The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-03
THE COKE STRIKERS
They Unsuccessfully Raid the
MoOrhead Works.
SEVEN KILLED, FORTY WOUNDED
The Guards Fire upon Them-Governor Pat
tison Orders out the Militia-The Huns
and Slavs Vow Vengeance.

regions have been observed for some time, and
at o'clock this morning it burst at the More
wood plant. The fight was brief and deadly.
Two rounds of cartridges were fired by pand
| of sixty-lve guards and seven of the charging
mob of strikers fell dead, while at least forty
| others were wounded how badly cannot be
definitely stated as they were ali taken away
by their companions. The strikers killed in
stantly were: Creszo Binero, Italian; John
Fudora, Antonio Sist, Poles; Jacob Shuckasky,
Pole, James Brochte, Pole; Valentine Zeidel,
Slav; Paul Dohaunis, Slav.
The attack was well planned, headed by men
determined evidently to intimidate the men
working there once for all. At IL o'clock small
bodies of strikers began to gather on the hills.
| They We're armed with revolyers, stones, iron
| bars and every conceivable weapon. Headed by
drum corps, they marched first to the Stan
dard works, where they deliberately destroyed
both the telephone and telegraph wires, so that
word OF their coming could not be sent to More
wood. While at the Standard works inciden-
! tally they destroyed anything movable they
might finu. The strikers created all the noise
possible from the surrounding hills, in
f fenaiIg to, TO apprise those of their
their intention of raid The few frightened
men left at the Standard managed to repair the
wires and warning reached Norwood plant
none too soon. AS the noisy band OF strikers,
plant, their outcries ceased; their drum corps
was sllenced and the ugly crowd gathered in
bunch on the black hills overlooking the plant
Tor moments parley before attacking the
! place they knew 10 be well guarded. Then they
separated, one large detachment advancing on
the works by the main road, while the others
scattered over the brows of the hills, and
| shortly after ) o'clock, at a given signal, all
moved down on the works.
| Under order of Captain Loar, the sixty-five
guards stood quietly in line before the works
l n nv q 1iY To-
mob toward the fences of the company. The
stern order Of halt was given, but the only atteu-
ton 1t received was The firing of three shots by
members OF the mob which whistled close to
| the heads OF the impaSsive guards. After the
| shots were fired, the strikers turned and went
toward the stables of the company with a dash.
| Without firing shot, the guards were ordered
| to follow, and the command was again given the
| strikers to halt. They only retreated
further down the road and answered the
order with -yellS and threats. Again was
| the command given, and again came the mock
ing answer, and the order to fire was given by
| Captain Loar. The volleys from the Win
| chesters were well directed, and few rounds
were necessary to drive The rioters back into
the hills, where hundreds of their fellow strikers
had gathered in anticipation of assisting in the
| raid, but not in battle with such a determined
| band OF guards. The firing on both sides con-
tlnued hardly three minutes The volleyS from
| the guns had terrible effect on the compact
mass of strikers, while the latter made an
| attempt to return the fire with what weapons
! they possessed, but without effect. The dead
were left lying in the road, while the wounded.
estimated at between forty ana fifty were
either assisted or bodily carried away into the
hills by their fellows
! All day the entire coke regions have presented
scenes OF the widest excitement, the foreign
| element especially has been driven frantic by
this woeful result of their anticipated victorious
raid. Always turbulent, sullen and ready for
| desperate measures, they are not one whit
| cowed by the death OF several of their number
while they have sedulously concealed in their
! homes those of their number who were
wounded, many no doubt unto death Anathem-
| as, loud and deep, have been heard on every
| side all day Word has been sent by secret
means all over the region that their comrades
were fired on and moved down without any
provocation, and deadly vengeance on each and
| every member OF the guard has been sworn to.
| This all comes from the foreign element.
1t will be noticed that all the men killed bear
foreign names and it is a fact that not one of
| them was naturalized citizen of this country
| 1t is also supposed many of the wounded were
foreigners andthis explains the deep resentment
| expressed in every foreign face in the regions
| tonight. The SlaYs and HungarianS were the
most fearless The deputies say not one was
struck in the back but all bore marks of bullets
| in the face, indicating they died lighting with
what weapons Gts,,-o they possessed. Thou
poured into this place from all over the
region TO nave look at the dead,
and perhaps hear what the living have to say.
AS darkness fell tonight the foreigners began
TO draw away in knots and the night after The
riot lowered amidst great fear OF what might
happen before another dawn. Late tonight
word was received here that two more men
concerned in the riot had died in strikers
house. Their names could not be learned
! These two deaths are known as the result of
| the firing of the guards but there is no doubt
that others are either dead or in critical CON
dition, as the guards had orders to fire to kill
and evidently did so.
| QReports late tonight from all over the re-
! gion indicate fearfully dangerous and excited
| condition of affairs, and word that the military
is soon to be on hand was received by the w
abiding labor officials and coke operatives alike
with the liVeliest evidence OF satisfaction
! At Leisenering Constable Campbell at
tempted to arrest John Lushka, Russian, for
completely in the bomb throwing that occurred
| there Monday. LuShEa fercely resisted and
called for aid. A fellow-countryman who was
on the outside of the office where
Lushka had been trapped, gave the
alarm, and in a few moments there was
a bowling mob of foreigners surrounding the
place. Lushka leaped through the office win
dow, carrying with him pair of handouts Sew
eral shots were fired after him, but he escaped.
Tonight warrant was placed in the hands of
Sheriff Mccormick, and with a large posse of
men, he has started for Leisening to make the
arrest Lushka and his companions were
armed, and a fight will certainly follow unless
the man is surprised.
Labor officials deny the men at Norwood
were killed foc good cause and warrants have
been issued for the deputies on the charge of
murder, with General Manager Lynch of the
Fricke company and Superintendent Ramsey
of the Norwood plant charged as accessories
DSAOLc bHO ldO1 n ldiSC uulIlDeT Vi deputies
already have been arrested and the labor lead
ers say they will not rest until all are taken
care of. Master Workman Wise was refused
warrants by two different justices of the peace.
and after roundly denouncing them secured
warrants from Justice McCaeb They will be
served on all the guards connected with the
affair.
A striker named Dunn who was among the
leaders of the rioters said tonight he was with
the body of the men on the bridge and stopped
TO light cigar. He thinks rumors of bombs
Io1 u1.r,1o nod 1ords AVID
lighting of the match as a portent of something
dangerous. Anyway he says they fired directly
toward where he stood and men fell all aroun1
him. Another statement made tonight was
that Captain Loar said he was ordered
to fire by Deputy Sheriff Mcdonald
In fact any number Of conflicting
stories are being told on both sides. AT least
| SIX thousand men are in the vicinity OF Mount
Pleasant tonight and the feeling generated bv
Eighteenth and Tenth regiments tonight. is
one of security both among the strikers and
citizens. The foreign element, however, is very
uneasy and there is very plain talk here
among some of their representative men that a
higher power than the state will be called in
They intimate plainly that their mother
! countries may have something to say as TO
their treatment by guards whom they say ali
belonged tothe militia.
Mr.. Fricke interviewed.
PITTSBURG Pa, April News of the riot at
Morewood and the subsequent order of the gov
ernor calling out the Tenth and Eighteenth
regiments created great excitement here. The
Eighteenth regiment started for the scene of