Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-05-10

the shops. leaving their clothes and
dinner baskets TO their fates The
moids were destroyed, and everything
that would succumb to clubs welded
by infuriated men was wrecked.
The mob rushed from the wrecked
building down the railroad track to
| the Office of the company. Rocks were
| hurled through the windows, and the
destruction OF the plant seemed proba-
BILE.
The Blue Goats Take Hand
At this juncture, howl went up
from the crowd of police" and before
the words were hardly uttered. the
blue coats were out and at work.
| The crowd at first ran, then recover
/ ing it's courage surrounded the police.
The mob took possession of the coal
cars and used them as barriers Stones
were thrown from time to time at the
/ police, who were unprotected. The
police had their clubs in hand and
several times put their hands to their
pockets to draw their weapons This
only caused the crowd to jeer and
| laugh. The leaders pushed in among
the rioters, exhorting them to. stand
their ground. The 1000 dwindled
away to half that number. The hand
| full of police would have been swept of
| the face of the earth if the leaders
could only have gotten the men started.
| They stood and faltered and in that
| moment of hesitation they lost their
| courage.
Presented Formidable Appearances.
Cowed by the force at the Epson
| works the mob planned move on the
Faulhauber Furniture Co. The rioters
| started on run down the tracks. The
police gave chase and arrived just in
time to prevent the scenes OF the Up
son works from being re-enacted.
/ By the time the police had come to
the Lampson Nut and Bolt Coz plant
| their numbers had been so augmented
that they presented formidable APP
| pearanee. The mob lined the hill,
jeering and guying the officers, bat
made no offensive move until Tom
Moore, the anarchist, again began his
bowling and shouting, crying to the
rioters to kill the 60 'swring
! their necls" Two or three officers
started towards the hill and instantly
there was shower of stones and scrap
iron.
| Tumbled Over Each Other in Their
| Haste to Get Away.
This was enough for the police. The
word was given, and away they
started up the hill pell NELL. their long
| clubs in hand. The rioters did not
wait for them, but tumbled over each
other in their anxiety to get out of the
way.
The mob scattered quickly when
they reached the crest of the hill by
Abbey and Davidson streets, but gath
cred soon again in a vacant lot north
of Abbey street, by the Cleveland
spring bed factory.
The police, led by Capt. English,
were massed on the east end of the
Abbey-street bridge, and Capt. English
ordered the mob to move on. They
seemed somewhat disinclined to do so,
and Capt. English whirled his baton
and yelled: ''Clean 'em out. boys!''
And suiting the action to the word, he
started on dead run for great big
fellow, smashed him across the head
and kicked him. The police followed
quickly, using their clubs freely on
anyone who did not move his legs fas,
enough.
The Clubbing Went Merrily On.
For while the clubbing went on
right merrily, but the mob made tracks
and scattered in all directions.
In the meantime the ringleader Of
the whole affair had been arrested
Tom Moore, the man who has been ad'
vocating violence from the first of the
labor troubles When the mob re.
treated from the Epson works he ran
up and down the embankment, be-
seeching them to stand their ground,
Bring on your Cuttings" he yelled.
'sBring on your police, we'll beat
them" He then turned to the rioters
and called them towards for not fight
ing. When the fight was going on
| upon Abbey street he rushed up and
down, yelling to the rioters to resist,
until he ran against the club of a po-
liceman that broke his scalp. A couple
of officers threw him into patrol wag-
on, in which he was taken to the sta
ton and locked up.
The Mob Scattered.
The mob by this time having been
scattered, Capt. English, leaving a
small squad on the bridge. put his men
| into the wagons and started for the
Variety iron works.
At this time there must have been
sixty policemen on the ground and
these were soon joined by the mounted
police The crowd was an ugly one.
On Abbey street, after the fight, they
gathered in groups, discussing it in
sullen and sometimes violent tones,
quickly separating when a policeman
came toward them.
Scenes o. Wild Disorder.
There were scenes of wild disorder
in the eastern part of the city. The
desire to stop work of all kinds seemed
to take possession of every laborer,
and at o'clock O band of 200 Italians
marched to the tap of drum down
| East End avenue. They were armed
with clubs, tree limbs, iron and wire
rods, and two or three carried gate
posts. They were led by two men on
horseback, one of the leaders being
Charles Son.
At Gates quarry there were speeches.
yelling, threats and a demand that the
quarry employees throw down their
tools and join the unemployed. There
was some kicking, but the men dropped
their tools and joined the marching
throng.
At Neff's quarry the operation was
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