St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-05
TEN STRIKERS SHOT DOWN
BLOODY RIOT IN THE cOKNELLSYiLLE
M!NiNC DISTRICT
DEPUTIES AND HUNS AT WAR.
All Sorts of Missiles and Revolyers
Used by the Maddencd Men
Several Strikers will Die
One Woman Gets a Bullet in
the Thigh-Threats Of Dyna-
mite.

CoNNELLsvILLE. Pa, May 4.-The
riot at the Painter works resulted iu the
wounding of ten strikers and serious
injury TO Supt. White and E. b. Roddy.
the b0okkeeper Of the company. White
and Rod0y were terribly beaten by the
mob, and the latter is in a critical condi-
ton. Two of the strikers will die. The
plant started up at 3 O'clock, with about
One-half the complement Of men. Two
hours later the strikers began to assem-
BILE at the works, and some of the
men became frightened and went
home, but most of them remained.
About O'clock committee was sent
into the mines to request the men to
come out. and, upon their refusal. a
mob. headed by score or more Of
women, attacked the plant. White and
Roddy. assisted by a dozen deputies,
stood guard, and when the mob came
up with rush White fred point blank
into their ranks. A Hungarian woman
fell with
A BULLET IN HER THIGH.
MaddeDed by this. the mob, which
numbered couple of hundred, closed
In on the deputies, who, driven into
close quarters and blinded by the
shower of missiles, were unable to use
their Winchesters. After emptying
their reyolvers they fed, and the mob
surrounded White and Roddy. A burly
Hun attacked the latter with hatchet,
telling him to the ground. and was
about to deal the death blow when
James Tarr knocked the Hun down
with a club. White was dragged
into the engine house to escape
the fury of the strikers. By
this time the deputies rallied
and three volleys were fired in quick
succession. olcing the mob to retreat
over the hill in utter rout. A number
of strikers we're carried from the battle
field. and it is believed they were
killed. DR.. w. H. Cole, the company
physician. stated that fifteen strikers
went down in the three charges. One
woman was carried off the ground after
the first charge. and when the
MOB FINALLY REITERATED
they bore away at least ten more, three
of them were left near the works. One
of these was shot through the thigh.
another through both legs,a the third
had wound in the groin. At O'Clock
todayfWhite was suffering intense
agony, and his rrcuveryis yet matter
of doubt. 49,.
1tis feared the foreigners will re-
venge the death of their cUuntrymen,
and that this is but the beginning Of
riots in all parts of the region. 1t would
not be surprise to the people here
should the strikers resort to the use of
dynamite to blow up the works.
The injured, as far as known, were !:
Sanford White. superintendent, badly
beaten. condition critical: Ewing 4.
Roddy, badly beaten. condition critical /;
John Skonesky, shot through the thigh;
Stephen Yonski. shot through both
thighs; Joseph Skonesky. head split
with an ak; Murtes Schonski. shot in
shoulder; unknown Slavish woman,
shot in thigh. Superintendent White
was taken to the ConnellsviIle
hospital, and is thought will
not survive. Ewing Roddy was brought
here and cared for. The foreigners
were carried to the adjoining houses
and cared for by Drs. Rogers and Fet-
ters. Sheriff Richards, of Fayette
county, is upon the scene Of the battle
with forty men armed with Winches-
ters and has already arrested thirty
persons charged with being implicated
in the riot. They are now on their way
to Uniontown.
INA FEVER OF EXCITEMENT.
SCOTTDALE, Pa, May 4.-'rhe north
end OF the Connellsville coke region is
in a fever of anxiety tonight. The
terrible work at the Painter plant of the
Mcclure company, bad as it was, is
feared Still more as fOreShadOwing
the beginning of times and conditions
that are inevitable unless this strike is
speedily settled.
The battle today was between strik-
ing Poles, small number Of deputies,
and a comparatively few of the men at
work at the Painter plant. Deputy
Sheriff Sanford White and Chief CleI
E. B. Roddy were terribly beaten. and
are tonight i'll critical condition. Five
men and two women on the strikers
side were shot. and two of the men
dangerously wounded. Fifty-six of the
rioters have been arrested end are now
confined in the Uniontown Jail.
Tonight White is in the miners
hospital at Connellsville. The latest
reports are that the chances of recovery
do not exual he chances that he will
die. Roody was brought to his home
here. He is vomiting blood tonight and
is very badly injured man.
Two of the Poles shot are pronounced
to be in dangerous coYeition, and are
likely to die. Sixty-thret 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 be found. Tonight the
Painter plant is in charge OF large