Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-07-31
Score Of Miners and Three Policemen Shot
as Result Of Trouble,
ONE OF THE OFFICERS Will LIKELY DIE
Injured Strikers Are Hurried Away BY
Friends After the Shooting.
sHEHFFs NEPHEW IS BEATEN TO DEATH
Petition is Being Circulated Asking
Governor 20 send Troops, bat
Merchants Are Afraid 90
sign the Request.

bf terror. compared with which the scenes
enacted during the riots of 1900 seem In
Significant, holds Shenandoah In It's grasp
tonight.
Since 6, o'clock tonight Center street,
~hioh is one Of the principal streets Of
the town, has been in the hands Of an
infuriated mob. Three of the borough po-
iicemen were shot. one perhaps fatally.
Joseph Bedhsll, q leading merchant and
cousin of Sheriff Beddall, was brutally
clubbed 70 death and upward of q score
of strikers, whose names at this writing
could not be ascertained. we're shot by
policemen. and II 10 expected that many
deaths will result.
Sheriff Beddall arrived from Pottsville
nj 7:45 o'clock with a posse Of deputies.
He has taken Up his headquarters at the
Ferguson hotel. To an Associated Press
reporter he stated that he had asked Gov
ernor Stone to send the militia. The
governor wired that II the citizens Of the
town petition for troops he would send
them A petition is being circulated for
that purpose now. II is almost certain
that the troops will be here tomorrow.
The trouble started about 8 o'clock this
evening, when Deputy Sheriff Thomas
Beddall attempted TO escort two nonunion
workers through the strikers line Of
pickets. The workmen were dressed in
their street clothes, but one Of them car
Tied a bundle under his arm, and this
aroused the suspicion OF the strikers. The
bundle was torn from him and when II
was found to contain a blouse and over
ALE the m.a =ss .:ke- from the deputy
and beaten almost to death.
sheriff opens Fire.
In the meantime Beddaii opened IRE on
che mob which had gathered 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 ny. for their lives and took refuge In
the Philadclphia Reading railroad de-
pot. The depot was also surrounded BY
an agry mob 81 5000, which was heeomins
more threatening and demonstrative every
moment.
Joseph Bsddaii, a hardware merchant
ana brother Of the deputy sheriff, was
seen making his way through the crowd
An an effort to reach his brother and the
mob, believing that he was carrying am
munition to those inside the depot, seized
him and beat him with clubs and billies
into insensibility He died enroute to the
Miners hospital.
Shortly after this the entire borough
police force arrived on the scene ana es-
corted the deputy sheriff and his man TO
an engine. which had been backed into
the depot for that purpose.
When 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
nred a voIiey, dispensing the crowd for g
brief period, and the engineer turned on
full steam and got away Stones were
thrown thick and fast about the heads
OF the police, whereupon Chief John Fry
gave the order to fre. At the frst volley
the mob fell back and several were seen
to fall.
Police Fly for Their Lives.
The retreat however. was but mo.
mentary They turned and with revolvers
stones, and sven q few shotguns. charged
on the little band Of policemen and made
them fly for their lives. The policemen
turned In their night at short intervali
and fred volley after volley ut their mer
ciless pursuers. but the mob seemed thor
ouRhly infuriated and revolvers seemed Il
have no terrors for them. When thu
Lehigh railroad crossing was reached I
passing freight train blocked the prog
lsess of the police. two Of whom wer'
caught and brutally beaten. One OF them
Stiney Yaeopsky, will die.
II is believed that upward Of 1000 shot
were nred and the wonder Is that NOR
fatalities did not result. More thai
twenty strikers. all foreigners, were sho
and at least two Of them will die.
Many Of the merchants and politician
are refusing to sign the call for troops
fearing that the miners will boycott then
after the trouble. and as the governor hA
made the sending Of troops contingent Of
the petition Of citizens, there is som
doubt as to whether they will be sent.
At II o'clock tonight the streets ar
stin crowded with people. but everythin
is quiet
About Forty strikers Hurt.
The doctors Of the town dressed tn
wounds OF nearly forty strikers. all Of whor
were foreigners. whose names could not b
ascertAined. Il is said AT midnight tina
four of the six policemen we're shot. Chic
Fry received q slight wound In the hand
Yaeopsky was shot In the neck and ma
die Ringheiser was shot in the hand an
back; not serious. Lauritas was shot 4
several places and cannot recover.
The following printed notice was poste
by the mine workers all over the town to
night:
In view Of the disturbances that have oo
curred in Shenandoah within the as
tWenty-four hours, in utter disregard TO IN
teachings OF the United Mine Workers a
an organization, and contrary to the eH
plcit Instructions OF the leaders. He ca
on all members OF the United Mine Work
70 to suppress Ss iawiessnsss and to aid II
odhcers in every way TO maintain peac
and good order JOHN FAHEY,
President District No o.
Troops Ordered 10 Scene