The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 22, 1900, Page 1

/ e e papel no Ths © T grom e xt\\e; LPAEY < \\ he \V\bra 5 Tall, VOLUME LXXXVIII-NO. 114. FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FIRST TRAGEDY IN THE GREAT COAL MINERS STRIKE CAUSED BY A SHERIFFS POSSE FIRING UPON AN ENRAGED MOB THAT THREATENED WORKMEN Pennsylvania peace cfficers have fired on a crowd of riotous strikers, causing the threatened clash and bloodshed in the great anthracite coal fields. The encounter occurred near Shenandoah, the result being the killing of two persons, one an innocent little girl and the other a Hungarian miner. Deputies were escorting working miners to their homes when the shooting took place. The Governor of Pennsvlvania has called out three regiments of militia, a troop of cavalry and a battery of artillery for duty in the disturbed districts. One an and a Little Girl Are Killed by the Volley of Bullets. Trouble at Shenandoah Is Precipi-| tated by the Closing of Six Collieries. Hungarians, men, women and chil- who lined both sides of the A shot rang out from a saloon. s followed by a shower of stones. of the crowd had picked up sticks es and were acting in a threaten- ing this, the Sheriff, who 1 not to use their firearms, com- them to fire. posse to the here they took refuge. ortly afterward tele- isburg and asked that a be sent here. nt General Stew- adeiphla and a telegram nt to him there. . inside fore- -4 8 » 9 B 8 w ] A 3:30 o'clock this afternoon were g from work when they met at Lehigh Valley station mob with sticks and stones. The home the als drew e furious after one r was shot and attempted to on the officials. They ran up t to the O'Hara stable, where were imprisoned for two hours. The mob. threatened to burn the stable, but Sheriff Toole, with twenty deputies, ar- ed and s returned to their homes. LASH WITH POSSE. ThatThreat- ing the riot windows were broken, gs were wrecked and a number of ns were injured. forel held a meeting to-night TAL Upon a Mob » 21—A more trouble is feared unless the ¢ % arrives before morning. The | E = eriff has asked the Philadelphia and to abandon the collieries here to-mor- any consented to do so. ht it is raining and the mob has Up to a late hour the Hun- that was ‘killed was permitted to ny in the gutte : o where he dropped. For- e ay a dead man is of R refused to care for the . ah Council held a meeting ce ations calling upon (he. r send mnilitia. They also de- e st frer | ¢ enforce martial law. Special of- 4 m € f fic out to order saloon- e ose their places and to keep Her th ed until peace Is restored. It [ Poles, Slavs | was also decided to prohibit the sale of itioned his men to keep | The order was | The crowd | It | dian Ridge col- | their ‘revolvers and | dispersed them and the mine | l N Jorm~ MiTcHELL PrRES - THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF THE UNITED MINE WORKERS | OF AMERICA, WHO ARE DIRECTING THE STRIKE. THE OTHER PICTURES ARE OF SCENES IN THE ANTHRACITE FIELDS. - * { firearms and ammunition. The Councll [ ville, Governor's Trovp ot Hu'rrisburg and | also swore in the members of the fire | the Third Brigade headquarters. companies and other citizens to aid in re- | Richardson has taken char storing order. | MILITIA IS ORDERED OUT. Colonel ge of the move- ment of the troops and the camp equip- age and tents. Major General Miller, commander of the division, has been sum- moned to Harrisburg and is now on his way from Franklin. Attorney General El- kin has also béen called here from Indiana to advise with the Governor. R it Two Thousand Troops Sent to the Disturbed District. HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 21.—Three | regiments of antry, a battery and a | | troop of cavalry w ordered out at mid- | Battery C is equipped with Gatling guns | night by Governor Stone to assist Sheriff and is one of the best drilled organiza- | Taole in maintaining order in the Schuyl- | tions in the guard. Kkill region. This action was taken after | General Gobin is the Senior Brigadier a conference between the Governor, Adju- | General of the division and commanded tant General Stewart and General Gobin | the provisional brigade which was ordered | on the urgent solicitation of the Sheriff, | to Hazelton after. the Latimer the Borough Council of Sheanandoah and | in 1597, many prominent residents of that locality, General ( h: been placed In com- mand of the provisional brigade and start- ed from here to-night with his staff on fal train for Shenandoah. He will establish headquarters there and expects shooting PPy ACat, | WILL MEET ARCHBISHOP RYAN. | But Will Not Recognize Him as Rep- | resentative of Strikers. EW YORK, Sept. 2L—President