The Red Cloud chief., 1897-09-17
STRIKERS SHOT DOWN
STATE TROUPS SENT OUT
-~NINETEEN KILLED.
Marching Anthracite Coal Miners Come
Into Deadly Collision with . Pennsyi-
vsnia sheriff and Deputics-Aii OF Them
Foreigncrs-O nncers Attacked the Cause

marching striking miners were killed
and forty.one wounded In conflict
with county deputy sheriffs, led by
Sheriff Martin, on the highway nj
Latimer yesterday afternoon.
All OF the victims OF the officers
W~inchesters were foreigncrs-Poles
and Observation-Disclosures some time
ago to work. In the anthracite coal
mines Of this region
The shots were fred because the
strikers had refused to heed the sher-
IFS proclamation to dispense and had
assaulted the sheriff and threatened
his deputies.
As a result of the riot and further
threats Of trouble, the Third brigade
OF the Pennsylvania national guard,
commanded by General Goblin, the
new national commandcr-in.chief OF
the g. A. r., was ut once ordered to
this section and the Ninth regiment
under Colonel Doughcrty of Wilkes
barre, arrived this morning and other
regiments followed during the day,
until the whole brigade was here in
camp.
Tho strikers left Hazclton about
3:U o'clock, and IL was their inten-
ton TO 90 TO Latiner. As soon as this
became known, n band OF deputies
wa loaded on a trolley car and went
whirling across the mountain to the
Gene where tho bloody conflict fol-
lowed. After reaching Latimer, they
left the car aud formed into three
companies, under Thomas Hall, Il. A.
Hess and Samuel b. Price. They drew
up in line Mt the edge OF the village,
with q fence and a line Of houses In
their rear.
Sheriff Martin was in entire com.
maud, and stood in the front OF the
line until the strikers approached.
They were seen coming across the
ridge, and Martin went out to meet
them. The men drew up suddenly,
and listened In silence until he had
once more read the riot act This fin
ished, n low muttcring arose among
the foreigners, and there was n slight
movement forward. Perceiving this,
the sheriff stepped toward them and,
Ia q determined tone, forbade advance.
Someone struck the sheriff, and the
next moment there was . command to
the deputies to fire.
, The guns OF the deputies instantly
belched forth a terrible vollcy. The
report seemed to shake the very noun.
tains, and q cry of dismay went up
from the people, The strikers we're
taken entirely by surprise. and rs the
men topplcd and fell over each other,
those who remained unhurt STAN
peeled.
The men went down before the
storm Of bullets like tenpins and the
groans Of the dying and wounded
oiled the air. The excitement that
followed was simply indescribable.
The deputies seemed TO be terror
stricken ut the deadly execution OF
their guns, and, seeing the living
strikers fleeing like wild and others
dropping to the earth, they went to
the MD Of the ~urfortunates whom
MY had brought down.
Along the bank OF the trolley road
men lay In every position, some dead,
others dying. Three bodies, face
downward, lay along the incline and
three others were but a short distance
away, On the other side of the road
Is many more bodies lay. The school
house was transformed into q tempo.
rary hospital and some OF the wounded
were taken there. All along the
hillside wounded men were found or
the roadside and In the fields. Many
miners who had been carried TO a dis
lance could not be found.
Martin Roski, an intelligent Hun
Rarian from Mount Pleasant, who wa.
shot in the arm, was seen by a reporter
and gave this version OF the affair:
I'VE were going along the road e
Latimcr and the deputies were linet
across the road, barring our progress
We tried to go through tdem, and die
not attempt to hit or modest them
when they fred upon us. We ran, bu
they kept on shooting at us while W,
ran. 1t is all their fault"