Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-13
THE NUMBER KILLED.
It Is Larger Than at First Reported-More
viii Die.
THE GRIEVANCES OF THE MINERS.
pitni Where the Wounded
Miners Lie.

Hazelton, Pa. Sept. IL Twenty-one
| corpses lie tonight in frame shantIcs
scattered about this hilltop town.
| Forty maimcd. wounded and broken
| figures lie on the narrow cots OF the
llazelton hospital OF these 1t is al
! most a certainty that five viii b.
added to the death list before another
| day dawns.
Such was the execution done yester-
day afternoon by 1902 deputy sheriffs.
armed to the teeth, upon about $50 ig-
norant foreigners, whose total arma
ment consisted of two little pen-knives.
These facts are undisputed.
Forty are badly hurt, including John
TREBLE. deputy sheriff.
All these men ranged in age from IS
to 40 wears. All are foreigners, Hun
garians Poles and Slaves.
The situation tonight is intense, as
the day was full of event and incident.
First and foremost. the purpose these
men had In view when their march re-
CeiVed It's tragic end was CONSUME
mated. The 1900 workers ut the Lati-
mer mines. to whom they were bound
in an effort to induce them to join the
strikers ranks, have laid down their
picKs and sworn to dc no more work
until all the demands of the men at ali
the mines in the district have been
conceded.
Next in Importance was the issuance
OF warrants this afternoon 1ut one
rest OF Sheriff Martin and 1902 deputies.
These were issued at the instance of
the United Hungarian societies. They
were made uUt in the name of Joseph
Mehalte, president of the st. George
society, Of which nearly all the dead
irincrSWuro mswlets 'UfH''
10y, manager Of the Anthracite Detec-
tive agency, took charge of the docu-
lnents, but up to late hour tonight
they rad not heen executed.
Sheriff Martin. who spent last night
at his Wilkesbarre home under Il
strong guard, came to EIazclton this
morning with the Ninth regiment OF
the Third brigade. His presence in the
town was not known until late IN the
day. Then 1t was found that he was
sun under the guardianship of the
soldiers and could not be reached
This afternoon Constables Airey and
Gallagher made an effort to arrest A.
y. Hess, who led one company Of the
deputies last night, but he had sought
shelter within the military lines kept
by the Ninth regiment and they re-
fused to permit the constables to pass
the guard. The warrants charge muir
der. assault and battery and threaten
ing to Kill.
A mass meeting at HARDWOOD adopt
ed resolutions expressing sympathy
for "our murdered brothers who Were
shot down at Latimer," and continued
in this fashion:
For years we have been oppressed
by C. Pardee & Co., by the payment
of starvation wages They have de-
prived us of our liberty by compelling
us to deal in their company store.
They have forced us to purchase pow
times 4
have otherwise tyraniZed us in ways
too numerous to mention, so that we
are no longer free men, but slaves.
We assembled together peacefully and
TO seek redress for our grievances. Not
one man among us was armed. ON
mission was not to take human life
nor to destroy property, but to go
ana meet our fellow employees of the
same company at Latimer who were
in sympathy with us. We We're OPP
posed on the public highwayand with
out provocation We're shot down like
dogs
Resolved That we deplore such re-
slstance to the right to assemble and
march. That we look upon such
shooting MS unprovoked and uncalled
murder In law, 1t surely must be be-
fore high heaven. That we denounce
such action as cruel and wilful ana
cowardly murder.
we pldce ourselves before the bar of
public opinion, and appeal to the good
citizens Of this state and the country
and ask them If there was justification
or warrant in such assassination.
Resolved, That we extend our SYM
patty to the friends and relatives of
those who have fallen, and pray TO
God that those now dead will live In
our memories as martyrs to the cause |
of downtrodden labor.
The hospital was the henrtrending
place today. Here all day long groups
of submerged, sallow- checked wo- |
men. many bearing children in their
arms, hung about the steps and eager |
ly watched the doors. Some sat in
stony silence, as If unaware as vet OF
what had happened, while others were |
bowed and bent beneath uncontrol-
able storms of grief. About the dead |
house in the rear of the hospital build |
ing, where lay two or three bodies. the |
scene was infinitely pitiful. During |
part OF the day lamentations no less |
mournful, could be heard at the build |
ing called the morgue, n one-storv |
wooden structure which ordinarily |
does duty as stable. Here lay four /
more bodies The long line of cots on /
either side of the wounded" ward I'm /
the hospital presented a CHASTITY spec
taclc.