The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-31
5000 Miners in Mob Which Shoots and Clubs Officers
 in Pitched Battle
TURBULENT SCENES MAKE
 MIGHTY REIGN OE TERROR
Governor Stone Sends 15oo Soldiers to Rule Mob-Sheriff Is Powerless. Union Officers Say Foreign
 CTS Are Beyond Control.

shenanaoah. Pa. July BOA reign of terror, compared with which the scenes enacted during the riots of 190o seem in- significant. held Shenandoah in it's grasp tonight.
 From o'clock in the evening Center street. which is one of the principal streets of the town, was in the hands of an infuriated mob. Two of the borough policemen were shot. one perhaps fatal- ly. Joseph Beddal. a leading merchant and cousin of Sheriff Beddal, was brutal ly clubbed to death and upwards of score of strikers whose names could not be ascertained. were shot by policemen and it is expected that many deaths will result Sheriff BeddaI arrived from Pottsville at 7:45 o'clock with a posse of deputies. He took up his headquarters at the Ferguson hotel. which was sur rounded by several thousand men lata tonight. The sheriff. after the troubla occurred, asked Governor Stone to send militia and the governor wired that fl the citizens of the town petition for thd troops he will send them.
 
 evening. when Deputy Sheriff Thomas Beddal attempted to escort two non- union workers through the strikers pickets. The workmen were dressed in their street clothes, but one of them car ried a bundle under his arm and this aroused the suspicion of the strikers The bundle was torn from him and when 1t was found to contain a blouse and overalls, the man was taken from the deputy and beaten almost to death.
 Merchant clubbed to Death.
 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 other strike breaker were now compelled to flee for their lives and took refuge in the Philadelphia and Read ing railroad depot. The depot was soon surrounded by an angry mob of 5000 which was becoming more threatening and dem- onstrative every moment Joseph Beddal, a hardware merchant, and brother of the deputy sheriff was seen making his way through the crowd in an effort to reach his brother, and the mob, divinfng that he was carrying ammunition to those inside the depot, seized him and beat him with clubs and billes into insensibil- ity He died enroute 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. Wien 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 voley. dispersing the crowd for brief period, and the engineer turned on full steam anu got away with his men. Stones were thrown thick and fast about the heads of the police. whereupon Chief John Fry gave the order to fire. At the first volley the mob fell back and several were seen to fall. Their retreat, however. was but momentary. They turned, and with revolvers, stones and even 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 pursuers, but the mob seemed thoroughly infuriated and smok- ing revoivers had no terrors for them.
 Two Officers Beaten.
 When the Lehigh railroad crossing was reached passing freight train blocked the progress of the police, two of whom were caught ar q DruIdlly Dcdteu oit of them, Stiney Yacopski, will die
 t is estimated that upwards of one thousands shots were fred and the won der is that more fatalities did not re- suit. More than twenty strikers, all of whom were foreigners, were shot and at least two of them will die.
 Many of the merchants and citizens are refusing to sign the call for troops, fear ing that the miners will boycott them
 
 made the sending of troops contingent on the petition of the citizens, th.rc Is doubt as to whether they will be sent. At II o'clock tonight the streets were still crowded but everything was quiet.
 Forty Strikers Injured.
 The doctors of the town have dressed the wounds of nearly forty strikers, all of whom were foreigners. whose names could not be ascertained. It Is known al midnight that four policemen were shot Chief Fry received a slight wound ir the head; Officer Yacopski was shot IF the neck and head and may die; Ring heiser was shot in the hand and back not serious; Lauritis was shot in several places and cannot recover.
 The following printed notice was posted by the mine workers all over the town tonight:
 'In view of the disturbances that have occurred in Shenandoah within the past 24 hours, in utter disregard to the teach ings and principles of the United Mine Workers as an organization and contrary to the explicit instructions of the leaders we call upon all members of the United Mine Workers at once to do all in their power to suppress lawlessness. and to aid the officers in every way to main tain peace and good order.
 (Signed) JOHN FAHEY,
 President District No. g."