Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-03
STRIKERS KILLED.
BIOOdShed in Connection With
the Great Coke Strike.
A RiOtOus Mob Attacks the Frick
Works at MorewoOd.
The Rioters RepuIsed After a
Hard-Fought Battle
IN WHICH A NUMBER ARE KILLED
AND WOUNDED ON BOTH SIDES.

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Telegraph and Telephone Com M uhicatiOH
stopped by the Cutting of Wirss-Om-
ClaIs Greatly Alarmed over the situa-
tiOn Which Hourly Grows More Serious.
Governor Pattison Orders Two Rsgi-
ments of the State National Guard tS
Proceed to the Coke Region at once.
PTTTsBURG, April Reports from
Morewood say that the strikers attacked
Frick's coke works early Thursday
morning, and a battle occurred between
the mob and the deputy sheriffs, in
which several of the rioters were killed
and many wounded. Some of the dep
uties were wounded The mob finally
retreated They cut the telegraph and
telephone wires
The following telegram was received
Thu sday morning at the Frick COM
pany S Office in this city:
THE strikers marched on Morewood
early this morning and ClawsonS
deputy sherifis met them Result, seven
dead strikers and several wounded.
Cne Of the clerks in the Office at More
wood reports they got information that
they We're to be attacked from three
points, and the deputies we:e to be di-
vided into three squads, one stationed at
the barn under Capt. Loar
The crowd passed the store and
threw stones into the windows, but they
We're allowed to pass on unmolested
They then went TO the gate leading into
the barn, and We're breaking it down,
when Capt Loar commanded them TO
halt
Their response to his commands WAS
to fire on them. He then ordered his
men to fire with the above result 40
stated. They fred twice before the
rio ers dispersed.
The crowd numbered about 400, and
left Standard at 300 o'clock a. M, and
before leaving broke down the tele-
phone so that Norwood could not be
communicated with hut the Standard
men fixed up the line and notified them
of the mob
Ielib ration on Both sides
A private dispatch Just received from
Greensburg says eleven men were killed
and twenty-seyen wounded in the More
wo Il riot. The dead miners are all
foreigners
The deputies who took part in the
riot were all full grown, exI elienced
men, and they were armed to the teeth,
a more deliberate arrangement for con
templated trouble was never made.
W ednesday night Superintendent Pick
ard summoned his deputies and told
them that raid was contemplated on
n al Snt IfOa
and examined the firearms of each one
He then presented each man with a
Winches er rifle, drilled them in the
use of the weapon and ordered them Oh
duty.
All night long the strikers were pre-
pairing for the raid. Delegations headed
by drum corps marched to and fro to
places of rende ,vous. An occasional
p stol shot in the distance was accepted
a n mysterious signal Now and then
"a rocket flashed into the air, and froM
an adjoining hill top swinging light
could be seen. The guards di | not know
what these signals meant They were
accepted as evidence Of danger, how
ever, and the people at and about tho
various works did not retire during the
night.
All Were Foreigners.
A special from MoTewoOd says the
following were the casualties: killed
James Brtehle, shot through the breast
Paul Dohannis. in head John Fudor,
left eye. Valentine Seeded, neck, Anton
Rist, head Jacob Shucoskey, head
Creszo Binero, breast. All were Poles
or Slavs. except Binero, was an Italian
Shucoskey is the only one known to
have leen married None Of them was
naturali ed. The names of tho wounded
grt not obtained All are foreigners,
IN q g hortutt.
GREENsBuRG, Ia, April g. Thursday
morning about 800 rioters at Norwood
approached the companies stables, in-