Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-03
The Deadly Work,

PITTsBURG PA, April 2.-The deputies
who took part in the riot We're all full
crown experienced men, and they are all
armed to the teeth More deliberate ar
rdngement for contemplated trouble was
never made. Last night Superintendent
Pickard summoned his deputies and told
them that raid was contemplated on the
works. He formed them into line and ex-
amined the firearms of each one. He then
presented each man with Il Winchester
rifle, drilled them in the use of the weapon
and ordered them on duty Each man was
supplied with twenty-SiX cartridges, and
under command of the superintendent We're
marched to q convenient point. There
We're three parties Of the strikers. One
came from Stonerville and another party left
Morewood early in the night.
THE KILLED
were Paul Dogannis, Star STANDARD works,
unmarried; Valentine Zeidei, Slav Don
nelly. unmarried, james Crochley, Pole,
Tarrs, unmarried: Jacob ShuCoskey, a Pole,
Tarrs, wife in Poland; John Tudor Pole,
Standard, unmarried; Antonio Rist, Pole,
Standard, unmarried; Cresezo Rinero, Ital-
ian, Tarr's.
FIFTEEN ARE WOUNDED,
but their names have not Yet been OBJ
tanned. They are foreigners. None of the
dead were naturalized
Mir. H S. Prick, owner of the Norwood
this morning and in an interview said:
1--WE placed our men and property in the
hands of the law for protection. The
sheriff in Norwood has done his duty and
the governor is doing his. This Is no quar-
rel about wages, but only whether our
working men are to be shot down at mid
hight and our property destroyed by rioters.
The authorities must settle this, and we
will know whether mObS or law Will rule"
At noon train left Greensburg filed
with deputies, all armed and prepared for a
long siege Peter Wise, master workman
of the district; james Mcbride, secretary,
and w. p. Penna, vice-president of the
United mine workers of America, came
here this morning and visited the scene of
the shooting and held a conference with
several men. 1t is said that
THEY ARE SECURING NAMES
of the deputies, and that warrants for the
arrest of all of them, including Captain
Loar, who was in command, will be sworn
out Loar claims that he
ORDERED THE MOB
to halt three times, and that he was an
swered with three shots. After another
command to halt the guards were ordered
to fire, and a deadly yolley was poured into
the crowd The fire was returned holly.
but the aim was poor. Friends of
the mob down on the road could
do nothing, They could not shoot, not
KNOWING IHe fOSllIOH VI tiIt cOluDdldDIS,
and were compelled, therefore, to await the
result of the fusilade. They could not have
reached the ground in time to reinforce
them to any purpose for the circuit of
works and buildings on either side of the
road. The witnesses of the terrible
scenes in the valley below say that the
firing did not continue more than three min
utes. When the strikers saw
THE EXECUTION
of tho 1aOI1tiaSi hullprS when they knew
that many of their own number had been
visited with terrible punishment, they re-
treated with haste. 1t was not five min
utes after the firing that the deputies held
the field. The wounded Were carried away,
but the dead were left and from the damp
road seven men were carried back to the
barracks at the store. That the dead men
were not afraid, is evidenced by the fact
that not one was shot in the back. When
the bullets struck them they were al facing
the deputies. who say they had turned TO
fight and fight they did. Volley after vol
ley was fired at them, but not guard was
wounded. The mob had the courage of
stable where the bodies are lying has been
surrounded all day with strikers and
friends. Persons who understand their
language say their threats are fearful
They swear to be avenged.
Peter Wise, district master workman,
applied to Justice McWilliams to arrest the
deputies for murder but the justice refused
to do so. Wise denounced the shooting
AS COLD-BLoODED MURDER,
and said thai there was no protection for
working men.
Physicians say that forty strikers are
wounded. many of them mortally.
The excitement is increasing and the
prospects for another outbreak are growing
every hour.
The report that second attack took place
in which four more were killed, was pro-
nounced untrue, but another raid is ex-
pected at any time.
Squire McCobb consented to issue the
warrants prayed for, charging the deputies
with murder, and the warrants were served
this afternoon. General Manager Lynch of
the Prick company and Superintendent |
Ramsay of the Morewood company were
made accessories. The deputies were ar
rested and gave bail at once.
Among those most seriously wounded are \
Albert Brock, Caspar Seman, Joseph