ftft - iJr"-nR tUi "Hu.mnl. tv-- (.m,1".- --JPV J p W PHWWWlWWQ'F,RSii-f -TpSr-"' ' riff'r -.dv-T W ' TJZE SCTRANTON TTUBTJtfE -MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, 189T. DEATH ROLL IS TWENTY Concluded from Pago 1. turned up Laurel street to the church. All along the line hundreds of peo ple skirted the road at the little ham lets, through which the procession passed, large groups were congregated, tho men viewing their brothers, grief with sullen silence that wns to. the funeral what rapturous applause would be to a parade, while tho women at the sight of. their sisters weeping In the carriages broke forth with loud lamen tations, and at times threw kisses to those for whom . their sympathy was expressed. , . NO DEMONSTRATION. The men marched quietly and slowly In good allgment and time nnd scarce ly ervor wore any of them seen to con verse. There was no trouble and no at tempt at even the slightest demon stration other than that made by their processional appearance. The services at the church were brief, on account of the lateness of tho hour. He,v. Hlchard Aust.formerly of Scran ton, wns the principal priest officiat ing. Interment was made In the Polish Catholic cemetery.wlthln the city lines. After the sad heartrending scenes at the cemetery were over the men dis persed and went their several ways paceably, ns they had romc. In pass ing the Valley hotel the funeral cor tege was viewed by General Gobln. lie expressed surprise at tho societies car rying nrms and forthwith dispatched Captain Schultz to notify the lenders among the Polanders thnt they should not carry any weapons In tomorrow's funeral cortege. Today the other six teen of the dead strikers will be burled. It Is not thought that there will be a general procession. And the fact that seven will bo burled from Protestant churches and eleven from the Catholic church makes It quite likely that there will be no general cortege. At any event General Gobln may Interfere tp prevent It. It Is greatly against the wishes of General Gobln that there should be any big turnout and efforts were being made nil day yesterday to prevent this by strategy. The mine companies which have come to an agreement with their men were urged to use every effort to resume work Mon day morning and It Is possible that some will succeed, but It Is not prob able though as the men In making the agreement Saturday would not hear to going bnck to work until after the funeral. The only reason that It Is un desirable to have a general turn-out la that the miners of tho Individual companies who are still on strike will meet and commingle with these who have reached a settlement, and the consequences may be that the good work of tho conferences of Saturday may bo all overturned. The general sentiment here Is still as strong as ever against the sheriff's pose. Even the most conservative say that while It might have been necessary to shed blood there was absolutely no neces sity of shedding so much blood. T. J. D. WAY SUNDAY WAS SPENT. Tunornls of Victims of Fridny's Con flict with tho Deputies. By Associated Press. Hazleton, Pa., Sept. 12. The situa tion here tonight Is graver than It has been ft'any. time since tho bloody af fray of Friday afternoon. There Js strong reason to fear a conflict be tween the' strikers and the military to morrow, and there Is an Indication that from five to seven thousand more min ers will join the malcontents. The feeling continues high against Sheriff Martin and his deputies, and the In tensity of the situation Is such that a sudden turn of the head or a word spoken above the ordinary tone brings n running crowd. The soldiers are watchful and ready for any emerg ency, and the people of the town are In a state which may easily become panic. An Incident of ugly omen occurred during the funeral of three of the vic tims this afternoon. While services were being held Inside St. Joseph's church, about 2,000 of the foreigners wire congregated about the doors. A number of them raised their voices, and it is declared by eye witnesses that a pollcemn,!) stntloned near the door, became unduly officious. Instant ly an ominous muttering followed, mingled with scowling looks and clinched fists. Word was Immediately carried in doors to tho Hew Father Aust. He hurried out to the door and bundled the men, who seemed most quarrelsome Into tho church. A few words of counsel to the others pre vented further demonstrations. DEMONSTRATION OPPOSED. Trouble is In the air, and If It Is to come the time will be tomorrow morn ing. This Is clear from the words used tonight by General Gobln, commander of the Third, brigade. The striking mln ers have made elaborate preparations for a demonstration at the funeral of ten of the victims, which is fixed for 10.30. o'clock In the morning. The roll ltnry authorities are determined that nothing of the kind shall be permitted and that from this time on there bhall be no marching of any character, whatsoever, whether during funerals or otherwise. This resolution Is not generally known, and the miners are gclng on with their arrangements. General Gobln talked over th? tele phony to Governor Hastings for an hour of more this afternoon. He said he had merely rrfade