The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-04-25
The WOMEN ALSO TAKE A HAND,
Sheriff Mccormick and Deputies are
Attacked in the Discharge Of
Their Duty.
The sheriff and Il Woman Take a Shot
al Each Othcr-The Mob
Finally Dispersed.

UNIoNTowN. Pa, April %. This was
one of the most troublesome and cXcit-
ing days since the coke strike was inaug
uratcd. A serious riot occurred at Mon
arch and another was reported this after
noon, in which it was said five men and
two women had been killed. Fortunately,
however, this report of the second riot
was without foundation, though the riot
of today resulted in probably the fatal
wounding of one man and the serious IN
jury of another woman. The sheriff of
Fayette county with his deputies has
been deticd and the sheriff himself rs
saulted, shot in the hand and beaten and
cut with an AK in the hands of an infuri-
atcd Hungarian mOman. Since the ugly
Morewood affair women have taken the
principal part in dofying the deputies.
This morning Sheriff Mccormick and
his deputies went to Leisenring No. 3 to
cvict ten families Of striking Slavs and
as was their experience in adelaide
yesterday they had a bloody battle with
an inruriated mob of men and women.
It was about II o'clock when the sheriff
and his deputies reached the house No
ll5, occupied by Thomas Tarr. The
sheriff at once read the writ of eviction
to Tarr, and by the time he was through
IA wild crowd of 300 or 400 men and wom
en- had collected in front of the premises.
Tarr, with an oath. declined to cvacuate
| the domicilc and seizing an AK stood in
| doorway and dcfied the sheriff. Then
trouble commenced Men and women
| in broken Irish yelled and bcratcd 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 a first
class battle would satisfy them. Blash-
kos wife, who lived in the other half Of
| the house, and who had given birth to Il
child only two days before. hearing the
tumult. ~ushed out and sprang at the
sheriff, sto in hand The sheriff saw
| her coming and just as she was about to
! fir, at his breast he struck the pistol a
downward blow with his left hand and
at the same time fired a revolver he had
| in his right hand. The two pistols went
off simultaneously and both took effect,
| The sheriff had shot the woman in the
ficshy pa of the thigh and she had shot
him in The ankle. The ball, however,
struck him only glancing blow and did
not do i'm much injury. The shot III
the woman's thigh seemed to infuriatc
her more. and she made a second dash al
the sheriff, who showed her back. She
| Al 1 L ,,.,l ,,,t,
the house i'm IA half unconscious condition
by friends Andy Blashko, seeing his
wife was hcing roughly handled made I
dash at the sheriff with club, but tn,
nrrvy little officer was too quick for him
and. taking deliberate aim, shot Blashk,
in the left ankle, the bullet making al
ugly hole in the flesh and shivcring tn,
bone BY this time the shcriif's blooC
was up. and with IA cooked revolver, Al
calibcr. in his hand stood with his bacl
against the end OF the house and in
formed the mob that the first ont
who made a move toward him h
would shoot, and shoot to kill
For moment the crowd held back
then Martin Scrupka. who lives 1T Lels
enring No. |. left the crowd and rushed
at the sheriff with "A huge club upitfco
The sheriff waited until Scrupka go
within five feet of him and then fired
The shot took effect the bullet strikin
Scrupka in the mouth. knocking on
two teeth and lodging somewhere in tn
back part of his mouth. The wOundc'
Slav wheeled and started to run alOn!
the end of the house and the sheriff fol
lowed him firing as rapidly as he could
but none of the shots hit H., SlaN
Some one shouted to the sheriff to looI
out, and turning he saw the Tarr MAJ
on whom ne had served the writ, coming
toward him with AN axe. The shcrii
pointed both his rcvolvrrS toward hin
and Tarr rctreatcd.
Capt. Frashcr of company G VIII
hearing the shots and uproar, had brough
the soldiers NJ the road ON the doubl
quick and their presence at once quellc'
thc rioters. and the sheriff and his dcpu
. ties proceeded the work of cvicting AM
in "A very short time the household effect
| of IL strikers were piled in front of Il