Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-31
WAR TO THE KNIFE.
The Striking Cokers Resort
to Violence.
Serious Rioting in the Con-
nellsville Region.
The Property Of Offensive Employers
Destroyed.
n-Unionists Driven From W0rk-A
Number or Persons Injured-Womcn
Form Part Of the Mob.
Associated Press Dispatches.

a. OCA0tcu Z kS1o OlnRutSAoos
PIrTsBuRG, March 0.-The most event
full day in the coke strike, closing with
this evening, was favorable to the men.
Although three OF the principal works
were raided, the labor leaders claim that
no preconcerted attack was made. Early
this morning the strains of their favor
ite band woke all the strikers on the
road from Scottdale to Bradford, and in
a short while fifteen hundred men iol-
lowed their path, which was directed to
the Jimtown plant OF H. G. Fricke
& Co. The works were captured
without a struggle. A few work
ers were struck with stones,
but the strikers dispersed without seri-
GUS damage. Sometime later, terrific
report in the direction of the Lessen
ring works, gave warning of trouble
there, and thousands gathered to wit
ness the work of
THE FIRST BOMB EXPLODED
by the strikers. The shock was felt
several miles, but its only visible effect
was the tearing of great hole in front
of non-union workers house. After
this the workmen at Leisenring No. 2
and No. 3, were chased out of the yards.
A few men at the Leith works were also
driven out, though nobody was reported
badly injured. Trouble was also talked
of at the. Trotter plant, but this is de-
MED by the operators.
The big Morewood plant of Fricke &
Co. also contributed more than its quota
to the exciting events Of the day. About
5000 strikers gathered about the place
and swept the armed deputies aside.
Not blow was struck, not O shot was
fred, as such move would have been
fatal to both guards and workers in the
face OF 5000 determined strikers. After
the abandonment of the works by the
guard
AN HOUR OF MAD wRECKING
followed. Tracks, doors and, in fact,
everything movable was. torn and
wrencned aside BY the masdpaed IsroSd.
who only left after the plant had been
mutilated beyond immediate repairs.
At Uniontown tonight Judge Ewing
granted preliminary injunction against
all the men assembling at the Fricke
works, not employed by that company,
and set Saturday for the hearing OF the
permanent injunction. Sheriff McCor-
mick, with number of armed deputies,
left Uniontown tonight to arrest the
leaders in the several raids. Probably
the ugliest feature was q number Of
women participating. The most seri-
ously injured man was Pit Boss Cooper,
who was struck again and again by an
iron bar in the hands of an infuriated
A ,~naofsnrv hold m
night by the strikers, who will certainly
work tomorrow.
MILITARY AID INVOKED.
HARRIsBURa, Pa, March 30.-There
was much telegraphic correspondence
between Governor Pattison and Sheriff
Clawson, of Westmoreland county, this
afternoon. regarding the strike of the
coke-workers, and the attack upon the
works of Fricke & Co., at Morehead this
morning. The sheriff asked permission
to use the arms of two companies OF the
national guard, to protect property, but
the governor responded that "civil
power to maintain peace must be ex-
hausted and powerless before military
power can be successfully invoked"
MT. PLEASANT TREMBLING.
MT. PLEASANT, Pa, March 3O.-To-
night Mt. Pleasant is trembling with ex-
element. The people fear trouble.
There is more confusion than there has
been since the bloody riot OF 1886. At
midnight fully one thousand men are
gathered on the hills surrounding the
works. Sheriff Clossen has increased
his force to two hundred men.
RIOT AT HOMESTEAD.
PrrTsBURa, March 30.-A riot is re-
ported from Homestead in which anum-
ber of Hungarians, Italians and others
are engaged. The trouble occurred Gin
the upper portion of town, and seven or
eight were seriously wounded. Some OF
the participants were arrested.