a formal report to tho gov ernor of tho situation. It Is apparent, however, that he commander Is not cheered by tho Immediate outlook al though he says he thinks there will be no further turbulence, he would not say when the troops are likely to be with drawn and he has resolved to net with the utmost rigor. Furthermore he made a revelation which put a startling aspect upon tho situation. This was that tha house nf the engineer of No. 3 colliery had been broken Into late last night by six mask ed men and tho engineer, who is a crip ple, unmercifully taton. There Is no clue to the Identjty of the assailants. Thenly work-the man has been doing "TWO Staff Correspondents of The Tribune Accornpav nied the Thirteenth Regiment to Hazleton, and Are Now at the Scene of Trouble. Read The Tribune foi Best Reports and Latest News lately Is the pumping necessary to freo the mln from water. The gencrnl had also received a for mal report of the Audcnrlcd outrnge of last Friday night when tho strikers broke Ino tho house of Goiner Jones, superlncndent of tho Lehigh nnd Wllkes-Barro Coal company. Jones, whoso unpopularity with tho miners, was one of tho first causes of the strlki?. There wns no one In the house, but tho inon literally wrecked tho In terior of tho building and then attack ed a mine powder houso nearby and stole therefrom a qunntlty of dynamlt?. As soon as he heard of this, General Gobln assigned a regiment to remain at Audcnrlcd. Th'e addition to the strikers' ranks, If made, will b the men nt Coxe'o mines and should they go out the last big anthracite company In tho region will 'be Idle. It was not known until today that the two thousand men employed at C colliery No. 7 held o, meeting at Stock ton last night and drew up a petition to the operators demanding an Increase of ten per cent. This will bo presented to morrow and the action In the event of ii'fusal Is "strike." It Is accepted us a fnct that If these men go out all the others pmployd by th company will Join them, making the total something between 5,000 nnd 7,000 from these mines alone. Tho Coxe men had already been oered an Increase but rejected It on tho ground that It was still lower than the scale paid by the other operators in the region. UNDER MARTIAL LAW. These men have been Svorking stead ily up to this tlmo nnd of late up to 10 o'clock at night. To nil Intent nnd purposes Hazleton Is under martial law. General Gobln declared tonight that In srlte of ttoa warrants Issued, no con stables nor anv civic authority will be permitted to arrest the deputies. Ho said that the sheriff is an executive of ficer whose duty Is to preserve the peace and that he.Gobtn, and the tropos are really subordinate to the sheriff at this time, being engaged In helping him to perform the duty. Under these circumstances he will not permit Inter ference with tho sheriff's officials so long as the militia Is here. The events of today were the death of another of the wounded, Jacob Tom nshantos, the 18-year-old boy who was shot through the head, making nine teen deaths to date, the announcement this afternoon by the hospital doctors that six more will die, several perhaps before morning, and the funeral of four of the victims. These were An drew Yureck, Steve Urlch, John Futa nnd Mike Cheslok. Ten more will be burled tomorrow, and here the trouble Is likely to occur. It has been ar ranged that the ten cofllns shall be carried on the shoulders of the strikers from the undertaker's shop to the front of St. Joseph's church. In front of the church a platform is to be erected, upon which It Is the purpose to place the ten cofllns so that they can be viewed bv the crowd. PROGRAMME ARRANGED. Then addresses In Polish, Llthunlan nnd English are to be made by priests aid others; the bodies will be carried Inside and pontifical high mass will bo celebrated. After the services, the procession will go to the, Polish ceme tery, where eight of the cofllns. those containing Poles, will be placed In one largo grave. It Is tho purpose to ac quire by subscription sufficient funds to erect over this a monument bearing the names of the victims nnd a brief history of the event. Seventeen socie ties, all but one made up of Poles, Hungarians, and others of the Slav race and one of Irish, are to march in the funeral procession. If General Gobln executes the Intention he an nounced tonight, this whole programme will be upset, and It Is feared that the men will resent any Interference with the disposition of their dead. Dr. H. P. Lewandoskl, of New York, representing the Polish societies of that city, arrived here today. He Is em powered to nsslst the strikers In every possible way; to help them to gain their demands from the operators and to arrange for tho prosecution of the sheriff and deputies. Later In the day ho said he had received word that a check for $1,000 from the National Pol ish alliance, which recently met In Philadelphia, has been sent on for the aid of tho miners, and that he has promises of additional large subscrip tions from New York and other cities. Dr. Thodorovltch, secretary at the Aus trian consulate at Philadelphia, Is participating In a meeting tonight, con sidering methods of prosecuting the deputies. AFFIDAVITS