Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-03
BRIEF But DEADLY.
RiOtOus Strikers Terribly
i Punished.
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Armed Guards Repel a Night
Attack.
A Deadly Fusillade Poured Into the
Ranks of the Rioters.
Many Killed and WOunded-The Victims
All Foreigners-Internat Com
= plications Threatened.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Storm In the coke region had been OBJ.
served for some time, and at O'Clock
this morning it burst at the Morewood
Plant. The fight was brief and deadly
Two rounds Of cartridges were fired by
a band of sixty-five guards, and seven
of the charging mob of strikers fell dead
while at least forty others were wound.
ed, how badly cannot be definitely
stated, as they were taken away by
their companions. The strikers killed
instantly were: Creszo Binero, an
Italian, John Fudora, Antonio Rist.
Jacob Dshuckassy, James Brochite,
Poles; Valentine Leidel, Paul Dohannis,
Slavs.
The attack was well planned and
headed by men determined, evidently,
to annihilate the men working there.
At 12 o'clock small bodies of strikers
began to gather on the hills. They
were armed with revolvers, stones, iron
bars and every conceivable weapon.
Headed by a drum corps, they were
marched first to the Standard works,
where they deliberately destroyed both
the telephone and telegraph wires, so
that word OF their coming could not be
sent to Morewood.
THE ATTACK ON NORWOOD.
While at the Standard works, Incl
dentally 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
intentions of raid. The few frightened
men left at the Standard managed to
repair the wires, and the warning
reached the Morewood plant none too
soon. As the noisy band of strikers, now
numbering fully 1900 men, approached
that plant, thei1 outcries ceased, their
drum corps was silenced, and the ugly
crowd gathered in numbers on the black
hills overlooking the plant for mo-
ment's parley before attacking a place
they knew to be we'll guarded. Then
they separated, one large detachment
advancing on the works by the main
roads, while the others scattered over
the brow of the hill, and shortly after
O'Clock, at a given signal, all moved
down on the works.
THE ORDER TO FIRE.
Under orders of Captain Loar, the
sixty-fve guards stood quietly in line
before the works. Suddenly a break
was made by the advancing mob toward
the fences of the company. A stern or
der of halt was given, but the only at
tentiOn it received, was the firing of
three shots by members of the mob,
which whistled close to the heads of the
impassive guards. After the shots were
fred the strikers turned and went to-
wards the stables of the company with a
dash. Without firing shot, the guards
were ordered to follow, and the COM
mand was again given the strikers to
halt. They only retreated further down
the road and answered the order with
yells and threats. Again was the COM
mand given, and again came mocking
answer, and the order to fire was given
by Captain Loar. The volleys from the
Winchesters were well directed, and
only few rounds 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 vOLLEY's TERRIBLE EFFECT.
The firing on both sides continued
hardly three minutes. The volleys from
the guards had terrible effect on the
compact mass Of strikers, while the lat
ter made an attempt to return the fire
with what weapons they possessed, but
without effect. The dead were left ly-
ing in the road, while the wounded, es-
timated at between forty and fifty, were
either assisted or bodily carried away
into the hills by their fellows.
SCENES OF Widest EXCITEMENT.
All day the entire coke regions have
presented scenes of widest excitement.
The foreign element, especially, has
been driven frantic by this woeful re-
suit Of their anticipated victorious raid.
Always turbulent, sullen and ready for
desperate measures, they are not one
whit cowed by the death of several of
their number, while they have sedu-
lously concealed in their homes those of
their number who were wounded, many
no doubt 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 fired on and moved
oOWh WiehOuo ohy PiONOSooiOh3 dHO
deadly vengeance on each and every
member of the guards has been sworn.
This all comes from the foreign element.
THE VICTIMS ALL FOREIGNERS.
1t will be noticed that all the men
killed bear foreign names, and it is
fact that not one of them was natural
lied citizen of this country. 1t is also
supp osed that many of the wounded
were foreign, and this explains the
deep resentment expressed in every
foreign face in the regions tonight. The
Slavs and Hungarians were almost fear
less. The deputies say not one was
struck on the back, but all bore marks
of bullets in the face, indicating that
they died fighting with what weapons
they possessed.
Thousands OF the strikers and their
friends poured into this place from all
over the region to have a look at the
dead, and perhaps hear what the living
have to say.
As darkness fell tonight, the foreign
ers began to draw away in knots, and