Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
RIOT AND BLOODSHED
Four Policemen and a Score
 of Strikers Shot.
SCAB MINERS MOBBED AT SHENANDOAH
The Sherim Asks the Governor For Troops--It Is Estimated That One Thousand, Shots Were Fired.
 Story of the Fight.

Story of the Fight.
 SHENANDOAH, Pa, July 31.-A score of strikers and four policemen were shot in a riot here last evening, and Joseph Beddall, cousin of Sheriff Beddall, was beaten so badly that there is but slight chance of his re covery. The others seriously injured are:
 Frank Uraitis, a policeman, shot through the head, will dge; Chief of Police Fry, shot in arm and badly beaten, condition serious; Policeman Rengheisher, shot i'll shoulder and clubs, condition serious.
 One other officer and about twenty of the strikers were wounded. The con- dition of the injured strikers is not known, as they were hurried away by friends. Sheriff Beddall soon arrived from Pottsville and at once asked the governor for troops.
 The trouble started about o'clock in the evening, when Deputy Sheriff Thomas Beddall attempted to escort two nonunion workers through the strikers line of pickets. The workmen were dressed in their street clothes, but one of them carriedfa bundle un- der his arm, and this aroused the sus- picion of the strikers. The bundle was torn from him, and when it was found to contain blouse and overallS the man was taken from the deputy and beaten almost to death.
 In the meantime Beddall opened fire on the mob which had gathered by this time and emptied his revolver. Two of the shots took effect, one man being shot in the leg and another in the foot. The deputy and the other strike breaker were now 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 5000, which was becoming more threatening and demon stratiye every moment Joseph Bed dall, hardware merchant and brother of the deputy sheriff, was seen making his way through the crowd in an ef- fort to reach his brother, and the mob, divining that he was carrying ammuni- ton to those inside the depot, seized him and beat him with clubs and bill lies 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 man to an engine which had been backed into the depot for that pur- pose. When the mob realized that their prey was about to escape, they sur rounded the engine, and the engineer was afraid to move In a few mo- ments, however, the police fired a vol ley, 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 or der to fire. At the first yolley the mob fell back and several were seen to fall.
 Their retreat, however, was but mo- mentary They turned, and, with re- volvers, stones and even few shot guns, they charged on the little band of policemen ana made them fly for their lives. The policemen turned in their flight at short intervals and fired yolley after volley at their merciless pursuers, but the mob seemed thor oughly infuriated, and smoking reyolv- CTS seemed to have no terror for them. When the Lehigh railroad crossing was reached, a passing freight train blocked the progress of the police, two of whom were caught and most brutally beaten.
 It is estimated that upward of 1000 shots were fired, and the wonder is that more fatalities did not result.