Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-04-19
BOMB ARGUMENT
EMPLOYED BY The STRIKERS IN THB
COKE FIELD.
They Use the Deadly Weapons to Brighten the
Peopls-Luckily No Damage IS DOne-They
Fear Nothing Now That the Military Has
Been Withdrawn RyichOns take Place

SCorTDALE, PA, April lS.-Hardly had
the soldiers left the region before the fears
of the citizens were realized, and gangs of
co6ers again turned loose in their lawless
passions of hate ana revenge. Throughout
the region all last night the earth fairly
trembled with a succession of shocks fol-
lowing the explosion of dynamite bombs. AT
Leisenring. No. g. on the Frick works,
crowd of strikers gathered on the hill, and
at one time 30 bombs were exploded simul-
taneously, making great holes. in the earth,
breaking windows In many houses, and
frightening the people for miles around by
the terrible uproar No one was injured,
however, and but little actual damage was
done. the strikers cOnteuting themselves
with this pOrtentiOus warning 10 the work
erS below.
Monday the companies will post notices
that unless the men return 10 work by
Tuesday they will no longer be 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.
AT Leisenring No. ., Deputy Sheriff
[
eiectment when they were captured by an
angry mob and harshly treated. One
deputv. named Sanner, was knocked sense
less An effort will be made next week
with larger force to cvict the strikers,
and trouble will follow, as hundreds are
10 be turned out.
To-day Secretary Parker. of the labor
organization, ordered a lot of one thousand
tents which will be used for the sheltering
of the evicted persons. Many Of them
will be pitched at Morewo0d, where the
first evictiOns are TO occur Others Will be
set up at Summit, Trotter aud Leisenring.
At this writing the men certainly nave
the best il. though they fear the effects OF
evictions and improted labor next week.
Out of l6.l2S ovens in the region IL is esti-
mated that II. .45l are extinct and 3,61' act
i've. Only one-seventh of the active ovens
are working under the terms of the new
sliding scale.
UNIoNrowN, Pa, April lS.-The out
breaks of the rioters at Leisenring, Kyle
and Leith to-day, in which was demon
strated the weakness OF the civil authority
in the face Of such mObs as committed the
depredations at these places, have forced
Sheriff Mccormick TO do what he has done
his best 10 avoid-that IS 10 call on Gov.
Pattisan for military aid
Early TINS afternoon ne lelegrdpueu lue
Governor brief statement of the facts of
the riots. stated that he was unable TO
maintain order and asked that the state
troops be sent 10 his assistance. The Gov
ernor replied, asking if the civil power had
been exhausted, and requested further de-
tails.
One of the most daring and lawless acts
/ of this lawless strike took place al Leith
this afternoon. Ia order TO dlsperse
threatening MOB there Deputies Smith
and Rice arrested one of them, a
voung man named John Shaffer, and
started TO bring him TO Jail. His COM
pauions, attacked the deputies, beat them
with cluts and stones and rescued Shafer
/ Deputy Smith was severely injured lie
received number of ugly bruises on his
| body and a deep cash i'm the head with a
knife
/ 10 is also feared that Deputy Sanner,
who was injured i'm the riot at Leisenrlng
No >. this morning, will not recover. TGe
/ II C.. Fricl Coke Co. secured preliminary
/ Injunction, and warrants against John Nc
Slov and - others engaged in the riotOus
proceedings AT Leiseuring No. ,, last night
and this morning
The information set forth that these men
marched up and down where the men were
working, brandishing revOlvers, and intim-
idated and drove the men from the works,
then assaulted the deputies.