Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-09-16
SHOT DOWN.
striking Miners Fired Upon BY
Deputy Sheriffs.
MORE Than TWENTY MEN KILLED,
Hstimated That at Least 40 Were Won nded
dead and Wounded Were All Hun.
garians-Tragic Crisis In the
Pennsylvania Situation.

HAzLEroN, Pa, Sept 1.-THE strike
situation reached a terrible crisis ON
tne outskirts of Latimer Yesterday
al'ernoon' when a band of deputy
sheriffS fred into mob of Hungarian
miners Inc men fell like sheep and
.he excitement has since been so in
tense that no accurate figures of dead
anu wounded can be obtained. Re-
ports run from 10 to 30 odd killed and
~ or more wounded. One man who
reached the scene last night counted
10 corpses. -Four other bodies lie in
the mountains between Latimer and
iiarleigh. Those who were not in iured
carried their dead and wounded friends.
INTO the woods, and estimate is baftled.
The strikers left IIazleton about s.3O
o'clock this afternoon. and It was their
intention to go to Latimcr. As soon as
'hls became known, band of deputies
was loaded on trolley car and went
Whirllng across the mountain to the
scene where the bloody conflict fol.
iowed. After reaching Latimer, thew
ie't the car and formed into three com
panles Sheriff Martin was in entire
command, and stood in the front of the
llhe until the strikers approached.
iney were seen coming across the
rldge, and Martin went out to meet
'hem. The men drew up suddenly,
and listened in silence until he had
once more read the riot act. This fin
lshed' low muttering arose among
inc foreigners, and there was a slight
movement forward Perceivinp this
lhe sheriff stepped toward them and
n a determined tone, forbade ad-
'ance Some one struck the sheriff
ma the next moment there was a COM
nand to the deputies to fire.
The guns OF the deputies instantly
'elched forth terrible volley. The
eport seemed to shake the very noun
ANS and cry Of dismay went up
rom the people The strikers were
AIKEN entirely by surprise, and as the
zen toppled and fell over each other.
hose who remained unhurt stampeded.
he men went down before the storm
bullets like tenpins and the Rroans
the dying and wounded filed the
II The excitement that followed
as simply Understandable. The depu.
es seemed to be Reconstruction at the
hadly execution of their guns and,
ENG the living strikers fleeing like
lid and Others dropping to the earth,
icy went to the aid of the unfor-
mates whom they had brought down.
Inc people of Latimer rushed pell-
ell to the scene, but the shrieks of
e wounded drowned the cries of the
mpathlzing and half crazed inhabi.
nts' A reporter who soon afterward
ached the scene found the road lead.
Z to Latimer filed with groups of
ghtened IIungarians. Some sur.
unded dying companions, and Others.
irlul OF pursuit, cIung to the new
'ner and begged his protection. All
ing the road the wounded men who
ne able to leave the field of battle
Uttered themselves and sought the
ide OF the trees for protection, but
ere was no need of that then. An
'achlng the place where the shoot
occurred, people were met wiring
their hands and bemoaninp the
astrophe. They could not talk in
lgently, and it was with the great.
difficulty that information could be
aned
long the bank of the trolley road
. lay IN every position. some dead.
ers dying. Three bodies, face
inward lay along the incline and
e others were but short distance
y On the other side Of the road
many more bodies lay. The school,
Sc was transformed into tempo-
hospital and some of the wounded
taken there. The coIliery ambu.
g was summoned to the place as
as possible and upon It's arrival
men. both shot through the legs
loaded into the wagon. All
< the hillside wounded men were
d on the roadside and in the fields.
y miners who had been carried 10