Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-06-15
Another Battle ii the Pennsyl-
vania Coke District Results
il LOSS Of Life.
ONE DEAD AND MANY WOUNDED.
1ndignities offered "Blackleg
Workmen Precipitates the
Trouble.
STATE TROOPS FIRED UPON.
An Attack From Ambush Made
on Ohio Militia at Wheel
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. UN1oNTowN, Pa, June 1.-THE
truce is ended and again the armed
deputies in the coke region have made
a killing. One striker killed, two
others dying and fourth shot through,
is the result of the battle at Lemont.
There were six deputies on one side
and mob of strikers on the other.
Unbiased testimony is to the effect thai
the mob not only provoked but com.
pelled the deputies to fire on them,
after the strikers had compelled them
to retreat and had fired several shots at
them. The circumstances leading up
to this
! Latest of the Many Tragedies -:
iof the coke region were developing
|since Saturday afternoon. Four Ameri-
can workmen, John Delaney, Oliver
Atleby, John Britt and James Fur
Tough, who live at Leisenring, have
been working at the Frick Coke COM
pany's 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. AS soon as they alighted from
the train at New Haven they were sur
rounded by mob of -. ..*.
E ~ Several Hundred Strikers
The strikers first beat the four men and
then put tags on them, bearing the in
scription "blacklegs," also covering
them with 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 'tscabs" for the revilings and abuse
of strikers everywhere. ..szs99 sz9
1hs l9 com pany was ili1
formed of the perilous position their
worhmen were in and Field Deputy
Matt Allen and six men were sent to
New Haven on the evening train. They
were nisled by false information and
it was daylight when the squad Of tired
deputies reached Lemont, tn
Where the Fight Took Place.
They had been joined by Superin-
tendent 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
hundred. 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 q howl and
surrounded them. Many of the strik-
ers had. revolvers and all carried clubs.
They moved against the deputies, who
retreated under a shower of clubs and
stones. Riding up to the 1
! Advancing Crowd Of Miners, ~
Deputy Allen told them to go back,
saying he did not want any troubl and
that there would be trouble if he or his
men We're attacked 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 it and fought gamely.
The first shots were fred by them and
they fired as coolly and as rapidly as
did the deputies and they kept closing
in on the men, who were s. 4.
Working the Winchesters
until they were driven to the extreme
cad of the company's ground, where
they made stand. By that time three
Of the strikers were down and severa
others were wounded. The strikers be-
gan at once carry away their
wounded. The dead man and the two
who we're fatally wounded were left in
fhe road where they fell.
Deputies have been going through all
the houses in the vicinity, but up to q
late hour not . trace Of the four men
held as prisoners BY the strikers has
been seen and it is feared that they
have been murdered BY the strikers ii
revenge for loss of the men ii the
battle. Twelve arrests have been made
and at least 20U more will follow.
WAITE GIVES ORDERS.
Deputies Must Obey q Force WIN B.l
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