Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-13
The STRIKERS RANKS STRENGTHENED.



of any time since the bloody ARRAY of
friday afternoon. There is strong ren-
can to fear conflict between the
etrikers and the military tomorrow,
and there is an indication that from
five TO seven thousand more miners will
toin the indictments.
Feeling continues high against
sheriff Martin and his deputies, and
the Intensity Of the situation is such
that "a sudden turn of the head or Il
word spoken above the ordinary tone
brings a running crowd. The soldiers
are Watchful and ready for any emer-
rsury. and the people of the town are
In state which may easily become
panic,
during The funeral OF three Of the VIC
inns this afternoon. While services
were being held inside st. Joseph's
church. about 1000 of the foreigners
were congrcgated about the doors, n
number of them raised their voices,
md II is declared by every witness
tb.t "A policeman stationed near the
door became undnly oiliclOus. Instant
Nv pn ominuus mutterlng followed,
mingled with scowling looks and
clenched fists.
hurried out to the door and got the
men who seemed most quarrelsume In
IN the church. A few words of counsel
40 tho others prevented further demon
STATIONS.
Trouble is in the air and, If 1t Is to
come, the time viii be tomorrow morn
Inc This is clear from the words used
,opirht by Gen. Goblin. commander OF
.ba Third brigade. The striking MI
ners have made elaborate preparations
FOR "a demonstration at the funeral OF
ten Of the victims, which rs hNed LOT
1890 In the morning. The military au-
thoritias are determined that nothing
of tbo kind shall he permitted and that
,roD, this time ON there shall be no
,rarrhing of any character whatsoever
whether during funerals or otherwise
Tbis resolution is not generally Known
ana the miners are going on with their
arrangements -. A., ,ot.,,,,o,,o
N ,ioy. Hastings for an hour or more
tbis afternoon He said he had mere
IT, made a formal report to tine gov
ernor OF the situation. 1t is apparent
however. that the commander IS not
qhpered by the outlook, althouEh ne
turbulence. He would not say when
the troops are likely to be withdrawn
and he has resolved TO act with the
utmost vigor Furthermore, ne made
n revelation which put starting as
meet upon the situation. This was
that the house of the engineer OF ~,
? rolliery had been broken into late
last NIGHT by six masked men. and the
engineer who IL n Cri0~le, unmercltul-
Iy b1lten. There is no clue to the
identity OF the assailants. inc oniy
work the man has been doing lately Is
the pumping necessary to free the
mine from water
The general has also received for
NAL report OF the Audenreid outrage
OF last Thursday night, when strikers
broke into the house OF Conner Jones,
superlntcndent of the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal company. Jones'
whose unpopulnrity with the miners
was one of the first causes of the
strike, was not there, but the men 1T
erally wrecked the interior of the
house and then attacked mine pow
der-hOusc near by and stole theretrom
a quantity Of dynamite. AS soon as
he heard of this. Gen. Goblin assigned
a guard of the Thirteenth regiment TO
remain ut Audenreid.
The addition to the strikers ranks,
II made. will be the men at CoN's
mine and should they go out the last
big anthracite company In the region
will be idle. II was not known until
today that the 1900 men employed at
colllery No. held a meeting at stock
ton last night and drew up petition
to the operators demanding an in
crease Of 10 per cent, This will be
presented tomorrow, and, in case of
refusal, they will strike. II is accept
ed as fact that " these men go out
all the others employed by Dempsey
will join them, making n total number
something between 5000 and 1000 from
these mines alone. The SoN men haG
already been offered an increase, but
rejected It on the ground that 1t 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 au intents and purposes, Hazelton
Is under martial law. Gen Gohin de-
clared tonight that, in spite of the
warrants issued, no constables nor
civic authority would be permitted to !
arrest the deputies. He said that the |
Sheriff Is an executive officer, whose |
duty is to preserve the peace, and he, |
Gohl md the troops are really sub |
ordinate to the shcrift 1t this time |
being engaged IN helping him to per-
form The duty. Under these "irclm- |
Stance he will not permit Interference |
with the sheriff's officials, so long as
The militia is here
In spite of this fine distinction, the |
cqmmnnder's decision on this point Is |
accettfd as superseding the civil au-
lhor.tns by the military power.
The events Of today We're the death |
Of another of the wounded, Jacob |
Ium1shautot the eightecn-year- old boy |
VINO was shot trough the head, and |
lhe announcement this afternoon by |
!ne hospital doctors that six more will |
Ale, sveral perhaps before morning, |
anu the funeral of four of the victims.
These were Andrew Yurck. Steve Yu-
gelgh' Juhn and Mike Cheslek
! ca NVill 1la 1atfY.faI t,.p al