The Indianapolis journal., 1891-04-03
and fifty, were either assisted or bodily
carried away into the hills by their fellows
DESPERATE HUNS AND sLAvs.


DESPERATE HUNS AND sLAvs
They Vow Vengeance on the Slayers of Their
Fellows-Two More Dead.
MOUNT PLEASANT. Pa, April ALL day
the entire coke regions have presented
scenes of the widest excitement. The
foreign element, especially. has been driven
frantic by the w0eful result TO the antici-
pated Victorious raid on the Frick works
at Morewood. Always turbulent, sullen
and ready for desperate measures. they are
n OF one whit cowed by the death of several
of their number. while they have sedu-
lously concealed in their homes those of
their number who were wounded, many no
doubt unto DEATH Anathemas 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 upon and moved down by the guards
without provocation, and deadly vengeance
on each and every member of the band of
sixty-fve men has been sworn to. This all
comes from the foreign element.
1t will be noticed that all the men killed
bore foreign names. and it is fact that not
one of them was naturalized citizen of
this country. 1t is also supposed the many
wounded were also foreign. and this ex-
plains the deep resen tment expressed IN
every foreign face in the regions tonight.
The Slavs and Hungarians were almost
fearless, the deputies say; not one was
struck in the back, but all bore marks of
bullets in the face. indicating that they
died fighting with what poor weapons they
possessed.
Thousands of strikers and their friends
poured into this place from all over the
region to have q look at the dead, and
perhaps hear what the living have to say.
AS darkness fell tonight amidst miser-
able rain 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.
TWO MORE DEATHS.
Late tonight word was received here
that two more men concerned in the riot
had died in strikers houses near the More-
wood works, where they had been dragged
by their fellow-rloters. Their names could
not be learned, but it is known that one
was an English-speaking foreigner, and
probably the only one injured who was q
citizen. These two deaths make nine in
all that are known as the result of the fir
ing of the guards, but there is no doubt
others are either dead or in critical condi-
tion, as the guards had orders to fire to kill.
and evidently did so.
Reports late tonight from all over the re-
giOn indicate fearfully dangerous ana ex-
cited condition of affairs. and the word that
the military was soon to be on guard was
and coke operators alike with the hveliest
evidence of satisfaction.
At Lesenring. Constable Campbell at
tempted to arrest John Lushka. Russian,
for completely in the bomt-throwin0 that
occurred there Monday. Lushka fercely
resisted and called ont In his native tongue
for aid. "A fellow-countryman who W as ON
tae outside of the office where Lushka had
been trapped, gave the alarm. and in few
minutes there was bowling mob of for
eigners surrounding the place. Lushka
leaped through the Office window, carrying
with him a pair of handouts. Several
shots were fired after him, but he escaped.
Tonight the warrant was placed in the
hands of Sheriff Mccormick, and with q
large posse of men he has started for Leisen-
ring to make the arrest. Lushka and his
companions are armed. and fight will
certainly follow unless the man is sur
prised.
DEPUTIES ARRESTED.
Labor officials deny the men at Morewood
were killed for good causes, and warrants
have been issued for the deputies on th .
charge of murder with General Manager
Lynch, of the Frick company. and Superin-
tendent Ramsey, of the Morewood plant,
charged as accessories before the fact A
large number of the deputies have already
been arrested. and labor leaders say they
will not rest until all are taken care of.
The officers had great deal of trouble in
finding justice of the peace who was will
ing to issue warrants for the arrest of the
deputies. Master Workman Peter w. Wise
had the warrants Issued, and was refused
by both Justice Williams and another JUS
tice of this place. Wise then roundly de-
nounced the refusals. stated the shooting
was cold blooded and premeditated murder,
and that the wOrkingmen could receive no
cessful In the Office of Squire McCaleb,
who, after some talk, consented to issue
warrants and have them served on Captain
LOar and all the deputies under his COM
mand who were concerned in the shooting
at the MOrewOOd plant.
Tonight the streets at Mount Pleasant
and the roads nearing the works at Moore
wood arc crowded with strikers. There has
been an ugly crowd numbering at least four
hundred about the residence of Capt. LGar
all day, and tonight the numbers run
into thousands. Loar was the leader of rh 9
guards who fired on the men. and the mob
stands ready to tear his house down over
his head. Fortunately for the gentleman.
and the city soon after the shooting at
Morewood, and has not been seen since.
Loar is the man who was burned in effigy
the other day and it Is conceded his depart
ure was we'll advised, if not brave.
STORY OF A MEMBER OF THE MOB.
An astonishing story is told tonight by
a striker named Dunn, who was among the
leaders of the riot He said: II was with
the body of men on the bridge. and stopped
moment to light my cigar. There is no
doubt that rumors of bombs had fired the
minds of the guards. for they took the
lighting of my cigar as portending some
thing dangerous. The guards then fired
directly towards the point where 1 stood,
and the men fell all around me. We fled
instantly, only leaving men enough to
stand by our fallen comrades, some twenty
in all. After the shooting ] heard one in
command of the guards exclaim: Don't be
too quickn
Another statement made was that Cap
tain Loar said he was ordered to fire by
Deputy Sheriff Mcconnell Tho fact il, to-
night some very strange stories are told on
both sides of the rloting gang in regard to
the prOvocation offered the guards before
the latter fired. They will have an oppor-
tupity t. repeat them, however, in court,
as the guards are being arrested as rapidly
as possible.
At least 5000 men are in the vicinity of
Mount Pleasant tonight, and the feeling
generated by the appearance Of the several
companies of the Eighteenth and Tenth
regiments tonight is one of security. both
among the strikers and citizens.
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