The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-05-10
MOB LED BY A WOMAN
BLOODY BATTLE BETWEEN HUNS
AND DEPUTIES

In the Connellsville Coke Region = A
Dozen Persons Badly Hurt-Sixty Riot
ers, In Guiding Many Women and Chill
dren, Jailed in Uniontown.
SCoTTDALE, Pa, May 4.-The north
end Of the Connellsville coke region is
IN fever of anxiety. The terrible
work at the Painter plant of the Nc
Clure company, bad as it was, is feared
still more as foreshadowing the begin
ming of times and conditions that are
inevitable unless the strike is speedily
settled.
The battle during the day was be.
tween striking Huns, small number
of deputies and comparative few of
the men at work at the Painter plant.
Deputy Sheriff Sanford White and
Chief Clerk E. B. Roddy were terri. ly
beaten and are in critical condition.
Five men and two women on the strik-
ers' side were shot and two of the men
Dangerously Wounded.
Sixty-three rioters, among them IL
women and 10 children have teen taken
to Jail and wal rants for 80 others have
been sworn out, but the men cannot
now be found.
The Painter plant was closed down
by the strikers on the Gath inst. and
was idle until Wednesday of this week.
Early in the morning Joe Sconesky's
wife went to the other houses and got
the wives of the striking Poles to join
her in a proposed raid on the plant.
About o'clock she had $50 women,
men and children in the ranks ready
for raid.
The men remained in the rear, and
the women and children, led by Mrs.
Sconesky, made rush for the coke
yard. This region has seen many
savage affairs, in which women I'M
sexed themselves by deeds of cruel VIC
lence, but the old timers say that never
before has there been seen
Such Spectacle as This.
Every person in the assaulting party
had some sort of weapon. Even the
children fourished sticks suited to their
size. Many of the women bore axes
and some of the men of the mob carried
ball bats and hatchets.
The plant started up at o'clock with
about one-half of the complement of
men. Two hours later the strikers be-
gan to assemble near the works and
some of the men became frightened and
went home, but most of them remained.
About 6 o'clock committee was sent
into the mines to request the men to
come out, and upon their refusal the
mob, headed by score or more of
women, attacked the plant. White and
Roddy, assisted by dozen deputies,
stood guard and when the mob came up
with rush White fired point blank
into their ranks. A Hungarian woman
fell with bullet in her thigh. Mad
dened by this, the mob, which num-
bered 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 Win
chesters. After emptying their revolv-
ers they fled and the mob surrounded
White and Roddy. A burly Hun at
IoShCu CA0 AdLIOI Will d udLCu0I, 40lllu2
him to the ground, and was
About to Deal the Death Blow
when James Tarr knocked the Hun
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. DIR.
w. H. Cole, the company physician,
stated that Is strikers went down in
the three charges. One woman was
carried off the ground after the first
charge, and when the mob finally re-
treated they bore away at least 10
more; three of them were left near the
works. One of these was shot through
the thigh, another through both legs,
and the third had wound in the groin.
The affair has caused the most intense
excitement. It is feared the foreigners
will revenge the death of their country.
men and that this is but the beginning
of riots in all parts of the region.