The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-01
n RIOTERS SHOT;; I WILL DIE.
STlTE POLNE REPEL tTT Nk ar
FOREIGN vINERS.
saturdays Wusbrsah Of sisaRt taSmsi pnt.
IsSe si by Isisssiahesi WheR Peace
aasters Arrive 10 sss,ess 0vtrV Twsa
and a'sta,S Oalpials Refuse ~ Sea

TANAouA. Pa April ~ Ssventeeu
rioters who attacked halls ~ Truop G. 10
the State Mounted police at Mount CarmaI
to-day we're shot down,
Four were fatally wounded. while four
% the tFOopsru were badly hurt In tho
encounter.
The squadron waa compelled q retire
behind the stockadeH ~ the Sayre co!lierv
and leave the town In the possession nf
the rioters. Tonight the remainder Of the
troop has reinforced the twenty-five men
who did the shooting and Capt. !. W. Page
and forty men Of Troop u left here to.
night for Mount Carmel. Capt. Page viii
take charge Of tho situation and with
troopers armed with riot guns revolvera
and clubs will, u he receives authority
from Sheriff Sharpless Of Northumberland
county, move upon the rioters in the morn-
ing, make Wholesale arrests OF those cons
cerned In to-day's disturbances and put
down the mob spirit with a strong hand.
Tc-day's rioting was remarkable for thu
fact that II was not inspired by any action
Of the State troopers and was not directed
against any one connected with a colliery.
II was caused apparently by the fact that
the rioters were aroused by the presence
Of the uniformed State police and the proc
pect that they would arrest the mon who
were concerned in the rioting on Saturday
night.
The troopers had been called TO the scene
by Sheriff j. p. S~harpless, who feared hat
there would be a further outbreak when
the men who were building a breaker at
the Sayre oolliery returned to work this
morning.
The detail Of twenty-five men, under
command of Lieut. W. y. Smith, which was
located temporarily at Pottsville, received
orders at 2 o'clock this morning to proceed
to Noun Carmel. The policemen and the
horses were loaded on a special train which
reached Mount Carmel at 5 o'clock.
They stabbed their horses at the Bear
Ridge shaft and at about 3 O'Clock
marched into the town for breakfast. AZ
soon ~ the foreigners saw them they be-
came incensed and started to jeer them.
The officers marched on steadily, looking
neither TO right nor left,
The first hotel they went to was the Locust
Mountain House, where tho proprietor
refused to feed them. Then they proceeded
10 the Commercial Hotel, the leading hos
telry In the town. They entered the hotel
at about o o'clock. The proprietor was
willing 10 feed them. hut tho servant
KlTlh TNlNhtV ~ hrFNt tifftl, anu WV OOuhNt
following the lead, refused to prepare
food for them. The officers then proceeded
10 cook their own breakfast,
In the meantime an immenHe crowd
had gathered In the streets, Every TINS
one d the policemen appeared AZ ths win.
| dow n chorus Of icers and maledictionN
went UP from the crowd,
Finally the detachment came out and this
.s,.,,l lanaa ~, ,laA.. Ia ahAtl tha.a ThA
Nor tried to force a passageway through
| the mob, but TO no avail, Suddenly a piece
of briok came whi2zlng through tho air
II graaed the cheek Of u big polIosman
and tho blood trickled down over his gray
whipcord blouse, Another Rtono struck q
second policeman's helmet and the next
moment u fusilladc was flying through the
air toward the little band Of uniformed
men on tho sidewalk
Drawing their long clubs the policeman
battered their way through the crowd,
Two mon who arat at and struck the oIfio,ri
worn taken prisoners,
From tho roof Of the hotol Burgess Fen.
man called upon tho mob 10 dIspersS and
his words were needed by some Of them
In tho meantime tho officers proceeded
TO tho Office of Squire Reed, where thoir
prisoners were arraigned and held undeS
bail. The detachment then ma 'ched south
on Maple street 10 Fifth, where the oeowd
again became dense and blocked their why.
Again tho officers were homcnrded With
sticks and stones, and several OF them vera
injured, Tho situation, beng desperate,
Liout. Smith ordered his men to draw their
rev0lvers and fro In the ar,
This did not scare tho crowd, but only
seemed To make them more vicious, Several
Of tho policemen were struck with sticks
and stones and injured, and tho crowd
began 10 Close In on the little bind, Then
the officers fred point blank into tho mob,
Hardly had the echo Of tho reports died
away than the air was ront with ahrleka
w threo mon sank 10 the street, the blood
flowing from their Wounds, Those who
fell wore Matthew Mattenick, shot In hip,
condition critical; George Gregls, shot In
ribs, will recover; Matthew Kimbuski, shot
In hip, serious.
Bullets from the pistols of the policemen
passed through the homes OF Charles Cold
smith and DR., ]. b., Kistlcr, Mn, Gold
smith was slightly injured, After irng oil
the crowd the police retrcatod down Fifth
street to the borough line, whore they made
a stand. Again the mob advanced upon
them and again the big revolvers Of the
officers blazed n deadly FIRE into ths crowd,
The wounded are; Sylvester Messervitz, ID
years old, shot In bowels, will die; Charles
McClosky, shot In abdomen; Martin Woelln-
sky. shot In bowels, will die; Stanley Rookie
shot In back over heart. will do, Peter
struck by stray bullet. four blocks
away, not Serious Louis Wlky, shot In back.
win die.
Several Of tho policemen were lniuredi
but none seriously.
After the deadly fire the mob stil pressed
and Lieut., Smith withdrew his
men TO the barracks Of the Ssyre oolliery
Of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company,
After being implorod by leading citizens.
Sheriff sharpless Of Northumberland county
for Mount Carmel, When no arrived
there and saw the mobs that swarmed tho
no became weak at the kneea, and
fed to the barracks OF the Sayre ooliery
and begged for admittance, When no got
Lieut., Smith asked him to swear In his
men a. deputies, but this sharpless TO-
fused To do,
Several Of Smiths men, who are Regular