OBTAINED. He obtained affidavits from a number of the miners who were In Friday after noon's affair, which throw some new light on the shooting. They declare In substance that on the morning of that day a messenger arrived at Hur wood and asked the foreigners to come to Lattlmer, ns th? employes of colliery No. 1 at that place were about to strike. Later, a second message to the same effect arrived and warned them not to go through Hazleton, but to go around the other way. Tb-y did so, but arriving nt the fatal bend In the road near Lattlmer they ugaln found themselves confronted by the sheriff, this time backed by the army of deputies. As soon as they reached the spot, It Is declared, Sheriff Martin stepped out and roughly grabbed the foremost man by his coat collar. With his other hand he thrust a revol ver Into his face and used abusive lan guage. Tho miner knocked tho sheriff's revolver arm from In front of him and tried to wrench hlmRelf from tlis of ficial's grnsp. Almost Instantly, the affidavit says, the order to fire was giv en. The deputies were lined up In a hollow square, the fourth side of which was formed by the body of strikers. This would possibly account for the fact that so many were shot In the back and side. STORIES OF VIOLENCE. Stories of violence on the part of the strikers long before the outbreak of Friday are coming to light. It Is said that In their marches from mine to mine they used brute foroo to make in dividual workers Join their ranks. Rev. Dr. David II. Shields, an unasslgned appointee of President McKlnley to a chaplalnshlp In the army, said that as early as Tuesday of last week this had gono so far that the people became frightened. Hy Thursday terror was In the nlr, and many persons, were buying firearms nnd hiding ammunition In their houses. Dr. Shields himself one of tho most conspicuous advocates of peaceful measures in the emergency, said he advised asking for stall troops In the early part of tho week. Ho spoke In a big tentnt Hnzlo park, where somo of the mllltla are stationed this afternoon. Ho took no lssui? but declared that tho tragedy has been ap proaching for four years. Roth sides were to blamo In his opinion, the opera tors In steadily reducing wages and ro fuelng to inset miners' committees, thus leaving nothing for tho men but march ing; and the miners, In going on strike, ns th'cy often had over trivial causes, such as tho discharge of a mule driver for neglect of his work. In the office of tho Lihlgh Traction company Is a brown cutaway coat, which ono of the men, now dead, wore on Friday last. There are three bullet holes In It, one through the front, one through the arm nnd tlv third through tho tulls. In an lnsldo pocket wns found a cheap nickel 3-cnllbrc "bull dog" revolver. CHAMBERS WERE EMPTY. This had not been used In the rl .t because tho chambers contained neith er empty nor loaded shells, nnd it could not have been fired before tho man wns shot because ho would have had no tlmo to unload It. It Is established that this Is the only weapon contained In the wholu mob of miners, and the conditions Indicate that the first shot could not have come from their side. There were three companies of depu ties, nnd one of these made up of men who have served us mine police In the past had much trouble with strikers on previous occasions, and were said to be in a revengeful mood ngainst them. Humors (lew thick and fast today. There was one in the morning that a deputy's body had been found In tho woods and another In the afternoon that a soldier had been shot. It wns also whispered that Governor Hast ings had arrived by special train nnd was closeted with General Gobln. All proved baseless, the latter aris ing from the arrival of Colonel Wil bur, of the Lehigh Valley railroad, who conferred with brigade commander, but to what effect could not be learned. All was quiet In the camp throughout the day, several of the toodles, including the city troop, of Philadelphia, and tho Governor's troop, taking practice drills. The Polish citizens tonight held a long meeting, at which It was decided to begin prosecutions tomorrow. Clements Ploplslack, aged 33, another nf tho strikers who was injured In Friday's riot, died late tonight, mak ing the twentieth death so far. There are upwards of thirty-five wounded under treatment. GENERAL GOBIN'S GUIDE. Hnrrlsburg, Sept. 12. Genernl Gobln, In his Interpretation of the law relat ing to labor troubles, will be guided by tho charge made to the grand jury In Pittsburg by Chief Justice Paxson In 1S92 In the famous Homestead case of the state vs. Hugh O'Donnell, the labor lender and others, In which he said that the company had the un doubted right to prevent Invasion of property. The attorney general has In structed General Gobln to that effect. WARRANT NOT SERVED. Wllkes-Barre, Sept. 12. Sheriff Mar tin was seen late tonight at his home in Plains by an Associated Press re porter. When asked If he had any war rants served upon him he replied In the negative. The reporter then nsked him If he would submit to arrest. He said he would submit to arrest after a fair and square Investigation, nnd If the proper official appeared with the warrant. He also said that his con science