The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-11
SPECIAL POLICEMAN INSTANTLY
KILLED AND ONE STRIKER
FATALLY WOUNDED
HON-JAIOI MIN WE'RE STOIED
UNION MINERS ATTACKED THEo
ONEIDA COMPANY CoLLIERY
AT HAZLETON
BATTLED WITH REvoLvERs
Force of Fifty Officers Fought on
and Dispersed the Rioters 4
Lithuanian Priests
Narrow Escape.

HAZELTON, Pa, Oct. 1O-A specia.
policeman was instantly killed, another
was wounded in the head, a striker was
probably fatally shot and ten non-union
men were more or less seriously wound
ed at the Oneida colliery of Coke Bros.
In clash between the officers and 500
strikers this morning. The victims are:
Killed:
RALPH MILLS. aged fifty years, Of
Beaver Meadow, one of the officers con-
v,eyed In special train early tbs morn
ing from that place to Oneida He was
Shot through the back
&c George Ss5 Ma.! MKe!Ilnor, aged thlrty-eight of
lie received shot wounds in the he -. but
will recover.
s5enfdp1h Joseph Lesk0. aged thirty;eight, of
groin and VIII probably die.
len non-un1on men were stoned, but
only two of them were seriously Injured.
They are John Van Blargin and James
Tosh, of Shepton The former susfaine1
scalp wounds and the latter had four
ribs broken.
The Oneida colliery having been In
operation since the Inauguration of the
strike, the union men at Oneida and
Shepton, where many of the EMPLOYEES
of the Oneida and Derringer col iertes
OF Coke Bros. & Co. live, decided early
this morning to close down the mine.
1hey gathered in groups on the street
as early as s o'clock. AS the non-l1n on
men went to work they were asked bv
the strikers to remain at home Some
turned back; others did not Those who
went to the colliery were stoned Van
Blargin, one Of the non-union EMPLOYEES.
attempted to pull revolver, but the
weapon was taken from him, and In the
beating he received he had several r.bs
broken. This occurred just before start.
Ing time at the mine.
STORY OF THE BATTLE
The strikers remained at the colliarv
all morning. AS the small mine loco;no-
tive used in hauling coal from the No.
z and No. cellieries to the Oneida break.
er pulled up on the road, near the latter
colnery, a crowd of women blocked the
way. Supt. Kudlick, of Drifton. ad
dressed the crowd. He told the women
thelr husbands would get an Increase in
wages and their other grievances would
De adjusted. He was unheeded. Tney
stoned thee engineer W9lo was wounded
IN the head. The crowd then rushed to
/ the NO. colllery. A squad OF fifty po-
Ecemen, who had been brought down
from Beaver Meadow to prevent trouble,
attempted to intercept the mob. but tl1ev
were powerless to do anything, and re-
turned to the engine house Just az
the ofhcers got close to shelter a shot
was fired. This was followed by another,
and IN few seconds many shots rang
through the air. Policeman Mills was the
first to fall. Then Joseph Lesko. a
striker, staggered to the ground No one
knows who fired the first shot, but both
strikers and officers used their wearons.
A glinshot killed Mills and small shot
struck Policeman Kellnor. Lesko, the
striker, was struck by ball from a re-
Volver, with which all the officers were
armed. After the shooting the strikers
dispersed.
Sheriff Toole, of schuylkill county. in
whose territory the clash occurred was
in Philadelphia, and could render no as
s1stance. His chief deputy, James -O'Don-
nell, arrived here this afternoon and
went to the scene with force of men.
Rev Carl Houser, a Lithuanian minis
ter from Freeland, who baptized a child
at Oneida, just al the time the shooting
was In progress, was mistaken by the
strikers for Supt Kudluck and narrowly
escaped being stoned. He was soon rec
ognized by friend and escorted safely
to the station.