The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-04-20
RlOTING CONTINUES.
Strikers Take Advantage Of the
Absence Of Military.
EXPLODING DYNAMITE BOMBS

Water Tanks at the Kyle Works Of
the Frick Company Blown Up-A
Deputy Seriously, Perhaps Fatally
Injured-A Prisoner Rescued By
the Aid of Clubs and Stones.
ScoTTDALE, Pa, April 20.-Hardly
had the soldiers left the region before
the fears Of the citizens were realized,
and gangs Of striking cokers began riot
ing.
Throughout the region all Saturday
night the earth fairly trembled with q
succession of shocks following the explo-
sion of dynamite bombs. At Leisenring,
No. 8, of the Frick works, crowd Of
strikers gathered on the hill, and at one
time thirty bombs were exploded stimuli
taneously, tearing great holes IN the
earth, breaking windows in many
houses and frightening people for miles
around by the terrific roar. No one was
injured, however, and but little actual
damage was done, the strikers content
ing themselves with this portentious
warning to the workers below.
The companies posted notices today
morrow they will be no longer looked
upon as employees. This means cheap
labor will be imported, and as several
hundred eviction notices will also expire
the strikers have q hard week before
them.
A Deputy Knocked Senseless.
At Leisenring Deputy Sheriff Crawford
and posse were serving writs of eject
yAtt hxya
angry mob and harshly treated. A dep
nty named Sanner was knocked sense
less. 1t is feared he cannot recover.
An effort will be made this week with
large force to evict the strikers, and
trouble will follow, as hundreds will be
turned out. Secretary Parker, of the
labor organization, has ordered lot of
1000 tents, which will be used for the
sheltering of the evicted people. Many
of them will be pitched at Morewood,
where the first evictions are to occur.
Others will be set up at Summit, Trotter
and Leisenring.
At this writing the men certainly have
the best of it, though they fear the ef-
fects of evictions and imported labor this
week. Out of 10, 1873 ovens in the region
it is estimated that 12,45t are extinct
and 3,677 active, Only one-seventh of
the active ovens are working under the
terms of the new sliding scale.
Troops TO Preserve the Peace.
The outbreaks at Leisenring, Kyle and
Leith, in which was demonstrated the
weakness of the civil authority in the
face of such mobs as committed the dep.
relations at these places, have forced
Sheriff Mccormick to again call on Gov
ernor Pattison for military aid. He tele-
graphed the governor a brief statement
of the facts of the riots, stated that he
was unable to maintain order and asked
I'll 1t the state troops be sent to his as
sistance. The governor telegraphed to
Capt. Frazier, of Company G, Tenth
regiment, as follows:
You will ut once place your company under
arms and report to Sheriff McCorm ick, OF
Fayette county, and assist him in maintaining
the peace. If you wish additional ammuni-
tlon advise me at once, or telegraph Adjutant
Hoyer for any supplies at regimental head
quarters.
1t is not unlikely that Governor Pat
tison will visit the coke regions to OBJ
tain ayproper idea of the situation.
A Prisoner Rescued.
The strikers blew up the water tanks
at the Kyle works of the Frick company
{ with dynamite. No guards were about
and no one was hurt.
One Of the most daring and lawless
acts of this lawless strike took place at
Leith. In order to disperse the threat
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