Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-05-10
RIOT At scoTTDALE. PA.

/ RIOT Al SCOIIDAIEs "a.
/ 4 RIoodv Battle at the Painter Coke
Works Between Deputies and Strtkers-
/ Two Vt the Defenders Probably Fatally
Injured. and ut Least . Score OF the
Rioters Reported Shot Down with VIM
chesters-Worse Trouble Feared.
CoNNELLsvILLE, Pa, May 5.-A riot
at the Painter works, near Scottdale,
resulted in the wounding of ten strik-
ers and serious injury to Supt. White
and E. B. Roddy, the book-keeper Ut the
/ company. White and Roddy were ter
ribly beaten by the mob and both may
| die.
| The plant started up at o'clock
with about one-half of the complement
of men. Two hours later the strikers
began to assemble near the works.
Some of the men became frightened
| and went home, but most OF them re-
| manned.
About o'clock committee was
sent into the mine to request the men
to come out, and, upon their refusal.
the mob, headed by score or more OF
women, attacked the plant
Roddy. assisted by a dozen depu-
ties, 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.
Maddened 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 revolvers, they
fed and the mob surrounded White and
Roddy. A burly Hungarian attacked
the latter with Ratchet, telling
| him to the ground and was about
to deal the deathblow when James
Tarr knocked the Hungarian down
with club. White was dragged into
the engine house to escape the fury OF
the strikers. BY this time the depu-
ties rallied and three volleys were fired
in quick succession, forcing the mob to
retreat over the hill in utter rout.
A number of strikers were carried
from the battlefield, and it is believed
they were killed. DIR. w. Fl. Cole, the
strikers went down in the three
charges. These men and one woman
were carried off the ground after
the first charge. and when the mob
finally retreated they bore away at
least ten more. Three of them were
LETT near the works. One of them was
shot through the thigh, another
through both legs, and the third had
a bad wound in the groin.
The affair has caused the most in
tense excitement here. It is feared
the foreigners will avenge the death
of their coun trymen, and that this is
but the beginning of riots in all parts
of the region. It would not be sur
prise to the people here should the
strikers resort to the use of dynamite
to blow up the works.
Supt. White was taken to the Con-
nellsville hospital, and it is thought
he will not survive. Ewing Roddv
was brought to this city and
cared for. The foreigners were car
ried to the adjoining houses and cared
for by Drs. Rogers and Fetters. Sher-
iff Richards of Fayette county is upon
the scene of the battle with forty men
armed with Winchesters, and has al
ready arrested four persons charged
with being implicated in the riot.
Tho Casualties Not 30 Numerous ~
Thought-Further Trouble Feared.
ScorTDALE, Pa. May Stanford
White, the deputy sheriff who was so
badly beaten during the riot at Paint
er's. is at his home in Connellsville,
and it is thought he is fatally injured.
E. B. Roddy. the booklxeeper. is not as
seriously injured as was at first sup
posed, and will be able to leave his
home in a day or two. It appears now
that only three of the rioters were
shot, two of them being arrested.
The operators are still determined to
start their works and the strikers are
as determined to prevent them If pos
sible. The district officials have re-
ceived no reply from the operators to
whom they sent letters inviting them
to meet this morning at 10 o'clock, and
the indications are that there will be
no conference.
The operators now claim that TWEEN
ty-four of the plants made idle by the
strikers will be started, but the labor
leaders claim that the strike remains
practically solid from Fair Chance to
Mount Pleasant. Those who have re-
turned to work are nearly all English
speaking men, and this fact further
enrages the foreign element, who are
determined to remain out to the end.
Late last night it was reported that
Blainey's men at Meyer had decided to
quit work. There will likely be trouble
at this and other plants to-day.
AN ALARMING SITUATION.
Striking Cookers Assembling bent Upon
Mischief-The Excitement Intense.
C0NNrI auIIIr Pa Man Thu cit.