Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-17
Sheriff Again Calls
for Troops, Fearing
a Worse Uprising
Than First.
GIRL INSPIRED ATTACK
UPON DETECTIVE CAMP
Cecilia Lewis AppeaIed to
Townsfolk to Avenge Club
bing She and Other Young
Women ToiIers Had Received.
[From a stan correspondent.1

IFrom q staG Correspondent.5
WHARTON. n. j.. May Ito ce-
ella Lewis. the pretty idol of the
striking miners. all Wharton is today
giving credit for the complete rout Of
Sheriff Gillen's 800 armed deputies
from Newark
1t was she who. sweater torn and
hair disheveled, rushed before the as
sembled mountaineers and townsfoIk
and inspired them to attack the hired
detectives in their camp around the
wrecked locomotive of the Mt Hope
Mineral railroad.
Her story was simply told. but It
fred the miners to frenzied anger.
She described how she and her girl
friends, in attempting TO take their
usual short cut to Dewey avenue. had
been set upon and brutality assaulted
by the imported deputies.
Il was walking with Mary Meow
ern. ahead Of the Others" she painted.
"A lot of detectiyes-a dozen, maybe
came up. . They stopped us. We
couldn't go across the railroad, they
said.
Mary told them we were just going
home from work
Cut out the chin and beat it.'
shouted one of them.
:" We won't I told him.
He rushed at US. They all did.
First they grabbed Mary and clubbed
her. She screamed. Her left arm was
broken by the first blow. They hit
her all over the body. I tried to pull
her away.
"One Of the men got hold of me
and half tore my sweater OF. The
other girls were hurt. too. We ran
back. Mary was crying and stumbling
all the way and / thought she'd faint
But we get away and came TO tel
you
She stopped suddenly in the mids'
| of her quick narrative. For dra'
matte moment, she stood Silent. fac
ing the burly strikers. Then, rizfhs
on tiptoe. she cried:
Are you going to stand for 1t p
That night 500 men, armed witt
frifies and sticks of dynamite moved
on the camp of the detectives from
four directions. The guerilla warfare
lasted for five hours. Six deputies
were injured. including c. Harold
Norbury, captain OF Company M
First Regiment, National Guard OF
New Jersey, who had volunteered fol
strike duty, in order to learn how tc
handle mobs.
No Fight Left In Deputies.
The deputies maintained their posi-.
ton all during the night and all yes
terday. But there was no fight left
in them. They knew that the towns.
people and miners. aroused by tht
story of Cecilia Lewis. would drive
them out, no matter at what cost.
jeremiah F. O'Brien, who was in
command of the detectives. knew,
through long experience in strike
battles. that he could not hold his
position during another night. His
men had deserted by the scores, and
those who remained he withdrew late
in the afternoon.
Quiet Immediately fell over the
battle-scarred town. This peaceful
ness was maintained today. Accord
ing to Chief of Police Macdonald. il
will be useless for troops or more
deputies to be sent here.
I'VE can take care of our own labor
troubles he told an Evening Star re-
porter today. You wouldn't know
that there was strike here"
As a matter of fact. half the men in
Wharton. as well as the striking
miners. have armed themselves with
rifles, revolvers and whatever guns
they could find. The countryside has
been searched with a fine-tooth cont
for weapons. These are now cached
in cellars and woodsheds. awaiting
the next development in the STRIKE
situation.
None of the townspeople are Sc
riously injured as the result of tn
rioting. but one death is attributed t
it. During the battle that was tough
about the wrecked locomotive, bal
lets from the deputies revolvers wen
/ through the walls of many of tn
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