The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-16

Hazleton, Sept. 11.-(Special. The
only verdict that can be rendered with
reference to the killing Of laboring people
here yesterday is that it was wantop,
willful murder, committed by the paid
hirslings of the great morey power con-
trolling the anthracite coal regions
The miners were peaceable and were rot
guilty Of even slight irfraction of law,
when they were shot down In cold blood,
simply because they had congregated
to protest against the starvation wages
paid to them by the owners of the mines
who are chiefly Wall street magnaUes
The situation in the anthracite region Is
analogous to that in the bituminous
regions of Ohio, West Virginia and West
ern Pennsylvania. The same starvation
wages that brought the wolf to the door
of the miners employed by DeArmitt
and Mark Hanna in Western Pennsyl-
vania were, proportioustely dolled out
to the miners east tf the mountains.
They asked for living wages, yea even
wages that they and their families could
exist upon and keep body and soul to-
gether, but the magnates who control the
anthracite regions-the Wall street money
mongers who contributd the great fund
for the corruption Of voters last year, and
Cf which contributions something like
81, OOO, 900 still remains subject to the
order of Mark Hanna to corrupt the Ohio
elections this fall-refused to give bare
increase and the anthracite CcOal work
ers were compt He'd as were the men in
the DeArmitt ard Hanna mines, tn strike
for their homes and their families and
for a wage that would keep body and soul
together. For this they are shot down
like so many cattle, and hundred or
more little cbildren are fatherl5ss today,
with no support however The strike may
end. The prosperity that comes to the
homes of these mir ers, is in the share Of
leaGen bullets. The advance agent Of
the particular kind Of prosperity meted
out to the miners, carries Winchester
and he is the advance agent Of tears aud
heart-brrakings ard anguish and death.
The story of the WantOn murder of lab
oring men, who were strivirg for but
a mere Iittarce f the wealth that they
produced, casts the great Homestead cut
rage in tie shade and is Sufficient to
cause American laboring people every
whfre to risa in their might and put
down this great morey power that revels
in spleudor while furnishing bullets for
those who dare claim a portion OF the
product of their energy and mt sole.
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miners are still orderly, though troops
have been dispatched to the scene by the
reprf senstatives Of the power that has
labor by tie throat.
The list of the victims of the murder
Gus fire of the armed hirelings Of the
Wall sire It sharks now runs up to nearly
a hundred. About 80 are dead and
about 90 wounded. One man counted
seventeen bodies lying where they fell
at the first fire. Not only we're the bodies
punctufed by bollets but they were
manned by being tramped upon bv the
deputies who ran forward tn shoot Others
in the b ok az they were fleeing.
The Ninth regiment Of n iliti, lef, here
this morning for the scene Of tEe rijt,
and the whole third brigade has been
called out so that if the morey changers
who own the mines and who subscribe
corruption funds to further the senatorial
ambitions Of q man of their ilk, do not
win against the starving wOrkmen, 1t
will not he teoausa the Republican gov
ernOr Of Pennsylvania hasn't sent guns
enough.
THE MURDER.
HAzLEToN, Pa, Sept. 1.-THE strike
situation reached a terrible crisis on the
outskirts of Latimer, when a band of
deputy sheTitfs fired into an infuriated
mob of miners. The men fell like SO
many sheep, and the excitement since
has been so intense that no accurate
figures of the dead and wounded can be
obtained. Reports run from 10 to 2C
odd killed and 10 more wounded. One
man who reached the scene counted IL
corpses. -Four other bodies lie in the
mountains between Latimer and Har
leigh Those who were not injured
carried their dead and wounded friends
into the woods, and estimate is batiied.
Some of those known to be dead are
Mike Chesloll, Harwood.
Frank Cheka, Harwood.
John Staniska, Crytal Ridge.
George kulick, Harwood.
Steve Horrick, Harwood.
Among the injured are
George KrezO, Harwood, bullets
through leg, hip and knee.
John Kerlovish, shot in neck.
Andrew Shabolick, shot in breast.
John Kulich. shot in stomach.
John Damensko, shot in both legs.
George Vercheck, shot in both legs
John Forti, shot in head, will die.
John Cleshok, shot in hip.
Kazimir Dulis, shot in breast.
Jacob Kulshot, shot through body
will die.
Steve Kerskuki, shot in body.
John Koti, shot in arm and left side.
Joseph Bobick, shot through back.
John Treble, deputy, shot in arm
Three bodies were found ON the road
near LatiIner.
The striker left Hazelton, announc-
ing their intention to go to Latimer
As soon as this became known banc
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