The Indianapolis journal., 1891-04-03

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MORE FOREIGNERS SLAIN.
Seven Killed and Forty or Fifty Wounded
While Attacking Coke Plant
MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa, April 2.--Ominous
signs OF the gathering of q storm In the
coke region have been observed by ex-
perienced strikers here for some time, and
at o'clock this morning they focused and
burst with sudden fury at the Morewood
plant, which has proved such bono of
contention between the strikers and their
employers.
The fight was brief and deadly. Two
rounds of cartridges were fired 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 bad
ly cannot be definitely stated. as they were
taken away by their companions. The
strikers killed instantly by the fire were:
CREsZO BINERO (Italian), of Tarrs; shot
through the breast.
JOHN FUDORA Pole), of the Standard works;
single; shot through the brain.
ANTONIO RIST (Pole) of the Standard works;
single; shot through the head
JACOB SCHUCASKEY (Pole), of Tarrs; shot
through the brains married; wife In Poland.
JAMES PROCHTE (Pole), of Tarrs; single;
shot through the head.
VALENTINE ZEIDEL (Slav), of Donnelly;
single: shot through the lugular.
PAUL DOHANNIs tSlav), of Standard; shot
In the head; single.
The attack on the Morewood plant was
well planned and conceived and headed by
men determined, evidently. to intimldare
the men working there once for all. At IL
o'clock small bodies of strikers began to
gather on the hills. As usual during raid
they were armed with revolvers, stones.
iron bars. and every conceivable weapon
obtainable.
THEY CUT THE WIRES.
Headed by their drum corps, they marched
| first to the Standard works. where they de-
| liberstely destroyed both telephone and
telegraph wires. so that word of their CON-
| ing could not be sent to Morew ood: While
| at the Standard works they incidentally
| destroyed anything moveable they could
| find. The strikers created all the noise pos
sible from the surrounding hills, intending
| to apprise those of their felIow-strikers in
| the vicinity Of their intentions to raid.
| Their march to the Standard works had
| been but q helter-skelter affair, each man
| of the five hundred in line merely making
| all the noise possible, in order to increase
their number for the more deperate raid on
! on the MorewOod plant, where 1T was
| known sixty-ive guards had been placed
| with orders to fire if necessary.
| Some time after Q o'clock this morning
| the guards at the Morewood heard from
the Standard that raid was imminent.
ard had plucked up courage enough to re-
pair the wires, and the warning reached
the Morewood plant none too soon. AS the
noisy band of strikers, now numbering
| fully 1000 men. approached that plant their
outcries ceased, their drum corps was
silenced. and the ugly crowd gathered in a
bunch on the black hills. overlooking the
| plant, for moments parley before attack
| ing plant they knew to be well guarded
| by determined men. There was a hesi-
fancy, but the fact that they were twenty
! to one strong, encouraged the strikers, and
| they quietly separated, one large detach-
ment advancing OF the works by the main
road. while the others scattered over the
brows of the hill, and shortly after 8
| o'clock. at a given signal, all moved down
on the works.
| THE DEADLY voLLEYs.
The night was of inky blackness, but the
/ guards were apprised Of the movements of
the attacking party by confused mutter-
ings in @ foreign tongue. or subdued orders
from the leaders Under the orders of
Captain Loar the sixty five guards stood
| quietly in line before the works, their Win
chesters peacefully "at rest" Suddenly a
break was made by the advancing mob to-
ward the fences of the company. A stern
order to halt was given, but the only atten-
tion it received was the firing of three
shots by members of the mob, which whis-
tied warningly close to the heads of the
impassive guards. each one of whom was
we'll drilled and was simply there to obey
orders. After the shots were fred by the
strikers they turned and made q dash to-
ward the stables of the company. Without
firing o shot the guards were ordered to
follow. and the command again given the
strikers to halt. They only retreated fur
ther down the road, and answered the or
der with yells and threats. Again was the
command given, and again came the mock
ing answer. and the order to fire was given
by Captain 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 OF
their feliow-strikers had gathered IN antic-
ipatiou of assisting in the raid. but not in q
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 latter made
an attempt to return the fire with what few
weapons they possessed, but without effect
The dead were left lying in the road. while
the wounded. estimated at between forty