The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-06
4 REIGN OF TERROR.
a Pitched Battle Between Coal Min
ers and the Police.
a SHERIFF ASKS FOR TROOPS.
4 Merchant Clubbed to Death;
Twenty Strikers Shot; Two
Policemen Seriously

| Twenty Strikers Shot; Two
| Policemen Seriously
Injured.
a reign of terror, compared will
which the scenes enacted during ths
riots of 1900 seem insignificant. held
Shenandoah in its grasp "Wednesday
night. Centre street, which is one oi
the principal streets OF the town, was
for several hours In the hands Of al
infuriated mob.
Two OF the borough policemen were
shot, one perhaps fatally. JOSEPH
Beddal, leading merchant and c0uSir
of Sheriff Beddal was brutally dubbed
to death and upwards of a score o1
strikers whose names at this writing
could not be asoertalned were shot by
policemen and 1t IS expected that
many deaths will result:
Sheriff Beddal arrived from PITTS,
Vile at 7.45 o'clock with a posse o,
deputies. He has taken Up headQuar
ters at the Ferguons hotel. To ar
Associated Press reporter he admitted
that he has asked Gov. Stone to send
the militia. The governor wired shat
, if the citizens of the town petition fol
troops, he will send them and a petit
tion is being circulated for that pur
pose now,
The trouble started about O'Clock
Wednesday afternoon when Deputy
Sheriff Thomas Beddal attempted tt
escort two non.unlon workers through
the strikers line Of pickets. The
workmen 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 anc
overalls the man was taken from the
deputy and beaten almost 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 ir
the foot. The deputy and the strik-
ers were now compelled to fly for theil
lives and took refuge in the Philadel.
phia and Reading railrod depot was
soon surrounded by an angry mob Of
5000 which was becoming more threat
ening and demonstrative every mo-
ment.
A MERCHANT BEATEN TO DEATH.
Jos. 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, divining that he was
carrying ammunition to those inside
the depot, seized him and beat him
with clubs and billies into insenSibi'i'
ty. He died en- route to the miners
hospital. 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 thai
purpose. When the mob realized thai
their prey was about to escape they
surrounded the engine and the engi'
neer was afraid to move.
4 PITCHED BATTLE.
In few moments, however, the
police fired a YolleY dispensing tht
crowd for a brief period and the engi'
neer turned on full steam aud got
away with his men. Stones were
now thrown thick and fast about the
heads of the police, whereupon Chic.
Johnsey gave the order to fire. Al
the first volley the mob fell back ano
several were seen to fall. Their re
treat, however. was but momentary
They turned and with revolvers
stones and few shot guns they
charged on the little band OF police
man and made them fly for their live
The policemen turned in their flight
at short intervals and fired volley af
ter yolley at their mercilesS pursuers
but the mob seemed thoroughly in
furiated and smoking revolverS seemed
to have no terrors for them. Wher
the Lehigh railroad crossing wa!
reached a passing freight tlain blocked
| the.progress Of the men, two of whom
were caught and brutally beaten. One
of them, Stiney Yacopsky, will die
ONE THOUSAND SHOTS.
Its estimated that upwards Of ont
thousand shots were fred and tht
wonder is that more fatalities did moi
result. More than 20 strikers, all O
whom were foreigners, were shot anc
at least two of them will die, many O.
the merchants and politicians are re-
fusing to sign the call for troops, fear
| ing that the miners will boycott then
after the trouble IS over and as thu
governor has made the sending Of
troops contingent on the petition o
citizens there is some doubt as tt
whether they will be sent. At l
o'clock Wednesday night the street,
are still crowded with people bu
everything is quiet. Sheriff Beddal
Of Schuylkill county, has asked Gov
Stone for troops in consequence o
Wednesdays riot at Shenandoah AM
the prospects are that if there !
another outbreak the third brigad
will he ordered to the scene Of tn
trouble.