The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-11
A BATTLE WITH STRIKERS.
One Killed and Several Wounded BY
Seven Deputy SherifiS.


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The Fight Follows an Attempt by the
officers to Rescue Four Workmen
Seized by the Strikers and Shame
fully AbUsed-The Captives Believed
to Have Been Run Into the Noun
tains During the Fight-Another At
rtempt to Be Made to Rescue Them.
Uniontown, Pa. June 1O.-A battle be-
tween seven armed deputies and mob of
300 strikers occurred this morning at 9
O'Clock at the Lemont No. 3 works of the
Mcclure Coke Company. One striker, a
Slav, was killed and two other Slav
strikers were fatally wounded. The
deputies We're surrounded and fired upon
by the strikers before they shot.
The incidents leading up to the battle
began last evening, when a mob of several
hundred strikers, mostly from the Trot-
ter works of the Frick Company, gath
cred at the Pennsylvania railroad depot
at New Haven and took prisoners four
workmen who are employed at the valley
works of the F'rick Company and were
on their way home at Eeisenring. The
names of the workmen are John Delaney,
Oliver Attleby, John Britt and John Fur
Tough. When they stepped off the train,
the mob surrounded them and marched
them away.
SHAMEFULLY ABUSED.
The workmen were covered over with
chalk and big placards with "Scab, 50
"Blackleg,n - and other epithets lettered
>, a.
through the street. escorted by the hOOt-
ting mob, and taken to the Trotter and
Liesenring plants, where they We're
paraded through the streets between the
company houses. The strikers ieered
them, and the women spit upon them and
hit them with stones and clubs They
were even marched past their own homes
and their wives and children permitted tC
view them in their helpless condition.
Sheriff Wilhelm dispatched Deputy
Sheriff Allen with his deputies to rescue
the workmen. Deputy Allen arrived at {
O'Clock At no time was he able to over.
take the mob having the men in charge.
Deputy Allen finally learned that the men
were being passed from mob to mob. II
was found that the four wOrkmen had
been taken to Morrell, and from there to
Youngstown and then to Lemont, where
the battle occurred.
THE BATTLE.
Early this morning, after placing dep
uties 10 prevent the strikers from tax
ing their prisoners elsewhere, Deputy
Allen returned to Unioutown for further
orders, and was directed to rescue che
prisoners Returning to Lemont, he
found two deputies retreating before d
| bowling mob of Slavs. AS Deputy Allen
rodeup a Slay fired his revolver at him.
The bullet passed over his head Several
of the mob then began firing at
the officers. Deputy Aliens revolver was
defective and only two shots were fired
and began firing with their Winchesters.
About fifty shots were exchanged, the
mob slowly advancing, the deputies re-
treating, until re-enforced by other depu-
ties, when a stand was made. The mob
then began to disperse.
TWELVE ARRESTS MADE.
Sheriff Wilhelm was again notified
and sent thirteen more deputies. An
hour later twelve of the mob were ar
rested and brought to Jail
The Slav who was killed was found ly-
ing in the road, shot through the body
by a Winchester ball. Two othere
were found in houses near by both said
to be mortally wounded, having been
shot through the thighs. The strikers re-
fused to give the name of the Slav killed,
or of those injured They wanted
the officers to take the dead striker with
them when making the arrests. One OF
the men arrested was shot in the arm
At 4 O'Clock special train brought ten
more deputies to LemOnt, and then took
the wounded men TO the hospital at Con
nellsville. Many others are believed tc
have been wounded None of the deputies
were injured.
DANGER OF ANOTHER FIGHT.
At 5 o'clock a posse of 25 deputies in
charge of Deputies Allen, Altebaugh and
Richards, armed with search warrants
left for Cool Spring Hollow, after search
ing the Lemont houses II is believed the
the four workInen were taken during the
trouble and are hidden away in the
mountains. The posse will rescue the fouI
men at all hazards. Several hundred strlk
ers live in The vicinity of Cool Spring
and Il conflict may occur. The deputies
have not returned or been heard from
Sheriff Wilhelm said tonight that he
would not ask for the militia on account
of to days trouble. He says he is grow
ing heartily tired of the warfare, but sc
long as his deputies are not overpowereC
viii fight away in attempting to maintain
peace and order Several hundred arrests
are expected to follow for the kidknappiug
of the men.
sLAv TERRIBLY BEATEN.
Connellsville, Pa, June 10.-John Bare
haak, Slav, who has been working al
the Valley Works, was captured by 200 o.
his countrymcn at Morrell this eveninS
and terribly beaten. He was taken to- a
bridge, where preparations were wei
under way to hang him before the
mob would listen to the counsel oi
cooler heads Bareback was escorted
half Il mile up the road and liberated
His fate is unknown. The strikers have
stationed picket line on the outskirts OF
New Haven and Connellsville, watching
for the new men who are reported to be
coming in to start up the Trotter plant.
RRIpGE BURNING.