Oli- | phant of the Delaware and Hudson Canal to be on the ground with 200 troops by | Company, when asked to-day whether 5 o'clock Saturday morning. The organ- | his company would be likely to engage izations which have been selected for this | outside labor in the event of the strike service are the Fourth, Eighth and |lasting over two weeks, said: ! Twelfth regiments, Battery C of Phrmnlx-l “I do not think we are likely to en- et focfefenfeconts sfenfotonfonfoonfenftent engecfofonfonfonfoonfonfs sfenfoofotontentesfecoefortontunfects cfecfeesfortenfenfosfofenfonts sfocfoienforfonts ofenfoonforfonfoeferiot | | gage men In the place of those who are now out. Such action leads to trouble of the most serious character think too much of our men to replace them with outsiders.” Mr. Oliphant =aid that friends of his in Philadelphia had written to him asking whether he would meet Archbishop Ryan in this city. He had replied that he would be pleased to meet the Arch- bishop as a gentleman or individual, but that he must decline to recognize him as a representative of the miners, | President Truesdale of the Lackawanna said he, too, must decline to receive man, but would meet him in an individual capacity. - Crawls a Mile on Hands and Knees | to Procure Aid. | SHAMOKIN, Pa:, Sept. 21.—Evan Davls, watchman at Hickory Ridge colliery, was shot and probably fatally wounded this morning by an unknown person as he was patrolling his beat. He fired six shots at his fleeing assailant, but none of the bul- lets apparently took effect. The colliery is In an isolated place and Davis was com- pelled to crawl a mile on his hands and knees to procure aid. MINERS' REAL OPPONENTS. Mitchell Declares Nine Railroads Are Making the Fight. HAZELTON, Pa., Sept. 2lL.—President Mitchell issued an open letter to the pub. lic to-night, in which he recites the griev. | ances of the miners and the cause thereof and points out a way to settle the strike. >resident Mitchell “The striking miners recognize.as their real opponents in this struggle for a slight amelioration of the hard, gri ondi- tions of the miner’s life nine which, with their presidents Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Alexan- der J. Cassett, president: Lehigh Valley Railroad system, Fred Walter, president; Delaware and Hudson Railroad, R. M. and we | Archbishop Ryan as a strikers’ spokes- | COLLIERY WATCHMAN SHOT. | the Hazleton Deputies Are ;In Oliphant. president: Delaware, Lackawan- | na and Western Raliroad Company, W H. Truesdale, president: Central Railread | Company of New Jersey. J. R. Maxwell, president: Philadelphia and Reading Rail- way, J. H. Harris, president; Erie a New York, Susquehanna Western Rail- road, F. H. Thomas, president; Delaware, | Susquehanna and Schuylkill Company, I A. Stearns, president: New York, Ontario and Western Railroad, T. B. Fowler, pres- ident.” The independent operators, Mr. Mi says, are railroads. ment with Ma t settlement could be lived up to by Markle & Co. only %0 long as the strike continued elsewhere Every pound of coal that Markle & C | would be permitted to mine sh | would invariably appropriated by t | Lehigh Valley Rai 1, thus placing s the weapon which would very object for which re on strike, mine workers of field having their wages |'sliding scale the earnings of the Markle & Co. men would wrily be reduced | were the strike to prove a faflure at other points in the anthracite region. 1 | | | | heli in the clutch of the . de a settle =3 nd be 2 their own han the defeat their and because the anthracite hased upon a ers' offlcials will step aside and not ask to be recognized or consulted by the mine owners if the officers of these railroad companies will meet committees of their own emploves and come 10 a peacefu agreement. Provided, however, that such conference ! between the various companies and com- i‘mu\t-rs representing thefr own employes | | will meet in separate halls on the date. me This provision is inserted because here- tofore when committees presented griev- | ances to any of the great companies they met with the argument that the y could not remedy the wrongs complained of because competing com- panies enforced conditions of employment not more were compa favorable to the mine-workers than their own. By holding these separate conferences simultaneously there could Y in one city | an exchange of opinion between all of the mine-workers and miners whose interests were at stake, thus removing the possibility of one com- bany being placed at a dvantage by yving more for labor than was exacted | from their competitors. | Mr. Mitchell asserts that he is an ad- voeate of arbitration and opposed to| strikes. He declares that the mine work- © el @ gt Dist ict Arfi;d Also Much in Evidence. Foreigners in Ugly Mood After First Bloodshed and Further Trouble Predicted. [ R e e e + VICTIMS OF FIRST BATTLE SHENANDOAH, Pa., Sept. 21.