The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-04-24
Plucky Sheriff Compelled to Use His Revolver
Freely to Protect His Own Life While
Trying to Eyict Strikers.
One of the Women and a Man Shot and
the Officer Himself Slightly Wounded.
Riotous Conduct of Detroit Street. Car Strikers
and ympathizers-Non.U nionists As
saulted By Italians at New York.
BLOOD SPILLED AGAIN.


Riot-Desperate Encounter with Women.
UNroNTowN. Pa. April 23.-This was one
of the most troublesome and exciting days
since the great coke strike was inaugu-
rated. A serious riot occurred at Monarch
this morning and another was reported this
afternoon, in which it was said that five
men and two women had been killed.
Fortunately. however. this report of o Sec
ond riot was without foundation, though
the riot of to-day resulted in the probably
fatal wounding of one man and the serious
injury of woman. The sheriff of Fayette
county, with his deputies. has been detied
and the sheriff himself assaulted-shot in
In the hand and beaten, and cut with an
ak In the hands of an Infatuated Hungarian
woman.
Since the ugly Norwood affair the wom-
en- have taken the principal part in defying
deputies. the men either preferring TO obey
the orders of their leaders and remain IN
active. OF thinking the sheriff and troops
would not be so severe where women led
the attacks This morning Sheriff McCor-
mick and his deputies went to LeisenrIng
No. to evict ten families of striking Slavs
and, as was their experience at Adelaide
yesterday, they had bloody battle with
an Infatuated mob of men and women.
The majority of the c0mpany's houses at
Leisenring No. 3 are situated on beautiful
plateau of about fifteen or twenty acres.
overlooking the works In the valley. three
OF four hundred feet below, and in order to
reach the houses the sheriff and his depu-
ties had to march several hundred yards up
steep road fronting the company's store,
at which point he ordered the militia.
which came up with him from Tr0tter, TO
remain until they were needed. 1t was
about IL o'clock when the sheriff and his
deputies reached house No. 1O5. occupied by
Thomas Tarr. The sheriff at once read the
writ of eviction to Tarr, and by the time he
was through with 1t crowd or three or
four hundred men and women had collected
in front of the premises. Tarr, with an
oath. declined to evscuate the domicile,
and, seizing an ak. stood in the doorway
and defied the sheriff to enter.
FIGHT WITH FRENZIED WOMAN.
Then the trouble commenced. Men and
women in broken English, yelled defiance
and berated the sheriff and his deputies in
the strongest language they could com.
mand. The sheriff tried to reason with
them but without avail. Their blood was
up and nothing but q 6rst-class battle
would satisfy them. Andy Blashko's wife.
who lived in the other half of the house
and who had given birth to a child only
ten days before, hearing the tumult, rushed
out and. spying the sheriff. made a dive for
him, pistol in hand. The sheriff saw her
coming and just as she was about to fire at
his breast, he struck the pistol a downward
blow with his left hand, and at the same
time fired the revolver he had in his right
hand at her, The two pistols went off
simultaneously, and both took effect
The sheriff had shot the woman in the
feshy part of the left thigh and she had
shot him in the left ankle. The ball, how
ever. struck him only glancing lick and
did not Go him much injury. The shot in
the woman's thigh seemed to infurlate her
the more, and she made second dash at
the sheriff, who showed her back. She fell
to the ground and was carried INTO the
house In half unconscious condition by
friends.
Andy Blashko. seeing that his wife was
being roughly handled, made a dash at the
sheriff with a club. but the nervy little Of
tcer was too quick for him and. taking de-
Hberate aim. shot Blashko IN the left ankle,
the bullet making an ugly hole in the flesh
and shiverlng the bone. By this time
the sheriff's blood was up, and,
with cooked revolver in either
hand, he stood with his back against
the end of the house. and informed the mob
that the first one who made move toward
him he would shoot, and shoot to kill. For
a moment the crowd held back, then Mar
tin Schroupka, who lives at Leisenring No.
1, left the crowd and rushed at the sheriff
with hugo club uplifted.
RIoTER SHOT IN THE MOUTH.
The sheriff waited until Schroupka got
within five feet of him and then fred. The
shot took effect. the bullet striking
Schroupka in the mouth, knocking out two
of his back teeth aud lodging somewhere
in the back part of his month. The
wounded Slsv wheeled and started to run
along the end of the house and the sheriff
followed him, firing as rapidly as he could.
But none of the shots hit the Sav. Some
one shouted to the sheriff to look out. and
on whom he had served the
writ. coming toward him with an AK
The sheriff pointed both his revOlvers at
him, and Tarr retreated. By this time,
Captain Frazer, of Company G, hear
brought the soldiers mp the road on dou BILE
quick, and their presence at once quelled
the rioters. and the sheriff and his deputies
proceeded to the work of evicting, and in
a very short time the household effects of
thirteen strikers were piled in front of &C
many houses.
The sheriff and his deputies, accompanied
by the militia, then went to the Trotter
works, located about q mile west of New
Haven, and evicted twelve families, all of
whom are English-speaking, which task
was accomplished with little trouble
Sheriff Mccormick arrived here this
evening with Thomas Tarr, whom he ar
rested this morning on a charge of resisting
an officer. Tarr IN now in Jail. The sheriff
is pretty lame from the effects of the wound
he received in the ankle this morning, but
excepting that he is terribly sore from the
effects of the bruises inflicted upon him by
the Infatuated mob he has been in for the
past two days. is feeling first rate. He says
Martin Schroupka, whom he shot in the
mouth this morning, is badly hurt but was
still living at last accounts Andy Blashko
and wife are both in bed, the latter suffer
ing more from the nervous shock she re-
ceived than from her wound. He also says
that twenty families will be evicted at
Morgan's works tomorrow and twelve
at Broadford. He expects trouble.
but says be is getting used TO it.
Everything is quiet at Leisenring No. 2.
Several new men went to work in the
mines there to-day. and while the Pinker-
tons are on duty no trouble is anticipated.
The woman Annie Dominicki. who was re-
ported killed at Adelaide yesterday. ia re-
covering slowly. but her injuries are seri-
Gus. being an ugly pistol shot in the neck.
The Hungarians. or Slavs, are loud in their
denunciations of Sheriff Mccormick and
threats of having him arrested for shooting
with intent TO kill are rife.
The hearing on motion to make perma-
nent the preliminary injunction restrain.
ing Worthy Foreman John McSloy and
thirty other strikers from interfering with
the running Of Tricks West Leisinrine
works was held by Judge Ewing to-day,
| After long argument the injunction was
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