induce them to joint the strikers ranks,
have laid down their picks anG sworn to
do no more work until all 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 arrest OF
Sheriff Martin and the one hundred and two
deputies. These were issued at the instance
of the united Hungarian societies. They
were made out in the name of Joseph Me-
halte, president of the st. George Society,
Of which nearly all the dead miners were
members. Robert P. Riley, manager of the
anthracite detective agency, took charge or
the documents, but up to late hour to-
night they had not been executed.
Sheriff Martin, who spent last night at
his Wilkesbarre home under strong guaro,
came to Hazleton this morning with the
Ninth Regiment of the Third Brigade His
presence in the town was not known until
late in the day. Then it was found that he
was still under the guardianship of the
soldiers, and he could not be reached. This
afternoon Constables Airey and Gallagher
made an effort to arrest A. E. Hess, who
led one company of the deputies last night,
but he had sought shelter within the mill
tary lines kept by the Ninth Regiment, and
they refused to permit the constables to
pass the guard. The warrants charge MUIR
der, assault and battery and threatening to
kill.
third event of no less Importance was
the offer made by Superintendent LawalI,
of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre collieries, to
grant an increase of 10 per cent over the
Lehgh basis to the men of the company,
about 1900 in number. A big meeting was
held at McAdoo in the afternoon to consider
this offer, and after much discussion and
speech making it was decided to accept the
proposition, the men to return to work next
Tuesday morning But little confidence fol-
lows this decision, as it is taken for granted
that as soon as the men return to work
pressure from the men still out will be
brought to bear to restore them to the
strikers ranks, and it is admitted that there
will be no resistance.
OUR MURDERED BROTHERS.
The above was only one of three mass
meetings held to-day. Another at Harwood
adopted resolutions expressing sympathy for
our murdered brothers, who were shot
down at Lattimer," and continuing in this
fashion:
For years we have been oppressed by c.
Pardee q Co., by the payment of starvation
wages. They have deprived us of our lib
erty by compelling us TO deal in their COM
pany store. They have forced lis to plIr-
chase powder at five times it's actual value.
and have otherwise tyrannized lis in ways
too numerous to mention, so that we are
sembled together peacefully and to seek
redress for our grievances. Not one man
among US was armed Our mission was not
TO take human life nor to destroy property
but TO go and meet our fellow-emDloyes of
the same company at Lattimer, who We're
in sympathy with us. We We're opposed on
the public highway, and without proyoca-
tion We're shot down like dogs.
Resolved That we deDlore such resist
That we look upon such shooting as un-
provoked and uncalled for, and that If such
slaughter is not murder in law it surely
must be before high heaven. That we de-
nounce such action by the sheriff and his
deputies as cruel and willful and cowardly
murder. We place ourselves before the bar
of public opinion and appeal TO the good
citizens of this State and county and ask
them If there was justification or warrant
in such assassination.
Resolved That we extend our sympathy
to the friends and relatives Of those who
have fallen, and pray to God that those
now dead will live in our memories as
martyrs 10 the cause OF down-trodden Ia
bor.''
The third meeting was the most largely
attended. 1t began at Hazel Park about
5 o'clock this afternoon, and adjourned to
Dongale hill. an open place at one end of