Evening star., 1902-08-28
CLASH WITH TROOPS
Striking Miners Attack Troll
ley Carrying Them.
CAPT. GEARHART HURT
FIVE OF THE RIOTERS UNDER
ARREST.
Men at Tamaqua Are in Ugly Mood
Mines Are Starting
Up.
CAPT. GEARHART HURT
Men at Tamaqua Are in Ugly Mood
Mines Are Sfarf

clash between the striking miners and the
troops occurred this morning and as a re-
suit fVe prisoners are in the guard house
at the 18th Regiment camp and Capt. j.
Beaver Gearhart of Company F, 18th Regi-
ment, is suffering from a wound on his
shoulder made by a stone thrown by a
striker.
Ihls morning report gained currency
that the striking men were gathering in
force to make a march on the No. 40 COL
liery, where the Lehigh Coal and Naviga-
tion Company is mining and cleaning coal
The colliery is at the west end of the PAN
ther Creek valley, and the Governors
Troop was ordered to that point. Com
panfes F and K of the 18th Regiment were
placed on trolley cars and run through the
valley When the cars reached Summit
Hill they were surrounded by a mob of
strikers, who hurled rocks at the soldiers
and called them hard names. While
Jimmy" Marteen, an Italian, was in the
act of hurting a stone at car several SOL
dlers jumped off and made attempt to
capture him. Marteen offered resistance
and the soldiers were compelled to fix their
bayonets. In the melee which followed
Marteen was slightly wounded in the lef.
side
Start Back to Camp.
The troopers started back to camp, and
as the cars rounded a curve just outside of
Summit Hill, al point where the tracks
take an abrupt dip, the motorman on the
first car made the discovery that the rails
had been creased. The cars were stopped
anu soldiers were sent ahead to place sand
upon the rails When this had been done
1t was possible, by moving the cars slowly
to reach Lansford in safety A mob had
gathered there and for a time it looked like
riot. AS the first car was passing through
wa ctr rI1Pl- ~ tl,.o
right shoulder by a stone. Several soldiers
jumped from the car in pursuit of the
stone thrower After an exciting scuffie
they captured Joseph McCann young
miner.
The cars proceeded again. hut had not
gone far when another crowd was encoun-
tered and the soldiers We're again taunted
and stoned. Half a dozen soldiers Jumped
off and captured three men, who. it is al
legged, were urging the crowd to attack the
troops. The men gave their names as John
King, Timothy King and John Kelly. They
were taken to camp at Manila Park, where
together with Mccain and Marteen they
were placed under a heavy guard.
The officers of the 18th Regiment all
agree that the situation is serious They
say the feeling against the soldiers Is very
intense in Coaldale, Lansford and Summit
Hill.
Philadelphia. Troops Arrive.
SHENANDOAH. Pa, August 2S-After
an uneventful journey from Philadelphia
the second city troops, numbering about
sixty men. arrived at the Philadelphia and
Reading railway station at 7:3O o'clock
this morning. The disembarkment was
quickly made, and at $50 o'clock the troop
ers were marching toward camp at Indian
Ridge, where they are now occupying the
site vacated by the governors troop last
night The cavalry made a fine appearance
as they marched down Main street. the
n hntf Il
any previously seen here.
Poor Outlook at Pittston.
P1TTSTON, Pa, August 2S.-The chances
for an early resumption of the mines in
the anthracite coal fields, on the same scale
as they We're operated previous to the
strike of the mine workers, are not very
good, according to the outlook here The
superintendent of the coal companies prac-
ucally admit that at the present rate there
is no chance of getting all the collieries
open for many weeks.
Several of the collieries have been started
but not one is working at anything like it's
capacity. AT each of these mines it is ad-
mtted by the companies, they have only
about 100 men at work, but the claim is
made that they are getting more every day.
The collieries working are the Oxford Of
the Peoples s Coal Company, the Won Storch
and Dickson of the Delaware and Hudson.
the Cayuga, Dodge and Hampton of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, in
this city, and the Avondale of the latter
company at Kingston. The normal ton
mage of these mines during regular work
ing time is 1000 tons per day, while at
present they are turning out about 300
tons.
coal is being daily prepared in the district
the average for 1900, when but 176 days
were worked during the year. was % ass
tons per day.