Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-29
KING RIOT RULES.
An Italian Mob Does its Will
i'm Indiana.
REIGN OF TERROR AT STAR CITY

Drunken Laborers Defy the Authorities
and Commit Robbery and Outrage at
Their Own sweet VILLA Station Agent
BrutaIIy Assaulted and His once
Robbed-The People Helpless and the
VandaIs in Charge-A Pretty State OF
Things.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 29.-The people OF
Star City, village of 500 inhabitants on
the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago ana
St Louis railway, are having terrible ex-
perience with gang of Italians who are
employed by the Indiana Gas company In
laying the pipe line from the gas fields to
Chicago. Nearly 200 men are employed
by the company, and as many OF thesa
have their families the camp contains
nearly 1000 people They have occasioned
a great deal of trouble to the farmers
along the line by robbing hen roosts and
diaries, and several arrests have been
made within the past month and the dep
-edators lightly fined.
They Run Things at Star City.
On Monday number of the men quit
work and went to Star City in body and
began drinking. They soon became bols-
ferrous and quarrelsome and frequent fights
among themselves occurred, but the au-
thorities were powerless to maintain the
peace and the town was practically aban-
doned to the brawlers, who soon turned
their attention to the inbabitan is and
cleared the streets, assaultlng every one,
whether man, woman or child, who ap-
peared Stones and sticks were thrown
Though the windows of houses and
stores and the little community was COM
pletely terrorized.
Outrage on a Station Agent.
For half a day fully 200 of the laborers
paraded the streets, defying the authoIl-
ties. breaking windows and tearing down
fences The two saloons in the place were
broken into and cleaned out, the despera-
does drinking all the liquor they could
find and rolling the barrels out on the
streets and demolishing bottles and
glasses Going to the railway station they
robbed the Office of what money it con-
tanned and assaulted II. b. Stanton, the
agent in a horrible manner. After beat
ing him nearly to death they dragged him
out upon the street, stripped him of his
clothing and suspended HIM by his arms
to tree.
Fighting Among Themselves.
He was rescued almost an hour later in
an exhausted condition, and may die. His
body is terribly bruised, and his arms
We're so swollen that they had nearly burst
when he was rescued. When night fell
the people of the village abandoned their
homes and fled from the place to surround
ing towns, where they could get protec-
ton. The rioters are still in control and
have secured whisky from other places,
and the scenes of Monday and Tuesday
are being re-enacted, except that the fight
ing is among the rioters, as the citizens
have not dared to return to their homes.
The Sheriff Utterly PowerIess.
The sheriff has endeavored to restore
order, but the people are in such fear of
the desperadoes that they refuse 10 obey
his summons and he is powerless. About
one-fourth of the entire camp is engaged
in the rioting and blood has flowed freely,
but it is not known that any
one has been killed. The better
disposed among the Italians are
ut work in the trenches of the gas com =
pany, but refused when solicited by the
sheriff to restrain their drunken COM
panions. No demand has yet been made
upon the governor for troops, but it is not
believed that the local authorities will be
able to restore order without the presence
of the military.