The San Francisco call., 1897-09-12

| 0en CdnS tue tueu tuc
Fourth, the Sixth from Lebanon, the
Twelfth from Williamsport, Battery B
! from Phnuixville, the Governors troop
! from Harrisburg and the city troop oi
| Philadelphia. The two latter bodies did
not reach here until tonight.
! General Gobine, commander of the
! Third Brigade. arrived early in the morn
ing and established headquarters in the
/ office OF the divislen Superintendent OF the
LehIgh Coal Company, from which point
| he assigned the commands 10 points on
the outskirts of the city. The Thirty
ninth was sent to Hazel Park, command
ing the road from Brighton, and another
from LatImer. The Twelfth was sent to
| Donegal Hill, on the opposite side OF the
town, holding the Janesvilie road. The
second battalion of the Eighth Regime 4
was placed at Audenreid, and was later
| joined by the Fourth.
| The Thirteenth went to Latimer and
| took up position overlooking the mines
! toward which the strikers were marching z
| when the shooting occurred. The Gov.
ernors troops remained at brigade head
! quarters. and Battery B was distributed
among the different commands. Besides
IT'S usual equipment the battery has two
I breech-loading pieces and two Gatling
guns.
General Gobine expressed his gratifica.
! tion at the absence OF hostility shown to
the incoming troops. 81 will not permit
the marching of large bodies of men along
! the roads," he added, sand all such will
! be ordered to disband Immediately. My
mission here and the mission of the SOL
! der is 10 maintain law and order.'
| The town itself looks as if it were in a
! state of siege tonight, as the booted and
| spurred warriors are to be seen at every
turn. The presence of the troops has suf-
! ficed to maintain order thus far, but it is
1i,,io hioh &c
almost unanimous in cohdemning i'll the
most severe terms The action of the depu-
ties lest night. "Official murder" is the
! phrase on almost every tongue, and for
! substantiation of the charge attention is
! directed to the fact tnat the deputies car
| ried Winchesters, each man having twelve
| rounds of ammunition, each a revolver
and box of cartridges, while the march
! ing strikers were defenseless, havin z
unanimously surrendered whatever weap-
ons they NAV have had before the march
was begun. Moreover. the fact remains
! that many of the victims were shot
through the back.
| The first volley from the deputies, un-
/ expected as it was created such inde scrib-
| able CONSERVATION that the men stam-
pedeo and fed. and 1t is not questioned
that while hey were thus in headIong
! flight the deputies poured volley after
| volley into the terror stricken crowd.
MANY prominent citize III of the town have
| drawn up formal protest, not only
| against the action of the Sheriff and his
| deputies but against the calling out OF the
militia. which they declare was unneces-
sary.
In spite of this, however, the uneasy
feeling increases. The strikers have made
up their minds, as several of them said
| to-day, to remain IN perfect quie tness till
| Monday.
At11 A. NJ of that day the bodies OF the
unfortunate men who fell under the leaden
storm will be laid away. Services will be
| held in the Polish Cath holic Church, where
REQUIEM high mass will be celebrated.
| Then the c1rpses will be inferred in the
Polish Cemetery. Tney will be laid in a
circular plot and the congregation to
which they belonged will, it is announced,
| erect a monument
| The meeting at Latimer to-day was held
! not far rom the pot of last nights con-
! flict. 1t was decided to take no action
until Monday, when a committee consist
| ing of four Poles. four Italians and four
! Hun garians will visit the operators and
| notify them OF their intention to remain
| out with the other strikers until every de-
mand is granted.
The hospital was heartrending place
/ to-day. Here all day long groups OF
sunken-eved. sallow-chceked women,
many bearing children III their arms,
hung about the steps and eagerly watched
the doors. Some sat in stony silence, as
| ii unaware as yet of what had happened,
while others were bowed and bent beneath
uncontrollab BILE storms OF grief
| During part Of the day lamentations no