The sun., 1894-05-05
WOMEN LED THE RIOTERS.
coHE REGION RAIDERS NOT AFRAID
OF RIFLES AND REVoLTERa

An Attack on the Paintsr Work. snd sept.
white, who stood TITS eround. and.
FissiIy, Hsd 20 shoot-struek Down snd
Hacked with Hstehet by /. Hunearinn
wom.r-Three Rallies Before the Hsid-
er. wer. Driven oE-srversI of the
Attsskine Party shot snd Carried AvaS.
scoTTDALE. Pa. May 4.-Rioting. followed by
bloodshed. as the result OF the coke strike.
occurred at o'clock this morning at the
Painter works Of the Mcclure Company. two
miles north Of here. Hungarian women led
the mob Of strikers, who numbered about 16O
The women marched In 'front.' when an on
slauRht was made on the works. Shooting
resulted from the attack. and among those
most seriously injured are: Sanford White.
mine superintendent; Ewing b. Rody. the
bookkeeper; John Shonesky. shot through the
thigh and head split with IN axe; stephen
Youski shot through both thighs; Murtos
schonesky. shot in the shoulder: unknown
Slav woman. shot in the thigh.
White and Rody we're surrounded and terri
bly, beaten over the head and about tho body.
White was knocked down BY q hatchet
In the hands OF n big Slav. He was also cut
with . hatchet in the hands Of a Hungarian
woman. As he lay unconscious upon the
ground another Slsv rushed upon him and was
about to deal him q death blow with an axe
when James Tarr. one OF the store clerks.
knocked the assailnnt down with club. In
desperate rescue White was dragged into q
neig ghboring engine house. Later he was taken
to the Miners Hospital at Connellsville. where.
at last accounts, his recovery was considered
doubtful. Rody was brought hero. his home
His injuries were at first thought fatal. but he
will recover. The foreigners who were hurt
wero carried to adjoining houses and cared for
by DOCTORS 1t Is thought that two OF the Huns
who were shot In the riot will not recover.
Several strikers were carried from the field.
and It is believed that some were killed.
DR.. W. II. Cole. the company physician, says
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 ct least ten. Three OF the most seriously
wounded were left near the works
The Painter works IN made start on Tuesday.
Since then they have been doing little work.
ten men being employed In the mines and
twenty In the yards. The superintend dent,
boss. and store clerks have been acting as
deputy sherffs. and they were all armed with
rifles and reviewers. The works wore fred up
at o'clock this morning with about hall q
Some OF the men were frightened. and went
home. but most OF them rema Aed at work.
out, but the men made a hat refusal
The strikers then armed themselves with
Sarlan women had tin pans. coke forks.
brooms and other weapons, With the women
down HS Spon on the thew works ike demons The Gnea men
had lot been as active in recent Interference
bs ss the tss SsgS
asyeG ZEN the AZ hs %9s s.
One OF the women shrieked and fell to tho
ground. the bloSd gushing from wound In
tSis III .p rnahsd az he dsputiss @ ana %orEmsn IN IN
great fury. In an instant they were upon the
% and stones. Driven into close % quarters art" sand and
bewildered by the shower OF flying missiles.
They en- piled their revolvers into the attack
ing party and fed.
There was a momentaEy lull. during which
the women dragged of their woundei. Then
the infuristsd ed mSo charged upop white and
asthsr' i % near ri the engine house. Ti The fury m
seemed to be directed toward White. and it
from @ t the rlss that he and Heds We're re e Beaten ten
to the ground and hacked with hatchets and
b,s arrival
and In the rally made by the clerks ana depu-
ties Whites body was dragged inside the en-
g. the mob Tss broken 9y rapid rNE Tho
the hill above the ovens After the light the
doctors from town were summoned and began
ChIluk WOuhhcu' JOnn
Fiaphsd sRef WI &hsS FOR depu,ss d%ssf for is the
engaged in the riot so far as possible viii be
the, hands Of sherifi, Wilhelm and Deputy
hchsrds who With about nifty SoS sf%ed deDG-
sons for heing Implicated in the riot.
II H the Gshs :d 3; that
chesters. and thes every time Sanford fired
Hun went down: This same deputy says that
dsSed to do So and II that I the S deputies THsH and
strikers were In such close quarters that much
An eyewitness Of the ie6t said that the men
and women marched to the works armed with
men not to shoot at the women, They tried to
keep them on the works but were over
with an axe By one OF the women, Alter being
knocked down. this man says White remained
and While lyinS on the ground % emptied his re-
yolyer at the MOI SSperintendent Brennan.
baus han The 81 recent s faa S adGSsk more
There sIs ;h,. two coke works where the riot
he strike began, or ipTii2i, The work%sn
remained ut work until Tuesday last when
they dropped their tools and quit IN body,
plant has been idle Superintendent Brennan
decided to start the works as In 1851. as an en-
cssdsd in getting about thirty men to 90 TO
work.
The plant is 10 the northern end Of Fayetts
county. being about NIFTY yards from the West
moEelAnd county line and 1t has been the
1881. that the first syietions made In that
memorable strike took place. and In which
the svictions the women threw soft soap and
hot water on the deputies. and made life gen
White Invited the leader. James RaDs. out on
tho public road to fight the matter out Rape
gladly consented. but after fifteen fierce rounds
Rape threw IN the sponge and White was de-
elared the victor After the fight the syietions
continued without Interruption.
MORE MoBs ASSEMBLING
CoENELIsyILLE. Pa. May 4.-Ths situation Is
very alarming in this part Of the coke region
tonight. Mobs are assembling In the Wander
bilt region and at the Mover plant preparing
for an attack Tomorrow morning.