The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-04-24
A DESPERATE BATELB
Between Sheriff Mccormick
and a Hungarian Woman.
He is WOUNDED TWICE MORE
And Now Carries Three Testimonials
ofHis Fidelity to Duty---The Sit.
uation in the Coke Region.
What the Operators Claim.

soorrDA1x, Pa, April 2s.-shortl!
after noon to-day Sheriff Mccormick
without deputies, began making evic
tons at Lelsingring No. 3. While at
tending to his duties, Hungarian
woman named Glashke shot at him, thu
ball infictlng another painful tlest
wound in the hand. The Sheriff crap
pied with the woman and wrested the
revolver from her. The iniuriated 10
male then secured an axe, and as the
Sheriff persisted in his attemptsto eVict
the woman she attacked him with the
weapon, giving him an ugly cut in the
foot. Mccormick then drew q revolver
and shot the woman in the leg. By thil
time great crowd Of strikers had gath
cred, and one Hungarian made for the
Sheriff. Mccormick pluckily stood bis
ground, and shot the fellow In the
mouth. The deputies had gathered by
this time and the evictions were carried
through.
None OF the parties injured in the riot
last night will die. OF the two women
hurt one was shot in the shoulder and the
other received aacaip wound. II is now
known that the woman most seriously
injured was shot by her lover, whom
she tried TO save. The same Hungarian
shot the sheriff in the hand. Alter the
shooting the Hungarian swan the
Youghiogheny river and escaped.
The men returned to work at the plant
as usual this morning. The FEick and
McLure companies claim the number OF
men going TO work is increasing, and by
the last Of the week they expect to be
able 10 make all the coke they have or
ders for.
A TRouBLEsoNH DAY.
This was one OF the most troublesome
and exciting days since the great coke
strike was inaugurated. A serious riot
occurred at Mammoth this morning and
another was reported this afternoon in
which it was said FIVE men and two
women had been killed. Fortunately,
however, the report OF second riot was
without foundation.
Since the ugly Morewood affair the
women have taken the principal part in
defying deputies, tie men either pre-
ferring to obey the orders OF their lead
ers and remain inactive, or thinking the
Sheriff and troops would not be 80 se-
we're where women lod the attacks.
DrTA1TR oF THE RIOT.
This morning Sheriff Mccormick and
his deputies went to Leisenring No. 5
to evict ten families Of striking slavs,
and US was their experience at Adelaide
yesterday, they had bloody battle with
an infuriated mob OF men and women.
II was about II o'clock when the Sheriff
and his deputies reached house No. 105,
by Thomas TAR. The Sheriff
at once read the writ Of eviction to Tarr,
and by the time he was through with 1t
a crowd of three or four hundred men
and women had collected In front OF the
premises.
Tarr, With an oath, declared he would
not eyacuate the domicile, and seizlng
an axe, stood in the doorway and de6ed
the Sheriff to enter; 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 command. The
Sheriff tried to reason with them, but
without avail. Their blood was up, and
nothing but q first class battle would
satisfy them.
A DESPERATE WOMAN.
Andy Blashko's vile, who lived in
the other half of the house, and who had
given birth to child only two days be-
fore, 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 fre
at his breast, he struck the pistol q
downward blow with his left hand and
at the same time fred the revolver he
had in his right hand at her. The
two pistols went of 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, but did not do him much injury.
The shot in the weman's thigh seemed
TO infuriate 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 q hall unconscious condition.
Andy Blashko, seeing that his wife was
being roughly handled, made q dash At
the Sheriff with club, but the nervy
little officer was too quick for him, and
taking deliberate aim, shot Blashko in
the Lett ankle, making an ugly hole,
A sERyY sHERlFF.
BY this time the Sheriti's blood was
up, and with cooked revolver in either
hand, stood with his back against the
end Of the house and informed the mob
that the first one who made move
towards him he would shoot 70 kill.
For a moment the crowd held back,
then Martin scroupks, who lives at
Leisenring No. /, left the crowd and
rushed ut the Sheriff with . huge club
uplifted. The Sheriff waited until
Sproupka got within five feet Of him
and then Ared. The shot took
effect, the bullet striking Scroupka
In the mouth, knocking ont two Of his
law teeth and lodging somewhere in the
back part Of bis mouth. The wounded
Slay wheeled and started TO run along
the end OF the house, and the Sheriff
followed him firing as rapidly as he could.
But mons Of the shots bit the slay.
Some one shouted to the Sheriff to look
out, and turning be saw TAR, the man
on whom be had served the writ, com.
ing toward him with an axe. The
Sheriff pointed both his FeYolYers OF
him and Tarr retreated,
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