The record-union., 1897-09-18
PENNSYLVANIA COAL STRIKE.
OVER 10000 MINERS REPORT
ED STILL OUT.
With No Apparent Prospect of a
Settlement of the
Trouble.

HAZLETON Pa), Sept II. - The
strike situation tonight may be sum-
married. thus: over 10000 men are
still out, with no apparent prospect of
settlement; sporadic outbreaks of vio-
lence are occurring near the outlying
collieries, and the withdrawal of
troops is not only without considera-
ton, but the guaro lnes of several of
the camps are being constantly
strengthened, and the wisdom of bring
ing the cavalry is being discussed.
A Captain of General Gobin's staff
is authority for the statement that an
uneasy feeling prevails at headquar-
ters in consequence of the little out
breaks of the past few days, and the
indication, they hold, of the underly-
ing disturbance The brigade COM
mander admitted to-day that the
action of the raiding women was Civ
ing him much perplexity He does not
care to use force against them, and has
instructed the soldiers in case of ne
cessity to use only the fiat of their sa-
bers upon the Amazons.
The story reaches the General that
many men were in the attacking
crowds of yesterday and to-day dis
guised as women. This mornings vio
lent scene at Audenreid was almost an
exact repetition of yesterdays at the
same place. 1t arose from another at
tempt to start the Monarch and Star
washeries of the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Company. About 100 reported
for work at the former, when the wild
band of women swOoped down upon
them, armed with sticks and stones.
Others were stationed on top of an
adjacent culm. whence they showered
missiles upon the wouldbe workers,
and large body of men and boys
waited in reserve behind the banks.
The men promptly quit work before
any injury could be inflicted
At the Star washery, where 100 or 135
men wanted to work, a like assault
stopped them.
The call for troops which came from
Cranberry at o'clock this morning
was the act of a night Waterman, who
mistook soldiers for strikers. All the
dynamite that can be found in the re-
gion is being collected and stored, to
keep it from the hands of the miners,
and 100 men from the Ninth Regiment
were sent over to guard the house. The
Waterman saw the lights and moving
figures, lost his nerve and telephoned
that an attack was threatened.
Late last night body of strikers at
Latimer No. quarreled among them
selves. and bloodshed was threatened,
but Company E of the Thirteenth Reg
iment, which is camped at Latimer, re-
stored quiet.
Deputy Coroner Bowman will begin
the inquest over the bodies of the dead
miners next Wednesday afternoon.
over 100 witnesses will be examined.
General Goblin will not interfere with
tomorrow nights big mass meeting,
unless highly-colored speeches are
made. The principal speakers are to
be P. J. Mcguire, Vice-President of the
American Federation of Labor, and
George Chance of the United Labor
League AS a precautionary measure,
a guard of soldiers will be present.
Organizer Fahey and other leaders
have asked that the militia be with
drawn, and General Goblin has advised
them that the speediest way to accom-
plish this will be to stop holding mass
meetings, and thereby exciting the
people.
Inc oIlly cHdHSe III lilS Sdlhe Sltud-
ton to-day was the return to work of
the 500 men employed at Coxe's Bea-
yer Meadow coIliery. The miners say
that this is only temporary, and that
if the other Coke men at Drifton and
elsewhere decide at their meeting of
next Monday to go out, the Beaver
Meadow men will join them.
General Goblin is i'll quandary over
the raids made by the Infatuated for
eign women. He says he cannot order
his soldiers to fire upon them, even in
the event of graver trouble, and he is
seeking more patient means of keeping
them in subsection He has received
instructions from Governor Hastings
to suppress trouble wherever it breaks
out, regardless of county lines.