New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-31
IBY TELEGRAPH 10 The TkBUSEl

IBY TELEGRAPH The TkBUSEl
Pttsburg. March 3O.-Tbere were three separas6
and distinct Outbursts in the Connesville coke re-
gons this morning. At the Norwood works.
near Mt Pleasant mob of 1000 men destroyed
great amount OF property. AT the Jimtowu
works. near Connellsyil!c. another mob of 1900
persons descended upon a hand Of twenty work.
men. drove them away. and seriously beat ons
man. Another mob at Leiths works, near Union-
town. swept everything before it, Tonight
Sheriff Mccormick. of Fayette County, at the
head of a big posse. is securing tho country.
He has warrants for the arrest of ecven of tho
Leith rioters and twenty-Seven Of the Jimstown
lawbrealers. Judge Ewing OF Fayette County,
has also taken hand in the effort 10 stop these
rOtUus proceedings. Late this afternoon Id
issued an injunction restraining John b. Rae. the
national president of the Miners Union; Dstrico
Master Workman Wise. and twenty-five other
leaders. from interfering with wOTkincn at. tho
coke plants. Several hundred strikers, led by
a drum corps had just previously marched into
UIiontown. and not far distant from the COURT
house had held a maSs-meetnS. the speakers
being Rae and Wise Superintendent Whyela, OF
the II. c. Fricll Company's works at Leith. bad
made information against eight strikers, mostly
Slavs. for conspiracy in trying to prevent the
company from running the works. -Four of theus
were arrested and gave bail.
This morning a gang attacked Superintendent
Whyela and the men at work in the yard. and
when Whyela drew pistol to defend himself,
mob of Slav women rushed furiously at him, took
his revolver away and beat him and the other
men working and drove them from the yard|
Strikers were at the wOmens backs helping them
alons They broke the workmens tools and beat
one or two colored wOrkmen badly.
dynamite bomb exploded in front OF the
IL. NYarlyc
tearing big hole in the earth, but not seriously
iniuring any Of the occupants Of the dwelling.
But the big trouble of the day was at MoreI
wood. About o'clock this morning 1000 men
inspired by polinlly Ia mixture of alcohol and
water. ard the miserable strains of two rural brass
bands. congregated on the hills about Morewoodl
The MCrewOOd coke works are admirably situated
for an attack. The plant is in valley and
the hills around it have seen good deal of action.
1t was at Norwood that the big riot in the strike
in 1886 occurred. AT O'Clock this morning all
seemed ready The harangues of the leaders could
be heard distinctly in the valley below. The
twenty deputies, under charge of Sheriff Clawsou
and Deputy Sheriff Mcconnell, of Westmoreland
County, were on the alert and could see plainly
the striking cokers on the hills Suddenly the
strikers divided into four sections, and numbering
fully 900 men, all armed with revolVers, cluDsi
iron bars and other heavy material, uttered yells
began firing rcvolvcrs and dashed down the hills
toward the coke ovens. The deputies at tho
ovens. seeing the bowling mob coming and hear-
inc the occasional whz of a bullet pass unconis
fortably near, retreated slowly toward the engine
house. The strikers stopped on the oven-tops and
began tearing up the railroad track. This they
threw down to the yard below. Nearly 600 feet
of track was thus disposed of. few deputies
had taken refuge in a bOX-car, and as soon as ths
mob So this they pelted the car with stones until
the mel were obliged TO seek safety elsewhere
Tn strikers continued their wor. by thruSuhH
scrapers into the burning ovens, piling up IN
heap n dozen wheelbarTOws ana making DOh-
fire and by knocking in the fronts OF elghty 0'ens'
Then on toward the " A shalt rushed the
strikers yelling and shouting ana nreahhs
window-glass They kept up their work OF de'
struction by tearing down tine fences around Uha
works until about , o'clock, when they dIsperseus
Manager Ramsey had n personal encounter WIN
burly Hun, who seemed to court nBilu put "neu
the plucky manager knocked MN down ne aP
neared satisfied \ razor taken from thy
prostate man, and he was arrested, together wiz
Jobn Mccarthy and John llailes. and taken u
COMPANY f. of the State Militia. although II
spent the night in the armOry near the town oi
Mt Pleasant awaiting orders, was not cailed np0hi
Word was received that no uniforms could Dc
worn.
Harrisburg Penn, March 3o.-There has been
considerable tclcgraphic correspondence betweet
Governor Pattson and Sheriff Clawson. of Vest
morcland County this afternoon regarding The
strike Of coke workers and the attack upon tha
works Of Frick and Co. at Morewood this morn'
ing The Sheriff asked permission TO use the arms
Of two companies Of the National Guard TO pro-
trct property. but Governor Pattison responded
that the civil power 20 maintain the peace must
bc exhausted and pOWcrless before the military
power can he successfully invoked.
To this Sheriff Caws0n replied that he dd
not want the troops but only their arms. Cover
nor PattiSon, however in another dispach de-
cIined 10 issue the desired order Captain Lohrj
commander of one Of the companies, figured IN
the correspondence.
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