—Following are the vie- tims of the first clash between peace officers and strikers: KILLED. Mike Yuckavage, the eye. A little girl, name un- known, shot in the back of tLe neck. shot in WOUNDED. Edward B. Coyle, aged 50 years, bullet wound near the heart. He was sitting on his stoop. Michael Scanlan, shot in the arm. Anthony Skapnazicz, shot in the left wrist with a 22- caliber bullet. John Wusdickey, aged 40, shot in the hand. Peter Stalmocovich, 28 years old, shot in the shoulder Anthony Axalasuge, shot in left side, serious. A 40-cali- ber bullet was removed. Among those who were in- jured by the rioters were: George Bedding of Ring- town, ugly gash on right fore- head, caused bybeing hit with a brick. Robert Edwards, aged 64 years, injured seriously by being hit with stones. Charles Lawland, aged 35, injured on the head and neck by stones. FEEIE P PP H P 4Pt 4 bttt bttt ittt tEEEEIEFFET LI EEEESQ R R R R R R R R R R b R e e e R e e R A R L A A + > [ @EPEE2 4402400000000 0 00400 SOUGHT TO DESTROY VILLAGES. Chinese Pirates Planned a Raid on the Canton Delta. HONGKONG. Sept. 21.—The French warship 2 . n tmves- tigating th in the Samner dis t near Canton, reports that the crews c eight pirate junks by 5 & nce with influential ght to de the ( the Canton de UNITED STATES PREPARES TO ACT INDEPENDENTLY OF OTHER POWERS Proposes to Immediately Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. BERLIN, Sept. 21.—Some of the powers have already nese ringleaders publish the answers of the powers who consent to her proposal, Perhaps publication will ers. - firms the belief that there is dissension between Germany and the A dispatch received here from Taku, dated to-day, September 21, says: fire on the Russian infantry camp, wounding twenty-five men. shelling the forts and town.” hese are in substance the conclusion hed by the P dent and Cabinet to- day in their consideration of the replies > sent to the several notes from the dand Chinese govern- delivered to M. de Russian Charge d’Affaires, this on is most important as it gives statement of this Government's Germ he Chinese questiop and independently of that be considered ment oo e reply Government proposes im- draw most of the Amer a, leaving ouiy Peace commis d by the President aa- The Russian Government is in- formed that the United States Gov- Withdraw Most of American Troops in China and Appoint Peace Commissioners. replied to the German note regarding the punishment of the Chi- iplicated in the massacres—among others Russia, the United States and probably France. Germany will not in order to avoid the appearance of exerting pressure on the other 1l be made later after all the replies have been received. A conversation with German officials con- United States. “Yesterday evening the Peitang forts opened Since early this morning a German howitzer battery has been States is ready to open peace négotiations | and is therefore in the main satisfactory and that LI Hung Chang and Prince|to the Chinese Minister, to whom it was Ching are acceptable to this Government | delivered this afternoon. as negotiators on the part of China. It| In the memorandum delivered to Baron is stated that this Government is ready | von Sternburg, German Charge d’Affaires, to accept the credentials of these twe | the proposition of this Government that representatives of China as prima facie | the Chinese leaders guilty of instigating | evidence of their authority sufficient for | and participating in the outrages upon the opening of negotiations, their suffi- | foreigners should be given up for punish- clency to be established to the satisfaction | ment preliminary to the opening of nego- | of the negotiators upon the beginning of | tiations is diplomatically but none the the conference. less positively rejected. It is made clear MINOR FLOODS FOLLOW THE GALVESTON DISASTER While Order Is Being Restored in the Stricken City News Comes of an Additional Affliction. FORT WORTH, Tex., Sept. 21.—Trinity River at this point has risen twenty feet since last night on account of a twelve-hour rain, inundating the river bottom in a portion of ti 2 city. Hun- dreds of families have been driven out. Three persons are reported drowned. The water is spread- ing over half a mile of country. A relief corps is at work in the bottom carrying the people to places of safety. DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 21.