The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-06
A PITTSBURGH RIOT.
GROWS OUT OLA STRIKE
At the Solar Iron wOrks-striksrs Fired
Upon By "scabs"-A Sharp COnnlOt-NO
RlOtiuE Sunday In the Mining Re.
EiOnS-Fsars of Further Trouble.

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 5.-LSbor troubles
that have been developing for weeks at
VIM. Clarkson & Co.'s Solar Iron Works,
Thirty-ffth street, eliminated in riot be-
tween four and five O'Clock yesterday Of.
ternoon. The firm had refused to accede
tcths AmslgamAted Association demand
that the two.job system be abandoned in
the works, because 1t was deemed Abso-
lutely necessary by the manufacturers
that VIM. simms, q roller Of experience
and judgment, be kept in charge Of the
two or three principal processes Of turn
ing out their peculiar grade Of steel. The
Amalgamated Association insisted that
this encouragement Of the two job system
should cease. The firm remained firm,
and stood by Simms and their own inter.
eats. A strike was ordsIed, and the Solar
Iron Works were closed. Yesterday work
was resumed on day turn with upward OF
eighty colored men, who on the night pre-
vious had surrendered their AmalgamRted
Association charter. The strikers lowered
about the works, hooted the colored
workers when they went home to supper,
called them
''pLAcK sHHRP,"
and various opprobrious epithets, and It
kept large squad Of police busy to pre-.
vent violence. Work was resumed yester-
day in the same manner as Friday, and the
number Of working Golored men was aug
mented. In afternoon, after two squads
OF dozen each Of colored men had been
released under police escorts, the main
body OF the black workmen, about seventy
In number, came out to 20 10 their supper,
guarded In front and At the rear by police.
Before they had gone q block two hun
dred TO three hundred hooting hoodlums
had gathered to follow and annoy them.
These had their ranks reinforced by
strikers, and before Eve blocks had been
tFavsrsed o bowling mob OF thee to FIVE
hundred persons, largely boys, had congre-
gated to make life burden to the black
men. The mob was
CHARGED BY THE POLICE
and driven back little, before the Twen-
ty.eighth street bridge over the railroad
was reached, and shortly thereafter the
police were almost overpowered, stones
and misailes were thrown; an officer fred
his weapon in the air, and the signal for q
furious outbreak was beyond recall. Two
or three dozen OF the colored men, fright
ened no less by the sound Of the officers
shot than by the many missiles in the air,
drew revolvers and opened iusillade on
the crowd. Il lasted fully two or three
minutes, and from 40 to fifty shots were
fired. While many Of those in the mob
fell as II shot, however, after the smoke
OF the battle was over, 1t was found that
only Joseph, aged 16, had been ehot
through the face, inhtcting q probable
fatal wound, and that two Of the strikers,
who were hustled away home by their
friends before inquiry could be made,
had been
WOUNDED
in the legs. Ths police finally managed
to get the colered forces across the bridge
and to their homes.
This seems to be only the beginning OF
more serious trouble, and additional po-
lice have bsen ordered to the scene to
guard 1t we'll for several days. William
CLARK says the colored men will keep
right on at his works, and 1t will again be
the worst for any who interfere. A reign
OF terror has seized upon the Inhabitants
out on Penn avenue in the vicinity OF the
trouble,