The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-13

the spot for the instant; then those
who were able turned and fled,. some
back along the road, others through the
underbrush and trees to the right there,
but the most of them crossed the trolley
road and ran up along that hill on the
left. The deputies kept shooting turn
ing to cover the men as they fed. When
the first volley was fired the deputies
were facing the south but soon they
were shooting east and west and bring
ig down a man here and there. When
the trouble began 1 was behind the
deputies, but when they began to turn
/ feared for my own safety and fled
across the street and took refuge be-
hind the fence in front of one of the
houses. About this time the firing
stopped and I came out on the road
again and as the deputies moved away
i ran down the road to the culvert
where a number of men were lying and
gave what assistance I could in caring
for those who were alive. Many wo-
men also gave assistance in binding up
the wounds Of the unfortunate men.
WOULD GLADLY FORGET.
THE scene along the road and on the
hill across the car track / will never
forget. To describe it would for me be
impossible. j hope that / will never see
similar one. After a time assistance
arrived and the dead and wounded
were taken to Hazleton on wagons and
the electric car"
No one could be found who remem-
| bered having heard Sheriff Martin give
the order to fire. The deputies dis
charged their pieces, evidently, imme-
diately after the man who ran toward
| the sheriff fired. He was identified as
Samuel Price, Of Hazleton. Some of
the bullets lodged in the walls Of
school house which stands on the hill
about one hundred yards from Trolley
street. straight line drawn from the
school building would strike Trolley
street about one hundred yards behind
the point where the deputies were lined
up when they faced the oncoming strik-
ers. This proves that there was more
shooting than the first point blank vol
ley, for the men must have turned at
least half way round in firing at the
fleeing strikers to get within range of
the school house.
The weapons used by the deputies
were Winchester rifles and riot guns.
Ihe former sent bullets clear through
the bodies of those they struck and in
some instances the same bullet prob
ably injured two or three men. The
riot guns did even more terrible work.
A special cartridge of buckshot is used
In them and they are intended only for
use at long range. At a reasonable
distance the results that follow the use
of the riot gun are not serious, for the
charge of buckshot separates and only
a few particles are apt to enter a per-
ch hnftr hot, al
is frightful. So close were the depu-
ties to the strikers when the first vol
ley was fired that the entire charge Of
buckshot entered the body of the per-
son aimed at, tearing great bleeding
gaps in the flesh. The men now in the
Hazleton hospital who are certain to
die were nearly all wounded with the
riot guns. The only weapons found on
| the bodies of the dead and wounded
were a few penknives. The two boys
| who walked ahead of the strikers were
found dead after the firing had ceased
| They were side by side and evidently
fell when the first volley was fired.
A NIGHT OF TERROR.
After the shooting and the departure
| of the victims, Lattimer was in a fever
| of excitement. When the trouble oc-
| CURED the strikers were on their way
to the colliery of Clavin Pardee, at the
| north end of Trolley street, to try and
| induce the men to join them. They or
! ganized at Harwood and vicinity,
| about two miles south of this city, dur
| ing the morning and went to one Of
| Calvin Pardee's collieries at West
! Hazleton, where Sheriff Martin talked
to them and urged them to disperse.
/ There was some little excitement there
and one shot was fired by deputy.
No one was injured, however. When
the strikers left West Hazleton they
refused to heed the warnings of the
sheriff and continued on their march
to Lattimer Hearing this, Sheriff
Martin put his men on a trolley car
and started for that place, also reach
ing there some time before the men.
After nightfall the rumor reached the
hamlet that a mob of 1000 men had
started from Audenried and Harwood
and Lattimer for their destination, the
object being to burn the houses and
breaker and kill the inhabitants of the
place out of revenge for the afternoons
terrible work. So authentic seemed the
rumor that the officials of the Pardee
collieries told the people to flee and
furnished wagons to transport the old
and infirm to places of safety. Most
| of the foreign-speaking population
spent the night hiding in the noun
tains, while the English-speakng resi-
dents walked to Freeland, six miles
away, to Harleigh or over in Butler
| Valley. One house in Freeland shell
tered nearly fifty of the refugees. Some
| of the women We're so terror-stricken
that they could not be induced to re-
main in Lattimer Saturday night
either, although they. had the Thir-
teenth regiment camped at their doors.
AFTER CONFER JONES.
At Audenried the mob was much
more in earnest 1t broke into the
house of Conner Jones, superintendent
of the Lehigh and Wilkes-B Barre Coal
company, who is held responsible gem
orally for the whole trouble, and after
smashing his furniture, turned his pic
ture towards the wall as an evidence of
their dislike for him. Jones left Aud
enried with his family several days
ago. Those who made up the mob said
they were looking for rifles that were
supposed to be stored in Jones' house.
The presence of the mob at Auden-
ried and Harwood caused much fear
in Hazleton Friday night. Harwood is
the home of nearly all of the men who
were killed and the people of that place
We're frantic for revenge. Cool heads
among the leaders of the strike pre-
vented them from leaving the vicinity
of their homes. At Hazleton junction
the depot of the Delaware, Susquehan-
ma and Schuylkill railroad was broken
into by rioters and reduced to wreck.
| II was these occurrences counled