The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-09-13
STORIES OF STRIKERS.
Versions Given by Some as TO the Fatal
Shooting nt Lattimer.

Versions Given by Some as to the Fatal
Shooting at Lattimer.
---...s.,,z., = a., Sept 18.-The SITUATION
here today is graver than 1t has been
at any time since the bloody affray
Of Friday afternoon. There is strong
reason to fear a conflict between the
strikers and the military, and there
Is an indication that from 5000 to 1908
more miners viii join the malcontents.
Feeling cOntiues high against Sheriff
Martin and his deputies, and the in
tensity Of the situation is such that
a sudden turn of the head or a word
spoken above the ordinary tone brings
a running crowd. The soldiers are
watchful and ready for any emergency.
and the people of the town are in a
state which may easily become panic.
An incident of ugly omen occurred
during the funeral Of three of the vic
Tins yesterday. While services were
being held inside st. Josephs church
about 1000 of the foreigners were con-
gregated about the doors. A number
OF them raised their voices, and it is de-
clared by eye witnesses that a police
man stationed near the door became
unduly officious. Instantly an ominous
muttering, mingled with scowling looks
and clenched fists, followed. Word was
Immediately carried indoors to the Rev.
Father Aust He hurried out to the
door and bundled the men who seem
ed most quarrelsome into the church.
A few words of counsel to the others
prevented further demonstrations.
The military authorities are deter
mined that from this time on there
shall be no marching of any character
whatsoever, whether during funerals
or otherwise. This resolution is not
generally known, and the miners are
going on with their arrangements for
funeral marches. 1t is apparent that
General Goblin Is not cheered by the
immediate outlook. Although he says
he thinks there will be no further tur-
bulence, 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troops are likely to be withdrawn, and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 No. colliery had been
broken into late Saturday night by
six masked men, and the engineer, who
Is a crippel, numerically beaten. There
is no clew to the identity of the as
sailants. The only work the man has
been doing lately is the pumping neces-
sary to free the mine from water. The
general had also received a formal re-
port of the Audenried outrage of last
Thursday night, when strikers broke
into the house of Conner Jones, su-
perintendent of the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal company. Jones, whose un-
popularity 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 at
tackled a mine power house nearby and
stole therefrom a quantity of dynamite.
AS soon as he heard of this General
Goblin assigned a guard of the Thir-
teenth regiment to remain at Auden-
ried.
The addition to the strikers ranks, If
made, will be the men at Coxe's mines,
and should they go out the last big
anthracite company in the region will
be idle. It was not known until yes
terday that the 1000 men employed
at Colliery No. held a meeting at
Stockton Saturday night and drew up
petition to the operators demanding
an increase of 10 per cent The action
in the event of refusal is Strike" 1t
is accepted as a fact that If these men
go out all the others employed by the
company will join them making the
total number something between 5000
and 1000 from these mines alone. The
Coke men had already been offered an
increase, but rejected 1t on the ground
that 1t was still lower than the scale
paid by the other operators in the re-
gion.
To all intent and purposes Hazleton
is under martial law. General Goblin
declared last night that in spite of the
warrants issued, no constables nor any
| civic authority will be permitted to
arrest the hated deputies. He said that
the sheriff is an executive officer whose
duty is to preserve the peace, and that
he, Goblin, and the troops are really
subordinate to the sheriff at this time,
being engaged in helping him to per-
form that duty. Under these circum-
stances he will not permit interference
with the sheriff's officials so long as
the militia is here. In spite of this fine
distinction, the commanders decision
on this point is accepted as superceding
the civil authorities by the military
power.
The events Of yesterday were the
death Of another Of the wounded, Ja-
cob Tomashantos, the 1s-year-old boy
who was shot through the head, and
the announcement by the hospital doc
| tors that FIVE more will die, and the
funeral Of four Of the victims. These
were Andrew Yureck, Steve Urich,
John Futa and Mike Cheslok. Ten more
will be buried today. and here the
trouble is likely to occur. It has been
arranged that the ten collins shall be
carried on the shoulders of the strikers
from the undertaker's shop to the front
of st. Joseph's church, In front Of the
church a platform is to be erected, upon
which 1t Is the purpose to place the
ten collins, so that they may be viewed
| by the crowd.
Then addresses in Polish, Lithuanian
| and English are to be made by priests
| and others. The bodies will then be
carried inside and pontifical high mass
Will be celebrated. After the services
the procession will go to the Polish
cemetery, where eight Of the collins.