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women Led THE RIOTERS.
Observation-Disclosures
sYLVANIA'S COKE REGION.

An Attack on the Painter Works.
Superintendent White Struck
Down and Hacked With q Hatch
ct by a Hungarian Woman-Raid-
ers Driven OF.
Rioting. followed by bloodshed, as the re-
suit Of the coke strike, occurred at o'clock
q. m, at the Painter works Of the Mcclure
Company, two miles north Of Scottdale,
Penn. Hungarian women led the mob Of
strikers, who numbered about 160. The wo-
men marched in front, when an onslaught
was made on the works. Shooting
resulted from the attack, and among those
most seriously injured were Sanford White,
mine superintendent; Ewing B. Rody, the
bookkeeper John Shonesky, shot through
the thigh and head split with an axe; Ste
phen Youski, shot through both thighs {;
Murtos Schonesky, shot IN the shoulder un-
known slav woman, shot In the thigh.
White and Kody where surrounded and ter
ribly beaten over the head and about the body.
White was knocked down by a hatchet in
the hands Of a big Slav. Ee was also cut with
hatchet in the hands OF Hungarian wo-
man. As he lay unconscious upon the ground
another Slav rushed upon him and was about
to deal him death blow with an axe
when James Tarr, one Of the store clerks,
knocked the assailant down with club. In
desperate rescue White was dragged into
q neighboring engine house. Later he was
taken to the Miners Hospital at Connells-
Vile, where, at last accounts, his recovery
was considered doubtful. Redy was
taken to Scottdale, his home. His
injuries were at first thought fatal,
but later 1t was thought he would
recover. The foreigners who were hurt were
carried to adjoining houses and cared for
by doctors. 1t was thought that two OF the
Huns who were shot In the riot would not
recover. Several strikers were carried from
the field, and it was believed that some were
killed.
DR.. ". H. Cole, the company physician,
say. that fifteen strikers went down In the
three charges. Three men and one woman
were carried of the ground after the first
charge, and when the mob finally retreated
they bore away at least ten. Three Of the
most seriously wounded were left near the
works.
Since the strike the Painter Works had
been doing little work, ten men being en-
ployed In the mines and twenty In the yards.
The superintendent, boss and store clerks
had been acting as deputy sherlfs, and
they were all armed with rifles and re-
volvers. The works were fred up at
s o'clock g. m. with about half q
dozen competent men. Two hours later the
strikers began to assemble near the works.
Some OF the men were frightened and went
home, but most Of them remained at work.
A committee was sent to notify the men to
come out, but the men made fiat refusal
The strikers then armed themselves with
bricks, stones, clubs and hatchets. The
u,,noo rio xropoon had FIN DQnS pOka f0rE9
brooms and other weapons. With the wo-
men in line at their head, the strikers swooped
down upon the works. The men had not
been as active in recent interference with
workmen as the women. The latter were de-
termined that the 'blacklegs," as they called
the workmen, should be driven from the
ovens. As the mob approached the works
Engineer White drew his revolver and fired
at the strikers.
One of the women shrieked and fellto the
ground, the blood gushing from awound In
the thigh. The Huns and Slavs, maddened
at this. rushed at the deputies and workmen
In great fury. In an instant they were upon
the deputies, savagely attacking them with
clubs and stones. Driven into close quarters
and bewlldered by the shower OF flying mis-
siles, the deputies were unable to use their
rifles. They emptied their revolvers into
the attacking party and fed.
There .yas momentary lull, during which
the women dragged of their wounded. Then
the infuriated mob charged upon White and
Rody and the others, who were huddled to-
gether near the engine house. The fury
saemed to be directed toward White, and II
was in this rush, made In the face Of the fire
from the rifles, that he and Rody were beaten
to the ground and hacked with hatchets and
nearly butchered outright.
By this time re-enforcements had arrived,
and in the rally made by the clerks and
deputies Whites body was dragged inside
the engine house. There the force OF the
third charge Of the mob was broken by Iapld
firing. The defence rallied and, firing and
yelling, attacked the mob In turn and drove
Them over the hill above the ovens.
A deputy engaged In the fight said that no
less than fifteen fell In front OF the Wlnches-
ters, and that every time White dred Hun
went down.