was clear, as he believed he had only done his duty as sheriff. TROOPS ARE IN CHARGE. Three Thousand .Members of tho Guard PreHerving Order. Special to tho Scranton Tribune. Hazleton, Pa Sept. V The region Is now In complete substwl.'nci' to the National Guard of P'iiiihyiar.;.i, the entire Third brigade of tvhlrh Is here. Whatever disquiet th'ero may be is smothered in the presence of the army In blue. The eftect Is something Im pressive. General P. S. Gobln, com mander of the Third brigade, who was recently made commander-in-chief of tho Grand Army of the Republic, ar rived here with Ms staff at 8 o'clock yesterday morning and at once estab lished his headquarters In the Lehigh Valley company's office In Hazleton. The Ninth regiment wan the first to ar rive. They reaoned hrre at xO.i) a. m., Saturday. One hour afterward the Thirteenth, In magnificent form, reach ed the city. During the afternoon the Twelfth, Eighth and Fourth regiments, in the order named, arrived; also the City Troop, cavalry, of Philadelphia, the Govjrnor's troop, of Harrlsburg, and a battery of artillery from Phoenlx vllle. The Thirteenth has been given the distinctive stntlon at Lattlmer. The camp Is on the ground of Friday's bloodshed. The Ninth and Twelfth regiments are located at Hazleton and the Foutrh nnd Eighth have been as signed to Audenrled and vicinity. Tho troops nnd battery are at Hazleton, Vlie former having been formed Into a mounted patrol of the region. With the buttery are two gatllng guns and two rifle field pieces, which will be aportloned the regiments. There are about 3,000 guardsmen In the city tonight. THE CAMP BAGGAGE. Wns Ilolng Packed for Shipment nt Armory Yesterday. Quartermaster Sergeant Watklns, with a detail composed of Sergeant Johnson, Company A; Sergeant Blrch er, Company Cj Privates S. E. Sackett, Company B; Charles Moredock, Com pany D, nnd Jones, of Company H. were busily engaged yesterday at tho Armory getting out the camp equip ments of the Thirteenth r;glment. Part of tho baggage has already been forwurdd nnd the rest will bo taken today. The baggage of Company D of Honesdale, will arrive hiJre this morn ing at 9.35 o'clock, and Sergeant Wat klns and detail will leave with the re maining camp equipments on tho Dela ware and Hudson at 12 o'clock, arriv ing at Hazleton at 3 o'clock. EYE WITNESSES DESCRIBE SHOOTING Testimony Is All lo the Effect That No One Gave the Order to Fire. SHERIFF MARTIN WAS DISARMED Then IIo Wns Jostled About by tho Strikers nnd One of Ills Deputies Itnn to Ills Assistance and Tired n Shot--Inimcdlntcly Afterwards n Volley Wns Fired nnd tho Shouting Wns Kept Up While the Strikers Were on the Hun. Special to the Scranton Tribune. Hnzleton, Pa., Sept. 12. Friday's trouble between the deputies of 'Sher iff Martin and tho strikers, which promises to result In between twenty five or thirty deaths, has made Lattl mer famous In a day. It Is a small, little hamlet, where three or four hun dred mine workers reside, and consists of Trolley street, about four blocks long and lined with small company houses on either side. There nre other houses scattered around to the East and west of Trolley street named af ter the trolley road, which "connects tho hamlet with this city but to all Intents and purposes Trolley street Is Lattlmer. Just over the hill Is the mining village of Harlelgh. At the point where the public hlgh wny curves a little and loses Its Iden tity In Trolley street, Friday's slaugh ter took place. The turf thereabouts Is still stained with dark rod patches that tell where the dead and dying lay after tho shooting was over. Few bat tle fields have presented the scene that the half-acie of land about the curve In the turnpike did after Friday af ternoon's trouble. The ground was lit erally covered with the dead and wounded. Yesterday the ground was littered with pieces of blood-soaked cloth, torn from the garments of the Injured or given by people of the neigh borhood, which were used In stopping tho How of blood before the wounds were bound up and the men removed to the hospitals. Today nearly all of these gruesome reminders of the fight ing have disappeared; relic hunters ap propriated them. The people of Lattl mer talk of nothing but the shooting. One old lady, who was an eye witness to the trouble, said: "I will never be the same again; this shooting has had a terrible effect upon me," and she seemed to grow weak as memory re called the terrible scenes to her. STORIES OF EYE WITNESSES. Yesterday I heard tho story of the shooting from nearly a dozen eye wit nesses, among them Dr. Harvey, who attended many of the men after the shooting. The deputies Mood in front of his place when luey fired. - Few of tho witnesses agree In the matter of detail as to what took place between the strikers and Sheriff Martin just before the shooting, but all agree that the killing was unwarranted. One English-speaking mine worker, who saw the trouble from beginning to end, told what he observed to me. I give It because It Is the most com prehensive story of the occurence. The other eye witnesses I Interviewed cor roborated his version of the parts of the trouble they saw, with the excep tion of the manner in which the sher iff