Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-31
TROOPS CALLED OUT
Shenandoah Terrorized by Riot
ing Miners Who Commit Acts
OF Lawlessness.
One Man Killed and Scores of
Wounded--.Appeal for the
Militia.
Acting Governor Responds. Bul
Arrival OF Troops May Start
Further Trouble.

| Shenandoah, Pa, July S1.-Shenan
/ doah is in the hands of q raging mol
! of strikers and strike sympathizers
| One desperate battle between polio,
and the rioters has taken place. one
man has died of wounds inflicted by tn,
| Infatuated mob and at least four 9th
ers are fatally wounded. Others Were
lseento fall before the volleys of the
hunted deputies, but their names arr
not to be obtained. 1t is probable TWEEN
| ty We're wounded.
| Sheriff Beddall whoc cousin was
slain in one skirmish, appealed to tn,
governor for troops, and just before
midnight the Eighth and Twelfth regi-
ments We're ordered here, together witt
the governors troop from Harrisburg
The rioters are in complete control OF
the town. and the prospects are thai
another clash will occur when the sol
diers arrive.
The Dead.
ally beaten.
Known Wounded.
Fry, chief of police. shot in the arm
and badly beaten: condition serious.
Ringheiser. policeman, shot in the
shoulder and hand and also beaten with
stones and clubs: serious.
Relitis. Frank. policemen, shot thru
head; will die.
Nuts. Frank, striker. fatally shot
Yacopsky, Stiney, policeman, fatally
beaten.
The town has been in the grasp OF
the mob since o'clock last evening.
and the riots of 1900 seemed mere
child's play in comparison. The long
pent up anger OF the strikers, to control
which has been the continued effort of
the leaders of the united mineworkers.
burst all bounds shortly before night
fall last evening and desperate battle
aged.
The men engaged in the conflicts
were largely of the foreign element of
the strikers. These have flung the
counsel of the leaders to the winds.
This town of $4,000 inhabitants and the
surrounding region is undergoing a
reign in terror.
All day the town has been in disorder.
hat the serious trouble did not start un-
i'll o'clock in the evening, when Dep
uty Sheriff Thomas Beddall, a cousin of
the sheriff, attempted to escort two
non union workers thru the strikers
line OF pickets.
The workmen We're dressed in their
~. 4 "a,
bundle under his arm. and this aroused
the suspicion of the strikers. The bun
ole was torn from him. and when it was
found TO contain blouse and overalls
the man was taken from the deputy
and beaten almost TO death.
In the meantime Beddall opened fire
on the mob which had gathered by this
time, and emptied this 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 We're now compelled to fly for
their lives and took refuge in the Phil
adelphia and Reading railroad station.
The station was soon surrounded by
an angry mob of 5000. which was be-
coming more threatening and demon
strative every moment.
Joseph Beddall, a hardware mer-
chant, and brother of the deputy sher-
Tiff, was seen making his way thru the
crowd in an effort to reach his brother,
and the mob, divining that he was car
rying ammunition to those inside the
station. seized him and beat him with
clubs into insensiblity. He died on the
way to the Miners hospital.
sta ton, and the entire borough police
force rushed to the scene and escorted
the deputy sheriff and his men TO an
engine which had been backed into the
station for that purpose.
When the mob realized that its prey
was about to escape, IT surrounded the
engine, and the engineer WAS afraid to
move.
In few moments the police fired a
volley, dispensing the crowd for brief
period and the engineer turned on full
steam and got away with his men.
Stones were now thrown thick and fast
about the heads of the police, whereup-
on Chief John Fry gave the order to
fire. AT the first volley the mob fell
back and several We're seen to fall.
Their retreat, however, was but mo-
mentary. They turned and with revol-
vers, stones and few shotguns
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 Infatuated and
revolvers seemed to have no
terrors for them
When the Lehigh railroad crossing
was reached a passing freight train
blocked the progress of the police, two
of whom were caught and beaten. One
of them, Stiney Yacopsky, will die.
1t is estimated that upwards of 1000
shots We're fired. and the wonder is that
more fatalities did not result AT least
twenty strikers, all of whom We're for
eigners, We're shot, and at least two of
them will die.
Sheriff Beddal arrived from Potts
vile at 7:i5 o'clock with a posse of
deputies, and at once appealed for
troops, which We're refused until the
people asked for them. He circulated a
petition asking for troops, and finally
secured enough names to persuade the
authorities to act.
Many of the merchants and politi-
clans are refusing to sign the call for
troops, fearing that the miners will
boycott them after the trouble.
A crowd of 5000 surrounded the ho-
tel occupied by the sheriff and his dep
uties, threatening to attack the hotel.
AT midnight the streets We're still
crowded, but everything is quiet.
NO IF ~ far