The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-06-07
Captured BY strikers.
IN POSSESSION OF THE MA
TiONAL TUBE WORKS.
THE AUTHORITIES BOLDLY DEFIED.
I -Union Mon Driven From tho Works
nm Assaulted - Compelled TO IIee for
THAR iivcg--The Citizens Afraid
to Venture out on the streets
OF McIteesport. Pa other
News of the strikers.

MCkEEsroGr, Pa. June e. Never
las this city witness ID such scenes OF
defiance of law and the inability Of
The authorities To cope with the law
breakers to the extent OF repres sing
lawlcssncss as wc-e enacted here yes
tcrday and last night At this
hour the strikers are practically in
command OF the situation The trou.
bic grows out OF the strike at The Ma
tional Tube works. and the strikers
have outwitted the police. broken into
s the mill yards. and are making sys.
temat.c tours of the works aud their
surroundings.
The plant resumed in two depart
Sents yesterday and twenty-five men
went to work. The news quickly
man \ and by noon a mob of nearly
mitw hal assembled about the gates
coyditing the appearance of the work
td4n. Most of the men remainej in.
Side, but few attempts t. go to
lthcir homes and were caught by the
mob and terribly beaten. They were
finally rescued, however, by the police
ianl taken back into the ipciosur,.
prhe mob then dis )trsed in part, bu,
toward evening relsscmbled and by
rs o'clock probably 5000 mn were
Emassed in front of the entrance, an |
III was seen that fully three foIrths OF
the number were foreigners. They
Kafe disapp 'inted.
WR oeicck the day turn did not
:. . out and the night turn dill not
20 in. There was great load of pro-
: Us ons taken into ths mill by the
and n lone Slav workman
IPdame out of the back way and tried to
NJ make sneak to escape. lie was
1Aseen, and "a section of the surging
le mob broke off the main boly and fell
iFupon Il S trail with yells that must
u have given him speed IL it was in him.
The race covered several squares be-
fore he turn IT at bay. lie was unable
to ran any further;hc fully expect ,d to
be killed and he Il cew a knife and faced
the yelling pursucrs. evidently deter
mined to die fighting. The reno I
pursuer, paused a monAnt, bat the
rush came up behind chem an a
dozen men with clubs sprang upon
the painting fug.t.vc. II, was down
in an instant, but Officer Sin ger was
Vloscson the hcS,s ot tn, leaders Of
the race, and he jumped into the
middle of the melee with the fearful
h S alton. 1hc officer and the fugi.
tiv w,r. baily beaten but heap
c. IN and they were rescued.
At the mills the mob surgad around
- ! -. .z9zz1Al aces until : o'clocS. when Il
- e,fzss{1Anadc. and they broke nto
y .<rYlHSEh Tht men were panic
'srstf# "'T Te ,i mob '%'s s%armPi W iynPi
Anp0 the 1lclosurc zoo ding for the
uhatcd nonapnioni>tS. Hundreds OF
ntthsm were cquipped with clubs, or
Mwaapnu, OF fou ne description. Then
A began vii chase and pursu OF tho
In In ii wo ncn insl.c. SoNcra
n wei en- took 10 the river AMI mad,
~ their cs ape to Mitiiin township pur.
ASsueJ Nv crowds Of strikers, AMI finally
81 chased Fl into tn, darkness toward
Z, Du iucnsc.
y The strikers were in complete pos
Y session Of the place. They ranged
& over the grounl and finally routed the
M hidden workmen.
~ At midnight the crowd decreased
10 and comparative quiet now reignS.
le An the law-abid ny citizens are in
itt doors with the exception Of the curl
os Gus, who are willing to take the rsi
Tof watching the rioters The striker,
e'hiSc5 virtually in possession OF tho