was treated by the strikers. He was quite sure they took his revolver away from him, shoved him about and finally got him on the ground. All the other witnesses I saw aver that Sher iff Martin was not knocked down, nnd some went so far as to say that he was not even struck, the strikers mere ly taking his revolver away from him when ho threatened to shoot them, and th'en shoved him about as he de nounced them for their conduct. The eye witness leferred to above said: "I wns coming up the street (Trolley street) when nn electric car came dash ing down the road and stopped rather sudenly near that box cul ert you see there at the bend of the road. A lot of men with guns got off and, nfter standing In a group for a moment or two, formed a sort of a rounded line from the end of the fence of that last house on the right hand side of tho street to about the center of the road. Most of the men had their backs toward the fence, nnd many of them stood quite close to It. To me It appeared as If there were seventy or eighty of the men with guns. They were two and three deep in some p'aces. About the time the lino was being formed the strikers came Into view on the turnpike, about 600 or 700 yards from where the deputies were. They were making little noise, but 'eemed to be In a merry, rather than a dangerous, mood. They had some kind of an old Hag that was carried In liont of them, and close to that and a few yards ahead of the column were two youngsters who were probably breaker boys. They were swaggering along nnd evidently deriving much fun out of the whole affair. Only a few of the men had sticks In their hands nntl there was not a deadly weapon visible. SHERIFF STOPPED THEM. "As the men came down th road the sheriff stopped them at that wooden culvert (about 150 feet fiom where the deputies were in line) nnd spoke to them. I could not hear what was said but a good deal of feeling wns display ed on both sides. The sheriff had his revolver in his hand and raised It as If to lire. The men around him grabbed his arm, tore the weapon from his hand and threw it to tho ground. They did not attempt to use it. Then there was a scuflle and the sheriff was thrown to tho ground. I don't know that he wns hit while ho was down for at that moment my attention wns attracted by a movement among the deputies. One man ran out from tho line and then a shot was fired, I bellevo by tho man who wnt towards the sheriff. I ob served the sheriff get to his feet and In a somewhat couching attitude run to ward the end of the fence which marked the end of his line of deputies. I did not hear him give a command to fire but saw the guns discharged before ho reached his men and saw a number of the strikers fall. "If the firing had ended with that volley tho 1osj of life would not havo been fo great. When the first shots rang out the strikers seemed rooted to the twot for the Instant; then those who were able turned nnd lied, somo bnck along tho road, others through the underbrush nnd trees to tho right there, but tho mot of them crossed tho trollay road and ran up along that hill on the loft. Tho deputies kept shooting turn ing to cover the men as they fled. When tho first volley was fired tho deputies wore facing tho south but soon they were shooting east and west and brlng Ig down a man here and there. When tho trouble began I was behind tho deputies, but when they began to turn I feared for my own safety and fled across the street and took refuge be hind tho fence In front of ono of tho houses. About this tlmo the firing stopped and I came out on tho road again and ns tho deputies moved ivway I ran down tho rond to the culvert vhere a number of men were lying and gave what assistance I could In caring for those who were nllve. Many wo men also gave assistance In binding up the wounds of the unfortunate men. WOULD GLADLY FORGET. "Tho scene along the road and on tho hill across tho car track I will never forget. To describe It would for mo be Impossible. I hope that I will never see a similar one. After a time assistance arrived and the dead and wounded were taken to Hazleton on wagons nnd the electric cnr." No one could be found who remem bered having heard Sheriff Martin give the order to fire. The deputies dis charged their pieces, evidently, Imme diately nfter the man who ran toward tho sheriff fired. He was Identified ns Samuel Price, of Hazleton. Somo of tho bullets lodged in the walls of a school house which stands on the hill nbout one hundred yards from Trolley street. A straight line drawn from the school building would strike Trolley street about one hundred yards behind tho point where tho deputies were lined up when they faced the oncoming strik ers. This proves thnt there was more shooting than the first point blank vol ley, for the men must have turned at least half way round In tiring at the fleeing strikers to get within range of the school house. The weapons used by tho deputies were Winchester rifles and riot guns. The former sent bullets clear through tho bodies of those they struck and In some Instances the same bullet prob ably injured two or three men. The riot guns did even more terrible work. A special cartridge of buckshot Is used In them nnd they are Intended