New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-24
CALL FOR MORE TROOPS
ANOTHER DAY OF VIOLENCE By THE
coal. STRIKERS.

COAL STRIKERS
THE SHERIFF OF LTZERNE COUNTY, Penn
TELLS THE GOVERNOR He Is CNAbl~h
TO MAINTAIN LAW AND ORDER
rRy TELEGRAPH TO THE TBIBUNE-l
wilkesbarre. Penn. Sept 2i--At $40 o'''Ni>
this morning Sheriff Jacobs. Of Luzerne oou''-
~ sent a telegram 10 Governor stone asking
cha, ,roons he sent to wilkesharre and vicinity.
He SAYS he is unable to cope with the sl'u4-
ton.
dispatch from Harrisburg says that no
action was taken on Sheriff Jacohs's request
tonight. and it is likely the Governor VIII III
,,es,igate the conditions as ohey exist in the
vicinity Of wiIkesbarre before sending tloofS'
wilkesbarre. Penn Sept. 23-Althongh the -slh
Regiment Colonel L. A Natres commanoihs' va
$50 90 .be force Of State militia in the strike
regior this rnorning the small army gave 1hfee
hundred OF its men tonight TO me TOW"
Lebanon where strikers Of the American ~
Steel Manufacturing Company are rlo'1ie -I
where last night men were shot ms e'e1-i-9
the LIST Battalion OF the l-th heSiiii''''
Colonel Clement went 70 Lebanon 49,, 81
Today closes day Of violence o. Nlli1N -
wyoming region the centre. WINE Id
5esri- the presence Of the troops was not dlIose'
orderly The situation resolves Eisel1 INTO 'le
Ina, NJ ,ba Two Thousand troops now in the neIu
IN rrevent the numerous cases OF Tloielloe anu III
reference with the rights Of the men VINO Nait -
work If they cannot. it Is expected lnd' Ia. 80
47.g,roer+ With eight hundred men, the remaining
eight companies Of the 9Th Regiment ana ba''etS
viii be added the force. making the "hoie MI
Brigade in the field. To-day and tonight the sl'ud
zion in the Wyoming region is shaping TOWARD 'laI
end and il Is believed that the Sherln cannot lh1eH
longer shirk the responsibility Of asking for troops
The 18th ordered out half an hour AFTER I..lo-
night reached Ovrhant At this morning. where
The camp will be maintained according to present
plans By noon the companies from Easton anu
from Montrose. outlying points. hao Joiheu vi
main body and Colonel L a. NatTes. VINO was II
W. vorl, relieved Lieutenant Colonel Stilwell OF
the Temporary command. General Goblin arrived
al 1n and spent most Of the afternoon on III.
Scene Tonight he returned 70 Shenandoah ana
will take charge there of the distribution OF troops
HoN-UNIoN MEN ATTACKED.
Before the troops reached ELEPHANT this morn
ing the strikers there had wound up their riotins
by an attack upon Bert and Charles Luhoeh
non-rnion workers. The two were stoned anu
beaten and as they shots were fred, ana they
were left in the road dead Bert Lunoeh Is
SO badly wounded that he is dying at the hosplta
tonight. and his brother Is seriously lnJute1
There is no clew 10 the attacking parry Later II
the morning :he regiment was aroused Dg Ilt
action OF of its members VINO ATTACKED AN
rhrashed two union men Inc SololeiS NeiF
arrested and this Afternoon court martia4ed- lli'
,es,,l, n the inquiry has not been made known
yet
Later in the day. when Superintendent Burk-
heiser Who last night during the rioting shot
Anthony Pelak a striker. taken 20 Priceburg
for a hearing. such unruly crowd gathered thS'
Companies a and sent 10 the scene to pro
tect him He was held without bail and with
considerable effort escorted safely TO the jan
in Scranton All thon remained quiet until 10
night when dynamite was exploded over the Dela-
ware Lackawanna and Western bridge at Lacka-
wanna This was so badly shaken and wrenched
that the trains on the Bloomsbury branch were
DELAYED two hours. Since then there has been nc
disturbance the peace committees Of the strikers
being active among the reckless foreign element
In Wyoming County rioting ragged all day, ana
the Sherif's deputies Were kept in ferment Of
movement and apprehension In the night unruly
crowds marched the streets Of Plymouth. and be
tween twenty and thirty non-union workers We're
held UP. several them were severely beaten. and
the houses Of two non-unonists were stoned and
badly damaged. Deputies who hurried to the res
cue were stoned before they managed 10 dsperse
the crowd. Some Of the strikers wore masks, and
they were all armed with clubs and stones and
many OF them with revolvers
PEACE COMMITTEES BUSY.
Peace committees in carriages hurried about the
town trying to do all they could preserve order,
and had it been for their efforts there might
have been serious bloodshed. AS it was, the town
was terrorized from end to end
At Nan1icoke the conditions were somewhat
similar. The house OF non-union man was at
tackled and shots fired at the No. l colliery and
the guards attacked Owing to the threatening
attitude of large crowd OF strikers it took twenty
FIVE deputies all day TO eUard q union
who was moving from the Warrior Run TO Nanti-
About O'Clock this morning Joseph Harrison
non-union man. who resides at Plymouth and
works at the AVonddle NINE. awakened by a
noise in his front yard. He claims that he discov-
cred a number Of in the yard and fired his re
z-ol,-e her ON
CATION he says that he found two sticks of dyna-
mite under his front porch. to which was attached
a lighted fuse
Unknown persons removed a fish plate from, the
track Of the Erie road at HughestoWn. and when
work train passed over II the rail spread. the
5ooned 70 the scene 10 ASSIST n aetin the re- UNI
engine hack on the rails. when they were stoned
by crowd of men and boys.
Tonight IN this city a large crowd attacked
Delaware and Hudson breaker and stoned them
The guards from the breaker rushed to their res
shots exchanged before the crowd dispersed
and Joseph Rowiands. seyenteen-year-old how
bullet is believed to have been fired by one in
the crowd
THE SITUATION DANGEROUS.
At Mahanoy City three non-union workers were
severely beaten. Dozens Of cases OF less serious
assault reported ana the situation is one
which General Goblin terms dangerous Tonight
he had a long talk with Governor Stone about
ordering more troops the region as the present
force in view Of the numerous cases of violence is
not sufficient 70 the situation. II any con-
clusion was reached il was not announced and 4,
IS understood the Governor will await the de-
velopments Of tomorrow before deciding what he
will do He cannot send troops into Tnzerne
-ac,-eS-a5 A. ASuNeI ne
sheriff Tonight the sheriff is in Eazleton and has
nothing say regarding the situation.
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