The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-17
The WAR IN PENNSYLVANIA
A DAY OF GREAT ANXIETY IN
THE STRIKE DISTRICT
Troops on h Alert Their Protection
Wanted by Many Mine Operators-strik
ers Attack a Colliery-Troops Sent 70 the
Scene-More Men Joining the Strikers
Funerals of the Men Killed Friday-1n
tense U~neasiness at HaZletOn

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tense Uneasiness at HaZletOn
Hazleton, Pa, September 12.-(Sun-
situation here tonight is
than it has been at any time
the bloody ARRAY Of Friday af-
%ernoon. There is strong reason to
fear a conflict between the strikers and
the military tomorrow, and there is an
indication that from five to seven thou
sand more miners will join the NAL
contents.
Feeling continues high against Sher-
if Martin and his deputies, n tho
intensity of the situation is such tina
a sudden turn of the head Of a word
spoken above the ordinary tone brings
a running crowd. The soldiers are
watchful and ready for n emergency,
and the people of the town are in a
state which may easily become panic.
An accident Of ugly omen occurred
during the funeral Of three OF n vic
TINS his afternoon. While services
were being held inside ST. JOseph's
church about 1000 Of the foreigners
were congregated about the doors. A
tnuInDcT OF IHe1H IdlSeu tIeiI NolCcSs
and it is declared by eye witnesses that
a policeman stationed near the door
became unduIy officious. Instantly an
ominOus muttering followed, mingled
with scowling look and cienched fists.
Word was Immediately carried indoors
to the Rev. Father Aust. He hurried
out of the door and bundled the men
who seemed most quarrelsome into the
church. A few words Of counsel to the
toJ f1n dam n c rn -
tons.
General Goblin talked over the tele-
phone to Governor Hastings for an hour
or more this afternoon. He said he a
merely made a formal report to the
governor of the situation. 1t is appar-
ent, however, that the commander is
not cheered by the immediate outlook.
although he says he thinks there will
be no further turbulence. He would
not say when the troops are likely to
be withdrawn, and he has resolved to
act with the utmost rigOr.
Furthermore, he made a revelation
which put a startling aspect upon the
situation. This was that the house Of
the engineer of Nc. 8 cOlliery had been
broken into last night by six masked
men and the engineer, who is a cripple,
numerically beaten. There is no clew
to the identity Of the assailants. The
only work the man has been doing late
1y is the pumping necessary to free the
mine from water.
STRIKERS STEAL DYNAMITE.
The general has also received a for
NAL report of the Audenried outrage of
last Thursday night, when strikers
broke into the house Of Conner Jones,
superintendent of the Lehigh and
W~ilkesbarre Coal Company. Jones,
whose unpopularity with the miners
was one Of the first causes Of the strike,
was not there, but the men literally
wrecked the interior of the house and
then attacked a mine power house
near by and stole therefrom a quantity
of dynamite.
AUSTRIAN DIPLOMAT AIDING THE
MINERS.
DR.. ~Thodorovitch, secretary Of the
Austrian consulate at Philadelphia, is
participating in a meeting tonight, con
sidering methods Of prosecuting the
deputies. He obtained affidavits from
a number of the miners who were in
Friday afternoons affair, which throw
some new light on the shooting. hey
declare, in substance, that on the morn
ing of that day a messenger arrived at
HARDWOOD and asked the foreigners to
come to Lattimer, as the employees Of
. %cOlliery No. l at that place, were about
to strike. Later, a second message to
the same effect arrived, and then the
men started owe to Lattimer. At
Halle colliery, so the affidavits con-
tinue, Sheriff Martin met them and
warned them not to go through Halle
ton, but to go around the other way.
They did so, but arriving at the fatal
bend in the road neal Lattimer, they
again found themselves confronted by
the sheriff. this time backed by the
army of deputies. AS 500 as they
reached the spot, it is declared, Sheriff
Martin stepped out and roughly grab
bed the foremost man by his o COL
lar. With his other hand he thrust a
revolver into his face and used abusive
language. The miner knocked the
'Sheriff's revolver arm from in front Of
him and tried to wrench himself from
the officials grasp. Almost instantly,
the affidavi says the order to fire was
given. The deputies were lined up in a
hollow square, the fourth side of which
was formed by the body of strikers.
This would possibly account for the
fact that so many were shot in the
back and side.
ONLY WEAPON AMONG THE
STRIKERS.
In the office Of the Lehigh Traction
Company is a brown cutaway coat,
which one of the men now dead wore
ON Friday last. There are three bullet
holes in it, one through the front, one
through an arm, n the third through
the tails. In an inside pocked was
found a cheap 32-calibre Bulldog re-
volver. This had not been used in the
riot, because the chambers contained
neither empty nor loaded shells, and it
could not have been fired before the
man was shot. because he would have
had no time to unload it. 1t is estab-
lisbed that this is the only weapon on
tanned in the whole mol of mineis, and
the conditions indicate hat the first
shot could not have come from their
side. There were three companies of
deputies, and one of these, made up
of men who had served as mine po-
lice in the past. had had much trou-
BILE with h strikers on previous ocea-
sions, and were seid to be m ~revengefsal
mood against then.
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