The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-19
A COKE REGION BATTLE.
STRIKERS ATTACK TaEL LIE s!NRING
PLANT.

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The Governor Called On for Troops.
SCoTTDALE, PA, April 1S-The coke
region is again the scene Of lawlessness. and
the excitement is at fever hight Last night
a band of about 100 strikers assaulted the
Leisenring No. 2 plant of the Frick Coke
Company. Shots were exchanged and for
a time the fight waged furiously. The
guards held their ground and finally COM
PEELED the mob to beat retreat, but not
until one Of the deputies was dangerously
injured, and, it is thought, cannot recover.
TO CALL FOR TROOPS.
Sheriff Mccormack up TO this time has
been trying to deal patiently with this law
less element, and TO avoid, il possible, being
charged with using undue authority, but
to-day lie has about concluded to surrender
and call on the governor for state troops.
The lives OF his deputies have been placed
In peril number of times during the past
three or four days.
At the offices OF the Frick and Mcclure
companies word is given out that a few
more men reported for work this morning
at number of plants now running, and
that the shipments of coke will be increased
a few cars Various meetings held by the
labor league seem to have no effect, at least
they are not getting any Of tue men at
work to quit.
LABOR LEADERS DEPRESSED.
Master Workmen Wise aud Hayes re-
turned from the Whitney and Lippincott
works, near latrobe, last night, where they
held meeting yesterday. They are greatly
depressed over their failure to accomplish
anything. The men yet remaining out de-
mauded that those at work be brought out
and the Italians driven away within two
law oil ,lasE.
their jobs. The situation with the leaders
is becoming painfully serious and looks
more like defeat every day. Reports have
been received here that the strikers blew up
the water tanks az the Kyle works OF the
Frick Company early this morning. Re-
ports say that no guards were about and
that no one was hurt The report has not
yet been confirmed, though it is known that
the strikers there are very bitter against the
eighteen men who have gone back to work.
DYNAMITE BOMBS EXPLODED.
PITTsBURG, PA, April ia message
from Scottdae, Pa, says: Hardly had
the soldiers left the region lefore the fears
of the citizens were realized, and gangs of
cokers again turned loose their law.ess pas
sions of hate and revenge. Throughout the
region all last night the earth fairly
trembled with succession of shocks follow
ing the explosion Of dynamite bombs. At
gathered on the hill and at one time thirty
bombs were exploded simultaneously, tear
ing great holes in the earth, breaking win
dows in many houses and frightening the
people for miles around by the terrific roar.
No one was injured, however. and but little
actual damage was done, the strikers con-
tenting themselves with this portentous
warning to the workers below.
A HARD WEEK AHEAD.
Monday the companies will post notice.
that unless the men return to work by Tues
day they will no longer be looked upon as
employees This means that cheap labor
will be imported, and as several hundred
eviction notices will also expire the strikers
have a hard week before them. At
Leisinrlng Deputy Sheriff Crawford
and posse were serving wrlts of
election when they were captured by an
angry mob and harshly treated. One
deputy named Sanner was knocked sense
less An effort will be made next week,
with large force. TO evict the strikers
and trouble will follow, as hundreds are to
be turned out.
TENTS ORDERED.
To-day Secretary Parker of the labor
organization ordered lot Of LOCO tents.
which will be used for sheltering evicted
persons Many OF them will be pitched at
Morewood, where the first evictions are to
occur. Others will be set up at Summit,
Trotter and Leisinring. At this writ
ing the men certainly nave the best of
it, though they fear the effects of the evic-
tions and imported labor next week. Out
of l6, 1913 ovens in the region it is estimated
that II, ,451 are extinct and 3,677 active.
Only one-seventh of the active ovens are
working under the terms Of the new sliding
SCALE"
THE CALL FOR AID.
A special from Uniontown, Pa, says:
"The outbreaks of the rioters at Leisinring
Kyle and Leith to-day, in which was
demonstrated the weakness Of the civil au-
thority in the face of such mobs as COM
mitted the depredations at these places have
forced Sheriff Mccormack to do what he
has done his best to avoid, that is. to call on
Gov. Pattis)n for military aid.
Early this afternoon he telegraphed
the governor a brief statement of the facts
of the riots, stated that he was unable to
maintain order, and asked that state troops
be sent to his assistance. The governor re-
piled asking if the civil power had been ex-
hausted, and requesting fuller details.
THE sHERIFF's REPLY.
The following is the text Of Sheriff
McCormack's reply to the governors tele-
gram: In reply to your telegram, | say
that the power Of the county is exhausted.
Owing to the dangerous and turbulent
character of the rioters aud lawless men,
am unable to secure a posse adequate to the
exigencies of the moment. In defiance of
all my powers mobs release offenders in
custody Of the law and disregard all
admonitions in my power to give. l am
absolutely pOwerless to give the security TO
which the parties in danger and VINO are
threatened are entitled to and desire.
The peace Of the commonwealth is sorely
threatened The message then gives full
details of the rioting Adjt. Gen. McClel-
land this evening telegraphed to Capt.
Fisher Of Company c, asking for full in
formation Of the situation.
EXCITEMENT RUNNING HIGH.
''The excitement is at a high pitch over
the prospective ordering out Of militia, but
it is the universal sentiment that 1t is the
only safe thing to do. No additional details
have been secured as to the blowing up of the
water tank at the Kyle works by dynamite
this morning. None Of the perpetrators Of
the outrage have been discovered
Zone of the most daring and lawless acts
during the strike took place at Leith this
afternoon. In order to disperse threaten
ing mob there Deputies Smith and Rice
arrested one Of them, young man named
John Shaffer, and started to bring him
to jail. his companions attacked the
deputies, beat them with clubs and stones
and rescued Sbafer. Deputy Smith was
severely injured. He received a number Of
ugly bruises on his body and deep cash In
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