—The fiercest wind and rain storm known in this part of Texas S in years prevailed last night. treets and basements were flooded. Trinity River is raising a foot an hour at Dallas. ALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 2L—At noon to-day martial law was abol- ished and the clvil government re- sumed control of affairs. The con- tract for clearing the streets has been awarded. The contractors will es- tablish boarding camps on the beach and commence work Monday morning with an army of laborers at $2 per day. “ Adjutant General Scurry of the Texas Volunteer Guard has placed his regiment of militia at the services of the city and they will remain here for guard and pa- ings. West of Forty-second street the settlement was sparse and nearly every- thing but a few buildings far back from | the Gulf was demolished. Mr. Youens will continue his inspection until a com- plete survey of property loss has been | made. Mrs. Mussey, vice president of the Red Cross Soclety, will leave for Washington | Sunday night and will explain to the | people of the country exactly what is | needed in Galveston. Her idea is that | meetings should be held throughout the er « onger in negotia- se Government and her powers ntials of L1 Hung Chang and Ching will be accepted as being ; of their authority suf- the opening of peace ne- The United States ‘ ers It better that the question of nent of t e Chinese officials re- for the anti-foreign outbreak included in the negotiations her than be made a preliminary to con- ernment proposes immediately to withdraw the greater part of the forces under General Chaffee. Recog- nizing, however, the fact that it would be unwise to leave Minister Conger in China without ample pro- tection, he is to have as a legation guard a full regiment of infantry, a | squadron of cavalry and a battery of artillery. It is indicated that the United States will soon appoint commissioners, of whom Minister Conger will be one, and that this Government is prepared to open ne- gotiations In the mear future. The note indicates the desire that the other Gov- ernments shall unite in these negotia- tiogs, and the harmony of the powers | shall be preserved. The reply to the request of Prince Ching, submitted through Minister Wu, that Minister Conger be empowered to open peace negotiations contains the that this Government agrees with Ger- many on the principle that the guilty should be punished, and attention Is di- rected to the declaration of Secretary Hay, In the note of July 3, that “if wrong be done to our citizens we propose to hold responsible the authors to the utmost ac- countability.” At the same time Germany is informed that it is the conviction of this Govern- trol work. No saloons will be permitted to open. There will be no impressment of men to work and there is plenty of work both for mechanics and laborers. A. J. Youens, inspector for the Galves- ton Board of Underwriters, is footing up | the losses. He has finished the district east of Twenty-fifth street and finds that | in the territory of total destruction east | of that street 1640 houses were destroyed. United States znd the needs of Galveston | thoroughly explained. Galveston Bay bridge was completed at | 3 o'clock this morning and the first train | —on the Santa Fe—to arrive since Sep- | tember 8 pulled into the Union Station at | 6:25 o'clock. Full passenger train service | has been resumed by all the lines entering the city via Virginia Point. The Guif and | ment that it would be best to leave the Interstate Railroad, which enters via| Bolivar Point and the ferry, will not be in operation for several days. The five His diagram shows that from five to seven blocks of the district lying along i This note makes it clear thet the United same information that is given to Russia, Continued on Second Page the Gulf of Mexico and east of Forty- second street was shorn clear of build- lines which cross the bay btidge operate thirty passenger trains dally and they: Cotton ‘suffered extensiveiy. have an enormous quantity of freight te come in and ge out. The usual work of sanitation, caring for the sick and disposing of dead bodies was continued to-day. Large amounts of garbage are being hauled from the city 1 dis- infectants distributed. con- dition of the city continue& to improve and Dr. Wilkinson, City Health Officer, says that all danger from an outbreak of disease Is now passed. With the resumption of railroad service to-day business along the wharves began in earnest. Several ships are taking on cargoes. S VICTIMS ADDED TO THE ROLL. New Names on Galveston Death List. GALVESTON, Sept. 2L—Following is the additional list of dead reported late last night: — Birge and wife; f3 Mrs. Mary E. Burns and child; John Butterfleld. W. A. Deering, wife and six children. Mrs. Thomas P. Farley. D. L. Grey and four children, Ceeil.