The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-08-29
TUMULT At TAMAQUA.
First Clash Between Striking Miners
and the Troops.
SOLDIERS STONED BY MOB.
Five Men Placed Under Arrest, One
of Them Being wounded by a
BayOnet Militia Ont In
West Virginia Now.
.DIERs STONED BY MOB.

! TamaQua, Pa, Aug. 2S.-Ihe nrSI
clash between the striking miners and
the troops occurred during the day,
and as a result five prisoners are IN
the guardhouse at the Twelfth regi-
ment camp and Captain J. Beaver
Gearhart of Company f, Twelfth regl-
ment is suffering from wound on
| his shoulder made by stone thrown
by a striker.
A report had gained currency that
| the striking men were gathering IN
force to make a march on the No.
colliery. where the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation company is mining and
| cleaning coal. The colliery is at the
west end of the Panther Creek valley,
and the Governors troop was ordered
to that point. Companies + and X OF
| the Twelfth regiment were placed on
trolley cars and run through the val
ley.
When the cars reached Summit Hill,
they were surrounded by a mob of
strikers, who hurled rocks at the sol
diers and called them hard names.
! While Jimmy Marteen, an Italian,
was in the act of hurting stone at
car several soldiers jumped off and
made an attempt to capture him. Mar
teen offered resistance, and the sol
diers were compelled to fix their bayo
nets. In the melee which followed
Marteen was slightly wounded in the
| left side
The troopers started back to camp,
and as the cars rounded a curve just
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 and
soldiers were sent ahead to place sand
upon the rails.
Riot Seemed Certain.
When this had been DONE it was pos
sible 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
the mob Captain Gearheart was struck
on the right shoulder by stone. Sew
eral soldiers jumped from the car in
pursuit of the stone thrower. After
| an exciting scuffle they captured Jo-
seph Mccain, young miner.
The cars proceeded again, but had
not gone far when another crowd was
encountered, and the soldiers were
again tainted and stoned. Half a
dozen soldiers jumped off and captured
three men, who, it is alleged, were
urging the crowd to attack the troops.
The men gave their names as John
King, Timothy King and John Kelly.
They We're taken to camp at Manila
park, where, together with Mccain
and Marteen, they were placed under
heavy guard.
The officers of the Twelfth regiment
all agree that the situation is serious.
They say the feeling against the sol
diers is very intense in Coaldale,
Lansford and Summit HILL
Troops Out In West Virginia.
A Huntington CIV. Va) dispatch says
that Major James f. Verlander of the
Second battalion, West Virginia ma
tonal guard, has received orders from
Governor White to proceed at once
with the three companies of state mill
tia there and one company at Milton
to New River coalfleld, where trouble
is imminent. The companies have
been assembled and will leave at once
on a special train. Serious trouble is
predicted.
There are more soldiers on duty now
at Shenandoah. After an uneventful
journey from Philadelphia the Second
City troop, numbering about sixty men,
arrived at the Philadelphia and Read
ing railway station in Shenandoah.
The disembarkment was quickly made,
and the troopers were marched toward
camp at Indian Ridge, where they are
now occupying the site vacated by the
Governors troop, The cavalry made
fine appearance as they marched down
Main street, the horses showing to bet
ter advantage than any previously seen
here
A call was issued at Hazelton during
the day for general convention of the
Peoples alliance of the six anthracite
coal counties and the cities of Phila-
delphia and New York, to be held in
this city on Sept. A. 1t is stated that
movement will be set on foot to ter
inmate the miners strike.