People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — BADLY SCARED. [ARTICLE]

BADLY SCARED.

Riotous Miners in Pennsylvania Have Lost i Their Courage. • | Mansfield, Pa., Jan. 81.—NineHun- , ganans went to Foster's gun store at i Bridgeville Monday afternoon and demanded ammunition. On being re- , fused they threatened to demolish the store. They then left, and fifty men arriving with Winchesters pursued j them, capturing three. The latter i were armed with revolvers. I In the Tom’s run and the Painter’s run districts there is no sign of iminel diate trouble. The 100 deputies have complete control, and are not meeting | with the resistance. The rioters have chine to a realization of thg seriousness of their work and are hidI ing in every corner, deputies we fit , from house to house and thoroughly searched for the guilty parties The j deputies were divided into arresting i squads, and, with their weapons ready for any resistance, visited the different places where the rioters were thought to be.

About fifty arrests have been made so far. The arresting squads brought their prisoners to Roseville, where they were handcuffed in pairs and marched to the train with four deputies with Winchester rifles as guards. A'large crowd gathered to see them off and many threats were made. At Mansfield hundreds of persons followed them to the lock-up. The prisoners were badly frightened lest they should be attacked. They made up one of the roughest-looking gangs of men ever seen in that section. Not one of them is an American citizen and only a few can talk or understand English. Most of those arrested are miners from the Roseville and Hazletine mines on Tom’s run. They were found in the attics, cellars, out-houses, •under beds, in closets, and several had cut open bedticks and had crawled in. Heidelberg, a hamlet 1 mile from Woodville, is said to be the general headquarters of the rioters. Three groups of anarchists are located here and it is known that the rioters have much ammunition stored away. Deputies are searching the houses to find it. They have been unable to locate the ringleaders and it is believed they are hiding in the hills.