The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-08
NOn-Union Miners Continue Evidence Before Commission
JUDGE GRAY CLOSE LISTENER
When Told of the Law Regarding Elm pIoyment of Deputy Sheriffs He Said. 1t Was Most DepIorable.
 The Poor Helpless.

Pittsburg, January 2. = The non-union men continued to monopolize the strike commission today in presenting evidence of lawlessness and reign of terror III the anthracite coal region during the strike.
 The testimony included many acts oc violence, from murder down to assauls and larceny. Dynamite played leading part in the alleged persecution Of nom union men and their relatives Five wit nesses testified to their houses being damaged by persons, some of whom were known to be union men, placing the high explosives on the property. Other Wit nesses told of a dam being blown up, one locomotive damaged, steam pipes in dif- ferent collieries broken or damaged by dynamite, bridges and fences damaged by incendiary fires and the attempted wreckage of trains. One youth said he was stabbed; several of the witnesses were boycotted several others told of be- ing beaten by crowds and of their houses being stoned.
 Besides this, young woman told the commission she was dismissed as school
  work during the strike. A young man tes- tified that he was attacked as he was
 coming out of church after being mar ried, forcing him to seek refuge in col liery while his bride got home as besr
 she could This story caused Judge Gray
 to remark:
 What sort of a community is this, anyway?"
 A Pathetic Story.
 Charles Carl of Mahaony City, a loader
 boss at the Tunnel Ridge colliery of the Reading company, told a pathetic story.
 He was compelled to remain within the
 confines of t..e colliery because he was
 afraid to go home When his wife and children visited him at the mines they
 were followed by jeering crowds He learned that his mother was dying, and taking a circuitous route, reached the home of his mother just after she died.
 While she was lying dead in the house
 he was annoyed, called vile names and
 threatened with death. He did not att tend the funeral of his mother because
 he was afraid he would be killed. As an instance of lawlessness at one col-
 liery one witness told of having been
 punished by mob which forced nlm to walk fifteen miles at the heau or cheering crowd of strikers. David L. Jenkins of Pottsvllle' coal and iron policeman at the ohser Sleeh colliery of the Reading company at New ! Philadelphia, gave list of acts of vio- lence at or near that mine. It included the tying of railroad ties and spiking across the tracks over which coal trains run: the turning of a switch which was
 discovered just before an express train came along, a railroad bridge damaged by dynamite, then set on lire; the saw ing of .timbers on the bridge after It had been repaired.
 Could Not Strike Testimony. Many questions were asked the Wit nesses by the commissioners. Counsel for the miners did not succeed in shaking the testimony It is the intention of the attorneys for the non-un1on men 10 oc- cupy about two more days in present. ing this sort of evidence. Tomorrow they expect to place on the stand Brig.-Gen. J. P Gobin f the Third Brigade, N. G. P and saver1 of the commanders of the resirnenzs l, EE, field during the strike. r,nrire inc aroceedings James IT. Tor
 re.y af e4-arf6r. counsel for the Delaware ana 4a4aoo npany, interrupted long en,nob "a ovr.|a n to the commission the law ,n raanaffe ania regarding the pay ment of farnfg sheriffs TOT special duty, whirh ..ause8 SO fae discussion yesterday. If .gas fo the effect that the laws of | tbe etafa s,a-a not adequate enough to permit lHe c9ur-y to pay tne oeputy sher. 8s h.s pecial service, ana that