The Redwood gazette., 1894-04-12
RIOT AND BLCODSHED.

| TO BE CONTINUED.
| RIOT AND BLOODSHED.
| Pennsylvania Coke Regions the Scene of
| Great Disorder.
UNIoNTowN, Pa, April At would
| take columns to tell in detail the excit-
ing events of the day, the third of the
big coke strike now on in the Connells-
vile region. At least nine lives have
been sacrificed during the past 12 hours.
Unless the strong arm of the military
interferes the deaths will be counted by
scores instead of tens. So much excite
ment was never known in the region
and people everywhere are excited and
apprehensive of graver dangers. TIE
rioting began early in the morning, but
the climax was not reached until p.
m., when body of strikers, numbering
several hundred, marched on the David
son works of the H. c. Frick Coke COM
pany at Connellsville, where men were
working. The strikers had been there
in the morning to get the men out, but
no one was working. In the afternoon
when they returned deputies had been
placed to receive them. When the
strikers approached
They Were Ordered to Stop.
They came on and tried to get at the
men. The deputies fired. The strikers
returned the fire and charged, driving
the deputies and men from the works.
Chief Engineer Paddock of the Frick
company, ran up in the tipple of the
works. The strikers followed and shot
him in the back of the head. They
beat him and crushed his head with
stones and threw his body from the tip
pie window to the ovens, 80 feet below.
They then tried to fire the tipple, but
left when they saw the deputies return
ing with large force from Connells-
vile. Hearing of Paddock's murder,
hundreds volunteered to avenge his
death. The pursuing party, in COM
mand of County Detective Frank
Campbell, overlook the strikers half
mile from Davidson and opened fire on
them. The strikers fired in return but
ran on. Three strikers fell. One was
killed instantly and two others
Were Fatally Wounded.
Another of the strikers who got the start
of the main body was shot by deputy
at Broadford, mile distant. He was
also killed instantly, the ball penetra-
ting his neck. Eleven strikers were
captured where the first battle took
place, and the pursuing party kept up
the chase until Dawson, a point several
miles distant, was reached, where So
more strikers were captured. All the
efforts of the deputies and more level
headed citizens were needed to prevent
the lynching of the II who were taken
back to Connellsville. The law-abiding
element had their way and special
train arrived here with 81 of those who
were in the mob that killed Paddock. A
great crowd greeted their arrival and
amid cries of "lynch them" the prison
ers were hurried up back street to the
Jail. A large body of strikers were pres
ent 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 strikers have since been
arrested and jailed.
At the May6eld plant of the Mcclure
company two men were fatally shot
during the day. The strikers charged
the men at work in the morning, but
were driven off by the deputies after
strike was shot through the body. In
the afternoon they returned and renew
ed the attack. There was much firing
and deputy was fatally wounded.
There is more catarrh in this section of the
| country than all the other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last few years was sup
posed to be inCurable. For great many
| years doctors pronounced it local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science has prov
| en- catarrh to be a constitutional disease and
| therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j,
| Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con-
stitutional cure on the market. 1t is taken
| internally in doses from 10 drops to a tea
spoonful 1t acts directly on the blood and
| mucous surfaces of the system. They offer
| ao11, r fo;1S RI