The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-01
Two Regiments Are Ordered
to Shenandoah.
ATTEMPT TO PASS STRIKERS PICKETs
a Deputy Sheriff Was Escorting Two
Non. Union Men Through the Lines
When They Were Attacked. The
Effort to Rescue the Deputy Sheriff
and the Non Union Men Precipitated
the Battle,
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press)
Shenandoah, Pa, July 3O-A reign of
terror compared with which the scenes
enacted during the riots of 1900, seem
Insignificant; holds Shenandoah in its
grasp tonight Sine o'clock this even
ing Center street. which is one of the
principal streets of the town, has been
in the hands of an Infatuated mob. Two
of the borough policemen were shot, one
perhaps fatally. Joseph Beddall, lead
ing merchant and cousin of Sheriff Bed
dali, was brutality dubbed to death and
upwards of a score of strikers whose
names at this writing could not be ascer-
tanned, were shot by policemen, and it is
expected that many deaths will result.
Sheriff Beddall arrived from Pettsvlle at
7:4O o'clock with posse of deputies.
He has taken up his headquarters at the
Fer guson Hotel. Il
To an Associated Press reporter he adj
mitted that he has asked Governor
Stone to send the militia. The Governor
wired that if the citizens of the town
petition for troops. he will send them,
and petition is being circul9fed for
that purpose now. I
Auo started ABOUT b O'CLOCK
this evening, when Deputy Sheriff
Thomas BeddalI attempted TO escort two
non-union workmen through the strikers
line of pickets. The :workmen were
dressed in their street clothes. but one
of them carried bun4le under his arm,
and this aroused thG suspicion of the
strikers. The bundle} was torn from him,
and when it was found to contain a
blouse and overalN the man was taken
from the deputy and beaten almost to
In the meantime, Beddall opened fire on
the mob, wfhich had gathered by this
time and icnptied 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 strike breaker were
then compelled to fly for their lives and
took refuge in the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad depot.
The depot was soon surrounded by an
angry mob of five thousand, which was
becoming more threatening and demon
strative every moment. Joseph Beddall,
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, thinking that
he was carrying ammunition to those in
side the depot. seized him and beat him
with clubs and billies into insensibility
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 men
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
few moments, however, the police fired a
volley, dispensing the crowd for a 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, whereupon
Chief John Fry gave the order to fire.
At the first volley the mob fell back and
several were seen to fall. Their retreat
however, was but momentary. They
turned, and with revolvers, stones and
even a few shot guns they charged on
the little band of policemen and made
them fly for their lives. The policemen
turned in their fight at short intervals
and fired volley after volley at their
merciless pursuers, but the mob seemed
thoroughly Infatuated and smoking re-
volvers seemed to have no terrors for
them.
When the Lehigh Railroad crossing was
reached a passing freight train blocked
the progress of the men, two of whom
were caught and brutally beaten. One
of them, Stiney Yacopsky, will die
1t is estimated that upwards of one
thousand shots were fired and the wonder
is that more fatalities did not result.
More than twenty strikers, all of whom
were foreigners, were shot and at least
two of them will die. Many of the
merchants and politicians are refusing
to sign the call for troops, fearing that
the miners will boycott them after the
trouble is over, and as the governor has
made the sending of troops contingent on
the petition of citizens there is some
doubt as to whether they will be sent.
At II O'Clock tonight the streets are
still crowded with people, but every
thing is quiet.
The doctors of the town dressed the
wounds of nearly forty strikers, all of
whom were foreigners, whose names
could not be ascertained 1t is known at
midnight that four out of the six po
icemen were shot Chief Fry received
a slight wound in the hand; Yacopsky
was shot in the neck and head and may
die Ringheiser was shot in the hand
and back. not serious; Lautites was shot
i'm several places and cannot recover.
The following printed notice was
nosted by the mine workers all over the
town tonight:
"In view of the disturbances that have
occurred in Shenandoah within the past
twenty-four hours, in utter disregard to
the teaching and principles OF the United
Mine Workers, as an organization and
contrary to the explicit instructions of