Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-04-05
THE COKE WAR.
The Strikers Have Become
Rioters and Murderers.
Chief Engineer Paddock BrutaIIy
Murdered.
Whole Coke Region In Danger r--BIoody Work
Expected for Today.

PIrrsbuRG. Pa, April "A special from
Unioutown. Pa, says: Chief Engineer Jo-
seph II. Paddock, of II. c. Frick Coke
Company, was brutally murdered by 200
| riotous Hungarians at the Davidson Coke
works, Connellsville this afternoon. The
murderers were pursued by a sheriffs posse.
One of the fleeing Huns was shot and
killed and two others fatally wounded. Tive
workmen in the region who refused to join
the mob, were assaulted and fatally hurt.
Ninety four rioters and the alleged murder
ers were arrested and are now in Jail
charged with murder.
Two hundred picketed men acting as
deputy sheriffs, tonight, are searching for
l.. II. Davis, president of the United Mine
Workers; Daniel Darby, secretary of the
organization; John McSloy, who is alleged
to have organized the murderous mob and
who is said to be directly responsible for
the killing of Paddock.
/ Never before were the dangerous for
eiguers so thoroughly aroused. They
seemed organized for murder from one end
of the region to the other and they marked
their path today With wreck and ruin.
Paddock was in tipple with Hugh Call,
one of his assistants when the mob broke
into the tipple building, apparently with
the view to burning it. Call fred on the
mob, which seemed to intensity their rage
and they rushed upon him. He jumped
through window and escaped.
Paddock attempted to escape by running
| through the crowds. Stones and clubs
were hurled at him. Finally he was
knocked down by heavy stone and each
one of the demons struck him with stone
while he lay helpless. He was dis8gured
almost beyond recognition. The body was
carried to window and thrown about 40
feet to the burning ovens below. Then the
mob disappeared over the hill in the direc-
ton of Bradford.
Adjutant General w. w. W.Greenland came
to Connellsville, today, to examine into the
situation. He regards the outlook with
concern, but has not determined to call out
| the militia. Sheriffs of Facet and West
| moreland counties have be, n notified by the
coke producers of tn ir responsibility for
all the property 10 the region. Neither has
asked the Cove rnor for troops.
Toni sht a dozen different bands of out
laws are camping on their arms throughout
the region, and tomorrow's work promises
to be more deadly than todays. Every
plant in the re gion south Of the Leith works
were visited by b md 800 strong early this
morning and the men at work compelled to
quit. At all the plants the workmen were
told that thu Y would be beaten within an
inch of their lives if, they again returned to
work.
Tonight large body of strikers, all
foreigners, held meeting in Unionrown,
for The purpose of planning the work for
tonight. Later they left in body for the
plants south of here, to keep watch at all
plants to see that no work be done tomor-
row. None of the larger plants will at
tempt to run and it is hardly likely that any
of the smaller plants will try.
A Connellsville, Pa, spe' id says: Late
reports from Bradford, tonight, say that 10
HuDgariars were killed tonight or fatally
injured by deputies and ciIzens pursuing
them for the murder of Chief Engineer
Paddock.
A sensational runor was received here at
l tonight, to the effect that clerks, com
pany officials and deputies in tn, Offices of
the Frick and Ma9uire Companies we're be-
sieged by a mob of 1900 strikers, the riot
ers making menaciog demonstrations. A
telephone message from the company store
partly confr as the rumor.