The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-17


OF Nesouehoning. The south side ar
my concentrated at McAdoo and the
order 10 march was given At 10. 20
o'clock last night. There were several
ne ana drum corps and a brass band
IN the line The women and girls were
conveyed in two large omnibuses. The
whole town of M-AdoO was out to see
the marchers start. Until y O'Clock
the night was very dark, it being diff
cult to see any distance in the noun
tain passes, but after midnight the
moon came out from behind a bank of
clouds and for the remainder of the
Journey the marchers had plenty of
light. As the town of Tamaol1a was
entered at a. m. the strikers began
to make as much noise as they could
in order TO awaken the people, who
were unaware of the coming of the
strikers. The marchers went through
the town without stopping for rest
and headed for COaldale, four and a,
half miles away.
Carriages containing newspaper cor
respondents who bad been trailing
along at the rear of the procession,
were requested to take the lead, so
they would not interfere with the plans
of the strikers. Following the news
paper men came the two conveyances
containing the McAdoo women, and
then followed a long line of Hunga-
rians, Italians. Poles. Slavs and Eng
hsh-speak king minewOrkers-
Soldiers Order Halt.
At point half mile from Coaldale
there is a sharp turn in the road, and
as the newspaper men rounded it
there came a command of Halt" and
about fifty feet in front of them stood
solid rows of soldiers, who were
stretched across the road with bay
onets fixed. Sheriff Toole of SchuylkiII
county was with them. The command
er OF the troops, speaking to the wait
ing crowd, said:
I'm the name of the people of the
n lN-a r1il T. n
TO disperse and return whence you
came"
The strikers began to protest that
they could not be stopped on a public
highway, and many of them showed a
DISPOSITION TO resist the soldiers. The
officer in charge of the troops, how
ever, kept his men in position and the
strikers, seeing that the soldiers evil
returning toward Tamaqua.
Mother Jones vehemently protested
against the action of the troops in
stopping the marcherS, but she was
shut off and ordered to move on The
McAdoO women had to be almost
pushed along, so slowly did they walk.
They. continually Jeered at the soldiers,
calling them all kinds of names and
threatening them with punishment if
they should dare to visit McAdOo- 1t
took from 2 o'clock until after 6 to
drive the crowd back to Tamaqua.
During all of this time the identity
the darkness; and it was reported
through the crowd that they belonged
to the Thirteenth regiment of Scranton.
The soldiers were really members of the
Fourth regiment, which has been sta
toned at Shenandoah for three weeks.
Eight companies of the regiment left |
Shenandoah at 1880 a. m, leaving two
companies behind. Brigadier General
Goblin was in command. On their ar
rival at Coaldale three companies I'M
der command of Colonel O'Neill were
sent out Ito the south side marchers.
Three companies were left at COaldale.
while two companies under command
of General Goblin came here.
Troops In Pursuit.
When the soldiers had driven the
strikers over the mountain one COM |
pany was sent back to Coaldale, where |
the soldiers boarded coal cars and were |
sent to Tamaqua 20 quell any disturb |
Rnce the scattering strikers might stir |
up there. Further along the road a 4
company was deployed to protect a col |
liery, while the marchers were passing |
1t, and later it was also sent to Tama- /
qua. The three companies combined in |
the latter town and soon had the !
marchers well scattered.
While all this had been going on, the |
north side marcherS had everything |
their own way in the Nesquehoning |
valley. They reached there after j
o'clock and succeeded in persuading !
enough men to remain away from the /
Lehigh Coal & Navigation company's !
No. L colliery to compel its shut down. (
General Goblin sent two companies of |
soldiers over there and soon had order |
restored.
superintendent w D. Zehner. of the /
company, stated to a representative of |
the Associated Tress that if Sheriff |
Brislin of Carbon county, in which the
cOlliery is located, had performed his I
duty in proper manner the Nequehon-
ing colliery would not have been shut
down. Mr.. Zehner said the remaining
nine collierieS Of the company are
working, most of them full handed.
1t was long after nightfall when the
last Of the strikers who marched to
Panther Creek valley returned to their
homes. They were for the most part,
fOotsore and weary. The distance of
eighteen miles from Hazelton to Coal
dale is principally down grade and the
walk there was scarcely noticed by the
strikers. The uphill march back home
however, with the added facts of a
sleepleRs night and 4 failure to accom-
pish their purpose, tended to dampen
their aroor somewhat.