The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-04-18
TRULY TERRI bI.E TIN
Celebration Of Easter Neuday H.
Tragic Termination.
TRIO OF MtN KILLER


and mining engineer. sws4s;,s H.
Ianey taken 70 the hospital 10 q seri
Gus condition as a result OF riot Al +
WIhdber among the striking coal min /
ers Monday night The place Is In
state Of terror. Sheriff Begeley being
summoned. and an appeal has been
made 10 Governor pennypacker for
troops. Several of the rioters sustain
90 slight injuries The dead men and /
most of the injured are foreigners, and |
their names cannot be obtained. The |
bodies were lying In the street Monday |
night where they fell, the strikers re |
fusing TO allow the undertakers to re |
move them
me foreign element had been cele |
brating Easter Monday In the mining |
section, and much liquor had been
used. The streets were throneed all |
day with boisterous crowd. but no |
sign OF troubled appeared until night. |
A body of strikers was assembled in |
front of the Windber pail discussing |
mass meeting which would be held
during the afternoon. The discussion
grew into argument. and soon there
was free for all fight.
Deputies that had been sworn In
for the strike in the coal mines when
/ first inaugurated made their appear.
ance All of the arrested men were
union men, and their colleagues set
up cry that they were being discrim-
mated against, and were imposed upon.
| The arrested men were marched to
| the lookup, but there mob had been
! formed, and an attempt was made to
take the men from the officers Fore
| ed back from the jail door the mob
/ growing more violent every minute
/ threatened the deputies until the of
! ffcers fired The mob, apparently not
j expecting the deputies would resort
/ to firearms, fled.
/ When the smoke cleared away and
/ the victims shot were viewed by the
/ crowd there were cries of anger, and
/ soon members OF the mob armed re-
/ turned the shots of the deputies. The
! firing ceased almost as soon as it be-
gan, however. and the crowd filed
away from the Jail.
An eye witness of the riot, in de
scribing the affair. said trouble start
! ed at O'Clock, when Deputy Sheriff
| McMullen went to the mass meeting
| held by the striking miners in a wood
at the edge of town Many of the
/ miners had been drinking and the
sight of the deputy made them furi
Gus.
The officer. was quickly surrounded
I by miners, who threatened to kill him,
McMullen fled for his life, finding a
refuge in the house of Councilman
Charles Davis. Soon after McMullen
I had entered the Davis house 1t was
surrounded by mob of 1000 shouting,
i cursing miners.
/ When McMullen failed to appear.
/ the mob attacked the house and liter
/ ally wrecked it. The deputy sheriff
was roughly handled. but managed to
/ escape The members of the Davis
/ family fled to the homes of neighbors
/ for shelter Other deputies who had
/ been on duty guarding the property
/ of the coal company had been notified
| OF the trouble by this time, and TWEEN
4 ty Of the rioters were landed in the
/ lookup at Windsor.
4 The mob, headed by Paul Zillis chen
I planned an assault on the Jail with the
/ purpose of releasing the prisoners.
4 A great crowd of the strikers. with
4 Zillis at their head. marched to cen
1 ter of the town and prepared to storm
/ the Jail The deputy sheriffs fixed
! their bayonets to their rifles and sur
! rounded the Jail to keep II from the
I mobs possession il possible. At \
! signal the mob began to c4ose in on
I the Jail. shouting TO the deputies &c
Z throw away their guns and give Ut
I the prisoners The officers first tried
/ To keep back the mob with bayonets
4 lint the effort was Intellectual and