The age-herald., 1897-09-12

or public opinon and appeal to the good citizens of this state and country, and ask them if there was Justification or warrant in such assassina ton.
 Resolved, That we extend our sym pathies to the friends and relatives of those who have fallen, and pray to God those now dead will live in our memories as martyrs to the cause of down-trodden labor.'
 The third meeting was the most largzly attended. It began at Hazel Park about o'clock this afternoon and adjourned to Donegal Hill, an open place at one end of the city where 1t was in progress tonigft. The purpose of this meeting was also to extend sympathy and to de- last nights catastrophe. Throughout the day the city has been given up to excitement which, by its suppressed character, has been more ominous than turbulence would have been. The in- coming of the state troops, which began at an early hour this morning, served ito cove the strikers and their sympa- t11izers and no further demonstration was made than the gathering about the street corners of knots of men and wo- men in muttered but intense discussion of the shooting. Tonight there are fully 2,5O0 soldiers camping in town. The first to arrive was the Ninth regiment under Colonel Dougherty from Wilkes barre. Then came the Thirteenth under Lieutenant Colonel Mattss. the Fourth under Colonel Case, the Sixth from Lebanon, the Twelfth from Wilkesbarre. Battery from Phoenixsvilie, the gov ernors troops from Harrisburg, and the city troops of Philadelphia. The latter reached here tonight.
 General Gobin, commander of the Third brigade, arrived early in the morning and established headquarters in the office of the divisional superinten- dent of the Lehig'h Coal company from which he assigned the commands to points on the outskirts and in the city. General Gobin expresses his satisfaction with the prompt response to the call of arms Tha Ninth was called out alt 1 o'clock this morning by the ringing of the 45O men were on the train travelling towards Hazepton. The commander was gratifed at thle absence of hostility shown to the incoming troops. He said the assignments had been made in the order indicated to insure the preserva- ton of absolute law and order.
 q will not permit the marching of large bodies of men along the roads, he said, "and all such will be ordered to disband immediately. My mission and that of the soldiers Is to maintain law and order. have nothing to do with what the men are striking for or what the operators are asking for as far as I am officially concerned. I am here to keep order and have arranged my men accordingly.
 ''The soldiers ars behaving splendidly and are manifesting no feeling. The town, itself, looks as if it was in state of seige tonight as the booted and spurred soldiers are to be seen at every turn. The troops here are enough uo preserve order thus far, but they are not reprsssing public opinion. This is most severe terms, the action of the deputies last night.
 official murder is the phrase on al- most every tongue for substantiation of the charge. Attention is drawn to the fact that the deputies carried Winches- ter rifles, each man having twelve rounds of ammunition, each a revolver and box of cartridges, while the strik- ing marchers were defenseles having unanimously surrendered whatever weapons they may have had bsfore the march was begun. Moreover, the fact rsmains that many of the victims were shot through the back. The first vol ley from the deputies, unexpected as it was, created such indescribable con steunation that the men scampered and fi=d and it is not questioned that while they were headlong in flight the deputies poured volley after volley into the ter ror-stricken and they went down like shesp.
 Many prominent citizers of the town, including Rev. Father Moylan of St. Hazel's church; Rev. Mr. Paulding, Bap- t.st, and Rev. Mr. Wagner, of rhe Lu- theran church, have drawn informal rro- test, not only against the action of the sheriff and his deputies, but againss the calling out of the militia, which, they declare was unnecessary. In spite of this. however, rhc uneasy feeling in- cneases. The strikers have made up their minds, as several of them said to- day, to remain in perfect quietness until Monday. At il o'clock in the morning of that day the bodies of the unfortu- mate wretches who fell under the leaden