Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-18

Hazelton, Pa, September 17.-Tht
strike situation tonight may be sum
married. thus:
Over ten thousand men are still out
with no apparent prospects of settle,
ment
Sporadic outbreaks of violence are
occurring near the outlying collieries
and the withdrawal of troops is moi
only without consideration, but the
guard lines of several of the camps
are being constantly strengthened and
the wisdom of bringing more cavalry
is being discussed. Col. Case, of the
Fourth regiment, and Col. Magee, OF
the Eighth are both complaining of the
lack of cavalry to cover the large ex-
tent of territory under their commands
and it was said to-day that If the sol
diers are kept here much longer, the
Sheridan troop of Tyrone, attached
to the Second brigade, will be ordered
out.
A captain of Gen. Gobin's staff is au-
thority for the statement that an un-
easy feeling prevails at headquarters
in consequence of the little outbreaks
OF the past few days and the indica-
Jlon they give of the underlying dis
turbance. The brigade commander
himself admitted to-day that the ac-
ton 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 neces-
sity to use only the flats Of their sa-
bres upon the Amazons.
1.-The story reached the General that
men were in the attacking
crowds of yesterday and to-day dis
gLised as women. The strikers no
Longer dispersed when troops appear
in their territory and to-day while a
body of the Eighth regiment officers
were taking a look over the Honey
Brook district, burly Irish woman
who stood at the head of a crowd OF
foreign women and men, shouted:
Say, Captain divide your guns with
us and we'll give you hell of fight"
The soldiers ignored the challenge.
Similar taunts have been thrown at
bodies of military in the Drifton re-
gion as well.
This mornings violent scene at Au-
ienreid was almost an exact repetition
Of yesterdays at the same place. 1t
arose from another attempt to start the
Monarch and Star washeries of the Lee
ligh and Wilkesbarre company. About
100 men reported for work at the for
mer, when the wild band of women
swooped down on them with an arma-
ment of stick and stones. Others were
stationed on top of an adjacent culm
bank, whence they showered missiles
upon the would-be workers and a large
body of men and boys waited in re-
serve behind the bank.
The men promptly quit work before
any injury could be inflicted.
At the Star washery, where 100 of
1875 men wanted to work, a like assault
stopped them. No further attempt
was made to work the washery.
A squad of the Governors Troop
went to quell the disturbance. but all
was quiet when they arrived except
that the rabble of women hotted and
cursed the military, who made no re-
Spouse.
The call for troops which came from
Cranberry at 2 o'clock this morning
was the act of a scared night watch
man, who mistook soldiers for strik-
ers.
All the dynamite that can be found
in the region is being collected and
stored in Turnbach's powder house to
keep it from the hands of the miners,
and 100 men from the Ninth Regiment
were sent over to guard the house. The
Waterman saw the lights and moving
figures, lost his nerve, and telephoned
that an attack was threatened.
Late last night another territory was
turbulent A body of miners at Lat
timer No. quarrelled among them
selves and bloodshed was threatened
when Company E, of the Thirteenth
Regiment, which is camped at Latti-
mer, restored quiet. The colonel OF
the regiment said to-day that he feared
trouble, and had strengthened the
guard and organized a special system
of signals that will get the soldiers in
readiness for action within five min
utes.
Deputy Coroner Bowman will begin
the inquest over the bodies of the dead
miners at o'clock next Tuesday after
! noon.
Over hundred citizens will be ex,
|amined. County Detective Eckert said
that several of these are being kept in
hiding. One of these was a deputy
who did not take part in the shooting
put was hurrying to the scene when il
occurred. This man says, according te
he detective, that the deputies kept or
oOting when the strikers were two
inbred yards away. Mr. Eckert add
that the evidence of five of the
FUNDED corroborates this allegation
4. Goblin will not interfere with to-
rrow nights big mass meeting un
highly colored speeches are made
he only change in the strike situa
proper to-day was the return t.
of the 500 men employed a
is Beaver Meadow colliery. Tht
RS say that this is only Temporal,
hat if the other Coke men. a
and elsewhere, decide at theil