The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-07-22
RIOT IN CLEVELAND.
Two Factories FOrcibly Closed by
Angry Strikers.
ASuperintendent Beaten, and Troops
Placed Under Arms

Details Of the serious outbreak in Cleve
land, Ohio, resulting from strike Of 5,OO'
men employed in some of tho rolling mills
aregivea in dispatches as follows:
Large bodies of the strikers were astir a
an early hour this morning. and by O'Clock
fully 2,Oc0 men, armed with clubs aud revol
vers, met in the Fourteenth ward, and lis
tened for an hour to speeches by Karl Pnlka
agent for the Anarchists committee il
this country. About 10 o'clock procession
was formed, and the information went from
man to man that they were going to march
to the city and drive out the lnen who were
working in tho different manufacturing estab
strikers reached the II. P. Nail company
works at about II o'clock. They made rusl
for the works and drove out the workmeu
who, to tho number Of $50, fled from the
building Several men who stood by their
machines were given five minutes to leave OF
be thrown out They all took the hint and
left.
The strikers then proceeded to the Chisholm
Shovel works, but their coming had Geen an
ticipated, and the laborers had been sent
home and the doors locked. A short distance
from the shovel works is the large
five story brick factory Of the Union
Steel Screw works. Fayette Brown,
president Of the company, had heard
that the strikers intended to visit the works
and in the morning applied for police protec
tion. Twopolicemen were detailed to protect
the works, as the strike had not been
considered at all dangerous. When the
strikers reached the works they found all
the doors shut AMI barricaded. Beside
the men and boys employed at the
works there are in tho neighborhood of q
hundred girls When the body of strikers
drew up In front of the building the greatest
CONSERVATION prevailed, as threats had been
made TO destroy the editice if the men did not
quit work. Fayette Brown and several men
stood near one of the doors, and when several
of the strikers demanded admittance it was
refused.
In an instant the character of the process
sion changed into an angry mob. A fence
was torn TO pieces and in moment the door
leading into the works was battered down
and the strikers began to swarm into the
building. Fayette Brown stood right in
the way Of the strikers, and they mado q
savage onslaught OH him. lie was
struck with a club, knocked down, and
while down repeatedly struck and kicked II
it had not been for the exertions OF several OF
the strikers themselves would have been
killed. He was taken to carriage and
driven to his residence! The physicians say
that outside OF number OF severe bruises bis
injuries are not at all serious
The mob then swarmed through the build
ing, the men and boys who were al work
leaving their places and jumping through
windows and making their exit in the best
manner they coulL The girls were all told
to leave, and were permitted to pass out
through the door, Thre, of the girls
tainted. and had to be carried to resi-
dences of citizens living near. Ono man
who refused to leave the building was
knocked down with club and badly hurt.
He was thrown downstairs and had to be
carried to his home. After every person had
been driven from the place the strikers re-
turned to the Fourteenth ward and dis
persed.
When the fact became known that Fayette
Brown. who Is ono of the most prominent
men III the city, had been so roughly handled,
the greatest Indignation was expressed against
Mayor Gardner for not giving the company
better police protection. The mayor,
however, Immediately called q meeting
of the police board. at which it was det,r-
mined to stop the violence of the strikers at
any cost, Smilhnight's battery was instructed
to hold itself in readiness to be called upon at
moments notice. Tho Cleveland Grays
began drilling in their armory, and were put
under private instruction from the mayor