The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-13

'ue iulehtloh ne announced tonight, this
whole programme will be upset and ii is
feared that the men will resent any inter-
terence with the disposition of their dead.
Dr. ii. z. Lewandosk of New York.
representing the Polish societies of that
city, arrived here to-day. He is empow-
cred to assist the strikers in every possible
way; to help them gain their demands
from the operators, and to arrange for the
prosecution of the sheriff and deputies
Later in the day he said he had received
word that check for 81, 900 from the Ma
tlonal Polish Alliance, which recently met
IN Philadelphia, has been sent on for aid
or the miners, and that he has promises
OF additional large subscriptions from New
York and other cities. There are T. 600
Poles in the United States number of
Pollsh priests from New York Buffalo
and other places are also expected to
arrive tomorrow
Dr. Ihodorovitch, secretary of the Aus
trian consulate at Philadelphia, is partici-
pating in meeting tonight considering
methods of prosecuting the deputies. He
obtained affidavits from a number of the
miners, who were in Friday afternoons
affair, which threw some new light on the
shooting. They declare, in substance,
that on the morning of that day a mes
senger arrived from Harwood and asked
the foreigners to come TO Latlmer, as the
employees of Colliery No. /, at that place,
were about to strike. Later a second mes
sage to the same effect arrived and then
men started over to Latimer.
At HaXel colliery, so the affidavits con-
tinue, Sheriff Martin met them and warn
ed them not to go through Hazleton, but
to go around the other way. They did So
but, arriving at the fatal bend In the
road near Latimer, they again found them
selves confronted by the sheriff this time
backed by the army of deputies. AS soon
tT,..rr 1.11 l. - A.
Sheriff Martin stepped out and roughly
grabbed the foremost man by his coat col
lar With his other hand he thrust re-
Yolver into his face and used abusive Ian
guage. The miner knocked the sheriff S
revolver arm from in front of him and
tried to wrench himself from the officials
grasp. Almost instantly, the affidavit
says, the order to fire was given The
deputies were lined up in a 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.
The funerals to-day made spectacle Of
the tragedy that, humble as were the ac-
cessories had in 1t something that was
almost sublime. Euta and Urich had lived
in Harwood and Yureck ia Humboldt but
when the procession was started the latter
party Joined the others, and the cortege
wound it's way through the mountain
passes, over the dusty lanes into Hazleton
and then into st. Joseph's church, on the
outskirts, where Father Aust and Rev
DR.. Hauser held brief services. At the
head of the line there was a brass band
plaXing. the dead march and a muffled
drum A heavy mist had crept over the
hills; a chill, drizzle of rain was falling
and the scene backed by the line of hills
and looming coal breakers, was weird and
gloomy. There were but a few carriages
L.. .-T.. llA -.
or another, and most of them continued
until the end.
Stories of violence on the part of the
strikers long before the outbreak of Fri
day are coming 20 light. 1t is said that in
their marches from mine to mine, they
used brute force to make individual work.
ers join their ranks. Rev. DIR. David Fl.
Shields an unassigned appointee of Presi-
dent Mckinley to chaplainship in the
army, said that as early as Tuesday of
last week this had gone so far that the
people became frightened. By Thursday
terror was in the air and many persons
were buying fire arms and hiding ammunl-
ton in their houses. Dr.. Shields himself
one of the most conspicuous advocates of
peaceful measures, in the emergency, said
he advised asking for state troops In the
early part of the week. He spoke in a big
tent at Hazel Park where some of the
militia were stationed this afternoon. He
took no issue, but declared that the trag-
edy has been approaching four years. Both
sides were to blame, in his opinion, he af-
terWaTd remarked.
In the office of the Lehigh Traction Com
pany is a brown cutaway coat, which one
of the men, now dead, wore on Friday
last There are three bullet holes In 1t,
on through the front, one through an arm
and the third through the tails. In an in
side pocket was found a cheap nickel S2-
calibre bulldog revolver. This had not
been used in the riot, because the cham
bers contained neither empty nor loaded
shells and 1t could not have been fired be-
fore the man was shot because he would
have had no time to unload 1t. 1t estab-
iished that this Is the only weapon con-
tained In the whole mob of miners, and
the conditions indicate that the first shot
could not have come from their side.
There were three companies of deputies,
and one of these made up of men who
have served as mine police in the past,
who had had much trouble with the strik-
ers on previous occasions and were said to
be in revengeful mood against them.
Rumors flew thick and fast to-day.
There was one In the morning that dep
uty's body had been found in the woods,
and another in the afternoon that a soldier
had been shot 1t was also whispered
that Gov Hastings had arrived by special
train, and was closeted with Gen. Goblin.
All proved baseless the latter arising
from the arrival of Col. Wilbur of the Le-
high Valley railroad, who conferred with
the brigade commander, but to what ef-
feet could not be learned.
All was quiet in the camp throughout
the day several of the companies includ-
ing the City Troop of Philadelphia and
the Governors Troop, taking practice
drills.
During the day rumors were current that
the deputies had left town. a reporter,
in an effort TO learn the truth of this,
made a search and located Deputies A. e.
Hess. f. Zeardel, Walter Douglas, Rule
Warriner c. A. 3. Houck, G. p. Barthol-
omew, A. p. Plate, A. w. Eby, Calvin
Pardee, Jr., Thomas Hall and II. Houck.
one of these who, for obvious reasons,
declined to have his name used, said
'The affair of Friday could not be avoid
ed. For two weeks the community has
suffered from the lawless acts of men
who had no respect for law and order,
and who seemingly had no respect for
human life. Scarcely a. day passed
in which some one was not assaulted and
one died on Thursday as a result Of a
beating.
How fal this condition would have
gone / cannot saw, had Ii not been sud