The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-28
THEY FIND PLENTY OF 1T.
Could Not Stand Before Well
Aimed WincheSterS.
A BLAZE OF ANARCHY AND RUM.
Beading Brothers Halted the Mob,
but There Will Be More Riot
ing on Monday.


archy. in whose train followed bloodshed.
! arson and destruction of property passed
over the Mansfield coal region to-day. II
| began at dawn and at dusk it was estimated
that $500, 600 worth of property had been
destroyed. Made mad by fancied griev-
ances and liquor mob of several hundred
foreigners, Hungarians. Slavs and Italians.
swept over the country surrounding
Mansfield and through the valleys of Toms
and Painters runs. They attacked mine
owners. miners and a few scattered Deputy
Sheriffs. wrecked cars and destroyed rail-
road property.
Until noon the mob met hardly any
resistance. When it reached the mines of
Beading Brothers, near Federal, on the
Pittsburg, CHARTERS and YOughiogeny
Railroad, the rioters suddenly did meet
most determined resistance, and were
checked with repeating Winchester rifles.
Thomas F., William and Harry Beading
stood their ground and opened fire upon
the mob. They fired four voleys in quick
succession, fatally wounding one and in
juring half dozen others.
The man fatally wounded was Frank
Stable, a Frenchman. He was shot
through the body and is probab bly, dead be-
fore this. After the fourth volley the riot
ers fed preeipitately down the hill. At
this moment a train bearing Sheriff
Richards and forty deputies pulled into
Beading and the officers started in pursuit
of the rioters, firing as they ran. The
chase was long and hot one. but finally
sixteen were Overtaken and captured.
They were marched to the Mansfield Jail
at the point of revolvers and as matter
of precautiOn the prisoners were later
brought to this city and are now safely
lodged in the County Jail. They will be
held for riot and arson.
Tonight everything is quiet. A force of
deputies is on guard at every mine in the
district and no more trouble is apprehended
before Monday. Another outbreak is an
ticipated then, as it has been learned that
at Yesterdays meeting at Mansfield it was
decided that II the men now at work re-
fuse to join the strike by Monday all the
tipples in operation will be burned. Near
ly 1000 miners, all foreigners, attended the
meeting and in the speeches it was de-
clared that all miners in the district will
be compelled to quit work.
Sheriff Richards now has seventy-fve
deputies on duty and is swearing in others
as RAPIDLY as he can secure them. BY to-
morrow night he expects that at least 200
men will be armed and equipped for any
emergency. The citizens of MaDsfield,
Bridgeville and Woodvile are also organ
izing and if another outbreak should oc-
cur there is little doubt the mob would be
quickly dispersed.
Trouble Is feared also in Washington
district. The Dispatch tonight says:
The outbreak among the miners In
Mansfield neighborhood has excited the
foreign element among the miners in Nc
Donald and Ridgeway sections, and vio-
lent demonstrations are feared. The
energetic measures that quieted the law
less class in the uprising to-day have had
their effect on imitators In the other dis
tricts named. Had there been any tenn
porting to-day, there is no question that
trouble would have spread throughout all
this region and as it is other mine-owners
fear an uprising. Twelve deputies are at
Robbin's mines at Mcdonald, and other
SQUAD has been dispatched to the Ridge
way mines in the vicinity of Bridgeville.
The Sheriff had calls this evening by wire
for immediate protection at tie points
named.
'Still another message has been received
from Camonsburg. an operator there
fearing a raid on his works. and another
force of deputies will probably be sent
there"
A Mcdonald (Pa.) dispatch says: "As
a precautionary measure at Robbins mine
| the Sheriff has been called on to send
| deputies to protect the works. There is a
| feeling of insecurity fully warranted by
the situation. The striking miners. parti-
| cularly the foreign-born classes. are rest
| less and ugly and spark in the shape of
| an accidental collision between indivi-
duals may result in An explosion that will
| involve the multitude. The fact is the
| men are in dreadful plights owing to low
| wages and uncertain work, and lacking
the respect for law that governs the native
element, the pinch of poverty has made
them desperate. There is much appre-
tensions of serious times coming"