The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-22

the f1re companies and other citizens to
aid in restoring order.
$500 SOLDIERS ARRIVE.
Shenandoah, Pa, Sept 22.-AlI was
quiet here up to a. m No violence of
any moment has occurred since the riot
ing of yesterday afternoon which re-
suited in the killing Of two persons in
the streets of this place and the serious
injury of a score of others.
Troops began arriving soon after day
light and upwards Of $500 soldiers are
here ready for any energ gency.
Saloons are all closed and martial law
prevails.
The collieries are idle also, they hav-
ing been closed by the Reading COM
pany at the request of Sheriff Toole in
order to avert trouble.
CALA1NESS PREVAILS.
Hazleton, Pa, Sept 22.-Calmness pre-
vailed throughout the Lehigh region this
morning No disturbances of any mo
ment were reported in any part of the
district. There is still a tense feeling on
the part of the public. but the sending
of troops to Shenandoah, 25 miles from
here, is generally regarded as bringing
matters to crisis and the situation
here is therefore somewhat relieved.
Armed deputies are distributed near
most of the oolieries and along several
of the public roads leading to mining
property. There was the usual number
of strikers out early this morning, trying
to persuade workers not to go into the
mines, but they did not meet with as
much success as on the previous day.
Strikers were careful not to carry their
persuasion to the point of intimidation,
thus avoiding conflict with the depu-
ties. The latter SO far have not made
themselves conspicuous, they having re-
ceived orders from the sheriff to in ev-
cry way minimize the possibility of
getting into trouble with the strikers.
So long as the idle men in the dis
trict who number more than IL, 200, re-
frain from gathering into large crowds
and marching from town to town, there
7fe-fr
The strike situation is practically un-
changed. The Markle mines at Jeddo and
Oakdale are working to get all its men
back to work There is a considerable
number of watchmen on the company'S
property and the Sheriff's deputies are
within easy reach. Mr.. Markle says he
is determined to give all the men in his
employ who desire to work, a chance to
do so, and adds that he will protect them
if it takes the entire military force of
Pennsylvania to accomplish it.
There was danger of trouble at Sandy
Run early this morning. One hundred
men from Freeland went there at
o'clock to stop the men at the A. r.
Kemmerer colliery from going to work
There was a parley near the collier'y and
the strikers agreed to let the men work
on the promise that they will not re-
turn to the mines Monday morning. The
men and women of McAdoo were again
on the march early this morning. At
a. m. $50 strikers from Audenreid, Jeans
vile and McAdoO and sixty women of
the latter place started for Coleraine
where an early morning mass meeting
was held
TROOPS HURRIED FORWARD.
Pottsville, Pa, Sept. 22.-The Eighth
regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard,
Col. Theodore F. Hoffman, commanding,
with headquarters at Pottsville, received
orders early this morning from Harris
burg to mobilize at Mahanoy Plain at
o'clock a., m. Immediately messengers
were fleeing to and fro to awaken the
s,T.
the regiment had five companies ready
to go to the scene of the disturbance.
The regiment is composed of five COM
panies from Schuyllxill, one company
each from Pottsville, St Clair, ,Tamaqua,
Mahanoy City and Girardville, right in
the region where the trouble originated,
and five companies from the towns near
Harrisburg. Many thought 1T would be
an unwise movement to take the militia
from this region, but Col Hoffman soon
set their minds at rest by declaring his
regiment would obey orders anywhere
when issued by their Superiors.
The above mentioned five companies,
together with company F, Fourth regi-
ment, Immediately upon arriving at
took special train and went
to Shenandoah before daylight The
Fourth regiment, with headquarters at
also arrived early this morn
ing followed later by the Twelfth regi-
ment, with headquarters at Sunbury
and Williamsport. The opinion here is
that one troop of cavalry seems a rather
small force to send to a place like the
Shenandoah valley, with it's collieries
scattered for miles and some think an
entire brigade will be needed to pre-
serve order, if the mob shows any dis
position to break loose today
The Ninth regiment of Wilkesbarre,
and the Thirteenth regiment of Scranton
are held in reserve in anticipation that
an outbreak will occur in either of those
regions.
DIScTTSSTNG THE TRAGEDY.
Wilkesbarre. Pa, Sept. 22-The trag-
edy at Shenandoah has made deep i'm
preston in the wyoming valley. CROWDS
of idle miners are discussing the situa-
ton. The more conservative of the
strikers deplore the action of the Shen-
andoah men in making an attack on the
sheriff They say if the men had pur-
sued the same course that the miners
of this region are doing in keeping away
from the mines there would be no oc-
casion for bIoodshed. Other miners think
the calling out Of the militia will
the lines of strikers in the
Lehigh and Schuyxill regions.
The operators look upon the affair as
the beginning of the end. They say the
miners in the SchuyllSiH and Lehigh dis
tricts who want to go to work, but who
have been prevented by intimidation,
will now flock to the mines and there
will be no difficulty in keeping the col
lieries in operation.
Ex-Sheriff James Martin, who was at
the head of the deputies at Lattimer
three years ago, Wnen Il miners were
killed and over so wounded, says in an
interview that most people have no idea
what a sheriff in the coal regions has to
contend with in times of strike. '@The
passions of working men, he said, ssare
aroused to the highest pitch when they
see other men at work, and it only re-
quires the report of a pistol to start
good sized row."
Continuing he said: s'Some people are
inclined to criticize me for my action at
L-attimer, but like Sheriff Toole, coszld
do nothing else but what / did. Either
or the mob had to rule AS a sworn
officer of the law I knew my duty in
the matter. The first thing to do was
to preserve the peace and in my efforts
to do so bloodShed resulted History
only repeated itself at Shenandoah yes