The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-07
TAMPA CITIZENS ACT
RID THE TOWN OF ANARCHISTS AND
STRIKE AGITATORS.
Remarkable Work of VfgfIantes in
Secretly Deport.ng Spaniards
and Cuban Cigar Makers.
MEN SEIZED ON THE STREET
AND PUT ABOARD A MYSTERIOUS
VESSEL IN THE GULF.
Proclamation Warning Radical La
boritcs that They VIII Not Re Per-
MEN SEIZED ON THE STREET
AND PUT ABOARD MYSTERIOUS
VESSEL IN THE GULF.
Proclamation Warming Radical La
boritcs that They Will Not BE Per-
mitted to Destroy the City.

TAMPA, Fla, Aug. 6.-The strike situa-
tion tonight is one of bewilderment on the
part of the strikers and immovable determi-
nation on the part of the citizens. No
word has been received from or about the
Resistenoia leaders who were deported last
night, and the vigilantes are sworn to Sc
crecy, further than they admit the men
will return to Tampa. The exact
number of the men deported is not yet
known. but every prominent leader of the
strikers is missing. 1t is said that others
are marked and that deportation may take
place at any moment.
The KIDNAPPING last night had been well
planned for days. n great open-air meet
ing had been arranged, at which all the Re-
sstencia leaders had been invited, the pur-
pose being to catch them all I'm a bunch.
They were all present Music had been pro-
vided, and the streets were lined with thou
sands of people. Shortly before the posse
Of citizens reached the place the news
reached the strike leaders and they quickly
dispersed. The crowd was not daunted,
and commenced man-to-man search
through the streets and snatched the strike
leaders from the crowds. They were placed
in carriages that had been provided be-
tween heavily armed guards and driven
away. The captored leaders were at once
driven TO the county jail, where they re-
mained on the outside under guard for n
few minutes. Then they disappeared and
have not been seen or heard of since. Vari-
Gus rumors as to their disposition have
been circulated in the city to-day, it being
most generally reported that they were
taken into the gulf in an unknown and
mysterious vessel.
All of the deported strike leaders were
Spanards and Cubans. The boldness of
the whole affair and the accomplishment
of the deportation without bloodshed
is one of the remarkable features.
Those 10 whom the strike leaders
are intrusted refuse 10 say what disposi-
tion has been made OF them. They simply
say that they are being sent where they
cannot get back TO Tampa in long time.
The editor of La Federation, a Spanish pa
per published in the interest OF the Re
sistencia, was seized this morning. He
made vigorous fight, but was overpow-
cred and had TO go like the others. A COM
mittee of the leading business men are no
tifying the souphouses to-day that they
must close and feed no more people. After
this vagrant laws are TO be enforced
interferes with the work that is being done
by the committee.
1t develops tonight that twelve more
strikers, who. were among the subleaders.
were deported this afternoon and tonight
Some of the strikers have held number of
meetings during the day secretly and have
conferred with a number of lawyers with "A
view of taking some action. No one would
take the case. They have also appointed
new committees 10 carry on their work and
in the case of each committee hve different
ones were created so that when one is
taken away another will take his place.
a proclamation was issued here this aft
ernoon signed THE People of Tampa" Ii
says in part:
ITO the Anarchists and professional labor
agitators: We say that your days in Tampa
are at an end. We cannot and viii not per
nit you 10 destroy this prosperous city. IL
you have regard for your safety you will
shake it's dust from your feet. In con-
clusion we notify the manufacturers that
this movement OF citizens Is not In your in
terest, but the interest OF the entire COM
munity."