The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08
SHOT down LIKE SHEEP.
Desperate Strikers Attack
the Norwood Plant.
The Entire Coke Region
Aiming for the Fray.
Nearly One Hundred Men
Killed and Injured.
All the Dead are Unnatur-
allied Citizens.
Hungarians and Slavs Fight
Like Fiends.
Terrible Execution Done with
Winchesters.
An Oath OF Vengeance Taken
Against the Guards.
Terrible Execution Done with
Winchesters.
An Oath OF Vengeance Taken
Against the Guards.
Two Regiments or Militia Or
dered TO the Scene.
A Still More Bloody Battle Seriously
Apprehended-

Mt. PLEASANT, Pa, April 2.-0minous
signs of the gathering of storm In the coke
region have been observed by experienced
strikers here for some time, and at o'clock
this morning, they focused and burst with
sudden fury at the Norwood plant which
has proved such a bone OF contention be-
tween the strikers and their employers.
The fight was brief and deadly. Two
rounds of cartridges were fred by band
of sixty-five guards and seven of the charg
ing 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 by the fire were:
CRE5ZO BINERO, of Tarrs, shot through
the breast.
JOHN FUDORA of Standard. single, shot
ANTONIO RIST, Pole, single, of Standard
works. shot through the head.
JACOB SCHUCASKEY, Pole, of Tarrs,
shot through the brain, married, wife in Po-
land.
JAMES PROCHTE. Pole. single, shot
through the head.
VALENTINE ZEIDEL, Slav. of Donnelly,
single, shot through the jugular.
PAUL DOHANNIS, Sl4v, OF Standard, shot
In the head, single.
The at ack on the Norwood plant was
well planned and conceived and headed
by men determined evidently to intimi-
date the men working there, once for all
AT u o'clock small bodies of strikers be-
gan to gather on the hills. As usual, dur
ing a raid, they were armed with re-
volvers, stones, iron bars and every con-
ceivable weapon obtainable.
Headed by their drum corps, they
marched first to the Standard works,
where they deliberately destroyed both
telephone and telegraph wires, SD that
word of their coming could not be sent to
Norwood. While at the Standard
works, incidentally destroying anything
movable that they might find, the strik-
ers created all the noise possible from the
surrounding hills, intending to apprise
those of their fellOw-strikers in the vicin-
ity OF their intentions OF raid. Their
march to the Standard works had been
but a helter-skelteT affair, each man of the
800 in line merely making all the noise
possible in order to increase their numbe
for the more desperate raid on the Moore
wood works, where it was known sixty
five guards had been placed, with orders
TO fire if necessary.
Some time after 2 o'clock this morning
the guards at the Norwood heard from
the Standard that a raid was imminent.
The few frightened men lett at the stand
ard had plucked up courage enough to re-
pair the wires, and the warning reached
the Norwood plant none too soon. As
the noisy band OF strikers, now numbering
fully 100 men, approached 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 few moments parley before
attacking a plant they knew TO be well
guarded by determined men.
There was hesitancy, but the fact that
they were twenty to one strong encour-
aged the strikers and they quietly sepa-
rated, one large detachment advancing on
the works by the main road, while the 9TH
ers scattered over the brows OF the hill,
and shortly after o'clock, at given sig
nal, al! moved down on the works.
The night was of inky darkness, but the
guards were appraised of the movements OF
the attacking party by confused mutter-
ings In foreign tongue or subdued orders
from the leaders. Under the orders OF
Capt. Loar the sixty-five guards stood
quietly in line before the works, their
Winchesters peacefully cat rest,
Suddenly break was made by the adj
vancing mob toward the fences of the
company. A stern order to halt was given,
but the only attention it received was the
firing of three shots by members of the mob
which whistled a warning close to the
heads of the impassive guards, each one of
whom was well drilled and was simply
there TO obey orders. After the shots
were fred by the strikers they turned and
made dash toward the stables of the
company.
Without firing a shot the guards were
ordered TO follow and the command again
given the strikes to halt. They only re.
treated further down the road and answer
ed the order with yells and threats
Again was the command given and AGAR
came the hooking answer, and the order
TO fire was given by Capt. Loar.
The volleys from the Winchesters were
well directed, and but few rounds were
necessary to drive the frightened rioters
back into the hills, where hundreds o.
their fellow strikers had gathered in an
ticipation of assisting in the raid, but not
In battle with such determined band
of guards.
The firing on both sides continued
hardly three minutes. The volleys from
the guards had terrible effect on the com
pact mass of strikers, while the latte
made an attempt to return the fire Will
what few weapons they possessed, bu
without success. The dead were lef
lying in the road, while the wounded, es
timated at between forty and fifty, wer
either assisted or bodily carried away int,
the hills by their fellows.
All day the entire coke region has pre-
sented scenes OF the widest excitement
The foreign element especially has beer
driven frantic by this woefui result 10 the
anticipated victorious raid on the FricH
works at Norwood. Always turbulent
sullen and ready for desperate measures
they are not one whit cowed by the deatf
of several of their number, while they hav,
sedulously concealed in their homes those
of their number who were wounded
many, no doubt, unto death. Anathemas
loud and deep, have been heard on ever.