The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-14
BLOODSlIED.
Pennsylvania Slavs Have q Battle
With the Deputies.
Seven Armed Deputies on Ono Side and
500 Strikers on the Ofher-Strikcra Mai
treat Workmrn-Thc Officers Made
Brave Defense and Won.

aUSroNrOwx, Pa. June IA baltic
between seven armed deputies and n
mob of three hundred strikers oc-
Cured Sunday morning 1T the Lcmons
No. works OF the Mcclure Coke Co.
One striker. Slav. was killed Instant
", and two other Slav strikers were
fatally wounded. The deputies were
surrounded and fired upon by the
strikers before they shot.
The incidents Leading up to the bat
tie began Saturday evening, when n
mob of several hundred strikers, most
ly from the works OF the FriclS Co..
gathered at the Pennsylvania railroad
depot at New Haven and took prisoners
four workmen, who ore employed ut
the Valley works Of the Frick Co.,
and were on their way home at Eeising-
ing.
when they stepped Off the train the
mob surrounded them and marched
them away The four men were COW
cred over with chalk and big placards,
with 'scab." ''blacklcg" and other cpl
thets lettcrcd thereon. The men were
then marched through the streets, es-
corted by hooting mob. and taken to
the Trottcr and Lcisinging plants,
where they were pnrndcd through tho
streets between the company houses.
The strikers jcered them and the
women spit upon them. and hit them
with stones and clubs. They wcro
even marched past their own homes,
and their wives and children permitted
to view them in their disgruccful con-
dition.
Sheriff Wilhelm dispatched Deputy
Sheriff Allen with seven deputies to
rescue the workmcn.. Allen arrived ut
o'clock. st no time was he able to
overtakc tho mob having the men in
charge. Allen finally learned that the
men were being passed from mob To
mob. 1t was found that the four men
had been taken to Morrcl and from
there to Youngstown and then to Lee
mont where the battle occurred early
Sunday morning.
After placing the deputies toprcvent
the strikers from taking their prison
ers elsewhere Allen returned to Cnion-
town for further orders, and was di-
rected to rescue the prisoners. Return
ing to Lcmont he found two deputies
retreating before bowling mob OF
Slavs. AS Allen rode up Slav fired
his revolver Mt Allen. The bullet
passed over his head. Several OF tho
mob then began firing at the officers.
Aliens revolver was defective, and
only two shots were fired by him. Five
of his assistants came up and began
firing with their Winchcstcrs
About fifty shots were exchanged,
the mob slowly advancing. the dcpu-
ties retreating until reinforced by
other deputies, when Il stand was made.
The men then began to dispersc. Sher-
if Wilhelm was again notified and sent
thirteen more deputies. An hour later
twelve of the mob were arrested and
brought to Lemont.
4 Slav was killed. and hi. corpse wna
found lying in the road with a hole
through the body made by Il Winchc"-
ter ball. Two others were foMnl in
houses near by, both said to i-e lnortal-
ly wounded. having hecn shot through
the thighs. The strikers refused To
give the names Of the Slav killed or Ut
those intnred They wanted the oili-
GERS 60 take the dead striker with them
when making the arrests. One Of tho
men arrested was shot in the arm.
At eoclock II special train brought
ten more deputies to I-cElont, and then
took the wounded men to the hospital
Mt Connellsvillc Many others are be-
lieved To have been woandod. None OK
the deputies were injured.