The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-06-13
BLOCKADE BROKEN
On the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheel
ing Railroad.
Strikers Desperate and Continue to Damage
Railroad Property-Bridges Burned
and Other Lawless Acts Com
mitted-Bloody Battle Oo-
ours Near UnIontown, Pa.

MASSlLLON, w., June ll.-ln spite OF
efforts to burn bridges and destroy
trains, the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheel
ing railway is still transacting business
and the coal blockade is broken. The
military have control of the southern
division and anxiety now is for the ter
ritory between Massillon and Uhrichs-
vile. Early Sunday morning dynamite
cartridges were exploded under one Of
I the coal trains, but the fuses were too
long and the explosions did not take
/ place until the last car had passed.
! Links and pins were found wedged at
one of the crossings. Between Uhrichs-
vile and Midvale 800 miners captured
two bridge watchmen and burned the
structure, blocking the road for four
hours.
MARTINS FERRY, O., June 1l.-one
hundred and forty feet of the bridge at
Goshen on the Cleveland, Lorain &
Wheeling railroad was burned Sunday
morning. The guards were overpow-
cred by 400 miners. Six companies
from the Sixteenth regiment have gone
to the scene.
UNI0NTowN, Pa, June 11.--A battle
between seven armed deputies and
mob Of 500 strikers occurred Sunday
morning at o o'clock at the Lemont No.
3 works of the Mcclure Coke Company
One striker, Slav was killed instant
ly and two other Slav strikers were ia
tally wounded. The deputies were
surrounded and fired upon by the
strikers before they shot.
The incidents leading up to the bat
tie began Saturday evening, when
mob of several hundred strikers mostly
from the Trotter works of the Frick
Company, gathered at the Pennsyl-
vania railroad depot at New Haven and
took prisoners four workmen who are
employed at the Valley works of the
Frick Company and were on their way
home at Leisenring.
The names of the workman are: John
Delaney, Oliver Attleby, John Britt
and John Furlough When they
stepped off the train the mob sur
rounded them and marched them away.
The four men were covered over with
chalk and big placards with "Scab,"
"BlaclSleg" and other epithets lettercd
thereon.
The men were then marched through
the streets escorted by the hooting mob
and taken to the Trotter and Leison-
ring plants, where they were paraded
through the streets between the COM
pany houses. The strikers jeered them
and the women spit upon them and hit
them with stones and clubs. They
were even marched past their own
homes and their wives and children
permitted to view them in their dis
graceful condition.
Sheriff Wilhelm dispatched Deputy
Sheriff Allen with seven deputies 70
rescue the workmen. Allen arrived at
0 o'clock. At 20 time was he able TO
overtalse the Hob having the men in
charge. Early yesterday morning, af-
ter placing two deputies to prevent
the strikers from taking their pris-
oners elsewhere, Allen returned to
Uniontown for further orders, and was
directed to rescue the prisoners. Re-
turning to Lemont, he found the two
deputies retreating before q bowling
mob Of Slavs.
As Allen rode up Slav fred his re-
volver at Allen. The bullet passed
over his head. Several of the mob then
began firing at the officers. Aliens re-
volver was defective and only two shots
were fred by him. Five of his assist
ants came up and began firing with
their Winchsters. About fifty shots
were exchanged, the mob slowly ad-
vancing, the deputies retreating until
reinforced by other deputies, when a
stand was made. The mob then began
TO dispcrSe. Sheriff Wilhelm was again
notified and sent thirteen more depu.
ties. An hour later twelve of the mob
were arrested and brought TO Jail.
The Slav that was killed was found
lying in the road shot through the body
by a Winchester ball. Two others were
found in houses near by, both said TO be
mortally wounded, having been shot
through the thighs. At o'clock a
special train brought ten more depu.
ties to Lemont and then took the
wounded men to the hospital ut Con.
nellsville. Many others are believed
10 have been wounded. None Of the
deputies were injured.
PANA, ILL.,, June 1.-THE mining
situation still remains in an unsettled
condition. Mounted patrols were
placed around the city Saturday night
and a number Of guards at each coal
shaft.
About 800 members of the First Regi-
meAt, Of Chicago, with Calling gun
arrived here on a special train Sunday
morning and were followed by com
panies from Clinton and Bloomington
and they are all in camp at the base
ball park.
0sKALoosA, Ia, June 1.-THE coal
strike is ended. In the general confer.
ence here Saturday afternoon between
operators and miners, II was decided to
resume work at once on the following
conditions: That the scale OF wages,
rules and regulations in effect In 1893
be continued until April, 1895; that the
strikers be not black-listed and no dis.
ordinations made against them; that
the miners grievance committee be
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