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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.