The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12
A DAY OF TERROR
War Is On in Earnest in the Tcnn-
sylyania Coke Regions.

take columns to tell in detail the eX-
citing events of the big coke strike
now on in the Connellsville region. At
least nine lives have been sacrificed
during the past twelve hours, n UNI
less the strong arm of the military in
terfercs the dead will be counted by
scores instead of tens. Rioting began
early in the morning, but the climax
was not reached until in the afternoon
at 3 o'clock. when a body of strikers,
numbering several hundred, marched
on the Davidson works OF the IL. L.
Prick Coke Company, at Connellsvllie,
where the men were working. Depu-
ties had been placed to receive them.
When the strikers approached they
we're ordered to stop. They came on
and tried to get at the men. The dep
| uties fired. The strikers returned the
fire and charged, driving the deputies
and men from the plant. Chief Engi-
neer Paddock of the Frick Company
ran up in the tipple of the works. The
strikers followed and shot him in the
back of the mead. They beat him and
crushed his head with stones and threw
his body from the tipple window to the
ovens forty feet below.
They then tried to firel'the triple,
but left when they saw the deputies
returning with a large force from Con-
nellsville. Hearing of Paddock's
murder, hundreds volunteered to
avcnge his death. The pursuing
party, under the command of County
Detective Campbell. overlook the
strikers a half mile from Davidson and
opened fire on them. Three strikers
fell, one killed and two fatally wounded.
Another of the strikers, who got the
start of the main body, was shot by u
deputy at Bradford. a mile distant.
He was also killed.
Eleven strikers Were captured where
the first battle took place, and the pur-
suing party kept up the chase until
Dawson, a point seven miles distant
was reached, where fifty-three more
strikers were captured. All the eff
forts of the deputies and more level
headed citizens were needed to pre-
vent the lynching Of the eleven who
were tihcu W OillicllsNIilt. Ilc law
abiding clement had its way. and a
special train arrived here with sixty
four of those who were in the mob
that killed Paddock. \ great crowd
greeted their arrival. and amid cries
of Lynch them" the prisoners were
hurried up "A back street to Jail. A
large body of strikers was present and
made a rush to rescue the prisoners.
but Eel held back by the big crowd
and the deputies.
At the Jail. Hugh Coli, assistant en-
gineer of the Prick Company, identi-
fed five Of the prisoners as among
those who killed Paddock. Thirty
been arrested.
At the Mayiield plant OF the Mcclure
Company. two men were fatally shot
during the day. At a riot at the
Painter works the men beat a work
man fatally.
Sheriff Wilhelm has called on Gov.
PattisOn TO order out the militia. The
sheriff and deputies are helpless. Tn
less the National Guard is in the re-
gion soon there will be more blood
shed. The strikers have planned to
raid the region from one end to the
other, and nothing but tie military
and plenty of them can prevent great
loss of life and destruction of property.
The strike is Il success as far as the
southern end of the region is e
ed, and the final success of the move.
mcnt depends entirely upon the re-
slstance put forward on the northern
end. At the present time all the
works south of Connellsville and west
Of Ioughiogheny Rivers are shut down,
while all the works north of Connells.
vile as'e in operation, excepting the
Connolly plant of the Mcclure Com
pany. All the workmen of w. J..
Rainey are out. These include I,42o
ovens. This is the first time in ten
years that the labor organizations
have been able to get Rainey's men
out and the ssrikers are generally
elated over it.
Wheat Supply of the Country.
Washington special: The report Of
the Secretary of Agriculture in reply
to the resolution of Senator Pettirrew
calling for a statement of the visible
and invisible supply of wheat was sub.