The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-06-14
MORE MOB VIOLENCE.
ANOTHER BATTLE IN THE PENNSYL-
vANlA COKE DISTRICT.

ANOTHER BATTLE in THE PENNSYL-
vANlA COKE DISTRICT.
One Dead aud Many w. unded-Indigni-
ties offered "Blackiee" Workmen Pre-
cipitate the Trouble = State Troops
Fired Upon.
UN1oNTowN, Pa. June 10.-The
truce is ended and again the armed
deputies in the coke region have made
a killing. One striker killed, two
others dying and fourth shot through,
is the result of the battle at Lemont.
There were six deputies on one side
and mob of strikers on the other.
Unbiased testimony is to the effect that
the. mob not only provoked Tut COM
PEELED the deputies 10 fire on them.
latter the strikers had compelled them
to retreat and had fred several shots at
them. The circumstances leading up
to this
Latest of the Many Tragedies
lof the coke region were developing
since Saturday afternoon. Four Ameri-
can worKmen, John Delaney, Oliver
Atleby, John Britt and James Fur
Tough, who live at Leisenring, have
been working ut the Prick Coke COM
panys works for some time. They
came to New Haven, where they were
to take the Leisenring electric road for
home, where they have not been for u
month. AS soon as they alighted from
the train at New Haven they were sur
rounded by q mob of
Several H.pdrsd Strikers.
The strikers first beat the four men and
then put tags on them, bearing the in
scription ''blacklegs," also covering
them with chalk marks. They then
marched their prisoners 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.
| The Frick Coke company was in
formed of the perilous position their
worxmen were in and Field Deputy
Matt Allen and six men were sent to
New Haven on the evening train. They
were misled by false information and
it was daylight when the squad of tired
deputies reached Lemont,
Whore the Fight Took Place.
They had been joined by Superin-
tendent Slater of the Leisenring plant,
who had helped in the all night hunt.
Not long after daylight the men began
to assemble on the commons by the
hundred. They engaged in the widest
demonstrations and it is thought that
they then had the four captives in their
possession. When the deputies were
discovered the mob raised a howl and
surrounded them. Many of the strik-
ers had revolvers and all carried clubs.
They moved against the deputies, who
retreated under q shower of clubs and
stones. Riding up to the
Advancing Crowd Of Miners,
Deputy Allen told them to go back,
saying he did not want any trouble and
that there would be trouble if he or his
men were attacked and injured. The
answer to Allen was q general yell, and
one of the strikers covered him with his
pistol and fred. The shot was close
shave for the top Of Aliens head. The
deputies 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 and they kept closing
in on the mon, who were
Working tho Winohesters
until they were driven to the extreme
end of the company's ground, where
they made stand. BY that time three
of the strikers were down and several
others were wounded. The strikers be-
gan at once carry away their
wounded.
Deputies have been going through all
the houses in the vicinity, but up to
late hour not a trace Of the four men
held as prisoners by the strikers has
been seen and it is feared that they
have been murdered by the strikers in
revenge for loss of the men in the
battle. Twelve arrests have been made
op6 of 1ousf OO,l ,v,or<, mill fo11oxr,