only for use at long range. At a reasonable distance tho results that follow the use of tho riot gun are not serious, for the charge of buckshot separates and only a few particles are apt to enter a per son's bodv. At short range their work Is frightful. So close were the depu ties to the strikers when the first vol ley wns fired that the entire charge of buckshot entered tho body of the per son aimed at. tearing great bleeding gaps In the flesh. The men now In tho Hazleton hospital who are certain to die were nearly all wounded with the riot guns. The only weapons found on the bodies of the dead nnd wounded were n few penknives. The two boys who walked ahead of the strikers were found dead after the firing had ceased. They were side by side and evidently fell when the first volley was fired. A NIGHT OF TERROR. After the shooting and the departure of the victims, Lattlmer was In a fever of excitement. When the trouble oc curred the strikers were on their way to the colliery of Clavln Pardee, at tho north end of Trolley street, to try and Induce the men to Join them. They or ganized at Harwood nnd vicinity, about two miles south of this city, dur ing the morning and went to one of Calvin Pardee's collieries at West Hazleton, where Sheriff Martin talked to them and urged them to disperse. There was some little excitement there and one shot was fired by a deputy. No one was Injured, however. When the strikers left West Hazleton they refused to heed the warnings of the sheriff and continued on their march to Lattlmer. Hearing this, Sheriff Martin put his men on a trolley car and started for that place, also reach ing there some time before the men. After nightfall the rumor reached the hamlet that a mob of 1,600 men had started from Audenrled and Harwood and Lattlmer for their destination, the object being to burn the houses and breaker and kill the Inhabitants of the place out of revenge for the afternoon's terrible work. So authentic seemed the rumor that the officials of the Pardee collieries told the people to flee and furnished wagons to transport tho old and Inllrm to place3 of safety. Most of the foreign-speaking population spent the night hiding In tho moun tains, while the English-speaking resi dents walked to Freeland, six miles away, to Harlelgh or over In Buller Valley. One house In Freeland shel tered nearly fifty of the refugees. Some of the women were so terror-stricken that they could not bo Induced to re main In Lattlmer Saturday night either, although they, had the Thir teenth regiment camped at their doors. AFTER GOMER JONES. At Audenrled the mob was much more in earnest. It broke into tho house of Gomer Jones, superintendent of the Lehigh and Wllkes-Barre Coal company, who Is held responsible gen erally for the whole trouble, and after smashing his furniture, turned his pic ture towards the wall as an evidence of their dislike for him. Jones left Aud enrled with his family several days ago. Those who made up the mob suld they were looking for rifles that were supposed to be stored In Jones' house. Tho presence of the mob nt Auden rled and Harwood caused much fear In Hnzleton Friday night. Harwood Is tho home of nearly all of the men who were killed and tho people of that place were frantic for revenge. Cool heads among the leaders of the strike pre vented them from leaving the vicinity of their homes. At Hazleton Junction the depot of the Delaware, Susquehan na and Schuylkill railroad was broken Into by rioters and reduced to a wreck. It was these occurrences, coupled with tho wild rumors afloat, that caused such urgent messages for troops to bo sent on from Hazleton Friday night. Ono of the eye-witnesses of the shoot ing at Lnttlmer was William Conners, a shoe salesman, who resides at Scran ton. His version of the nffalr agrees substantially with that given above. J. F. M. THIRTEENTH IS AT LATTIMER Camped Within a Short Distance of the Scene of Friday's Conflict. TIIU JOURNEY FROM SCRANTON After llcnr Creek Wns I'nsacu tho Ammiltiou Wns Opened nnd Twenty Hounds Solved Out to Knch Mnn. Sharpshooters Placed on the linglno by Order of Gencrnl (!obin--Coloncl II. A. Courson Now in Chnrgo ol tho Regiment. Special to the Scranton Tribune Hazleton, Pa., Sept. 12. Tho Thir teenth regiment arrived at Lattlmer, three miles north of this place, at 2 o'clock yesterday nfternoon, after a' long and tedious ride. Tho officers of the regiment wore greeted by Mr. Drnke, who is superintendent of Calvin I'ardee's Lattlmer colliery. He showed tho available camp grounds of the vicinity and, after a few moments' con sultation between Lieutenant Colonel Mattes, Major Stlllwell, Major Whit ney nnd Major W. S. Millar, who was directed by General Gobln to sec tho Thirteenth In camp and then report to him, a site on a gently sloping hill side, overlooking tho greater part of the hamlet of Lattlmer, was decided upon. Close to the ground, where tho headquarters tents are pitched, Is a small grove, used for picnic purposes by th people of the vicinity, and there Is also an artesian well 400 feet deep which furnishes nn lnexhaustable sup plo of excellent water. It was this well that decided the officers In favor of tho camp ground, although that Is not Its only