The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-01-28
IN A DESPERATE PLIGHT
Maddsnsd Coal Min.rs Appalling to
Arson and Anarchy.
ACTS OF AN ENRAGED MOB
Pinched by Want and Crazod by
Drink, They tart Forth. Leav.
ing a terrible Trail OF
Blood and Fire.

PirTssuRG, Jan. IA wave Of anarchy,
in whose tram followed oloodshed, arson
and desiru, ton Of property, passed over
the Mansfield coal region to-day. II be-
gan nj dawn anl at dusk 1t WAS estimated
that S2Uo,OOD worth of properly had been
destroyed. Maddened b. faneied griey-
ances and liquor, a mob of several hum
dred foreigners, Hgngarians, S!avs and
Italians. swept over the country surround
ing Mansfield and through the valleys OF
Teens and Painters Runs, attacked the
mine owners, miners and the few scat
tered deputy sherlifs, wrecked cars and
destroyed railroad property.
Until noon the mob met hardly any re-
sistancc. Ii reached the mines Of Bead
ling Bros. near Federal, on tue Pttsburg,
CHARTERS 4 Youghiogheny railroad. Here
the rioters met determined resistance and
were checked. With repeating Winches-
ter rifles, Thomas L. Williams and Harry
Beading stood their ground and opened
fire upon the mob. They fred four vol
lcys in quick succession, fatally wounding
ono and injurin- half dozen others. Tho
man fatally wounded Was Frank Stah!e, a
Frenchman. He was shot through tho
body and is probably dead before this.
After the fourth volley, the rioters fed
prccipi,ately down the hill. Al this mo-
mcnt, a train bearing Sheriff Richards
and 40 deputies pulled into Beading and
the officers started in pursuit of the riot
ers, firing as they ran. The chase was a
long and hot one. but finally l6 were over
taken and captured. They were marched
TO the Mansfield jail at the point OF reyol-
81 ha xr,.
oners were brought TO this city aud are
now safely lodged in the county jail. They
will be held for riot and arson.
Tonight all IA quiet. A force OF deputies
guard every mine in the district and no
= more trouble is npprehended before Mon-
( day. Another outbreak Is anticipated
then, as IL is learned that at yesterdays
meeting at Mansfield il was decided that
| IL the men now at work refuse TO join the
strike by Monday, all property in opera
ton will be burned, Nearly 1000 miners,
all foreigners, attended the meeting aud
then speakers declared that all the miners
in the district will be compelled TO quit
work. Sheriff Richards now has Is depu-
ties on duty and Is swearing in others as
rapidly as he can secure them. BY to-mor-
row night he expects at least 10 men
armed aud equipped for any emergency.
The citizens of Mansfield. Bridgeville
and Woodyille are also organizing, and "
another outbreak should occur there Is
little doubt that the mob would be quickly
dispersed. Trouble IS feared in the
| Washington district. A dispatch to-
night says: "Tbe outbreak among tho
miners in tho Mansfield neighborhood
has excited the foreign element among
the IN uers in the Mcdonald aud Ridge
way sections. and violent demonstrations
are feared. The energetic measures that
quieied the lawless class in the uprising
to-day have had an effect on imitators in
the other districts named. Had there
been any temporarizing there is no ques-
ton but that trouble would have spread
throughout all this region. As 1t Is the
other mine owners fear an uprising.
Twelve deputies arc at the Robbins mine
at Mcdonald and another squad has been
dispatched to the Ridgeway mines in the
vicinity Of Bridgeyillc. The sheriff had
calls this evening for immediate pro-
lection at the points named
Still another dispatch has been received
from Canonsourg. an operator there fear
ing a raid on the works, and another force
OF deputies will probably be sent there. A
Mcdonald, Pa, dispatch says: "As pre-
cau,ionary measure at the Robbins mines
the sheriff has been called on TO send dep
uties 10 protect the works. There is a
feeling of insincerity. fully warranted by
the situation. The striking miners belong
particularly to the foreign-born classes.
They are restless aud ugly, and spark,
In the shape of an accidental collision be-