The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-04-05
nine LIVES SACRIFICED
In the Great Strike of the Con-
nellsville Coke Workers.
rRIoKs 0HIEP ENGINEER KILLED

After Being Shot His Head Was Crushed
with stonss-His Death Quickly Avenged
+. by the Killing of Several striksrs-ove,
. Hundred Arrested.
UsIoETowF, Pa, April Sit would
take columns to tell in detail the exciting
events Of yesterday, the third of the biz
coke strike now on in the Connellsville re
gion. AT least nine lives have been sacri
feed, and unless the strong arm Of tn,
military tnterferes the dead will be counted
by scores instead Of tens, The rioting be
gan early In the morning, but the china,
was not reached until 8 o'clock In tn,
afternoon, when body of strikers, nun
boring several hundred, marched into TIN
d. Davidson works of the II. @. Frick COX
company, at Conceivable, Fayette conn
ty, where men were working.
The strikers had been there in the morn
ing to get the men ont, but no one wa
working. In the afternoon, when they re
turned, deputies had been placed to re
ceive them. When the strikers approached
+. they were ordered to stop. They came OF
and tried to get at he men on the ovens
and then the deputies fired. The striker
returned the fire and charged, driving tn
deputies and men from the plant.
Chief Engineer Paddock, Of the Fricl
company, ran up in the tipple of tn
works. The strikers followed and sho
him In the back Of the head. Then the,
beat him and crushed his head with stone
and threw his body from a tipple window
to the ovens. forty feet below. They thel
attempted to fire the Triple, but left whel
fhpu tho daNntfao afnn i,a< 1.
large force from Connellsville.
Hearing of Paddocks murder, hun
dreds volunteered to avenge his death
The pursuing party, in command o
County Detective Frank Campbell, over
took the strikers, who fred in return, bu
ran on Three strikers fell, one being kille,
instantly, shot through the body, and tw,
Others were fatally wounded. Another O
the strikers who got the start on the mali
body was shot by deputy at Bradford,
mile distant He was also killed instantly
the ball penetrating his neck.
Eleven strikers were captured wher
the first battle took place, and the pursu
ing party kept up the charge until Daw
son. point seven miles distant, wa
reached, where fifty-three more of til
strikers were captured. All Of the effort,
Vi hhC hcPubiCs icNcl GU
liens were needed 10 prevent the lynchin)
of the eleven who were taken back to Con
nellsville. ..
The law abiding element had their way
and at s O'Clock a special train arrived her
with siXty-four of those who were in tn
mob that killed Paddock A great crow,
greeted their arrival, and amid cries O
Lynch the m" the prisoners were huriie,
rr hanL Of 10, NIL A
the strikers were present and made rusl
to rescue the prisoners, but were held bacl
by the big crowd and the deputies. A
midnight thirty more of the same band o
strikers were brought to the Jail here A
the fail Hugh Coll assistant chief enginec
OF the Prick company, identified five o
the prisoners as among those who kille,
Paddock.
widely known. His murder occurred Il
sight Of his home. All the officials of tn
district organization of strikers will be al
rested for completely in the Paddock muir
der and melting the riot and murder
Every effort will be made to hunt dow
the guilty ones.
company two men were fatally shot dur
LIN thc LAG cuhTKeu
men at work in the morning, but wer
driven of by the deputies after strike
was shot through the body In the after
noon they returned and renewed the at
tack. There was much firing and dep
uty was fatally wounded. At riot at tn
Painter works the women beat work
man fatally.
Sheriff Wilhelm has called on Goyerno
Pattison to order out the National Guard
The sheriff and his deputies are helpless
Unless the National Guard is in the region
soon there will be more bloodshed. Tn
strikers have planned a mammoth rait
from one end Of the region to the other
aud nothing but the military, and plent,
of them, can prevent great loss of life All,
destruction Of property.
That the strike is a success so far as tn
southern end Of the region ia concerned 4
admitted by all, and the final success o
tho movement will depend entirely upor
the resistance put forward on the north
ern end At the present time all the work,
south of Connellsville and west of tn,
Youghigheny river are shut down, Will,
all the works north of Connellsvllle are IL
operation except the Donnelly plant OF tn,
Mcclure company. All the workmen o.
w. j. Rainey are out. This is the frs
time in ten years that the labor organiza
tions have been able to get Rainey's mer
out, and the strikers are generally elated
over It,