Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-06-11
BLOODY COKE REGIONS.
Fatal SkirmiSh Between Depu-
 ties and Strikers.
MOB OF MINERS FACED THE RIFLES.
Four NOnunion Men Held by the Mob and Perhaps Murdered After Being Tortured. Six Deputy Sherifs Against Hundreds of RIoters-One Was Killed.

UNIoNTowN, Pa, June 11.-Thc truce is ended, and again the armed deputies in the coke regions have made a killing. One striker killed in his boots two others dy- ing and another shot through is the result of the battle at Lrmont. There were six deputies on one side and 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 fired several shots at them.
 The circumstances that led up to this latest of the many tragedies of the coke region were developing since Saturday afternoon. Four American workmen- John Delaney, Oliver Attleby, John Bruett and James Furlough-who live at Leiscnring, have been working at tho Prick Coke company's valley works for some time. They came to New Haven, where they were to take the Leisenring electric road for home, where they have not been for a month.
 In the Hands of n Mob.
 As soon as they alightcd from the train at New Haven they were surrounded by a mob of several hundred strikers. The strikers first beat the four workmcn and then put tags on thqm bearing the inscrip- 
 chalk marks. They then marched their prisoners to all the works on the line from New Haven south, holding them up as decorated samples of scabs for the rcVil- ings and abuse of strikers everywhere. The four prisoners were subjected to all manner of insults and indigniticS to such an extent that many of the more rational strikers protested that it was cruel and Cowardly for so many men to asSail four helpless fellows in that way.
 The Prick company was informed of tho perilous position its workmcn were in. Field Deputy Matt Allen and six men were sent to New Haven on tho next train They were mislcd by false information
 It was daylight when the squad of tired deputies reached Lcmont, where the fight took place. They had been joined by Su- pcrintendcnt Slater of the Leiscnring plant, who had helped in tho all night hunt. Not long after daylight the men began to assemble on the commons by the hundred. They engaged in the widest demonstrations, and it is thought that they then had the four captivcs in their possession.
 When the deputies were discovered, the mob raised a howl and surrounded them. Many of the strikers had rcvolVcrs, and all carried clubs. They moved against the deputies, who rctrcatcd under a shower of stones and clubs. Riding up to the ad- vancing crowd of miners, Deputy Allen told them to go back saying he did not want any trouble, and that thcrC would be trouble if he or his men were attacked and injured.
 The answer to Allen was a general yell, and one of the strikers covered him with his pistol and fired. The shot was d close shave for the top of Aliens head. Tho deputies opened fire together and the strikers stood to it and fought gamcly.
 The first shots were fired by them, and they fired as coolly and as rapidly as did the deputies and they kept closing in on the mon who were working the Winchcs tcrs until they were driven to tine extreme end of the company's ground where they made q stand.