Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-16
AN AWFUL CONFLICT.
Strikers and Deputy Sheriffs
 Come Into Conflict.
NINETEEN STRIKERS KILLED.
The Work of Identification of the Dead Goes On All
 Night.

EAzLEToN, Sept. 11.-N neteen dest and forty-one wounded is the record o
 of the Winchestsrs yielded by deput!
 sheriffs under Sheriff Lssttimer yester
 day afternoon. Eleven of the unfortu
 nate miners dropped dead in thiel
 tracks under bhs terrible battery, four
 teen more died during the night and
 four this morning. The work of iden
 sifying the dead was actively going on
 all night and complete list of She
 victims cannot be obtained for some
 time to come.
 The Ninth regiment of the Third Brigade under Colonel Dougherty oi ! Wilkesbsrre was the first detachment
 of State milibia to arrive. They came
 In after 9 o'clock this morning and
 oamped on the common in the oenteF of 1 Hszelton. The Pittsburg, Lebanon
 and Mahany men had not made their | appearance up to l o'clock. Coroner Bowen impanelled jury and sn inquest into the affair will probably bs held shIs afternoon. Far from being wildly eK- oised this morning, this place is pervsd- i ed by sort of sullen quiet which sp- pears even more ominious. All sorts of rumors are sf 1ab that three thousand strikers from the south side mines are marching on Hszelton with the purpose of wresking vengeance for the shooting, but dispersed on hearing of the pres snce of troops.
 HAzLEToN, Sspt 11.-WaErents are issued sb the instance of the Hungarian Society for the arrest of Sheriff Martin and his one hundred aud two deputies concerned in yesterdays shooting and they have been placed in the hands of Robert Hsaley, the manager Of the an thracite protective agency.
 HAzELToN, Sspt. 11-Fifteen hundred men employed Re the Nattimer mines, These are the miners upon whom yes terdsy afternoons march WAS directed when the bloody fusilade put 8 stop to 1t. Almost immediately after the shooting they quit work in body. This afternoon they held meeting and
 
 every demand made and every mine in the region had been closed by she operators. A meeting was held in front of the tumbled down frame school house thirty yards from the sosns of last nights tragedy. It was entirely ord counsel moderation.
 COLUMBUS, O, Sspt., 1.-The miners voted to reject the 65 cent proposition at the National convention this morn ing.
 HAzLET9N. Ps.. Sept. 13.-The first official action of the day wss the closing of all saloons until four o'clock this afternoon, after conference between General Gobin and Mayor AItmilln. It WAS done because oi the funeral of one of the victims, and she fear of what might follow if the strikers had access to liquor when wrought up by grief and rage. None of the militiemen were sl- lowed to leave camp and all pessss have been discontin ued. By order of General Gobin anything in the nature of mili- tary procession at she funeral was for- bidden and parade like that of yester- day when uniformed men carrying ssbsrs, marched, will not be sllowed.
 HAzLEToN, Pa, Ssps. 13.-Notwith- standing General Gooin's order one part of the funeral ooFtege was headed by bass baud which played a mourn ful acoompauiment to the train of men. As they nesrsd brigade head quarters the drums were silenced how ever as the procession reached it and two thousand men in line silently marched to the undertaken where eight Poles awaited burial. The street was packed with people who left narrow aisle for the marchers. Not the slight est disordsp and not 8 trooper in sight. After viewing the bodies the big parade formed with three other bands.
 The order prohibiting these not hRv- ing been communicated to the march CTS by the priests to whom he gave it, General Gobin revoked ib and gave per- mission fov the musical accompeni- menss. The parade did not get under way until late in the afternoon. The miners seem perfectly docile and DO trouble is anticipated.
 PITTsBURG, Sept. 13.-Emme Haas, miner of Joan Ds Ark and three other women wers arrested fer march ing at Plum Creek this morning by Sheriff deputies.
 PIrrsBURG, Sept. 13.-This action of the deputies preo!pitated an incipient riot in which the deputies faFed badly. None were seriously hurt but all the deputies were clubbsd and Superintend- ent DeArmitt was cut in the hand. Two of the women arrested carried babies. The riot was the result of & carefully prepared plan to prevent the men at work from entering the mine After the arrests the excitement sub sided and hestrikers returned to camp.
 HAMILTON, Sept. 1.-The district where the cosl miners gre located was infested by marching miners this morn ing, but no word has been received st headq usrtsrs from the csvslry sent to the scene The indications srs that the whole district will be idle within a few days. To great extecs the strik- CTS have been restrained from open violence by the priest, whose influence prevails to Tem arksbls degree. Is is now certain that no attempt will be made to arrest the deDutias nonoarned