Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-09-14
THE HAZELTON RIOT
Miners Are Forced to Quit
Working.
MORE MILITIA ORDERED OUT.
General Goblin Asked for Troops
From Various Quarters.
MORE MILITIA ORDERED OUT.

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ley collierly to telegraph to General
Goblin for troops. General Goblin has
received kilograms that these miners
had again assembled, had marched on
the Eckley mine and forced the min
ers to quit work. 1t was stated that
the miners had been roughly handled.
General Goblin has ordered the city
troops Of Philadelphia to the scene of
the disturbance. The start will be
made shortly after midnight or just
alter daybreak. The troops will ride
across the mountains, distance Of
eighteen miles, to Eckley. Eckley is
a small mining villege and lies in a
valley. There are number of col
lierles there, and, fears have been en-
tertained for the past 4S hours that
trouble would break out, as the men
had been acting very ugly.
The situation in the Hazelton dis
trict, is one of unrest. Requests have
been pouring into General Goblin, from
various mines, asking that he send
, troops to those places, in order TO pre-
vent any possible outbreak. The gen.
eral states that he will not send troops
to any point unless an outbreak does
occur. The general declines to give
the names of the collieries, as all the
men in them, are still at work. The
operators, however, are apprehensive
OF strike and want to be prepared
for an emergency.
Two mining superintendents in this
! Immediate vicinity have asked Cen
eral Gubin 10 place guards around
/ tLeir houses. This will be done.
Emma Hamms, the miners Joan
' D'Arr, and three other women were
arrested for marching at Plum creek
| 10y the sheriff's deputies. The attempt
to make he arrest precipitated an
incipient riot in which the deputies
Jared badly. Scarcely a deputy es-
capped a clubbing and Superintendent
DeArmitt was cut on the hand. Two
of the women arrested carried babies.
The arrest was the result OF a care
fully planned ATTEMPT to prevent the
men at work Plum creek from enter
ing the mines. There were 25 women
and acout so strikers concerned in 1T.
The plan was to have the women
march in front with their babies, with
the design of working on the seti'
ments of the men who would be going
to work, and to act as shield to the
rest of the party.
About daylight the party started
out, headed by Emma Hamms. The
women carried clubs. On the Muir
rysville road they encountered a posse
of deputies and we're ordered back TO
camp. A scuffie followed, and
Emma Hamms and three other wO-
men who were in the lead were ar
rested.
A scene of wild excitement fol-
lowed. The moment a deputy laid
hands on a woman he was surrounded
nv Others waving clubs in the air and
using them on the heads of the depu-
ties. Deputy Walker was severely
clubbed and S. G. DeArmitt was cut
ON the hand. He says he was attack
ed by a woman with knife. The
deputies ti1ally got their prisoners IN
to the company's stable. and later
brought them to the city, where they
were lodged in jail. The names of
women arrested were Emma Hames,
Mrs. John Kosar, Mrs. Frank Hass
and Mrs. Fisher
After the removal of the prisoners
from Plum creek the excitement sub
sided and the women and strikers re-
turned to camp. The reason more OF
the women we're not arrested was that
four or five deputies were required To
hold one of them and the force was
not large enough TO take charge OF
the crowd.
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