The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08

down Oy the guards without proyOcatlOn
and deadly vengeance on each and every
member of the band OF sixty-ive men has
been sworn to. This all comes from the
| foreign element.
1t will be noticed that all the men
killed bore foreign names and it is fact
| that not one of them was a naturalized
citizen OF this country. 1t is also supposed
| the many wounded were also foreign and
| this explains the deep sentiment ex-
pressed in every foreign face in the re-
| gions tonight The Slavs and Hungarians
were almost fearless, the deputies say.
Not one was struck in the back, but all
| bore marks OF bullets in the face, indicat-
Ing that they died lighting with what poor
weapons they possessed.
Thousands of strikers and their friends
| poured into this place from all over the
region to have look at the dead and per-
haps hear what the living have to say.
! As darkness fe.l tonight amidst a miser-
able rain, the foreigners began to draw
away in knots, and the night after the
riot lowered amidst a great fear of what
might happen before another dawn.
Late tonight word was received here
| that two more men concerned in the hot
had died in strikers houses near the
| Norwood works, where they had been
dragged by their fellow rioters. Their
names could not be learned, but it is
known that one WIS an English-speaki
foreigner and probably the only one ill.,
| jured who was a citizen These two
deaths make nine in all that are known as
the result of the firing Of the guards. but
| there is no doubt others are either dead
or in a critical condition, as the guards
had orders to fire to kill and evidently
| did so.
Reports late tonight from all over the
region indicate fearfully dangerous and
/ excited condition of affairs and the word
| that the military was soon to be on guard
was received by the labor officials and
coke operators alike with the hveliest evil
! dence OF satisfaction.
| At Leisenringh Constable Campbell at
tempted TO arrest John Luska, a Russian,
| for completely in the mb-throwing that
occurred there Monday. Lushka fierceiy
resisted and called out in his native tongue
| for aid. A ellow-countryman who was on
the outside of the Office where Lushka
had been trapped gave the alarm and in
| a few moments there was a bowling mob
OF foreigners surrounding the place.
Lushka leaped through the Office window.
| carrying with him a pair of handouts
Several shots were fired after him, but he
escaped
Tonight the warrant was placed in the
the hands of Sheriff Mccormick, and
with a large posse of men, he has started
for Leisenring to make the arrest. Lush
ka and his companions are armed and a
fight will certainly follow, unless the man
| is surprised.
Labor officials deny that the men at
Norwood were killed for good causes and
warrants have been issued for the depu-
ties OH the charge of murder, with General
| Manager Lynch of the Erick company
and Superintendent Ramsey OF the More
| wood plant charged as accessories before
the fact.
\ large number of the deputies have
| already been arrested, and labor leaders
say they will not rest until all are taken
care of.
The officers had a great deal of trouble
in finding a Justice of the peace who was
willing to issue warrants for the arrest of
the deputies. Master Workman Peter
w. Wise had the warrants is
sued, and was refused by both
| Justice Williams and another justice
of this place Wise then roundly de-
nounced the rcfusa and stated :he shoot
ing was cold-blooded and premeditated
murder and that the workingmen could
| receive no Justice IN this country. He
was more successful in the office of Squire
| McCaleb, who. after some talk. consented
| to issue warrants and have them served
on Capt. Loar and all the deputies under
| his command who were concerned in the
shooting at the Norwood plant
Tonight me streets at Mt Pleasant and
the roads nearing the works at MorewOud
| are crowded with strikers. There has
been an ugly crowd numbering Mt least
| 400 about the residence of Capt. Loar all
day, and tonight the numbers run into
| fhnfrCn NJ u-as
of the guards who fired on the
men and the mob stands ready to tear his
house down over his head. Fortunately
for him, Loar has disappeared. He left
| his home and the city soon after the
shooting at Norwood and has not been
since. Loar is the man who was burned
in etiigv the other day and it is conceded
his departure was well advised if not
brave.
an astonishing story is told tonight by n
striker named Dunn, who was among the
leaders of the riot. He said: 81 was
with the body of men on the bridge, and
stopped a moment to light my cigar.
There is no doubt that rumors of bombs
had fired the minds of the guards, for they
took the lighting of my cigar as portend-
ing something dangerous The guards then
fired directly towards the point where
stood and the men fell all around me. We
fed instantly, only leaving men enough to
stand by our fallen comrades, some twen-
tv in all. After the shooting l heard the
man in command of the guards exclaim
Don't be too quick
Another statement made was that Capt.
Loar said he was ordered to fire b. Deputy
Sheriff Mcconnell. The fact is tonight
some very strange stories are told on both
sides of the riOting gang in regard to the
provocation offered the guards before the
latter fired. They will have an opportu-
nifty TO repeat them, however, in court, as
the guards are being arrested as rapidly as
possible.
At least six thousand men are in the
vicinity OF Mount Pleasant tonight and
the feeling generated by the appearance
Of the several companies of the Eighteenth
and Tenth regiments tonight is one of Sc
curitv, both among the strikers and citi
zens. The foreign ele ment, however, is very
uneasy and there is very plain talk here
among some of their representative men
that higher power than the state will
be called in. They intimate plainly that
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