The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-03
DEADLY BATTLE BETWEEN
 FOREIGNERS AND TROOPS
TWO PENNSYLVANIA STATE CON- STABULARK KILLED AND
 OTHERS WOUNDED.

NIurdcrers Surrounded at Florence Mine | Defend House Where They Had Barricaded Themselves With Despe- | rate Courage--Soldiers Compelled to Give Up storming the Place Until 1 This Morning-Oyer 500 Shots Ex-
 changed.
 l Punxsutawney, Pa, Sept. 2.--In a 1 bloody battle tonight between foreign CTS and the twenty-one members of Troop D, state constabulary, in which fully 300 shots were fired. two troopers were killed and one fatally wounded, while three others, including two sol- diers and a boy, received bullet wounds. The murderers tonight were surround ed at Florence mine, seven miles from here, and at daylight the attempt to capture them will be renewed. Further loss of life is feared, for the besieged are well supplied with arms and ammu- milton.
 1 The dead; Private John Henry, aged twenty years, Philadelphia; Private Francis zehringer, aged thirty, Con shocton
 Fatally wounded; Private Homer Chambers, Rochester, Pa.
 The trouble began late this afternoon, when Sergeant Joseph Logan went to Florence to search for Leopold Scarlat, who is charged with shooting his broth- er-in-law Friday night. Salvatore Wal lace, who Is said to be one of the most 1 desperate members of the Black Hand, started q fight with a countryman in front of the house where Waltsch boards. When Logan placed Waltsch under arrest the latter invited him to ] the boarding house. Logan had scarce ly passed the door, when one of three Italians In the house made a lunge at him with stiletto, the weapon passing between his arm and body, Logan re- treated, but before he got fifteen feet from the building an Italian opened fire. Logan returned the fire and the | two men emptied their weapins on each other Logan got one buckshot wound in the foot and the desperado was seen to fall back into his house, fatally wounded.
 Logan telephoned for assistance and Private Henry, one of the detachment, immediately started for the house, but when he was about twenty feet from the house was shot down. PrivateS Chambers and Mullen, in attempting the rescue of their companion, were both shot, Mullen through the foot.
 Fifteen additional troopers were hur- ried to the scene, and while twelve of the constabulary kept firing into the
 windows and front doors six policemen made a rush for the side door, which they battered in Three of the officers, IZehringer, Gross and Cummings, dash ed up the stairs, but were confronted
 by three of the desperadoes, who open- ed fire. Zehringer fell at the first vol ley, but the two other men escaped. The gang closed the door, but there is little doubt that Zehringer was killed, as several shots were fired inside im- mediately after the door was closed.
 Siege was then laid to the place. Six teen Italians board in the house. The position of the watchers is a perilous one tonight, as there are many treach- erous members the Black Hand about
 Florence.
 The policemen have riddled the house
 with bullets, shooting at any figure
 seen moving in the place, and the fire
 has rbeen returned, but with what re- suit is not known.