The morning call., 1894-05-05
LED BY WOMEN.
Savage Strikers Charge
the Officers.
LIKE DEMONS THEY WERE.
Even Little Children Screamed
and Struck.
IKE DEMONS THEY WERE.
IN A FEVER OF DEADLY FEAR.
It Is Believed in the Coke Regions
That the Trouble Has Only
Begun.

ScoTTDALE, Pa. May 4.-Ths north
end of the Connellsyile coke region is in
q fever of fear and excitement tonight.
The terrible work at the Painter plant of
the Mcclure Company, bad as it was in
itself, is. it is feared, still mere fore
shadOwing of the beginning of times and
conditions that are inevitable unless this
strike is speedily settled. The battle to-
day was between striking Poles, small
number of deputies and a paratiyesY
few men at work at the Painter plant
aud Deputy Sheriff Sayford. Deputy Sher-
If Sanford White and Chief Clerk Frank
B. Reddy were terribly beaten and are in
a critical condition tonight. Five men
and two women on the strikers side were
shot and Two of the men are dangerously
wounded. Six of the rioters have been
arrested and are now in Uniontown Jail.
The Painter plant was closed down by
the strikers on the oath inst. and was idle
until Wednesday last. Early this morning
Joe Sconeski's wife went about to the
other houses and got the women OF the
striking Poles to join her in a raid on the
plant. About 6 O'Clock she had about $50
men, women and children in the ranks
ready fer the raid. The men remained in
the rear, and the women and children, led
by Mrs. Sconeski, made a rush for the
cokeyard,
This region has seen many savage affairs
in which womon unsexed themselves by
deeds Of violence, but the old-timers say
that never before has there been seen such
q spectacle as this. Every person in the
asssulting party has some sort of striking
weapon, even the children, screaming as
they flourished sticks, suited to their size.
Many of the women bore axes and some OF
the men of the mob carried ballbsts ana
hatchets.
Deputy White was the first on whom
blow was fell. Mrs. ScOneski had club
and her husband. welded an ak, and
before them White went down as the front
rank of the raiders advanced. Reddy and
clerk named James Tarr saw him fall,
and in the face of the fearful odds these
two men sprang TO his rescue and fought
their way to his side. Then the frantic
raiders fell upon Tarr and Reddy, while
White struggled to his feet, covered with
blood. The three men fought desperately,
but the odds were too great, and finally all
were down again under the feet of the
mob. Reddy was beaten and cut about
the head almost as badly as White.
The riot occurred at the Painter Works
of the Mcclure Coke Company at O'Clock
this morning. The company made an eff
fort to start this and other plants Tues
day, and to-day the women determined to
drive the noD-union men from work, and
with tin pans. clubs, coke-forks and
bod % ahn l. H.
Sanford White, mine SUPERINTENDENT Ew-
ing B. Reddy. bo0kkeeper. and a lot of
deputies were on guard. A shot was fred
to scare the women. The men rushed to
the scene. and White opened fire on the
crowd that mum bered over 100 At the
first FIRE three men fell wounded. One
was shot through the thigh. one through
both legs and a third in the neck
The women carried off the wounded and
the infuriated men set upon White and
Reddy. White was beaten over the head,
knocked down. kicked and bruised about
the body. A big Hungarian held White
down and was standing oyer him with an
ak when he was knocked down by James
Tarr, the store clerk.
While all this was going on the deputies,
one woman.
DR.. w. II. Cole, company physician,
states that fifteen strikers went down in
three charges Three men and one woman
were carried off the ground after the first
charge, and when the mob finally retreated
they bore away at least ten more. Three
wounded were left near the works, two of
whom will die.
It is feared the foreigners will avenge the
death of their countrymen, and 1t will not
be a surprise here should the strikers
resort to dynamite to blow up the works.
The injured as far as known are:
Sanford White, superintendent, terribly
beaten, condition critical.
Ewing B. Reddy, badly beaten, condi-
tion critical.
John Skoneski. shot through the thigh.
Stephen Yenski, shot through both
thighs.
Joseph Skoleski, head split with an ak.
dutes Scheinonsi. shot in the shoulder
Unknown Slavish woman shot in the
thigh.
Sheriff Richards Of Fayette County is at
the scene Of battle with forty men armed
with Wlnchesters, and has already arrested
twenty persons who are now on the way
to Uniontown.
Tonight White is in the Miners Hos
pital al Connellsville. The latest reports
say that he will die. ReddY was brought
to his home here. Ae is vomiting blood
and is very badly injured. Two of the
Poles shot in the melee are pronounced to
be in very dangerous condition and are
likely to die.
Sixty-three rioters, among them twelve
women and ten children, have been taken
to jail and warrants for fifty others have
been sworn out, but the men cannot he
found. Tonight the Painter plant il in
charge of large number of deputies and
the company is determined to operate it.
-a-xTHnTER mon