The record-union., 1891-04-03
A Desperate Encounter Between
Deputy Sherifs and Strikers.
NINE KILLED AND MANY SERIOUSLY
WOUNDED.
The Officers Finally Succeed in Driv-
ing the Infuriated Body of strikers
Temporarily From the Scene-An-
other Attack Looked For-The Mil
itary Ordered Out-Severai of the
Participants Under Arrest.
Special to the REcoRD-US1oS.

L
inous signs of the gathering storm in the
coke regions has been observed for some
time, and at o'clock this morning it
burst at the Morewood plant. The fight
was brief and deadly. Two rounds of
| cartridges were fired by band of sixty
five 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
| taken away by their companions.
The strikers killed instantly were:
Crezo Binero Italian}, John Fudora, An
tonic Rist (Pole), Jacob Shuckasl1y (Pole),
James Brechte (Pole), Valentine Zeidel
(Slav)., and Pull Dohannis (Slav).
The attack was well planned, and was
headed by men determined evidently to
intimidate the men at work there once
and for all. At Il o'clock small bodies of
strikers began to gather on the hills.
| They were armed with revolvers, stones,
iron bars and every conceivable weapon
Headed by a drum corps, they marched
first to the Standard works, where they
deliberated, and destroyed both tele-
phone and telegraph wires, so that word
of their coming could not be sent to
Morewood. While at the Standard works,
incidentally destroying anything nova
all the noise possible from The surround
ing hills, intending to apprise those of
their fellow-stfikerS in the vicinity of
| their intentions of raid.
a few frightened men left at the Stand
ard managed to repair the wires, and the
warning reached Morewood plant none
too soon. AS the noisy band of strikers,
now numbering fully 200 men, APP
preached that plant their outcries ceased,
their drum corps was silenced, and the
ugly crowd gathered in bunch on the
black hills overlooking the plant for
moments pariey before attacking the
place they knew to be well guarded.
| Then they separated, one large detach-
ment advancing on the works by the
main road, while the other scattered over
the brows of the hill, and shortly after
O'Clock, at given signal,
ALL MOVED DOWN ON THE WORKS.
Under orders of Captain Loar, the
sixty-fiye guards stood quietly in line
before the works. Suddenly break was
made by the advancing mob towards the
| fences of the company. a stern order of
halt was given, but the only attention it
received was the firing of three shots by
members of the mob, which whistled
close to the heads of the inlt..Ssive guards
After the shots were fired the strikers
turned and went toward the stables with
out firing q shot The guards were or
dered to follow, and the command was
again given for the strikers to halt. They
only retreated further down the road, and
answered the order with yells and threats
Again they were commanded and again
came mocking answer, and the order to
fire was given by Captain Loar
The volley from their Winchesters were
well directed, and a few rounds We're
necessary TO drive the rioters on to the
hills, where hundreds of their fellow
strikers had gathered in anticipation of
assisting in the raid, but not in the battle
with such a determined band Of guards
The firing on both sides continued hardly
three minutes. Volleys from the guards
had
A 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 forty or
fifty, were assisted away into the hills by
their fellows.
All day the entire coke regions have
presented scenes of
THE Widest EXCITEMENT.
The foreign element has been especially
driven frantic by this woeful result of
their anticipated victorious raid. Turbu-
lent, sullen and ready for desperate
measures, they are not one whit cowed
by the death of several of their number,
their homes those of their number who
were wounded, many no doubt unto
death.
Anatbemas loud and deep have been
heard on every side all day. What has |
been sent by secret means all over the
region is that their comrades were fired
on and moved down without any provo
cation, and
DEADLY VENGEANCE
On each and every member of the guards |
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 fact that not one of |
them was naturalized citizen of the
country. 1t is also supposed that many |
of the wounded were foreigners, and this |
explains the deep resentment expressed |
in every foreign face in the region to-
night. The Slavs and Hungarians were |
almost fearless.
The deputies say not one was struck in |
the back, but all have marks of bullets in |
the face, indicating that they died fighting
with what weapons they possessed.
Thousands OF strikers and their friends |
poured into this place from all over the /
region to have look at the dead. and
perhaps hear what the living have to .
say.
AS darkness dawned tonight the for
elgners began to draw away in knots. and
the night after the riot lowered amidst
great fears of what might happen before
another dawn.
Late tonight word was received here
that two more men concerned in the riot
had died in the strikers houses. The
names could not be learned These two
deaths make nine in all that are known
as result of the firing OF the guards. but
there is no doubt others are either dead
or IN critical condition, as the guards
had orders to fire to kill, and evidently
did so.
Reports late tonight from all over the
region indicate a fearfully dangerous and
excited condition of affairs, and word
that the military was soon to be on guard
was received by the law-abiding labor
and coke operators alike with the liveliest
evidence of satisfaction.
AFTER BoMB-THRowRR.
At Leisenring Constable Campbell at
tempted TO arrest John Lushka, a Rus
sian, for completely in the bonb-throw-
ing that occurred there on Monday.
Lushka fiercely resisted and called for
aid A fellow-countryman. who was
outside of the Office where Lushka had
been entrapped, gave the alarm and in a
few moments there was howling mob
OF foreigners surrounding the place.
Lushka leaped through the office win
dow, carrying with him pair of hand
cuffs. Several shots were fired after him
but he escaped. Tonight a warrant was
placed in the hands of Sheriff McCor-
mick, and with large posse of men he has