The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-11
SHOOTING HAS
BEEN STARTED
SHERIFF sCHADT CALLED TO
LACKAWANNA.
Mob Assails Gang Of Engineers
and Then the Watchmen at a Col
liery-Colonel Keck Injured in an
Assault Made on Deputies at Pitts
ton-Mine Carpenters Stoned by a
Crowd at Observation-Disclosures
from President Nichols Anent Ex-
pected Intervention of President.

shooting occurred yesterday FOR the
first time in this county In connection
with the strike.
A gang of Wilkes Barre civil engi-
necrs who are working at the William
A. collery Of the Lehigh Valley Coal
company at Lackawanna, were set
upon by mob of two hundred strikers,
mostly Italians, as they were leaving
the mine at the close of their days
work. The engineers fled towards
Duryea, pursued by the mob, the fugi-
tives and pursuers exchanging shots
from revolvers. The engineers reached
a trolley car in safety and were
whisked away before the crowd could
overtake them.
The mob returned to the colliery and
began to harrass the watchmen. Sher-
if Schadt had been telephoned to at
the first signs of trouble and arrived on
the scene as the mob was opening fire
on the colliery. The sheriff's approach
caused a cessation of the shooting and
with a plain, business-like talk to the
crowd he succeeded in inducing them
to quietly disperse. The sheriff went to
the scene unaccompanied, but had a
posse assembled which could have been
brought up in short order If they were
needed.
William Scott, special officer en-
ployed as a watchman at the William
A. colliery at I.ackawanna, while on
his way to work late last night, was
set upon by crowd which came out
of a Polish saloon at Duryea, and so
badly beaten that the doctor who was
called to attend him had him sent inn
mo- 10 a1x 70 ha Ia,>
tai. The persons who summoned the
doctor had difficulty in inducing his
assailants to permit the doctor to give
him treatement.
OUTBREAK AT PITTSTON.
An outbreak occurred at No. 10 COL
liery of the Erie company. at Pittston
last evening, in which Colonel Keck, of
this city, one of the deputies, was
gashed in the face by stone thrown
by a woman.
When the deputies, who were on the
night shift, arrived on the train at the
mine, they were met by large crowd,
composed mostly of women, who jerred
and hissed them. The crowd formed in
line directly in front of the deputies
and the latter were compelled to use
their rifles as bars to shove the crowd
aside and get inside the fence at the
mine. 1t was at this time one of the
women threw the stone that struck
Colonel Keck.
President ]. l.. Cake, of the Clear
Spring Coal company, has served no
tice on Burgess Foster, of West Pitts
ton, demanding that he protect the
property from unlawful acts
of violence that are taking place. The
burgess says that as far as he knows
no acts of violence have taken place,
and he is prepared to do all in his pow
er to prevent any.
The effigy artist was at work again
in Pittston and the big brick smoke
stack near the ferry bridge was con-
spicuously decorated with four images
of men who are continuing at work or
are acting as deputies. Each efilgy
was nailed to the bricks about forty
feet up the stack and bore the name of
the person it represented. The strikers
at Exeter borough have adopted a new
method of holding the non-union men
up to ridicule. A large bed sheet has
been inscribed with a list of names and
flung to the breeze from telephone
wires.
TROUBLE AT CARBONDALE.
The first real disturbance of violent
nature that has occurred in Carbondale
since the inception of the strike took
place last evening, when a mob of boys
and women stoned and hooted the car
penters employed on the construction
Of the new Northwest breaker, above
Simpson.
The workmen were returning from
the scene of their labors, when they in
Cured the displeasure of the crowd by
some facetious remarks. They were i'm
beset and had to flee precipl-
.ately.
Foreman Connolly arrived on the
scene at this time and through his
pacific efforts the women and boys con-
;ented not to mOlest the Workmen
further. Several were injured slightly
oy the missiles.
only change in the situation reported
was the quitting of ten more engineers
N the Pittston region. The operators
lad nothing to give out except that the
engines, pumps and boilers are fully
and there is absolutely no
of the pumping operations
being seriously hampered.
The strikers, IN direct contrast with
The operators, view with friendly eyes
he evident intention of President
Roosevelt to actively interfere in the
strike conflict. District President Mich
olls, discussing this matter, yesterday,