The evening times., 1900-10-16
STRIKERS FOILED BY TROOPS
Failure Of an Attempted Raid on
Panther Creek Mines.

HAZLETON. Pa, Oct. ia concerted
and determined attempt was made by
striking miners early this morning to
stop work at the twelve colIieries of the
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company in
the Panther Greek Valley by intercepting
the miners employed there and prevent
ing then. from going 10 their work. =
great mob of strikers from McAdoo and
other towns in the HazIeton region left
here at midnighs. some on foot and some
in wagons, their objective points being
CoaIdaIe and Lansford on the other side
of Broad Mountain.
Recruits were gathered on the way.
These towns are about twenty miles south
oE Hazleton and the strikers had timed
their march, they thought, SO as to be
able 20 waylay the miners when they went
TO work
AS the strikers approached the Hills
overlooking the Panther Valley. their
way was blocked by eight eompan-
les of infantry and the Governors Troop
OF Cavalry. and the marchers, who num-
! bered 2.0G0. were turned back
General Goblin, in command OF the State
Militia. row on duty in SehuylkiIl county
was Informed of the proposed raid last
evening. He ordered the eight companies
OF the Fourth Infantry, which were at
Shenandoah. 10 60 at oEce TO the eastern
end of the county, where the trouble was
expected. The miIitiamen left about mid
| night on 3 special train and arrived near
/ Tamaqua at 2:30 o'clock. General Goblin
was in personal command of the force. AT
| the same time the Governors Troop.
which was at Oneida, proceeded 10 the
Panther Creek valley
The strikers planned to make the raid
u Il f,.I
Nearly every town in the Lehigh and
SchuylkiII coal fields joined and it was eX-
pected that there would be over 0,0e0 men
and women il the crowd. The great crowd
was led by Mother Jones.
Large numbers OF the raiders were in
! wagons and carriages while thousands
trudged on foot over the mountain roads
! 4 brass band was in the van and two
4 drum corps made up of strikers sounded
martial music 10 enliven the march and
( keep up the spirits of the strikers on the
| eighteen-mile journey.
From as early as O'Clock to midnight.
! according to their distance from the Oh
! iectiye point, the nlarchers began ga b.
ering in all the towns and hanllets along
! the Iine OF march. By 10 o'clock the
/ strikers from this city and nearby had
reached McAdoo, where thy were joine1
/ by another large contingent, which had
/ concentrated there. Mother Jones was
! in the van in q carriage and seemed to be
| in command. All along the route re-eD-
foreements Joined the column.
/ The night was dark and starIess. and
marching over the dusty st1ny mountain
roads was extremely arduous, but the
strikers p1odded On without complaining
/ sweeping through the agricultural re
! gions with shouts and whoops, which,
with the shriu notes OF the fife and drum
j reused the sleeping farmers, who gazed
with wonder on the motley throng
Hometown, q small village in the farm
| ing districts near T2maQua, was to have
been the rallying point for all the forces
whence the descent upon the Panther
| Creek Valley was TO be made. At the foot
Of Broad Mountain. however. the raiders
found themselves outfanked by the troops
| TAMAQUA. Pa, Oct 16.-This end OF
| Panther Creek Valley was awakened at
a. M by a racket made by at least 2,G0C
strikers. who had come from McAdoo and
! surrounding towns TO prevail upon the
miners of No. 10 eolliery of the Lehigh
Coal and Navigation Company to join them
| The strikers used tin horns and cheered
! for President Mitchell. With them came
( in wagons and tally-hos about forty wo-
men, headed by Mother" Jones' They SET
cut to induce the miners not to go TO work
The state troops of Shenandoah were
rushed ahead and the Fourth Regiment
made flank movement, SO that by the
| time the women and the strikers had
marched the two and one-haf miles. thew
found lined up in front of them on the road
! to CoaIdale about 500 soldiers. Terrified
! by the troops, the strikers rushed back in
/ full retreat to Tamaqua amid intense ex-
| element Many of the men and women
{ came in wagons we'll provisioned for a
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