Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1902 — TROOPS AWE STRIKERS. [ARTICLE]

TROOPS AWE STRIKERS.

Thirteenth Regiment Goes Into Camp Near Scranton, Pa. Nine companies of the Thirteenth regiment, ordered out M° ni i a y night, are in camp iu a field near Scranton, Pa. Gen. Gobin said Tuesday that he considered the situation in the entire coal region extremely forbidding which fully warranted the calling out of additional troops. “I have already ordered the Thirteenth regiment to the field. My plan for the distribution of troops is the Twelfth to remain at Shenandoah and Manila Park as at present; call .out the Fourth and place it at Mahonoy City, where trouble is apt to occur at any minute; the Eighth at present at Shenandoah will be moved to Wilkesbarre, where I will make my headquarters.” When asked his opinion in regard to the ordering out of the Thirteenth regiment President Mitchell said: “I have nothing to say at the present time.” District Board Member Fallon said: “The ordering out of the regiment at Scranton will have a tendency to strengthen the cause of the strikers and encourage the men involved in the trouble, for about 60 per cent of the enlisted men in the regiment are those who worked in the mines before the strike began. These men will now draw pay from the State, and'this in turn will prove of material benefit to the strikers’ relief fund." The disturbances of Monday and Monday night seemed to break out as if preconcerted. There were disturbances of a wild order up the valley. It started when Eugene Ditty was mobbed and perhaps fatally injured by fifteen foreigners. Deputy Sheriff McAndrews and another man were brutally assaulted and the deputy in self-defense shot a striker by the name of Taylor. Following is Gen. Gobin’s famous “shoot to kill” order: “Shoot to kill; investigate afterward. The time for forbearance has gone by. The men who enter the picket lines and assault the sentries do not thinly the militiamen will shoot. I have given orders that will make them think differently.”