Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-11
SLAUGHTER OF COAL MINERS
rbsv ote Sho, Down Like Sheep by Deputy
Sherffs.
THIRTEEN KILLED, FORTY WOUNDED
A Body of Marching miners oo'i'"'
with the omcers with Fear
full Results.

uazelton, Pa, Sept 1O.-The strike
situation reached terrible crisis on
che outskirts of Larimer this after
,oor. when a band of deputy sheritfs
ered into a mob of miners. The men
f,l like so many sheep, and the excite
rnent has been so intense that no accu-
rate figures Of dead and woundeu can
he obtained, Reports run from ftteen
IA twenty killed and forty or more
votlnded one man who reached the
scene tonight counted thirteen corpses.
-Four other bodies lie in the mountains
between Latimer and Hazelton tonight.
THOSE who were not injured carried
their dead and wounded friends into
he woods, and estimaen are bafiled.
THE DEAD.
Mike Chenloll. HARDWOOD.
Frank Chekl, HARDWOOD.
John stauiska, Crystal Ridge.
George Kulick. Harwood.
Steve Horrick. Harwood.
THE INJURED.
Among the injured are:
George Krese, Harwood bullets
through leg, hip and knee. John ker-
loyitch shot IN neck. Andrew Shubo-
lick. shot in breast. John Kulich, shot
in stomach. John Damensko, shot in
both legs. George Vrcichek, shot in
both legs. John .orti, shot in head;
will die. John Kleshoka, shot in hip.
Kasinir Dalis, shot in breast jacob
Kulshot. shot through body; will die.
Steve Ersliu, shot In body. John Kohl;
shot in arm and left side. Joseph Bo-
blck, shot through back. John Treble,
deputy shot in arm.
Three bodies were found tonight on
the road near Latmer
The strikers left HaZclton about 1880
O'Clock this afternoon, and 1t was their
intention to go to Latimer. As soon as
this became known band of deputies
was loaded on a trolley car ana went
whirling across the mountain to the
Scene where the bloody conflict fol-
lowed, After reaching Latimer they
left the car and formed into three
companies, under Thomas Hall, Il. A.
Hess and Samuel b. Price. They drew
up In line ut the edge of the village.
with fence and IL line of houses in
their rear.
Sheriff Martin was in entire COM
mand and stood In the front of the line
until the strikers approached. They
were seen coming across the ridge and
men drew up suddenly, and listened in
silence until he had once more read
the riCt act. This finished low NUT
tering 1ross among the foreigners, and
there was n slight movement forward.
Perceivipg this the sheriff stepped for
ward toward them and, in deter
mined tone, forbade advance Some
one struck the sheriff. md the next
m0m"nt there was a command to the
deputies to fire. The guns of the depu-
lies Instantly belched forth a terrible
yolley
The report seemed to shake the very
mountains, and cry of dismav went
up from the people. The strikers We're
taken entirely by surprise, and as the
men toppled and fell over each other.
those Who remained unhurt stampeded,
Inc men went down like tenpins, and
tne groans of the dying and wounded
hlle1 the air. The excitement that
il0Ilowed was simply indescribable.
me deputies seemed to be terror
stricken at the deadly execution OF
thelr guns, and seeing the living
uf9pnlnE to the earth, they went to the
ga or the unfortunates whom they
mad brought down.
me people of Latimer rushed pell-
mel to the scene. but the shrieks of
me wounded drowned the cries of the
tympathizing and half-craHed inhab-
llahls' A reporter who soon aftcrward
ieachsd the scene found the road lead
isnE 70 Latlmer filled with groups OF
inthtened Hungarians. They sur
TTo0hHed dying companions, and some
IeHflul of pursuit, chung to the now
conner and begged his protection
AZ Farlcy's hotel there We're two men
yins on the porch. Both had been
,hot IN the head. One had three bull
- III MN. HIS Eroans and appeals
Ing 'eii'-
An along the road the wounded men
VINO we're able to leave the field of
..H''le scattered themselves and sought
nr shade of trees for protection, but
.leIe was no need of that then. An.
I"Hching the place where the shoot =
.,F occurred People were mot wrlngIng
neiI hands and bemoaning the catas
uul!he' They could not talk intelli-
benl'y, and 1t was with the greatest
uriilu.lity that information could be
A'ong the track of the trolley road
n!,h lay IN every position, some dead.
unuts dying. Three bodies. face down
maiu' lay along the incline, and others
we're nut short distance away. on
IN pther lde of the road as many
bodies lay.
The school house was transferred in
W. temporary hospital and some of
~ wounded were taken there. The
ambulance was summoned as soon ns
plssl PIE, and upon its arrival two men
..l"' through the legs We're loaded into
Inc wagon.
Al along the hillside wounded men
" NyIe found, ON the roadside and the
Mells' Many miners who had been car
''eu distance could not be found.
AS soon as the news Of the shooting
s'tthtd lia2eltown there was CDnstar-