St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-21
Considerable Bloodshed in a Collision Of
the Pennsylvania Police and Hun
garian Coke Drawers.
The Excitement So Intense it is Impos.
sible to Get a Complete List of
Casualties.
Many OF the Strikers Crazed With
Drink--Militia Ready TO Take
the Field.
Status of the Great New York Cigar
makers Observation-Disclosures
Probable.
A Collision with the Police.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa, Jan. 90. -
Sheriff Stewart and forty deputies and De
tective Broppy and twenty armed police
from Pittsburg had desperate conflict
with $50 strikers this afternoon and at the
Alice works in the morning. The rioters
rested for dinner; then they massed at the
Mutual works, near Stonerville. At this
point negro, without pTovOcatiOn. fired at
the Hungarians with shotgun. but failed
TO hit any OF them. They surrounded his
house, dragged the negro out. beat him
fearfully and left him for dead, with his
skull fractured. BE will probably die. At
3 o'clock the strikers passed up toward
MOorewOod, lOurishing every manner of
weapons from reyOlvers TO case
scTapers. They were headed by
Steven Stannix, the main agitatOr
Of the strike. When they reached shaft A.
MoorewOod mines, they encountered sixty
two deputy sheriifs and policemen drawn
up for battle. Detective BrOppy talked 10
the foreigners, telling them it was useless
to resist and that he would arrest the ring
leaders. BrOppy arrested one striker. which
opened the combat hand TO hand, but the
officers won, aresting thirteen men and
one woman, who were sent to Jail at
Greensburg. The balance retreated. Over
ONE HUNDRED SHOTS
were fired and several Hungarians were in
Jured, how badly it is not known, as they
were carried away by their companions.
Only one officer was slightly hurt. The
authorities. il is stated. have telegTaphed 10
PiJtsburg for more officers. The strike is
only inaugurated, and more bloodshed is
feared. Some little excitement was oc-
casoned by the stupid report that Hun
garians were acting under orders
from the Chicago lodge of socialists, and
that dynamite had been taken from loves
magazine during the recent raid. TO be used
IN blowing up company property. The
story, however. is generally diScredited
This strike is undoubtedly the most danger
GUS in the history of the coke industry.
Operators have an entirely different class of
men to deal with. as Hungarians when drunk
are unmanageable. and more like fiends
than men. In former strikes this element
was not i'm the field. and operators had more
intelligent men TO deal with. A feeling of
insecurity prevails, and citizens near the
threatened districts are aming themselves
and otherwise preparing to defend their
homes as best they may.
SITUATION AT MIDNIGHT.
PTTTsBURG, Pa, Jan 2O.-A dispatch at
midnight says it is thought one Hungarian
was killed i'm the fight with the police this
afternoon. When the arrests were made
the wife of one Hungarian, who was cap
tured. clung about her husbands neck and
the united strength of two officers could not
break her grasp. She accompanied her
liege lord TO jail. The surging crowd. the
splteful snap Of the revOlvers. the flee
ing strikers and the shrieks of the women
made an exciting scene. At $50 the
nial fraft. lnfN
the prisoners, guarded by policemen.
A riot is also reported TO have occurred at
the Donnelly and Diamond works. about
three miles east of Mt. Pleasant. i'm which
five Hungarians and three Americans were
injured. The condition of affairs at mid
night is good. A special train has Just ar
rived at the Standard with police force.
which will be used tonight TO arrest some
men charged with assault upon a German
cOke-drawer on last Saturday morning.
Members of the Fourteenth and Eighteenth
regiment y. q. P, of this city. have been
ordered by the commanding officer to hold
themselves in readiness TO go to the coke
regions on short notice. No orders have
been received from the governor, but the
officers thought best TO be prepared in event
of call for troops.
AGGRAVATED BY THE POLICE.
SToNEVILLE, Pa. jan 20.-The situa-
ton has assumed an alarming phase in the
coke regions. This morning 500 strikers.
armed with bars, coke forks and revoivers.
started on the march. They drove the men
from work at the Alice and charged War
denis coke yard, at this place. Then the
Maytield and Donnelly mines were visited.
mile west of here. a boy named MentZer
was terribly beaten and the yard boss. Nc
Cabe was chased and hammered. Every
oven-frOnt was crushed i'm. The rioters
have gone across the country toward the
Rising Sun works. The greatest trouble is
yet TO come. Saturday will be pay day.
and on Monday the ten days will have ex-
pired since notice to quit was given the
strikers in company houses. There will
likely be serious trouble when ejectment is
attempted. The report that the governor
had been called upon for aid is untrue.
Sheriff Stewart says he will not send until
he finds himself unable to cope with the
disturbing elements. At COnnellsville the
Trotter. Dexter and Franklin works are
idle to-day, the wOrkmen having Joined the
strikers. At Fort Hill the advances have
been granted and the men are at work
Over four thousand men are now ont and
the strike is spreading throughout the re-
giOn. Trouble is reported at the Redstone
works, and officers have started for that
place. The action of the operators in send
ing uniformed police from Pittsburg has ag-
gravated the situation.