The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-09
A Triple : BURNED
BY YruE srnIKlNe COKE WORKERS,

The FTiok Company sUhaFa = LOEs Of FoTtJ
Thousand D0llaTs- One OF the RlottFS
Fatally wOundsd-ThS RlpSIOHdOF
Arrested - The Mass Meeting.
PITTssURou, Pa, Feb, S.-A serious Si'
fair took place this morning at the Henry
Clay Coke Works, of Frlck & Company
near Broadtord. About 800 strikers from
Lsisenriug marched this morning to the
Henry CLAY works where few men were
at work. When the strikers appeared on
the hill above the ovens they began firing
on the Workmen. They kept up this FIR
ing for some little time hut no body was
hurt, AS they came nearer and their
aim was better. Several men were
slightly injured. One Of the men, who
WRa beaten by the strikers for refusing TO
quit work day or two ago, returned the
tire, He shot several times and hit one OF
the men, who fell and was carried of by
bis companions. This returning OF their
FIRE inturiated the strikers, who SGT upon
William Scissor, the foreman Of the men,
aud gave him severe beating. Tho man
was left lying on the ground unable to
walk or defend himself from stray kicks
which the rioters gave him as they passed
to and fro.
THE Triple FIRED.
The strikers then made an attack upon
the tipple house, drove the men ia charge
out OF it and upset the office stove, which
caused the building to be set on fire, The
employees OF the company made plucky
attempt to put out the fire aud save the
tipple, but were driven away by the stTik-
ere, who surrounded tie tlpple and guard.
ed 1t uutil 1t was consumed, They allow
ell the company's employees to attempt to
saye the boilers after tbs tippla was des.
troyed. The strikers did not attempt to
burn anything else, but after remaining
Rt the works q short time longer they
went to the Sterling works where they did
some little damage and injured couple Of
men,
A couple OF deputy sherlffs were at the
Henry Clay Ovens, but were powerless to
do more than identify some OF the leaders.
AtSterling ShehHStewartmet thastEikeIs.
He had about q d0Zsn deputies with him.
lie made speech to the strikers and they
seemed disposed to listen to him at iirst,
but when he Counsellsd them to avoid
further violence they hooted him and be-
came very violent, Vi course there was
no use to try to make arreqts against such
odds.
The mob then left flr S,ottdale. The
loss to FriCk Il Co., by the burning OF the
tipple, will be from $4,000 to $4,000.
THE INJURED PARTIES.
Wyatt, the coke charge, who shot d
tho strikers, Is saidto haveslIghtlywound.
ed himself by pistol ball, and to have
been badly beaten later.
IniormRtiOns for riot, arson and assault
will be made against the strikers engaged
in the outbreak, and wholesale arrests will
take place at once. FriCk < Co. deny,the
report that they intended replacing the
Hungatiaps with Italians.
Tho striker who was shot Is an Italian
named Saggies, The ball, q IS Calibre,
passed under the edge OF his right shoulder
blade and lodged IN his body, lnllicting
what ia believed to b, a fatal wound.
About 2b men were In the slope when the
tipple was fired and number OF them
we're badly scorched in getting out.
Several cars standing on the Baltimore
x Ohio Railroad under the tipple were
partly burned. The trouble In the region
la believed 10 be Just commencing. The
strikers propose to force all the w0rkmen
out, and II they resist loss OF life and de.
sliuCtion OF property is anticipated.
THE sCoTTDALE MEETING. -
After leaving proadiord no further
violence was INDUCED in. The strikers
marched quietly to scottlale where they
helped swell the crowd ct the meeting
there TO at least 1000 people. The meet
ing was held with u view OF showing the
operators that the backbone OF the strike
wss not broken. Reports from all over
the region showed but few men working
except at the advance. After deciding to
continue the struggle the meeting ad.
Ijourned and FULLY 500 Of the strikers start
I'd for the Jimtown works. At Eve o'clock
they reached Jimtoyn and were met by
Sheriff Sterling and poese 0l deputies.
They scarcely noticed the sheriff and
marched on TO the woods. A meeting
was called and nearly all the men en-
ployed came out aud promised 10 Join the
strike in the morning. The men then
dispersed for the night and no trouble has
since been reported,
Fred Naise, the Frenchman who fred
the lrat shot from the Henry Clay works
to-day, escaped during the melee, and to-
night is under guard In the company
store. As stated before he Is the same
man that was assaulted at Morgan's works
several weeks ago, and when he saw the
crowd coming he fired the ahot that led TO
the destruction ot property.
THE LEADER ARRESTED.
William Trimbath was arrested this
evening charged with being leader in to-
days outbreak. lie was taken TO Union
town and placed In Jail. donations are
coming in liberally, aud to.morrowa com.
mission store WILDE opened at Connells.
villo. II will be presided over by those
who know The needy, aud for the next
two weeks there viii not be any families
In want at the works In that vicinity II
they make known their wants.
A Greensburg, Pa, special says: The
slavonians have sen. Tor d prominent Hun.
garian consul at New York. He tele.
graphed q willingness 10 come, and is ex-
pected here within the next "a hours.
| He will take charge Of their case and see
that the Imprisoned HunggrlanB have JUS
tice, and will also advise with those now
on strike In the coke region. They claim
that he Is one Of tho most learned repre-
BentatiYes Of the Austrian Government In
this country, and fully Conyersant with
the laws and ttsages OF the United States
that be will lght the coke operators on al
equal footing TO The bitter end both as Ia
those now Ia jail and those that have
brought suit against the company foi
damSges 10 ejeCting them from their homes
when they owed no rent for the same.
A worhlbRhaOh,a Victory.