Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-12
4 DOZEN HUNS SHOT DOWN
Bloody Riot at ScottdaIe, Penn.
This Morning.
women Start the Troubie--A Deputy Pre-
cipitates the Fight by Firing Into
Mob of Threatening Anna
zons-Men Rush Oh.

ScoTTDALE, Pa, May 4. "A riot oc'
CURED at the Painter works of the Me-
Clure Coke company, two miles from
this place, at o'clock this morning In
which one Of the strikers was probab bly,
fatally and two Others seriously in
jured. Sanford White, assistant super
intendent, and Ewing Rody, book
keeper, were bruially beaten and
Rody's injuries may prove fatal.
Wednesday start was made at this
plant and they have been doing little
work since. The superintendent. boss
and store clerk have been acting as
deputies and were all armed with win
chester rifles. The men have not been
interfering with those at work. but the
women were determined To drive
the workers out. This morning
they marched to the ovens for
the purpose of making the drawers
leave. As they approached Sanford
White fred n shot at them and as soor
as the men heard the report they
swooped down upon the works like
madmen. White opened fire on them
from his winchester and before they
reached him three had fallen in their
tracks. They were picked up 10y some
of their companions aud carried back to
a house II short distance from the
works. The angered strikers did not
stop. They faced the fire and the win
r.. l,.I f.N- thn,n fHhny
reached White and Rody and before as
sistance arrived both were horribly
beaten and left by the Huns for dead.
Rody cannot possibly recover and
Whites injuries may cause his death
also. There were no outside strikers
about the works when the riot occurred.
Three doctors were sent To the works
to care for the wounded.
The battle was "a desperate one aud
at least ten Huns were shot. II is inn
possible to learn how many, as the
wounded were carried from the scene
to the houses of the strikers. A Hum
garian woman was shot in the ankle
and three others were bruised and
marked.
The women led the riot, followed 10y
200 men. and when they reached the
works the deputies opened fire indis-
criminately They were at close
quarters, and the shooting was kept
up by the deputies until their ammu-'
milton ran out, when they had to re-
treat They were overpowered and
narrowly escaped with their
lives. Sanford White is snf-
fering from the blows of a hatchet
in the hands of Hungarian woman.
A burly Hungarian was abont to strike
him with an AK as he lay unconscious
on the ground, when James Tarr APP
peared and knocked the hungarian
down with club. The Huns, men
and women, were armed with clubs,
ha.chets, knives aud picks and more
bloodthirsty, desperate mob never
raided in the coke regions. A
deputy engaged in the fight
said 10 less than fifteen fell in
front of the winchesters and that every
time Sanford White fired, Hungarian,
went down. This same deputy says
that Ewing Roddy refused TO fire on
the crowd when ordered TO do so and
that the deputies and strikers were in
such close quarters that the winches-,
ters could not be used To advantage
and the shooting was principally done
with revolvers. At the time of the
riot ten men were working in the
mine and twenty in the yards. The
determination of those at work to re-
main at their posts and the premature
shooting by White is responsible for
the trouble. Superintendent Brennan
of the Mcclure Coke company
telegraphed Sheriff Wilhelm for
deputies for the Painter
works and all of the women engaged in
this mornings riot were arrested.
Everything is quiet at the works now,
and as the men at worl, left AS soon as
the riot began no further trouble is
feared today.