The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-06-14

UNIoNTowN, Pa, June 11.-A battle
between seven armed deputies and
mob of three hundred strikers oc-
Cured Sunday morning at the Lemont
No. works of the Mcclure Coke Co.
One striker, Slav, was killed instant
ly, and two other Slav strikers were
fatally wounded. The deputies were
surrounded and fred upon by the
strikers before they shot.
The incidents leading up to the bat
tie began Saturday evening, when a
mob of several hundred strikers, most
ly from the works of the Frick Co.,
gathered at the Pennsylvania railroad
depot at New Haven and took prisoners
four workmen, who are employed at
the Valley works of the Frick Co.,
and were on their way home at Leising-
ing.
When they stepped off the train the
mob surrounded them and marched
them away. The four men were cov-
cred over with chalk and big placards,
with ''scab," "blackleg" and other epi-
thets lettered thereon. The men were
corted by hooting mob, and taken to
the Trotter and Leisinging plants,
where they were paraded through the
streets between the company houses.
The strikers jeered them and the
women spit upon them, and hit them
with stones and clubs. They were
even marched past their own homes,
and their wives and children permitted
to view them in their disgraceful con-
dition.
Sheriff Wilhelm dispatched Deputy
Sheriff Allen with seven deputies to
rescue the workmen. Allen arrived at
o'clock At no time was he able to
overtake the mob having the men in
charge. Allen finally learned that the
men were being passed from mob to
mob. It was found that the four men
had been taken to Morrel and from
there to Youngstown and then to Le-
mont where the battle occurred early
Sunday morning.
After placing the deputies to prevent
the strikers from taking their prison
ers elsewhere Allen returned to Union
town for further orders. and was di-
rected to rescue the prisoners. Return
ing to Lemont he found two deputies
retreating before bowling mob of
| Slavs. AS Allen rode up Slav fred
| his revolver at Allen. The bullet
| passed over his head. Several of the
mob then began firing at the officers.
| Aliens revolver was defective, and
only two shots were fred by him. Five
| of his assistants came up and began
firing with their Winchesters.
About fifty shots were exchanged,
the mob slowly advancing, the depu-
ties retreating until reinforced by
other deputies, when stand was made.
The men then began to disperse. Sher.
! if Wilhelm was again notified and sent
thirteen more deputies. An hour later
twelve of the mob were arrested and
brought to Lemont.
Slav was killed, and his corpse was
: found lying in the road with hole
through the body made by Winches.
ter ball. Two others were found in
! houses near by. both said to be mortal.
| ly wounded, having been shot through
the thighs. The strikers refused to
give the names of the Slav killed or OF
those injured. They wanted the Off
GERS to take the dead striker with them
when making the arrests. One of the
men arrested was shot in the arm.
At o'clock special train brought
ten more deputies to Lemont, and theI
took the wounded men to the hospital
at Connellsville. Many others are be
lieved to have been wounded. None OF
the deputies were injured