Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-13
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Polish alliance, which recently met in
Philadelphia, has been sent on for the
ana OF the miners. and that he has
promises of large additional subscrip-
tons from New York and other cities.
There are 1000 Poles in the United
states. n number Of Polish priests
from New York, Buffalo and other
places are also expected to arrive to-
morrow.
f. Or. Thorodovitch, secretary Of the
Austrian consulate at PHILADELPHIA
participated In the meeting tonight to
consider methods OF prosecuting the
deputies. He obtained uffidavits from
number of miners who We're In Fri
days affair, which throws new light on
the shooting. The declare in sub
stance that on the morning of that day
messenger arrived mt Harwood and
asked the foreigners to come to Lati-
mer, as the employees of Gallery No 1
at that place we're about to strike.
Later second message to tho same
effect arrived. and then the men
started over to Latimer At Hazel coll
liuryso the aiiidavits continue, Sheriff
Martin met them and warned them not
to go through HaZelton, but to go
around the other way They did SO,
but arriving at the fatal bend in the
road near Latimer they again found
themselves confronted by the sheriff.
this .lme backed up by an army Of
deputies. AS soon as they reached the
spot, II Is declared, Sherim Martin
stepped out and roughly grabbed the
foremost man by the coat collar. with
his other hand he thrust a revolver
into his face and used abusive lam
guage. The miner knocked the she
in IS revolver from in front of him and
tried to wrench himself from the Off
calls grasp. Almost Instantly, the af-
fidaVlt says,the order to fire was Civ
On. The deputies were lined up in
hollow square. the fourth side OF which
was formed by the body of strikers.
This would possibly account FOR the
fact that so many We're shot In the
back and side.
The stories of violence on the part of
strikers long before the outbreak Of
Friday are coming TO light. 1t Is said
that In their marches from mine to
mine they used brute force to make in
dividual workers join their ranks.
In the office of the Lehigh Traction
company ~ browa cutaway coat.
which one OF the men, now dead, Wore
on Friday last. There are three bullet
holes in IT, one through the front, one
through the arm, and n third through
the tail. In an inside pocket was
found cheap nickel 32-caliher bull
dog" revolver. This had not been
used in the riot, because the chambers
contained neither empty nor loaded
shells and 1t could not have been fired
before the man was shot because he
would have had no time to unload II.
1t is established that this Is the only
weapon contained in the whole mob OF
miners and the conditions Indicate
that the first shot could not have been
fired from their side. There We're three
companies of deputies. and one of
these. made up of men who have
served as mine police in the past, has
had much trouble with the strikers on
previous occasions and were said TO
be in "A revengeful mood against them.
All was quiet in the camp throughout
the day, several of the bodies. includ-
ing the city troop OF Philadelphia and
the governors troop, taking practice
drills.
Clement PlopslaclS, one of the
strikers who was injured in Fridays
riot, died late tonight, making the
twenty third death.
During the day rumors were current
that the deputies had left town. a re-
porter made a search and located ten
deputies.