Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1910 — SLAY IN MINE RIOT [ARTICLE]

SLAY IN MINE RIOT

One Brad and Scores Wounded in a Desperate Conflict. In a ties,> rate hand-to hand conflict mar. the..Ex;tint coal mines, ten miles from Grceri'mig, Pa., a striking coal miner was shot and George Davis of Wilkes’ art e, Pa., a member of the Pennsylvania state constabulary, was wounded seriously. Nearly a score of the others received minor Injuries. The battle between the strikers and authorities was the result of the efforts of the law officers to arrest sharpshooters, said to be strike sympathisers, who, nightly for the past week, have endeavored to shoot out a searchlight placed on the tipple of one of the mines, where a strike has been in progress for three months. The body of the dead striker, who is Unidentified, was brought here. The wounded trooper lies in a local hospital. His condition is serious. The strike situation in the coal mbies of this section is extremely grave. Rioting and the presence of state troops and deputy sheriffs are the result, it is said, u> unionize the Irwin district.