The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-19
LAWLESS STRIKERS.
The Coke Workers Exploding Dynamite
and ASSaultils Officers.

ScoTTDALE Pa.), April 1S.-Hardly had
the soldiers left this region before the fears
of the citizens were realized and gangs of
striking cokers again turned loose their
lawless passions of hate and revenge.
Throughout the region all last night the
earth fairly trembled with a succession OF
shocks following the explosion OF dynamite
bombs.
At Leisenring, No. of the Frick works,
n crowd gathered on the hill, and at one time
thirty bombs were exploded simultaneously,
tearing great holes in the earth, breaking
the windows in many houses and frighten-
ing the people for miles around by the
terrific roar. No one was injured, however,
and but little actual damage was done, the
strikers contenting themselves with this
warning to the workers below,
Monday the companies will post notices
that unless the men return to work by
Tuesday 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 hard week before them.
At Leisenrng. Deputy Sheriff Crawford
and posse were serving wrils OF ejsctment.
when they were captured by an angry mob
and harshly treated. One deputy was IA
tally injured. An effort will be made next
week. with large force, to evict the
strikers. and trouble will follow.
To-day Secretary Parker of the labor or
ganiZaton ordered 1000 tents for the shelter
ing of evicted persons.
At the offices of the Frick and Mcclure
companies it is said few more men re-
turned to work this morning. The labor
leaders are greatly depressed over their fall
ure to get the men at work to e0me out.
The men yet remaining out demand that
those who are at work be brought out and
the Italians driven away within two days,
or all will return and claim their places.
The situation with the leaders is becoming
serious.
UNIoNTowN Pa.l, April 1s-Tte out
breaks Of the rioters at Leisenring, Kyle and
Leith to-day, in which was demonstrated
the weakness of the civil authorities in face
of such mobs as committed depredatlons at
these places, forced Sheriff Mccormick 10 do
what he had done his best to avoid-call on
Governor Pattison for military aid. The Ad-
jutant-General is now investigating the
matter. The excitement is at high pitch
over the prospect of the ordering out of the
militia, but it is the universal sentiment that
it is the only safe thing to do.
One of the most daring and lawless acts of
the strike took place at Leith this afternoon.
In order TO dlsperse threatening mob
there Deputies Smith and Rice arrested one
Of them, young man named John Shaffer
and started to bring him to Jail. His COM
panions attacked the deputies and beat
them with clubs and stones and rescued
Shaffer Deputy Smith was probably
fatally injured.
HARRISBURG Pa.). April 1S.-Goyernor
Pattison wired Sheriff Mccormick tonight
to the effect that it IS not the duty of the
military to do police duty, and that the sol
diers would not be ordered out until the
civil power is exhausted. There appears to
be a feeling in official circles here that the
coke operators are beginning to regard the
National Guard of Pennsylvania as an or
ganized police force.