The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-03

Seven Rioters Slain Instantly and
Scores of Others Wounded.
Guards Order the Advancing Horde to
Halt. Then Fire to Knl-The Blood
Of Huns and Italians Calls to Europe
for vengcance-Two Militia Regi.
ments Called Out.

storm IN the coke region have been OBJ
served for some time, and at O'Clock this
morning it burst at the Morewood plant.
Two rounds of cartridges were fired by Q
band of sixty-hve guards, and seven of
charging mob Of strikers fell dead, while
at least forty others were wounded. how
badly cannot be definitely stated, as they
were all taken away by their comrades.
The strikers killed instantly were:
Creszo Bincro, an Italian.
John FGdora, a Pole.
Antonio Rist, a Pole.
Jacob ShucEasky, a Pole.
James Br0chte. q Pole.
Valentine Zeidcr, Slav.
Panl Dohannio a Slav.
The attack was well planned and headed
by men determined evidently to intimi-
date the men working there once for all.
At II O'Clock small bodies of strikers be-
gan to gather on the hills. They were
armed with revolvers, stones, iron bars
and every conceivable weapon. and headed
by drum corps. They marched first to
the Standard works, where they
deliberately destroyed both tele-
phone and telegraph wires, SO that
word of the coming could not be sent to
Morewood. While at the Standard works,
incidentally destroying anything movable
they might find, the strikers created all
the noise possible from the surrounding
hills, intending to apprise those of their
fellow-strikers in the vicinity of their i'm
tentions of raid. The few frightened
men left at the Standard managed to re-
pair the wires, and warning reached the
Morewood plant none too soon.
AS the noisy band Of strikers, now num-
hopSnO ftrItxy 4 LoA xbo< vic c~t
their outcries ceased, their drum corps was
silenced. and the ugly crowd gathered in
a bunch on the bleak hills overlooking the
plant for moments parley before attack
ing the place, which they knew to be well
guarded. Then they separated. one large
attachment advancing on the works by the
main road, while the others scattered over
the brow of the hills, and shortly after 3
O'Clock, at given signal, all moved down
on the works.
Under the orders of Captain Loas, the
sixty-five guards stood quietly in line be-
fore the works. Suddenly break was
made by the advancing mob toward the
fences of the company. A stern order of
"HaltW was given, but the only attention
it received was the firing of three shots by
members of the mob, which whistled close
to the heads of the impassivc guards. After
the shots were fired the strikers turned
and went toward the stables Of the COM
pany with dash. Without firing shot
the guards were ordered to follow, and the
command was given the strikers to halt.
They only retreated further down the
road and answered the order with yells and
threats. Again was the command given,
and again came mocking answer, and
the order to fire was given by Captain
Loas.
The volleys from the Winchesters were
well directed, and few rounds only were
necessary to drive the rioters back into the
hills, where hundreds of their fellow
strikers had gathered in anticipation of
assisting in the raid. but not in battle
with such determined band of guards.
The firing on both sides continued hardly
three minutes. The yolleys from the
guards had terrible effect on the compact
mass of strikers, while the latter made an
attempt to return the fire with what
weapons they possessed, but without effect.
The dead were left lying in the road. while
the wounded, estimated at between forty
and fifty, were either assisted or bodily
carried away into the hills by their fel-
lows.
All day the entire coke regions pre-
sented scenes of the widest excitement
The foreign element especially has been
driven frantic by this woeful result of their
anticipated victorious raid. Always turb-
ulent, sullen and ready for desperate
measures, they are not one whit cowed
by the death of several of their number,
while they have sedulousiy concealed in
their homes those of their number injured.
many of whom are wounded unto death.
Anathemas loud and deep have been heard
on every side all day. Word has been sent
by secret means all over the region that
their comrades were tired on and moved
down without any proyocation, and
deadly vengeance on each and every men,
Der of the guards has been sworn. This all
comes from the foreign element.
IT will be noticed that all the meh killed
were foreigners, and il is said that not one
Of them was a citizen of this country. 1t
is also supposed that the wounded were
foreigners. and this explains the deep re-
sentiment expressed in every foreigners
face IN the region tonight. The Slavs and
Hungarians were almost fearless of the
deputies. Not one was struck on the back.
but all bore marks of bullets in the face.
liiaitatiHb that thty 0tta UEutink Will
what weapons they possessed.
Thousands of strikers and their friends
poured into this place from all over the re-
gion TO have a look at the dead and per-
haps hear what the living have to say. As
the darkness fell tonight the foreigners
began to draw away in knots. and the
night after the riot lowered amidst great
fear of what might happen before another
dawn. Late tonight word was received here
that two more men concerned in the riot
had died in a strikers house. Their
names could not be learned. These two
deaths are known as the result of the fir
ing Of the guards. but there is no doubt
others are either dead or in critical con-
dition, as the guards had orders TO ire to
kill, and evidently did so.
Reports late tonight from all over the
region indicate fear over the dangerous
and excited condition of affairs, and word
that the military was soon TO be on guard
was received by the Iaw-abiding labor
officials and coke operators alike with the
liveiiest evidence OF satisfaction.
At Leisenring, Constable Campbell at
tempted to arrest John Lushka. a Russian,
for completely IN the bomb-throwing that
occurred there Monday. Lushka ilercely
resisted and called for aid. A fellow
countryman who was on the outside Of the