The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-10-19
Miners and SCabS Come Into Col
liSiOn Near HazletOn.
MINE OFFICER IS SHOT DEAD
Ten Rioters Are rIOre or Less Seri-
Ously Hurt---WOmen Take a
Hand In the Fracas.

A dispatch from Hazleton, Pa, says:
A special policeman was instantly kill
cd, another was wounded in the head,
q striker was probably fatally shot and
ten non-union men were more or less
seriously wounded at the Oneida col
liery of Cox Brothers in O clash be-
tween the officers and 500 strikers
Wednesday morning. The victims
are:
Killed-Ralph Mills, fifty years old,
OF Beaver Meadow, one of the officers
conveyed ia special train early We'd
nesday morning from that place -
Oneida.
Wounded-George Kellnor, thirty
eight years old, of Beaver Meadow,
also a special officer. He received shot
wounds in the head, but will recover.
Joseph Lesko, thirty-eight years old,
of Sheppton, a striker He was shot
in the groin and will probably die.
Ten non-union men were stoned,
but only two of them were seriously
injured. They are John Vanblargin
and James Tosh, of Sheppton.
The Oneida colliery having been in
operation since the Inauguration of
the strike, the union men at Oneida
and Sheppton, where many of the en-
ployes of the Oneida and Derringer
colleries of Cox Brothers & Co. live,
decided to close down the mine. They
gathered in groups on the streets as
early as o'clock.
AS the non-union men went to work
they were asked by the strikers to re-
main at home. Some turned back,
others did not. Those who went to
the colliery were stoned. Vanblargin,
one of the non-union employees, at
tempted to draw a revolver, but the
weapon was taken from him and in
the beating he received he had sew
eral ribs brok en-.
As the small mine locomotive used
in hauling coal from the No. 2 and
No. 3 collieries to the Oneida breaker
pulled up on the road near the latter
colliery, a crowd of women blocked the
track. The women were told by Gen
eral Superintendent Kudlick to go
home. He assured them that their
husbands would get an increase in
wages and that their other grievances
would be properly adjusted. The
women refused to listen and stoned
the superintendent, who was wounded
in the head.
Then the striking men and the wo-
men rushed toward the No. colliery.
A force of about fifty special police
men, who had been brought down
from Beaver Meadow to prevent
trouble, attempted to intercept the
mob, but they were powerless to do
anything and retired to the engine
house.
AS the officers got close to the shell
ter a shot was fired. This was follow
ed by another and in few moments
many shots rang through the air.
Policeman Mills was the first to fall.
Then Joseph Lesko, q striker, stag.
gered to the ground. No one knows
who shot first, but it is believed that
both the strikers and the officers used
their weapons. A gunshot killed Mills
and small shot struck Policeman Kell-
nor. Lesko, the striker, was struck
by ball from q revolver, with which
all the officers were armed.
After the shooting the strikers dis
persed. Sheriff Toole, of Schuykill
county, in whose territory the clash
occurred, was in Philadelphia and
could render no assistance His CHIEF
: deputy, James O'Donell, went to the
scene in the afternoon with force Of
men, but quiet had already been re-
stored.