The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-05-01
MINERS STONE
STATE POLICE
Striking Miners in Fight With
COnStabuIary.
20 HURT, 3 MAY DIE
Mount Carmel Mob Started Battle
With VOIleys Of Stones Officers
Replied.

MOUNT CARMEL, Pa, May 1.-The
/ first serious collision in the anthracite
coal regions since mining was suspend
ed ON April ] has occurred here be
tween a mob of idle workers and a
platoon of the new state constabulaly
force and resulted in the iniuring OF
probably twenty men, and three Of
hem win likely die.
The disturbance was caused by an
,ttack on detail of the state police
/ ~ several bundled foreigners. who be.
anne inconsed az the presence of the
onstablcs They threw stones at the
nlcemcu and otherwise endangered
/ heir lives to such an extent that they
we're forced to fire on the crowd, which
nl Swellcd into thousands. The riot
I Husel the greatest excitement in the
many mining villages of the southern
oal fields when Il hecame known that
nine workers had been Shot down but
HE affected territory is now compara-
lively quiet
While It is believed that a score OF
persons We're injured during the day
only ten are accounted for The three
who it is thought will die are:
Louis Wilson, shot through the body;
r. NIisereyich, shot in the stomach
and Stanislaus Watakoski, shot in the
groin.
Wilson was shot while standing in
front Of his home, block from the
scene of tile conflict r. H. Gibson,
trooper, was struck on the head with a
rock and seriously hurt
The ARRAY was the result Of an at
tack upon nonunlon men made NJ vari-
Gus times last week. The attacks be-
came SO numerous that sheriff sharp
less OF Northumberland county appeal
ed TO the state conStabulary for help
In accordance with orders from Cap
tain John c. Groome the Superintend-
ent of the state police Troop c. which
was marching from Reading to Hazel
ton. was divided. and half Of the men
under Lieutenant Smith was sent to
Mount Carmel.
After looking 10 their mounts the
troopers started ont TO get breakfast
and Immediately ran into trouble from
an unexpected source At the first no
tel they went 90 the dining room girls
refused to scve them and they re
ceived the same treatment at two other
places In most of the small mining
towns the help about hotels and other
places are related TO mine workers or
/ IN sympathy with them aud during
strike times They do al they can To help
the workers
The presence of ,he troopers ON the
main street OF tho syu caused "a crowd
of mine workers 10 gather about them.
/ and the holder ones I'm the crowd be-
| gan 10 stir up trouble The crowd
closed in upon the state police and be
gan throwing stones. The troopers
charged the mob aud scattered it, but
not before several men were hurt, in
| GLIDING trooper. Lieutenant Smith
drew his men into line and threatened
10 shoot If the uob renewed the attack.
In the meantime local leaders of the
mine workers circulated through the
crowd and ordered the Infatuated for
eigners to dispense aud keep the peace.
The chief burgess, who is member
of the miners union. addressed the
crowd from a window and advised
them to go home. This action had con
siderable effect, aud the detail of
troopers started for the Sayre colliery
of the Lehigh Valley Coal company on
the outskirts of Mount Carmel where
nonunion men had been attacked by
foreigners Saturday night.
some of the mob persisted in follow.