The Washburn leader., 1891-04-25
Renewal of HOstilities in the Coke
Regions, With Fatal
Results.
Furious Fighting Attends the Evic.
ti0ns of the Striking
Miners.
The Militia, County Officers and
Mine Employees Holding
the Mob.
Affairs mt ScOttdale.


fears of the citizens were realized, and
the gangs of cokers again turned loose
their lawless passions of hate and revenge.
Throughout the region, all last night,
the earth fairly trembled with a success
sion of shocks following the explosion of
dynamite bombs. At Leisepring, No. 8
of the Frick works, crowd Of strikers
gathered on the hill and at one time thir-
ty bombs we're exploded simultaneously,
tearing great holes in the earth, breaking
the windows in many houses and frigh-
tening the people for miles around by
the terrific roar. No one was injured,
however, and but little damage was done,
the strikers contenting themselves with
this portentous 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 work be-
fore them.
THE EJECTMENT WRITs.
At Leisenring, Deputy Sheriff Craw-
ford and posse we're serving writs of
ejectment, when they we're captured by
the angry mob and harshly treated. One
deputy, named Sanner, was knocked
senseless. An effort will be made next
week, with large force, to evict the
strikers, and trouble will follow, as hum
dress are to be turned out. To-day Sec-
retary Parker of the labor organization
ordered a lot of 1000 tents, which will be
used for the sheltering of the evicted per-
sons. Many of them will be pitched at
Norwood, where the first eviotions
are to occur. Others will be set up at
Summet, Trotter and Leisenring. At
this writing, the men certainly have the
best of it, though they fear the effects of
the evictions, and imported labor next
week. Out of 16, 1923 ovens in the region,
it is estimated that 12,451 are extinct and
3,677 active, only one-seventh of the ac-
tive ovens are working under the terms
of the new sliding scale.
ScorrDALE, Pa, April 21.-To-night
the strikers are gathering their forces to
overcome the last and most powerful is
sues brought to bear by the operators.
They are face to face with two hated and
feared institutions-Pinkerton's detec-
tive forces and the invasion of imported
labor. About 500 Pinkerton detectives
will be brought in to the region tonight
and distributed around the different
works where the most strenuous efforts
are being made to resume. There are
said to be eight car loads of them, and as
the news of their coming precedes them
throughout the region, there is constant
ly increasing excitement. There are 500
or 600 Italians on their way here, and
they will be stationed at both the Frick
and Mcclure works. 1t is said they
have been gathered up throughout the
Punxsutawney region. Leaders are
combining their forces OF speakers, and
will make every effort to persuade for
eigners to leave. The noted socialist
named Jones, who gathered together
some 5000 followers of the red flag here
last fall, is coming into the region TO-
morrow to speak to his men. Labor
leaders say they are not in sympathy
with his move, but it is known that the
socialists are the most determined men
to win the present strike.
Pandemonium in the Coke Region.
ScorTDA1E, Pa, April 20.-Rioting by
strikers continues in the coke regions.
Leisenring No. 2 plant of the Frick Coke
company, has been kept in an uproar
continuously since Saturday night. The
works are surrounded by mob day and
night. Explosions of bombs, firing of
guns, blowing of horns and beating of
cans can be heard at all hours. The whole
community seems to be dazed, and no
one knows what moment the worst may
come. The coke companies have sworn
out injunctions against thirty three Of
the leaders, and have also instituted
criminal charges against them. Injunc-
ton papers and warrants have been
placed in the hands Of the sheriff and
constables, but they seem to be powerless
to serve them without assistance of
the troops. Injunction suits in
stituted against forty of the strikers by
Shoemaker & Co., came up this morn
ing, but were postponed until the June
term of court. The coroner's jury as
sembled at Mount Pleasant at 10 o'clock
this morning to consider evidence in the
Morewood case, and this afternoon an
nounced the following verdict: "That
the deceased came to his death at More
wood, on Thursday morning, April 2,
1891, at about 3 o'clock, by bullet dis
charged from gun or revolver in the hands
Of deputies Of sheriff of West Moreland
county," This applies to each man
killed in the riot. There were no evic-
tions at Morewood this morning, owing
to q legal hitch, notices being dated
Sunday. It is probable the strikers will
leave their houses peacably. The COM
pany report 104 men at work at More
wood to-day. Painters plant is running
full and at Black Hill mines work was
started.
EvIoTORs HAVE TROUBLE.
To-day was prolific of excitement and
small riots throughout the coke region.
Women generally are leading and are
most bitter in their attacks on the
deputies. Heretofore they have been
silent, but when evictors attacked their
homes, foreign women especially, we're