The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-14
A BATTLE.
One Striker Killed and Two Others Dying.
"SCAB" WORKMEN ARE LABELED
Fired Upon from Ambush-A Bridge Partly Burned-Guards Driven Away from TrestIe and the Trestle
 Set on Fire.

coke region had to kill or be killed. One striker killed in his boots, two oth- CTS dying and another shot through, is the result of the battle yesterday morning at Lemont. There were six deputies on one side and a mob of strikers on the other. The circum- stances that led up to this latest of the many tragedies of the coke region W ere developing since Saturday after noon and are as follows: Four Ameri- can workmen, John Delany, Oliver At tleby, John Britt and James Furlough, who live at Leisenring, have been working at the Prick Coal Co.'s valley works for some time. They came to they were to take the Leisenring elec- tric road for home, where they had not been for month.
 As soon as they alighted from the | train at New Haven, they were sur rounded by mob of several hundred strikers from TrOtter and other works in the vicinity. The strikers first beat the four workmen and then put tags on them bearing the inscription, "Black legs" also covering them with chalk marks. They then marched their prisoners to the Leisenring works and from there to the Trotter, Morrell and in fact to all the works on the line | from New Haven south, holding them up as decorated samples of ''scabs" for the revilings and abuse of strikers | everywhere.
 ..1x n..I I,Nft tla, n,.l ous position their workmen were in and called on Sheriff Wilhelm to re- lease the men from the costody of the mob. Field Deputy Matt Allen and six men were sent to New Haven on the evening train. They were misled by false information, the friends of the strikers baffiing them at every turn, but they followed every clew they could find and were securing the coun- try all night in search of the mob.
 It was daylight when the squad of tired deputies reached Lemont. Not long after daylight the men began to assemble on the commons by the hun dred. They engaged in the widest demonstrations. When deputies came from under cover they were quickly dis covered. Then the mob raised howl, and surrounded them. Many of the strikers had revolvers, and all carried clubs. They moved against the depu- ties, who retreated under a shower of clubs and stones.
 At this juncture Deputy Allen and three other deputies came up. Allen was mounted. Riding up to the ad- vancing crowd of miners, he told them to go back, saying he did not want any l trouble, and that there would be trou- ble if he or his men were attacked or injured. The answer to Allen was a general yell, and one of the strikers covered him with his pistol and fired. | The shot was close shave for the top of Aliens head. Allen turned in his saddle and called to his five men to fire. Each of the men afoot had Winches- | ter. Allen had two revolvers. They opened fire together, and the strikers stood to it and fought gamely. The first shots were fired by them | and they fired as coolly and as rapidly as did the deputies. They kept closely | in on the men who were working the Winchesters, realizing that the rifles would be useless in the melee at close quarters, while their own revolvers would be just as effective as those of | the officers.
 The deputies gave ground, but kept up their fire. They were driven to the extreme end of the company's ground, where they made a stand. By that time three of the strikers were down, and when the deputies stopped and prepared to fight it out there the mob recoiled.
 The instant the strikers stopped fir 1 ing the officers stopped also. The strikers began at once to carry away the wounded. The dead man and two who were fatally wounded were left in the road where they fell, but there were others who were able to get away with a little assistance.
 FIRED UPON FROM AMBUSH.
 CRIPPLE CREEK, Col, June 11.-About 8 o'clock yesterday morning party of fifteen deputies, while approaching Bull hill on their way from camp to this place, were fired upon from am bush by twenty miners. The deputies, being unprepared for an attack, re- treated without returning the fire. Gen. Brooks called out enough militia to surround the miners and arrested them. No one was injured.
 MILITIA FIRED UPON.
 WHEELING, w. Va., June 1.-The Ohio militia in camp at Wheeling creek, miles west of the river were fired upon by some persons in the hills at frequent intervals Saturday night from midnight till Sunday morn, ing, and in few cases the sentinels re. turned the fire, but so far as known nc bloodshed resulted. Yesterday morn ing strikers burned IA feet of a wooden bridge at Goshen, west of Wheeling creek. No coal could, there. fore, be moved until the bridge was re, paired.
 DRIVEN AWAY BY MoBs.
 CLEVELAND, O., June 11.-Last night two men, who had been placed on guard at trestle on the Cleveland, Lo. rain & Wheeling railroad, near New Philadelphia, O., were driven away by a mob of about 400 men. The trestle | yybioh 1yaS about 6O feet lonU 1yaS Sa+