The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-31
BLOODSHED AT MINES
REIGN OF TERROR INAUGURATED
AT SHENANDOAH, PA.
MANY KILLED AND WOUNDED
TROOPS ORDERED To SCENE BY
GOV. STONE.

tack ON Two Non-UniOn Workers
Escorted by Deputy Sheriff Beddal,
who Opened Fire, but Was Com
peIIed to Flee-His Brother in Cnr-
rying Him Aid Beaten to Death.
borough Police Put Up Good Fight,
but Were Forced to FIy--Two Shot
One FataIIy-Over a Score of Strilx-
ers, All Foreigners, Wounded and
at Least Two VIII Die.
Shenandoah, Pa, July S0.-A reign
of terror, compared with which the
scenes enacted during the riots of 1900
seem insignificant, holds Shenandoah
in it's grasp tonight. Since o'clock
this evening Centre street, which is
one of the principal streets of the town,
has been in the hands of an Infatuated
mob. Two of the borough policemen
were shot, one perhaps fatally. Joseph
Beddal, a leading merchant and cousin
of Sheriff Beddal, was brutally dubbed
to death, and upwards of a score of
strikers, whose names at this writing
could not be ascertained, were shot by
policemen, and it is expected that many
deaths will result. Sheriff Beddal ar
rived from Pottsville at 7:45 O'Clock
with a posse of deputies. He has TAX
en- up his headquarters at the Fergu-
son Hotel. To an Associated Press re-
porter he admitted that he has asked
Gov. Stone to send the militia. The
Governor wired that if the citizens of
the town petition for troops he will
send them, and a petition is being cir
culated for that purpose now.
The trouble started about 6 o'clock
this evening, when Deputy Sheriff
Thomas TeGdal attempted to escort
two non-union workers through the
strikers line of pickets. The workmen
We're dressed in their street clothes,
but one of them carried a bundle un-
der his arm, and this aroused the sus-
picion of the strikers. The bundle was
torn from him, and when it was found,
to contain a blouse and overalls, the
man was taken from the deputy and
beaten almost to death.
Mercha -. BeddaI Killed.
IN the meantime, Beddal opened fire
on the mob, which had gathered by this
time and emptied his revolver. Two Of
the shots took effect. one man being
shot in the leg and the other in the
foot The deputy and the strike
breakers were now compelled to fly
for their lives, and took refuge in
the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad depot. The depot was soon
surrounded by an angry mob of 5000,
which was becoming more threatening
and demonstrative every moment. Jo-
seph Beddal, a hardware merchant
and brtoher of the deputy sheriff, was
seen making his way through the
crowd in an effort to reach his broth
er, and the mob. divining that he was
carrying ammunition to those inside
the depot, seized him and beat him
with clubs and billies into insensibility.
He died en- route to the miners hos
pital
Shortly after this the entire borough
police force arrived on the scene and
escorted the deputy sheriff and his man
to an engine, which had been backed
into the depot for that purpose. When
the mob realized that their prey was
about to escape they surrounded the
engine and the engineer was afraid to
move. In a few moments, however
the police fired a volley dispensing the
crowd for a brief period and the sn-
gineer turned on full steam and got
away with his men.
Police Made to Fly.
Stones were now thrown thick and
fast about the heads of the police,
order to fire. At the first volley the
mob fell back and several were seen
10 fall. Their retreat, however, was
hut momentary. They turned and
with revolvers, stones and even a few
shotguns they charged on the little
band of policemen and made them fly
for their lives. The policemen turned
in their flight at short intervals and
fired volley after volley at their mer-
CHESS pursuers, but the mob seemed
thoroughly Infatuated and smoking re-
Nolvers seemed to have no terrors for
them When the Lehigh railroad cross
ing was reached a passing freight
III plOChSu The pIOSlSSS VI IAAC AAiSA'
Two of whom were caught and brutal
Iy beaten. One of them, StineyYa-
ccpslzy, will die.
1t is estimated that upwards of one
thousand shots were fired, and the
Wonder is that more fatalities did not
result. More than twenty strikers,
all of whom were foreigners. were
shot, and at least two of them will die.
Many of the merchants and politicians
are refusing to sign the call for troops,
tearing that the miners will boycott
Them after the trouble is over, and
as the governor has made the sending
OF troops contingent on the petition of
otlzens there is some doubt as to
whether they Will be sent.
AT IL o'clock tonight the streets are
sun crowded with people, but every
ming is quiet.
The doctors of the town dressed the
wounds of nearly. forty strikers, all
OF whom were foreigners whose names
could not be ascertained. 1t is known
az midnight that four out of the six
pohcemen were shot. Chief Fry re-
Seived a slight wound in the hands:
lacopsky was shot in the neck and
mead and may die. Ringheizer was
SDot IN the hand and back, not serious,
Laurites was shot In several places
snQ cannot raonuar