Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-12
NINE REPORTED KILLED.
a Fight of Pennsylvanta Miners with Fatal

a Fight of Pennsylvania Miners with Fatal
Results
UNIoNrowS, Pa, April SIT would
take columns to tell in detail the
exciting events of yesterday, the
third in the big coke strike now on
in the Connellsviile region AT least
nine lives have been sacrificed during
the past twelve hours Unless the
arm of the military interferes the dead
will be counted by scores to-day So
much excitement was never known in
the region, and people everywhere are
excited and apprehensive of graver
dangers The rioting began early in
the morning. but the climax was not
reached until the afternoon at 8 o'clock,
when a body of strikers numbering
several hundred marched on the David
SON works of the "a. c. Prick Coke Co.,
at Connellsfield. Fayette county, where
men were working. The strikers had
been there in the morning to get the
men out, but no one was working.
In the afternoon when they returned
deputies 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 on the
ovens The deputies fired. The strik
ers returned the fire and charged, driv-
ing the deputies aud men from the
plant Chief Engineer Paddock, of the
Friclk Co. ran up in the tipple of the
works. The strikers followed and shot
him in the back of the head They
beat him and crushed his head with
stones and threw his body from a tip
pie window to the ovens forty feet be-
low. They then attempted to fire the
tipple, but left when they saw the dep
uties returning with a large force from
Connellsvilfe.
Hearing of Paddoclx's murder hun
| dred's came to avenge him The pur-
| suing party, in command of County
| Detective Frank Campbell, overlook
the strikers half mile from Davidson
| and opened fire on them. The strikers
fired in return, but ran on Three
strikers fell, one being killed in the
| affray, shot through the body and two
others were fatally wounded. Another
of the strikers who got the start of the
main body was shot by deputy. He
was also killed instantly, the ball pen
etrating his neck. Eleven strikers
were captured where the first battle
took place, and the pursuing party
kept up the chase until Dawson, a
point several miles distant was
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strikers were captured.
All the efforts of the deputies and
more level headed citizens were re-
| quired to prevent the lynching of the
eleven who were taken back to Con-
nellsville. The law-abiding eleme nj
had their way and a special train ar
rived here with sixty-four of those who
were in the mob who killed Paddock.
Paddock was highly esteemed and
was widely known. His murder oc
CURED in sight of his home
At a riot at the Painter works the
| women beat workman fatally
Sheriff Wilhelm has called upon Gov.
Pattison to order out the nationa
guard. The sheriff and his deputie:
are helpless. Unless the Nationa
guard are in the region soon, Their,
will be more bloodshed. The striker:
have planned mammoth raid from
one end of the region to the other fol
to-day, and nothing but the militia
and plenty of them, can prevent grea
loss of life and destruction of property