St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-11
STRIKERS SHOT DOWN
One Killed and Two Fatally
Wounded at Lemont, Pa.
as
& BAT7LE WITH DEPUTIES
Results Very Disastrously for
Recalcitpant Miners.
MDiGRi7iES TO WORKMEN
G 6AT7LE WITH DEPUTIES
MOlGRI7iEs TO w0RKKEN
Precipitate Trouble Which
Ends in a Killing.
JHi0 MINERS BURN TRES7lES.

Is ended, and again the armed deputies
in the coke region have made killing.
One striker killed in his boots, two
is the result of the battle this morning
at Lemont. There we're six deputies on
one side and a mob of strikers on the
other. Unbiased testimony is to the
effect that the mob not only provoked,
but compelled the deputies to fire on
them after the strikers had compelled
them to retreat and had fred several
shots at them. The circumstances lead
ing up to this latest of the many trage-
dies of the coke region were developing
since yesterday afternoon. Four Ameri-
can worklnen, John Delaney, Oliver
Atleby, John Britt auG James Fur
Tough, who live at Leisenrng. have
been working at the Frick Coke COM
pany's valley works for some time.
They came to New Haven yesterday
afternoon, where they were to take the
Leisenring electric road for home, where
they have not been for month. AS SOON
as they alighted from the train at New
Haven they were
SURROUNDED BY A MOB
of several hun ired strikers. The strik-
ers first beat the four men, and then
put tags on them bearing the inscrip-
tion ''BIack Legs" also covering them
with chalk marks. They then marched
their prisoners to all the works on the
Ii,o II bcIS
them up as decorated samples of
"scabs" for the revilings- and abuse of
strikers everywhere. The four prison.
ers were submitted to all manner of in
suits and indignities to such an extent
that many of the more rational strikers
protested that it was cruel and cow
ardly for so many men to assault four
in that way. The Frick Coke company
was Informed of the perilous position
its workmen we're in. Field Deputy
Matt Allen and six men were sent to
New Haven on the evening train. They
were misled by false Information. 1t
was daylight when the squad of tired
deputies reached Lemont, where the
fight took place. They had been joined
by Supt Slater. of the Leisenring plant,
who had helped in the all-night- hunt.
Not long after daylight the men began
to assemble on the commons by the
hundreds. They engaged in the widest
demonstrations. and it is thought that
they then had
THE FOUR CAPTIvES
In their possession. When the deputies
were discovered the mob raised howl,
and surrounded them. Many Of the
strikers had reviewers, and all carried
clubs. They moved against the depu-.
ties, who retreated under a shower of
clubs and stones. Riding up to the ad-
yancing crowd of miners, Deputy Allen
told them to go back, saying he did not
want any trouble, and that there would
be trouble If he or his men were at
tackled and injured. The answer to
Allen was general yell, and one of the
strikers covered him with his pistol and
fired. The shot was close shave for
the top of Aliens head. The deputies
opened fire together, and the strikers
stood TO 1t and fought gameiy. The first
shots were fired by them, and they fired
as cool!y and as rapidly as did the depu-
ties, and they kept closing in Oh the
men who were working the Winchesters
until they were driven to the extreme
end of the company's ground, where
they made stand. By that time three
OF the strikers were down and several
others wounded. The strikers began at
once to carry away their wounded. The
dead man and the two who were fatally
wounged were
LEFT IN THE ROAD
where they fell. The number of
wounded may not be known for several
days. as they will be concealed where
concealment is possible. Allen esti-
mates that fifty or sixty shots were fired
by both sides. The two Slavs who were
fatally shot can live bat a short time.
at dark the man who was killed was
still lying where he fell The names of
the dead and wounded cannot he learned
as yet. Nobody but the strikers knew
tne.n, and they refuse to tell who the
men were or give any circumstances.
Twelve arrests have been made, and at
least 200 more will follow.
A detachment OF deputies was at once
formed to go in search of the four men
held prisoners by the strikers, but not
trace of them has been seen, and
1t is feared that they have
been murdered by the strikers
in revenge for the loss of the men hurt
in Ioday's battle. 1t is known that on
the evening of the battle the workmen
were subjected to the most inhumanly
barbarous treatment. At 8 O'Clock to-
night six more strikers were arrested at
Lemont and sent here to Jail. 1t is Off
cially stated that at least 200 more ar
rests Will be made as the result of the
Yioting ard kidnapping. Matt Allen.
who had charge of the men who stopped
the charge Of the mob today, is only
twentY-three years old.