Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-13

I rejected 1t on the ground CnaC II Was
still lower than the scale paid by the
other operators in the region. These
men have been working steadily up to
this time, and of late up to 10 O'Clock
at night.
To all intents and purposes. Hazleton
is under martial law. Gen. Goblin de-
clared tonight that in spite of the
warrants issued, no constables nor any
civic authorities will be permitted to
arrest the deputies. He said that the
sheriff is an executive officer whose
duty it is to preserve the peace, and
that he, Goblin, and the troops are re-
ally subordinate to the sheriff at this
time, being engaged in helping him to
perform that 1uty. Under these cir
cumstances, ne will not permit inter-
ference with the sheriff'S officials so
long as the militia is here.
In spite OF this fine distinction the
commanders decision on this point is
accepted as superceding the civil au-
thorities by the military power.
The events of to-day were the death
of another of the wounded, Jacob
Tomashantos, the 18-year-old boy who
was shot through the head; the an
nouncement this afternoon by the hos
pital doctors that six more will die,
several perhaps before morning, and
the funeral of four of the victims.
These were Andrew Yureck, Steve
Urich, John Futa and Mike Cheslok
Ten more will be buried tomorrow and
here the trouble is likely to occur
1t has been arranged that the ten
collins shall he carried on the shoul-
vii Or
takers shop to the front Of st. Josephs
Church. In front of the church
platform is to be erected upon which
it is the purpose to place the ten collins
SO that they can be viewed by the
crowd.
Then addresses in Polish, Lithuanian
and English are to be made by priests
and others; the b1dies will be carried
inside and the pontifical high mass will
be celebrated.
Seventeen societies, all but one made
UP of Poles, Hungarians and others of
the Slav race, and one of Irish, are to
march in the funeral procession. If
Gen. Goblin executes the intention he
announced tonight this whole pro-
gramme will be upset and it is feared
that the men will
RESENT ANY INTERFERENCE
with the disposition of their dead.
Aftidavits from a number of the
miners who were in Friday afternoons
affair, throw some new light on the
shooting. They declare, in substance,
that on the morning of that day a mes
senger arrived at Harwood and asked
the foreigners to come to Lattimer. as
the employees of Colliery No. 1 at that
place, were about to strike.
Later, a second message to the same
effect arrived and then the men start
ed over to Lattimer At Halle col
liery, 80 the affidavits continue, Sher-
if Martin met them and warned them
not to go through Hazleton. but to go
around the other way.
They did so, but arriving at the fatal
bend in the road near Lattimer, they
again found themselves confronted bv
the sheriff, this time backed up by the
army OF deputies. AS soon as they
reached the spot, it is declared. Sher-
III Martin stepped out and roughly
grabbed the foremost man by his coat
collar. With his other hand he thrust
revolver into his face and used abu-
slve language. The miner knocked tha
sheri1fs revolver arm from in front of
him and tried to wrench himself from
the officials grasp. Almost immedi-
ately the affidavit says, the order to
nre was given. The deputies were
lined up in a hollow square, the fourth
side OF which was formed by the body
or the strikers. This would possibly
account for the fact that so many were
shot in the back and side.
he funerals to-day made a spectacle
or tragedy that, humble as were the
accessories, had in it something that
WAS ALMOST SUBLIME.
Futa and Urich lived in Harwood
and fureck in Humboldt, but when
the procession was started the latter
party met the others, and the cor
tege wound its way through the
mountain passes, over the dusty lanes
into Hazleton, and then into ST.
Josephs church, on the outskirts
where Father Aust and Rev. Dir
Hauser held brief services.
AT the head of the line there was >
brass band playing the dead marches
with muff1ed drums. A heavy mist
had crept over the hills: a chill drizzIe
OF rain was falling, and the scene hack
ed by the line OF hills and looming coal
breakers, was weird and gloomy.
There were but few carriages. hut
nearly 1000 men were in line at one
time or another, and most of them
continued until the end.
Stories of violence on the part of the
strikers long before the outbreak of
Friday are coming to light. It is said
that in their marches from mine to
mine they used brute force to make
individual workers join their ranks.
Rev: Dr.: David H. Shields, an I'M