The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-18
10000 MINERS STILL OUT
THE SITUITION AT AMBITION TAI;
 FROM REASSURING. ...

Sporadic Outbreaks Bode Ill-The Troops
 Fearful That Serious Trouble May Re sult-Women Are Particularly Vicious,
 and it is Difficult to Restrain Them
 Mass Meeting of Strikers To-day. Hazleton, Pa, Sept. 1.-The strike
 situation tonight may be summarized
 thus; Over 10000 men are still out, with no apparent prospect of settle
 ment; sporadic outbreaks of violence
 are occurring near the outlying col lieries and the withdrawal of troops is not only without consideration, but the
 guard lines of several of the camps are being constantly strengthened, and the wisdom of bringing more cavalry IS be- ing discussed. It was said to-day that if the soldiers are kept here much longer the Sheridan troop of Turone, attached to the Second brigade, will be | ordered out.
 A captain of General Gobin's staff is authority for the statement that an
 uneasy feeling prevails at headquarters in consequence of the little outbreaks of the past few days and the indication they hold of the underlying disturb ance.
 The brigade commander himself ad- mitted to-day that the action of the raiding women was giving him much perpleXity He does not care to use force against them and has instructed the soldiers in case of necessity to use only the flats of their sabres upon the AnlaZons. The story reached the gen. eral that many men were in the at | tacking crowds of yesterday and to- day disguised as women.
 This mornings violent scene at Auden- reid was reproduction of yesterdays riots It arose from another attempt ] to start the Monarch and Star washer 1 ies of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre com pany. About one hundred men report ed for work at the former when the wild band of women swooped down
 upon them with an armament of sticks and stones. Others were stationed on | top of an adjacent culm bank, where l they shcwered missiles upon the whole of the would be workers and a large 1 body of men and boys waited in re- serve behind the bank.
 The men promptly quit work before any injured could be inflicted. At the ! Star Washery, where 100 to 135 men 1 wanted to work, like assault stopped l them
 The call for troops which came | from Cranberry al ? o'clock this morn 1 ing was the act of a scared night watchman, who mistook soldiers for
 strikers. All the powder in the region 1 is stored in Turnbachs powder house. | One hundred men from the Ninth regi- | ment were sent over to guard the 1 house The watchman saw the light i and moving figures, and lost his nerve
 and telephoned that an attack was 1 threatened
 1 Late last night another territory was 1 turbulent A body of strikers at Lat
 tim Nc. 3 quarrel d among themselves
 and bloodshed was threatened when
 company E, of the Thirteenth regiment. which is camped at Lattimer, restored 1 quiet.
 | Deputy Coroner Bowman will begin
 the inquest over the bodies of the dead
 miners next Tuesday afternoon. Over | 100 witnesses will be examined. General Gobin will not interfere with
 to-morrow's mass meeting. The prin-
 cipal speakers are to be P J. Mcguire,
 vice president of the American Fedora tion of Labor, and George Chance of
 the United Labor league.
 | As a precautionary measure, a guard
 of soldiers will be present. Organizer
 Fahy and other leaders have asked that
 the militia be withdrawn, and General
 Gohin advised them to stop holding
 mass meetings and thereby exciting the
 people.
 The only change in the strike stua-
 tion proper to-day was the return to
 work of the five hundred men employed
 at CoXe's Beaver Meadow colliery. The
 miners say that this is only temporary,
 and that if other Coxe men at Grafton
 and elsewhere decide to go out the
 Beaver Meadow men will join them.