The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-04
SIav Women Head a Mob Near
Scottdale, Pa.
Deputies Fire On Them Severely
Wounding One.
SLAV MEN ENRAGED.
They Attack the Deputies With
Great Fierceness.
Shots Inffachanged and a Num-
b. Wounded.

ScorTDALE, Pa, May A riot oc-
CURED at the Painter works of the Nc
Clure Coke company about o'clock this
morning. The company made an effort
to open this and other plants of the COM
pany on Tuesday, and today the women
living at the plant determined to drive
the "blacklegs" from work. They as
sembled and with tin pans. clubs, coke
forks and brOoms, marched to the coke
yards. Sanford White. mine superin-
tendent, Ewing B. Roddy, bookkeeper,
and a lot of deputies were on guard
a committee was sent into the mine to
request the men to come out and upon
their refusal, the mob headed by a score
or more of women attacked the party.
White and Roddy assisted by dozen
of deputies, stood guard and when the
mob came up with rush, White fired
into their ranks. A Hungarian woman
fell with a bullet in her thigh. Mad
dened by this, the mob, which numbered
a couple of hundred, closed in on the dep
uties who, driven into close quarters and
blinded by shower of missiles,
were unable to use their Winchesters.
The Two Men Surrounded.
After emptying their revolvers, they
fed and the mob surrounded White and
Roddy. A burly Hungarian attacked
the latter with hatchet, telling him to
the ground and was about to deal the
deHth blow. when James Tarr knocked
was dragged into the engine house to
escape the fury of the strikers. By this
time the deputies rallied and three vol
leys were fired in quick succession, fore
ing the mob to retreat to the hill in utter
rout A mum ber of strikers were carried
from the battlefield and it is believed
they were killed
DR. w. HI. Cole, the company physi-
clan, stated that fifteen strikers went
down in the three charges. These men
and one woman were carried off the
ground after the first charge, and when
the mob finally retreated they bore away
ut least ten more. Three of them were
left near the works. One of these was
shot through the thigh, another through
both legs, and the third had a bad
wound in the groin.
At o'clock Waite is suffering intense
agony and his recovery is yet a matter of
doubt. Roddy Is believed to have been
fatally wounded. The affair has caused
the most intense excitement here. 1t is
feared the foreigners will avenge the
death of their countrymen and that this
is but the beginning of riots in all parts
of the region. 1t would not be a sur
prise to the people here should the
strikers resort to the use of dynamite to
blow up the works.
List of the Injured.
The injured as far as known are:
Sanford White, superintendent ter
ribly beaten, condition critical
Ewing b. Roddy, badly beaten, condi-
tion critical.
John Shonsky. shot through the thigh.
stephen Yonsky, shot through both
thighs.
Joseph Skonenski, head split with an
axe.
Murtes Schonski, shot in shoulder
Unknown Slav woman, shot in the
thigh.
White was taken 70 the Connellsville
hospital, and it is thought, will not re-
cover. Ewing Roddy was brought here
and cared for. The foreigners were car
for by Drs. Rogers and Letters-
Sheriff Richards of Fayette county is
upon the scene of the battle with forty
men, armed with Winchesters, and has
already arrested twenty persons char ged
with being implicated in the riot. They
are now on their way to UniontOWn.