The record-union., 1894-04-05
LABOR TROUBLES EAST.
War in the Pennsylvania Coke
Regions on in Earnest.
BATTLE IN WHICH A STRIKER WAS
MORTAELY WOUNDED.
Fifteen Indians and as Many Whites
Reported to Have Been Killed in
the Outbreak In Oklahoma Terri
tory-The Redskins Well Armed
Cantonment Not Burned, as First

Reported.
Special to the RECORD UNION.


UNIoNTowN PA, April At would
take columns to tell in detail the exciting
events of to-day in the Connellsville re-
gion. At least nine lives have been sac
| rificed during the past twelve hours.
Unless the strong arm of the military in
terferes the dead will be counted by
scores by tomorrow.
The riotlng began early this morning,
the climax not being reached until 3
O'Clock this afternoon, when a body of
strikers, numbering several hundred,
marched on the Davidson works of the
II. c. Frick Coke Company at Connells-
Vile, Fayette County, where men were
working. When the strikers approached
they were ordered to stop. They came
on and tried to get at the men at the
| ovens. The deputies fired; the strikers
| returned the fire and charged, driving
the deputies and the mon from the
plant.
Chief Engineer Paddock, from the
Frick Company, was shot in the back of
the head and the strikers beat him and
crushed his head with stones and threw
his body from a tipple window to the
| ovens, forty feet below. They attempted
the deputies returning with large force.
The pursuing party overlook the strik
ers half a mile from Davidson and
opened fire on them. The strikers fired
in return, but ran on. Four strikers
fell. two being killed and two others
fatally wounded.
All the efforts of the deputies and the
more level-headed citizens were now re-
quired to prevent the lyuching of eleven
Gtri who wara "a ken n (i0nnallSVilla
The law-abiding people had their way,
and at 9 O'Clock a special train arrived
here with sixty-four of the mob who
killed Paddock. A great crowd greeted
their arrival, and amid cries of Lynch
them," the prisoners were hurried up a
back street. A large body of strikers
were present and made rush to rescue
| the prisoners, but were held back by the
big crowd and the deputies.
Thirty more of the same band of strik
ers have been arrested, and the special
trains will return to bring them to Jail to-
night.
Paddock was highly esteemed, and was
widely known.
All of the officials of the district organ
iZation of strikers will be arrested for
completely in the Paddock murder and
melting riot.
At Mayfield two men of the Mcclure
Company were fatally shot during the
day.
At riot at the Paynter Works a
woman beat workman fatally. Sheriff
Wilhelm has called on Governor Pattison
to order out the National Guard. Unless
it is in the region soon, there will be
more bloodshed.
A WAR IN EARNEST.
UNIoNTowN (Pa.), April 1.-The war
between the strikers and workmen is on
in aor QCt q of
breaks are reported.
Andy Miller, Hungarian, was at
tackled by fifty rioters and horribly beaten
with clubs and stones and will not live.
Trotter was the scene of the widest dis
order. Nearly 800 Hungarians camped
there and took possession of the COM
pany's ground. The mob, joined by ZOO
men from New Haven armed with guns,
iron bars, picks and stones. started north
ward to the region where 1000 men are at
work protected by armed deputies. At
the Mayfield IL Donnelly plant they at
tackled the workmen. Fifteen shots were
fired by the deputies, when the rioters re-
tired. One striker was mortally wounded.
The rioters are preparing for another at
| tack, and deputies are being sworn, armed
and instructed to shoot to kill. The situ-
alton is the most critical since 1891.
INCREASING ANXIETY.
CoNNELLsvILLE (Pa.), April 4.-Reck-
less disregard for property was mani
tested by the strikers, occasioning an in
| creased feeling of anxiety in this section.
The electric car was attacked last night
by a mob of drunken foreigners. No
passengers were injured.
The telephone line leading to the works
in operation was cut. Fearing the air
fans would be destroyed at the Trotter
Works, or the mine dynanited, the Frick
Company removed all the men and live
stock. Orders were issued to the tenants
of the company's houses at Trotter and
Leisining Nos. l. 2 and 3, to vacate imme-
| diately.
BLOODY TIME ANTICIPATED.
ALvERTON Pa.), April 4.-The coke
drawers at the Denny coke plant were
attacked by riotous mob of about sixty
Hungarian women armed with revolvers,
climbs and pokers. Many laborers were
! elected, and one was fatally wounded.
| The Hungarians are arriving from all
directions. and bloody time is antici-
pated.