The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-25
lBATTLEA At A COAL MINE.
Five Strikers Killed and a Score
Wounded.

strikers Nu1hbsESo SSS - AiSSN N~S
warv Guns on One Side as the
o4bar and Both Sides Full of Pluck.
rna Strikers Finally Retreat.
T-niontown. Pa, May 24.-This morning
.bo Sickle Hollow mines of the Wash
ton Coal and Coke Company, midway
bot1reen Favette City and Layton station,
,ros the scene of the bloodiest encounter
,;nce the strike began. Both sides were
IN fpbting shape, seventy-fve armed
dorrties contending with mob of
tr,n 1.50O TO 1000 strikers, about
ooo of whom were armed with all
kinds Of guns. Five strikers are dead
ard eight or more wounded, and three
5ornties we're wounded. The trouble
had been brewing all the week The
mines were the only ones in the fourth
Dool that were running, and 100 men were
~ nork Since Monday morning. the
striIyers have been collecting at Sickle
gojow. from the Monongahela and
Vonghiogheny river mines, and about 200
Of them remained all last night.
AN APPEAL FOR AID.
Their threats of violence. and the sight
If so MANY guns in their possession
alarmed the company, and the officials
wired sheriff Wilhelm at UniOntown last
night for aid, and later sent man on
horseback with a report of the serious
condition they were in The sherlf could
not get more aid to them at that time, and
believed that the 20 armed guards under
can't. John NJ Richards, would be able to
hold possession of the property. The
strikers marched about the plant all
night and occupied all the roads leading
tothe works When the men began com
Inc to work at daylight to-day, strikers
st0pped them and drove them home.
One report says they also made a
charge on the deputies with the intention
Of driving them off the works and that
precipitated the conflict.
FIRING BEGINS.
The strikers were only about fifty
YARDS from the deputies when
The latter opened fire. The strikers
returned the fire promptly, and
stood their ground, each fighting as rap
idly as POSSIBLE until the ammunition of
the strikers gave out, and they were
forced to retreat AS they fed the depu-
ties followed them and arrested great
many who had guns in their possession,
and now hold them prisoners. The depu-
ties were forced to fight for their lives,
aud their shooting was most effective.
FIVE STRIKERS KILLED.
Five strikers fell dead and eight were
wounded but it is thought that many
others were wounded who got away
with the fleeing mob unnoticed. Three of
the deputies were wounded.
The plant is now thickly guarded by
deputies, but no more trouble is looked
for at Sickle Hollow The strikers ran
for home, and in an hour none were in
rir h sod NF
foreigners 1t was not a one-sided battle,
but was fought with as many guns on
one side as on the other and with as much
hiring by the strikers as by the deputies.
Among the wounded are three deputies,
while the killed are all strikers.
ANOTHER STORY OF THE BATTLE.
Fayette City, Pa, May PA battle
occurred at daybreak this morning be-
tween Washington Run deputies and
a5olt l,sOO strikers. Eight strikers were
Killed aud sixteen wounded.
The strikers have made two Intellectual
attemtt IS this week te bring out the men
working, but were not successful. Ar
Tangements were made yesterday where
BY the strikers from the fourth pool
would meet the Youghiogheny men and
at'a.k the Washington Run in body.
seven hundred men left here at IL
o4er squads from the nearby points.
HUNS AND sLAvs.
,, The Ioughiogheny men, principally
hmgauans and Slavs, numbered about
L0U The strikers were headed by the
Smthton brass band, and marched along
the puouc road fronting the works. The
deputies, who had been reinforced dur
ihg the night, were fortified behind two
ooA cars; As soon as the men turned
Mso roads fronting the works, a deputy
stepped forward and shot a man, who had
stumbled and fallen into ditch, killing
hin Instantly
GENERAL FUsILADE.
ms was the signal for general fusil-
Sle from the deputies. Three times they
IIeC INTO the air, and then discharged
suelr lnchesters into the body of strikers
t,I H1o had not left the public road. Three
isI dead and two wounded. The strikers
aIeu out few shots, then broke and ran
tor a lne wheat field above the works. The
V1epuIIeS continued firing as long as the
Il TTe.ng strikers were in range John
n dIIo}' fatally injured, was taken in
lhe deputies.
Inc men killed were all foreigners,
mnln.lpally Huns. The total number
"oulqed is not known definitely, but will
"00Vu twenty.
HOW THE FIGHT STARTED.
Cnlontown, May "A, 8 p. m.-When the
81 rGoIAIlen came to the strikers in the pub
'r.Ia ~ Ioaa they were asked to go home. The
"gLhlnen were about to comply with the
tSSailuahu tSa when the deputies rushed into
Il tEe mlust of the men, got possession of
vi, %o |orkmen, and escorted them to the
6o gs,, IN this part of the performance, a
Il nv Trpe'5 sheriff fired a shot which opened
n Tau Pu oa5tle in which volley after
H cioay Ii.ey was fired by each side at
n sra Cvsg range. The strikers stood their
S'ouuu while their comrades were fall
n tboJ ts, ouJ their ammunition gave out. and
Il aeo' aee' were forced to give up the field and
n no escape the rain of bullets from
strp winchester rifles. 1t is said the
u dor,,t.f d,nefo We're advancing on the line OF
sbp,uIes when the latter fired the fatal
sassic yy5 Many who had guns in their pos.
a bro",,LL. were arrested by the deputies and
htostt tuO TO jail here this afternoon. The
4 saw. 't ~, news from the scene of the trouble
Il t6sf .IaI tLaI the strikers have all gone and
'ue situation now is more peaceable
THE SITUATION PERILoUs.
tbo tbooJtottdale, Pa, May 24.-The killing in
eTalt outth pool district to-day mas had an
tbet On the strikers in the coke region