Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-31
RULED BY RIOTERS
A Reign of Terror in the Coke
Regions.
FURIOUS WOMEN ON TN RAMPAGE,

Property Destroyed and Deputy Sherifrs
Powerlcss to Stop the Turbulence
Governor Pattison Declines to Inter
fere Until the Local Authorities Are
Heip'es,-The Courts Appealed 10 and
Deputies Armed-A Horrid Picture of
the >weatiu: system ia Gotham.
Mr. PLEASANT. Pa, March 3I.-Tl @
coke operators Sunday said they would
commence work yesterday The labor
leaders said they would not--and they
didn't. All Sunday night the strikers by
thousands had possession of the More
wood, Standard, Alice, Bridgeport, jim
town, LeIth, and Leisenring plants, and
kept possession of them all yesterday.
During the night the rioters broke up the
ovens, tore Gown fences, and DESTROYED
other property at their own sweet will,
while score or so of deputy sheriffs had
to look on and submit. A bomb was ex-
ploded at Leisenring plant, but did no par
ticular damage. AT these plants there
are large number of men ready to go to
work SO soon order is established
Doings of Drunken Women
The lawlessness at the Leith coke plant
had some peculiar features. A band of
infuriateC Hungarian women attacSe q
the drawers at the ovens and drove them
away with clubs and stones. The women
were infiamed with liquor and rushed on
the men with yells and curses. Yard Boss
O'Connell was injured. Pit Boss Hooper
received terrific blow on the head with
an iron bar in the hands of one of the wo-
men, who followed it up with several
more until she was overpowered and her
arms were pinioned. The men, seeing
that resistance was useless. stopped their
work and fed, leaving their tools behind
them Two thousand strikers assembled
at the fair grounds yesterday afternoon
and were addressed by President Rae and
Vice Pres ident Renna and Others
Must Exhaust His Powers First.
The sheriff of Westmoreland county
telegraphed TO Governor Pattison yester-
day about the riotous miners and asked
the consent of the governor to use the
arms OF two of the companies of the ma
tional guard. The governor replied that
civil power must be exhausted before the
state would interfere. At Scottdale the
labor leaders last night were considering
the advisa bility of offering the two big
coke companies l, 900 citizens and strikers
to protect their property.
Doing the EXhausting Act
Warrants have been issued for eleven of
the Leith and twenty-seven of the jim
town rioters. An injunction was granted
last evening restraining Master Workman
Wise and other labor leaders from con-
gregating about the coke works or in any
way interfering with those who desire to
work. Sheriff Mccormick, with a num-
Der of deputies, left on a special train last
night to serve the injunction and arrest
those charged with riot.
Keeping People Awake Nights
Last night Mt. Pleasant was trembling
with excitement. The people feared an
explosion. Nobody was willing to go to
bed. There was more confusion than
there has been since the bloody riots of
1856. At midnight fully LOCO men were
on the hills surrounding the works
Sheriff Closson had increased his force to
200 men. All are armed with Winchester
rifles, and another attack of the strikers
means desperate and bloody battle.