Morning journal and courier., 1894-06-11
ETOH All VudItcrSe ATTACKED BY STRIKERS. Deputies Make a Fierce Fight Against 8 Mob. LION TlMER GRiBBED IN THE FACE. .Pounced Upon asShe En-
 tered the Cage.
WHOLE TOWNS ARE WITHOUT FOOD,
Distress in the West Caused
 by the Floods.

| STRIKERS ATTACK DEPUTIES. One of the Mob, a Slav. Was Instantly 1 Killed With a Winchester Bullet | and Others Were Wounded-Foul Miners in Possession of Strikers and Will Be Rescued at All Hazards. UNIoNTowN, Penn, June 10.-A battle between seven armed deputies and mol 1 of 300 strikers occurred this morning at o'clock at the Lsmonte, No. B. works oi the Mcclure Coke company. One striker, Slav, was killed instantly, and two othe, Slav strikers were fatally wounded. The deputies were surrounded and fired upon by the strikers before they shot.
 The incidents leading to the battle be. gan last evening, when a mob of several hundred strikers, mostly from the Trotter works, of the Prick company, gathered at the Pennsylvsnis, at New Haven, and took as prisoners four workmen employed at the Valley works, of the Prick company, who were on their way home at Leisenring. The workmen were John Delaney, Oliver Attlsby, John Britt and John Furlough. When they stepped off the train the mob surrounded them and marched them away. The four mel were covered over with chalk and big placards with "scab," "black- leg" and other epithets lettered thereon. The men were then marched through the streets be- tween the company houses. The strikers 1eered 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 were permitted to view them.
 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 Nor rell, and from there to Youngstown, and then to Lemonte.
 Early this morning, after placing the deputies to prevent the strikers from talk ing the prisoners elsewhere, Allen returned to Uniontown for further orders, ard was directed to rescue the prisoners. Return lug to Lemonte, he found the deputies re- treating before bowling mob. As Allen rode up Slav fired 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 fired by him.
 Five of Aliens assistants then came and began firing with repeaters. About fifty shots were exchanged, the mob slowly ad- vancipg, the deputies retreating, until re- inforced by other deputies, when @ stand was made. The mob then began to dis perse.
 Sheriff Wilhelm was again notified and sent thirteen more deputies. An hour later twelve of the mob were arrested and brought to jail. The Slav that was killed was found lying in the road, pierced through the body by Winchester bullet. Two others were found lying in houses near by, having been shot through the thighs. They will probably die. One of the men arrested was shot in the arm.
 At 4 o'clock special train brought ten more deputies to Lemonte and then took the wounded men to the hospital at Con- melville. Many others are believed to have been wounded. None of the deputies were injured.
 At o'clock posse of twenty-five dep- uties, in charge of Deputies Allen, Atle- bsugh and Richards, armed with saarch warrants left for Cool Spring Hollow after searching the Lemonte houses. It Is be- lieved the four men taken during the trouble are hidden away in the mountains. The posse will rescue the men at all hsz- ards. Several hundred strikers live in the vicinity of Cool Spring, and conflict may occur at any moment.