Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-07
ALL TROOPS OUT !,
ENTIRE FORCE OF PENNSYLVANIA
MILITIA ON DUTx
TO-DAY.
ORDERED TO MINE REGIONS.
To Protect Men Who Wish to
Work.
MITCHELL TO THE STRIKERS.
Call for Mass Meetings at All Mining
Towns To-Iorrow Afternoon to
Formally and EmphatfcalIy Deny
Statement of Operators Made
Mt Washington Conference rs to
Alleged Reign of Terror.
Alleged Reign of Terror.

HARRISBURG Pa October 6.-Gov-
ernor Stone tonight ordered out the
entire division of the National Guard Of
Pennsylvania to duty in the mine regions.
The soldiers will be in the field tomorrow.
The order calling out the guard is as fol-
lows:
Headquarters National Guard. Adjutant-
Generals Office.
Harrisburg, Pa, Oct 6, 1902.
"In certain portions of the counties Of
Luzerne, Schuylkill. Carbon. Lacka wanna,
Susquehanna, Northumberland, and CO.
lumbia. tumults and riots frequently oc-
cur and mob law reigns. men who desire
to work have been beaten and driven
away. and their families threatened. Rail
road trains have been delayed. stoned. and
the tracks torn up. The civil authorities
are unable to maintain order, and have
called upon the Governor and the COM
mander-n-chief of the National Guard for
troops. The situation grows more seri-
Gus each day. The territory involved is SO
extensive that the troops now on duty
are insufficient to prevent all disorder
The presence of the entire division, Ma
tional Guard of Pennsylvania. is necessary
in these counties to maintain the public
peace.
lie l1lalOI-SeHSidl COiiliiAhLdiii6 IL
place the entire division on duty, dis
tributing them in such localities will
render them most effective for preserving
the public peace.
To Maintain Order.
.'As turaults riots, mobs. and isorders
usually occur when men attempt TO work
in and about the coal mines he will see
that all men who desire to work and their
families have ample military protection
He will protect all trains and other pro-
perty from unlawful interference, ana
will arrest all persons engaging in acts OF
violence and intimidation and hold them
under guard until their release Will not
endanger the public peace; will see that
threats intinlidations. assaults. and all
acts of violence cease at once. The pub
lis peace and good order will be preserved
,1pon all occa sions, and throughout the
several counties. and no interference
whatever will be permitted with onlcere
and men in the discharge OF their duties
under this order. The dignity ana author-
itv of the State must be maintained, and
her power to suppress all la"lessnesS
within her borders be asserted.
.'By order of William A. Stone, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief.
Thomas J. Stewart, acknowledgement.
Conference of officers.
The formal order was given out dt Inc
Executive mansion shortly before III
o clock tonight, by Private Secretary Ger
wig. Governor Stone called conference
of the general officers of the Guard, at
which is was decided to place these troops
in the field. Those present at the con-
ference were Maior-General Milly. Cen
eral Gorbin of the Third Brigade; Cen
eral Schall. OF the First Brigade: Colonel
HIlings, of the Sixteenth Regiment who
represented General Wiley, of the Second
Brigade who is in Kansas: Assistant
Adiutant- General Elliott. and Assistant
Ouarterma ster- General Richardson. The
canvas and other equipage will be shipped
from the State arsenal, and all the troops
viii. be in the field within twenty-four
hours.
Composition of Division.
The troops now in the field are the
Fourth Eighth. Ninth, Twelfth, and
Thirtieth Regiments of the Third Sri
gade. and the Governors troop, Sheridan
troop. and Second Philadelphia City troop.
The troops which will be sent to reinforce
those now on duty are the First Rtgi-
ment. Second Regiment. Third Regiment,
Sixth Regiment, Battery A, First Troop.
Philadelphia City Cavalry, who compose
the First Brigade; Fifth Regiment, Tenth
Fourteenth Regiment, Sixteenth
Regiment, Eighteenth Regiment. and Bat
terry 3, who constitute the Second Bri-