The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-16

| One, made by Senator Platt, was that
the strike would be ended. Another was
! that u reign of terror would be inaug-
uratcd. The third was that the opcr-
| ators would start up Il large number OF
new Collieries and add considerably to
the forces at present employed.
AS far as Senator Platt's prediction
Is toncemed-well space is valuable.
That q reign of terror would be inaug
| urated is hardly borne out by the days
developments. That the opera tors would
| make big inroads in the strikers ranks
is likewise wanting fultlllment. The
| forces at the mines in operation were
increased, but not a single new colliery
| resumed operations.
About the only thing in these parts
that would possibly tend to cOrroborate
the reign-of-terror prediction was an
assault on two workmen at the Pan
coast colliery in Throop.
Jacob Constants and Nicholas Pierre,
two Italians living at Bulls Head, were
set upon yesterday morning by crowd
of Polanders. while on their way to
work at the Pancoast mine, and were
brutally beaten. Constants was clubbed
into insensibility. and Pierre was al
most as badly injured.
BRUTALLY BEATEN
The two men have been working at
the Pancoast mine for several weeks
and have been in the habit of going to
work along the old boulevard. Yester-
day morning shortly before o'clock
they had reached IL point about 200 feet
south of the city line. when they were
set upon by a gang of foreigners, who
appeared running across "A field from
the direction of Throop. Many of these
men carried clubs and guns, and Con-
stants and Pierre We're repeatedly
struck over the head.
Constants was rendered unconscious
by the blows on his head, but Pierre
| managed to break away from his as
sailants and ran down the road. Some
one in the meantime had notified the
North Scranton police station. and
Lieutenant Palmer. Mounted Officer
Perry and Patrolman Watkins hurried
to the scene.
They found Pierre sitting along the
road exhausted from the loss of blood.
which was flowing from a number OF
cuts on his head. Constants had in the
meantime been found lying unconscious
by man driving a wagon, who had
hlleu Illill dboaIu ana WuO WAS taklllS
him to secure medical attendance.
The two injured men were removed
to the North Scranton police station,
where DR.. Herman Eessey, temporarily,
dressed their injuries. They were after
wards taken to the Lackawanna hos
pital where the cuts on their heads
We're sewed up. The police believe that
the gang deliberately lay in wait for
hnt nr,,1 ne
ing some of the ringleaders.
WARRANTS ISSUED.
Joseph Curt. foreman at the Della
ware. Lackawanna and Western COM
panys Taylor mine, swore out war
rants yesterday before Alderman Ruddy
for the arrest of John Coombs, John
Bashim, Jacob Reese. Ben Jones, David
Harris and Seth Griffiths, who are
charged with melting a small-sized
riot near the mine last Saturday. All
entered bail before Burgess Griffths, of
Taylor, in the sum of $500 each.
Sheriff Schadt was summoned to
Peckville yesterday afternoon to fore
stall possible bloodshed. NJ. j. Nugent,
roadmaSter of the Delaware and IIud-
son company, engaged Il number of men
to go to Plattsburgh, n. y. to do re-
pair work on the railroad The men
were directed to report at the Delaware
and Hudson station, in Peckville. yes
terday afternoon. When the workmen
commenced to gather, the strikers of
the village began to grow suspicious,
| thinking they were bound for some COL
liery, and for a time it looked as f
| the misunderstanding would result in
trouble. The strikers became assured
in due time that the men waiting for
the train We're not going to work at a
mine. and before the sheriff arrived the
excitement had subsided.
The extent of the headway made by
the companies yesterday towards re-
suming operations was not as great as
that which marked previous days, when
no predictions We're made of a general
resumption Each local company re-
ported some gains In their working
force, but none reported any new coll
lieres starting up.
GOOD-SIZED INCREASE.
General Superintendent Phillips, of
the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern company. stated that the reports
from the district superintendents
showed a good-sized increase in the
working force of most of the collieries
now i'm operation, and General Superin-
tendent Rose, of the Delaware and
Hudson company, had similar report
to make. A very substantial increase,
he said had been made at the Marvine.
This is the colliery at which, it was
rumored Saturday and Sunday, a large
number of former employees would re-
turn to work yesterday. There was a
considerable increase, but not of such
an extent as rumor said it would be.
For the first time since the strike be-
gan, General Manager w. A. May, OF
the Erie coal department, stated yes
terday that the company was expect
ing to resume operations. or all the
coal superintendents, Captain May Is
along he has freely stated that his COM
pany was unable to open up any of its
collieries. Yesterday he said, with per-
mission to quote him as saying such,
that his company would, before long,
be mining coal.
The Ontario and Western company
Increased its forces at the Priceburg
and Pancoast collieries, and the Temple
iron company reported that II has in
one week doubled its output at the
Edgerton.
This was the extent of the headway
made by the operators in this locality.
FROM MIR, LOOMS.
Vice-President T.. L. Loomis, of the
Delaware, Laekawanna and Western
Il