recommendation. Directly below the camp are tho Lat tlmer breakers, and surrounding them en all sides the deep cavities, result ing from the extensive coal strlpplngs carried on there. The camp decided upon the officers returned to the cars, gave the word of command for the men to disembark, and headed by tho regimental drum corps tho regiment picked Its way over the uneven ground until their tempornry homo wns reached. There was no canvass on the ground nnd It was feared none could be obtained until today, so tho boys began to arrange the camp ground with a view to spending the night In the open air. Late in the afternoon a moderate supply of canvass was receiv ed and soon a village of tents made Its appearance, nnd the boys ate supper with a relish In a white walled city of their own creation. THE TRIP TO HAZLETON. As told exclusively In The Tribune Saturday the orders to move the regi ment at once were received by Lieu tenant Colonel Mattes at 1.15 Saturday morning. The progress of the work of getting the boys together and arrang ing for a train up to 3.30 In the morn ing were also described. Owing to the difficulty of apprising the men In the svbutbs of the call the regiment was not prepared to leave the armory un til 7 a. m. A few minutes before that hour Company E, of Honesdale, Cap tain George E. Smith, commanding, with thirty-nine men In line, arrived at tho armory, having Major George H. Whitney and Battalion Adjutant W. A. Wood with them. The Honesdale soldiers received the call to arms at 2.30, and a little over two hours later were on a special Erie and Wyoming train flying toward this city. Before leaving Honesdale two new members were enlisted, put Into uniforms nnd are here In camp. While the officers were getting the men together Commissary General E. H. Ripple, who had ben ordered to Hnzleton by Governor Hastings, was arranging for feeding the brigade after It reached camp. Quartermaster W. J. Tracy was engaged in work of a simi lar nature He set Caterer Hanley to work making sandwiches nnd coffee, and thnrks to his thoughtfulncss the boys were not hungry on the trip. Many of tho guardsmen left home without breakfast and the rations supplied by the quartermaster In the train were very much relished. Two freight cars attached to the train that took tho soldiers down contained the first Installment of provisions for the bri gade. These cars wens In chargo of Commissary Seigeant W. T. Simpson. ON THE ROAD. A few minutes after seven tho regi ment marched to tho Delaware and Hudson station on Lackawanna ave nue. Even at that early hour largo crowds lined the streets nnd there wns a good sized crowd at the station to see the regiment depart. At 7.30 Lieu tenant Colonel Mattes gave the word to start nnd the train of ton passenger coaches and two freight cars pulled out of that station. The acting colonel be fore he left telegraphed to Colonel H. A. Coursen at Cottage City, Mass., no tifying him that the regiment was about to move. Messages wero also sent to Captain McCausland, of Com pany G, Montrose, urging him to assem ble his men and get them to Hazleton as quickly as possible. The first order Lieutenant Colonel Mattes made was to appoint "Captain E. D. Fellows officer of tho day. He posted guards at tho door of each car and kept tho mem bers of each company In the car assign ed to them. At Duryea the train was transferred lo the Lehigh Valley cut off and the toilsome ascent of the mountain to ralrvlew begun. There was a short stop at Avoca and another at the top of tho mountain, after which the train proceeded oor the Lehigh Valley's main line to Penn Haven Junction. Af ter passing Bear Creek, Lieutenant Colonel Mattes gave the order to pass the amunltlon and Quarter Master Reese Watklns and several assistants began to open the heavy wooden boxes which contained the regiment's emer gency supply of nine thousand cart ridges. Each man was supplied with twenty rounds nnd the ofllcers proceed ed to examine nnd load their revolvers. From the nppearanco of the Interior of tho cars at this time the onlooker might Infer that serious trouble was expect ed. The reports received on tho train by Regimental Adjutant L. T. Mattes from each company fehowed thnfpllolgr. iiccrs nnu men on board: r.i utnunn! Colonel C. C. Mnltes. AdltliAnV L. f Mattes, Major W. G. Fulton, Mygpjui o the regiment; Lieutenant C? ft." lvk and LleiUennn W. E. Keller, assistant surgeons; wunrtermnster J. Traiiy, Major Geoigp II. Whitney, Major F. W Stlllwell, Inspector of Hllle Praetlcn II. B. Cox, Battalion AdjutnntH W.' 'A Wood, of llntipxdnln nml 1?. M. HJmt. ... ., ...... . .. .... ..,.. v ton. of Hrrniilnn Hnrtmnrtt IVfjHftt it' n Coursen, Quartermaster Serjeant' Reeso uaiKins, uommissnry Sergeant H. II. Andrews, Color Sergeant W. ??. Reed, Hospital Stewart, Joseph F. Baumols ter; Principal Musician Ted Richards; Company A, commanded' by Captnln James O. Dlmmlek, hnd 47 men; -coni- pany is. ynptalJr W, Kambeck, 41 men; Company CCaptnlrl Frank Rob llnu. 49 men: Cnmnnnv tv rmtnl.. r E. Oilman, 46 men; Company E, Hones dale, Captain George" Smith 3? Mien; Company F, West Scrurflon,CnptdIn,E. D. Fellows, 43 men; CoMpauy. JI.'Nofth Scranton, Captain S. Welles Corwln, 43 men. 