Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — ANGRY MINERS RIOT. [ARTICLE]

ANGRY MINERS RIOT.

One of Them Fatally Wounded and Several Are Badly Hurt. A wave of anarchy in xvhose train folloyjefl bloodshed, arson, and tho destruction of property pa- sed over the Mansfield, Pa., coal region the other day. It began at dawn and at dusk it was estimated that $2i0,000 worth of property had been destroyed. Made mad by fancied grievances and liquor, a mob of several hundred foreigners— Hungarians, Slavs and Italians—swept over the county surrounding Mansfield and through the valleys of Toms and Painters run. They attacked mine owners, miners, cnl a few mattered deputy sheriffs, and destroyed railroad property. Until noon the mob met hardly any resistance. At that time it reached tho mines of tho Beadling Bros., near Federal, on the Pittsburg, Chartieis and Youghiogheny Railroad. Here tho rioters mot determined resistance and were checked. With repeating Winchester rifles in their hands, Thomas F., William and Henry Beadling stood their ground and opened fire upon the mob as it advanced. They fired four volleys in quick succession, fatally wounding one and injuring a half-dozen others. The man fata'ly wounded was Frank Stahle, a i ranchman. Ho was shot through the body. The names of tho other men injured could not be learned. After the fourth volley the rioters turned aud fled precipitately down the hill. At this moment a train bearing Sheriff Richards and forty deputies pulled into Beadling and the oil cars, quickly alighting, started in pursuit of the rioters, firing as they run. The cha-e was a long and hot one, but finally sixteen were overtaken and captured. They xvere marched to the Mansfield jail at the point of revolvers. On the way the party was mot by a posse of citizens of Bridgeville, under <ommand !of Squire Cashe ■ Meyers. They will be held for riot and arson. As a result of tho fighting stated that a demand will be made by the citizens of the Mansfield region that the coal operators discharge all foreigners now in their employ, and hereafter hire none but American workingmen. To avoid similar trouble in the future it is thought this course will be necessary.