Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
WOMEN LED THE RIOTERS.
DESPERATE BATTLEIN PENN
SYLVANIA'S COKE REGION.
An Attack on tho Painter Works -
superintendent White Struck
Down and Hacked with Hatch.
ct by Hungarian Woman Raid
ers Driven on.

| STS driven On,
RiotinE. followed hy h!oolshc,l. a~ tho r,,-
suit OF the coke strike occurred at o'clock
e. m, at the Painter works ~ tho Mcclure
Company, two miles north ot Scn,tInle.
! Penn. Hungarian women lnI the mob o,
strikers, who numbered about loo Tho wo-
mer marched in front. when an Onslaught
was mndo on the works ShoDtin.
resulted from the attack aud among thosn
most seriously IN jurcl wore Sanford White
mine superintendent Ewin. H. Kniy. thu
! bookkerpor John ShnnrSky. Rnpt through
the thigh aui head split with an axe. ste
phen IOuski, shot through 10th thighs
Murtos Schonesky. shot In tho shoulder un-
known SlAv woman, shot In the thl.h
White and ltndy where surrounded anI ter
riHIy beaten ovcrtho head AMI about tho body.
White wna knocked down 10y a hatrhut In
the hands OF n big Sluv. lie WAS also cut with
G hatchet In the hands Of "A Hungarian wo-
man. As he lay unconscious upon the ground
another Slav rushed upon him AMI was about
to deaf him ~ death blow with an uNn
when James Tarr. one Of tho store clerks.
knocked the Hssailant down with club In
desperate rescue White WAS dragged into
"A neghhOring engine house Later H., WAS
taken TO tho Minors Hospital at ConnoIs-
Ville where, ut last accounts his recovery
was considered doubtful. Rely was
taken TO Scottdnlc, his home liza
but later 1t was thought hc would
recover. Th" fornign"r who were hurt worn
carried to adjoining houses and cured for
by doctors. II was thought that two OF tho
Huns who were shot in the riot would not
recover. Several strikers wcro carried from
the field, and II was believed that some were
killed.
DR.. w. H. Cole" tho COmInny physician
says that fifteen strikers went down in tho
three charges. Three men nnl ono woman
were carried Oft the ground after tho first
charge. and when the mob finally retroutrd
they bore away at least ten. Throo OF tho
most seriously wounded were left near tho
works
Since the strike the Painter Works had
been doing little work, ten men being ON
ployed in the mines and twenty in the yards.
| The superintendent, boss and store clerks
had been acting as deputy shcrins, and
they were all armed with rifles and re
volvers. Tho works wcro lirod up at
8 O'Clock n. IN. with about half
dozen competent men. Two hours later tho
strikers began tn assemble near tho works.
Some of the men were frightened Hni went
hOmc but most of them rcmainod at work
committee was sent to notify tn" men 10
como out. but the men made fiat refusal
The strikers thcn armed themselves with
bricks, stones, clubs and hHtrh"ts. Tho
Hungarian women had tin pans, coke forks,
brooms and other weapons. With tho wo-
| men in line AT their head, TIA" strikers swoopod
down upon the works. The men had not
been rs active in recent Interference with
wOrkmCn as the women. The latter were de-
termined that the 'backlegs, " as they called
the workmcn, should bo driven from tho
ovens. As the mob approached the works
Engineer White drew his revolver and fred
ut the strikers.
ono of the women shrickcd and fell 10 the
ground, the blood gushing from q wound In
the thigh. The Huns and Slavs, maddrnod
at this. rushed at the deputies and wOrkmcu
i'll great fury. In an instant they wcrc upon
the deputies, savag"ly attacking thcm with
clubs and stones. Driven into close quarters
and bcwldcred hy the shower Of flying mis-
silcs, the deputies were unable 10 us" their
rifles. They ompttod their TcvOlycrs into
the attacking party ana fled.
There was "A mom"ntary Iull, during which
the women dragged OF their wounded. Then
the infuriateI mob charged upon White and
Rody and the others, who wero hudiled to
gtthcr near tho engine house. Tho fury
seemed TO bo directed toward white, and It
was in this rush, made in the face Of the fire.
from the rifles, that he AMI Rody were beaten
to the ground and hacked with hatchcts nui
nearly hutchered outright.
BY this time re-rnfOrccmcnts had arrive !,
aud IN the rally made by tho clerks and
deputies Whites BODY was dragged insIin
the engine house. There the force Of the
third charge of the mob wa broken 10y rapid
firing. The defence ralli"l Hnd, firing aud
yelling, attacked the mob In turn and drove
them over the hill above the ovens
deputy engaged In tho fight said that no
less than fifteen fell in front Of tho WInchcs
ters, anl that every timo White fired u Hun
went down.