'rue totni number of members of tho regiment was 324 or 70 per cent." of the membership of thacomiianleS retire. sented. ... '; Lieutenant Colonel Mattes haT, not been nblo to got In communication with Captain McCauBland, of CompanyTO, of Montrose, before ho left thq city, but he left messages for' hlittoh" flla In the Western Union ofllaiu'lrert Ing him to make all possible- baste. Lieutenant Harry Decker, ot Company F, and Sergeant Benoro were detailed; to remain In the city arid 'bring' along; those who could not g6 wfth'(nV .regi ment. With tho roglmenron'Vtslrfp to Hazleton were Colonel E. II. Ripple, commissary general orf"tho','s,iafi: of, Governor Hastings, arid CornriilMnry Sergeant W. T. Blmpsom allo-of olha governor's staff, Major-W. S. "Millar and Major J. W Oakford, -the-form-or Inspector, nnd the latter judge-ad-vocute of tho Third, brigade, aijd,u)p;n bers of General Go'bin's staff. QOJNQ, INTO. HAZ.LEXQN. Four miles from1' herd," In'pursuancd to General Gobi's Instruction's,' Lleu tennnt Cblonel Mattes directed rt de tail of sharp-shooters to bo placed-oa the engine, to prevent nn' attack being! made on the. train. The men- wrfl;tak en from-Company C, and. wero .u'rjiec command of Captan Ifpbllrig. 'They, were: Sergeant Pascha'lls, Corporals Cooper nnd Gould and Privates Swin gle, Drake and Cook. They were 'sta tioned on tho engine and tender With! their loaded guns beside them.'' - When the. train stopped hcre"flcralls of flankers from each company spreatB out on both wldes of the train. Alt of these precautions wero taken tof pt event a surprise attack on the sol diers. They proved unnecessary, for. there was no demonstration of any, Kind against the wearers of the blue; on tho contrary many of the peopla of Hazleton seemed Extremely glad tof have tho guardsmen 'with them. The acting commander of the Thlr teenth reported to General Gobln, who" had established Ills headquarters tem perarlly In the office of the superln teident of that division of the Lehigh Valley company, and the Thirteenth, was ordered to Lattlmer, the scene oC Friday's bloody occurrence. The ham let ii only three miles from here, but to get there It Is necessary to make a detour of over ten miles through a3 black and desolate a country as exists In Pennsylvania, where vegetation of nil kinds has been covered or killed by the practice of washing tho culm from tho collieries over a vast expanse of turitory, Instead of piling In a great heap as Is done In the Lackawanna, valley. Lattlmer Is on the edge of this unin viting territory, but within a mile of It, Just over the crest of the hill. Is tho famed Butler valley, one of tho fair est and most picturesque seen any where. Along the route from this city to Lattlmer tho advent of the soldiers caused much excitement, the sharp shooters on the engine causing no llttlo excitement nnd wonderment. In somo places hats and handkerchiefs wero waved and In others doubled lists wero shook defiantly aj tho guardsmen. There was a large crowd gathered at Lattlmer when tho train stopped. It was made up mostly of Italians, who were extremely quiet and peaceful looking. They watched with a good deal of Interest the flanking squads that Jumped off tho cars as soon ns they fstopped and spiead themselves out along the train. BAGGAGE SENT FOR, Before the train left this city Quar termaster Sergeant Reese Watklns and, a detail of. one man. from each com pany was sent back to Scranton to get all the camp baggage of tho regiment. This was taken as an Indication that the boys will bo camped hereabouts for several days nt least. It Is a trib ute to tho known efficiency of tho Thirteenth that they wero assigned by;. General Gobln to tho point whero trouble was most likely to occur, IC mischief of any kind was contemplated by tho strikers. Fortunately thero has been no trouble of any kind nnd nono la likely to occur. . At 6.30 last night Captain McCaus land and forty members of Company G, of Montrose, arrived in'raimp. With) them were members of other compan ies who could not go down with tho) regiment. Tonight tljo Thirteenth haa about 400 men In camp. Colonel E. II. Ripple left for homo last night. Tho arrival of tho Third brlgado commis sary officer allowed tho colonel to transfer to him the work of provldlna for tho maintenance of tho brigade. In somo way a rumor was put In cir culation Saturday to the effect that tho members qf the ThlrteenthvhlJq. pass ing through WIIkes-Barro had Jooted a number of "stores. Governor Hast ings called up General Gobln lry 'tele phone from Harrlsburg ana Inquired, about the matter. Ha was "assured that thero was no truth In It.'fofthe Thirteenth at no time during Jts Jour ney to Hazleton was within, flvp nillea of Wllkes-Barre. f Colonel II, A. Coursen arrived hero at noon today from Cottage City, Mdss., and took charge of his regiment.'1 A light, drizzling rain fell this afternoon which mado lite in camp anytlllng"but pleasant. J. F. M, Loudon's Kloni'ko Crnzc. London, Sept. 12. Fifteen rnibllo com panies for exploiting tho Klondike havo been floated In London. Their total cap ital is $10,000,000, of which $3,600,000 III" stock Is offered to the ipubllc.
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