Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-08-06
lll[:l N A RIOT.
Trouble Breaks Out in the Town Of
.sS Shenandoah, Pa.
Battle With Police In Which Two
Persons Are Killed and Many
Others Injured-Troopx
). Called Out. =

scenes enacted during the riots of 1900
seem insignificant, holds Shenandoah
in its grasp. Since six o'clock Wednes-
day evening Center street, which is one
of the principal streets of the ;own,
has been in the hands of an Infatuated
mob. Two of the borough policemen
were shot, one perhaps ia tally. Jo-
| seph Beddall a leading merchant and
cousin of Sheriff Beddall, 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 Asks for Troops.
Sheriff Beddall arrived from Potts
Vile at 7:45 o'clock with a posse OF
deputies. He has taken up his head
quarters at the Ferguson hotel. To a
reporter he admitted that he had asked
Gov. Stone to send the militia.
Origin of the Trouble.
The trouble started about sly O'Clock
Wednesday evening, when Deputy
Sheriff Thomas Beddall attempted to
escort two nonunion workers through
the strikers line of pickets. The work.
men were dressed in their street
clothes, but one of them carried a
bundle under his arm, and this aroused
the suspicion of the. strikers. The
bundle was torn from him, and when it
was found to contain a blouse and over
alls the man was taken from the dep
1Jfv- and hno% III, IN 1oo%h
Fired ON the Mob.
In the meantime Beddall opened fire
on the mob, which had gathered by this
time. and emptied his revolver. Two
of the shots took effect, one man be-
ing shot in the leg and the other in the
foot. The deputy and the other strike
breaker were now compelled to fly for
their lives, and took refuge in the Phil
adelphia & Reading railroad depot.
The depot was soon surrounded by an
angry mob of 5000, which was becom-
ing more threatening and demon
strative every moment.
Escape i'm an Engine.
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 pur-
pose. When the mob realized that their
prey was about to escape, they sur
rounded the engine and the engineer
was afraid to move. In few moments,
however, the police fired volley, dis
persing the crowd for a brief period,
and the engineer turned on full steam
and got away with his men.
Police Battle, with Mob.
Stones were now 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 momentarily. 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 merci-
less pursuers, but the mob seemed
thoroughly Infatuated and smoking re-
volvers seemed to have no terrors for
them.
It is estimated that upwards of 1000
shots were fired and the wonder is that
more fatalities did not result. More
than 20 strikers, all of whom were for
eigners, were shot and at least two of
them will die.
Troops Ordered to the Scene.
Harrisburg, Pa, July 31.-Sheriff
Beddall, of Schuylkill county, has
asked Gov. Stone for troops in conse-
quence of the riot at Shenandoah, and
at 11:45 p. m. the Eighth and Twelfth
regiments and governors troop were
ordered to Shenandoah.