Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-05-12
LAID LOW BY LEAD.
Another Terrible Riot Occurs in
the Coke Regions.
strikers Wives Lead n Charge Against
workers-Guards Fire Upon Rioters and
Desperate Fight Ensues-Three or
-Four Killed-NIany Wounded.
STORY OF TIE BATTLE.

| -. STORY OF THE BATTLE.
UNtoNTowN, Pa May 5.-One of the
bloodiest scenes in the history of the
strike in the coke region occurred at
| day break Friday morning at the Paint
er mines of the Mcclure Coke company
near Scottdale. 1t is thought at least
three or four persons are dead and at
least twelve others hsse been seriously
injured as result of the days conflicts.
1t was day of bullets and axes and
the widest lawlessness reigned In a
daylight battle at the Painter
plant fifteen Hungarians were shot,
several fatally, and at least three
dead comrades are thought tn have
been carried off the battlefield
and buried secretly. Superintendent
Sanford White, of the Painter plant,
and E. B. Roddy, bookkeeper at the
same works, were horribly beaten and
both are lying at the point of death
Sixty-t three Slavs are now in Jail
charged with rioting.
BY contract with the Mcclure compa-
NY thirty workmen reported for duty
at the Painter mines. The works had
been closed down on account of the
strike, and for several weeks
not a wheel had turned. The
report that men had gone into
the mine was circulated among the
strikers and about daybreak they
began gathering on the common.
There were many women in the crowd.
They were armed with axes, hatchets,
clubs and picks A meeting was held
at which it was decided to charge on
the works and bring the men out and
to place the women in the front of the
procession, so che deputies would not
shoot.
charge was made with the women
in front, the men daring the deputies
to open fire on them. They were soon
in the yards, regardless of the presence
of the deputies, and sweeping every
thing before thin. superintendent
Sanford White urged the deputies not
to shoot, and while trying to prevent
serious trouble was knocked down by
blow from an AK welded by woman.
He fell to the ground unconscious and
was dealt another blow after he was
down.
This started the battle and for twen-
ty minutes bullets from WInchesters
and revolvers were flying on every
hand. All the deputies opened fire,
sciousness, fired his revolver into the
bowling mob as he lay on his back
with the blood flowing from two horri-
BILE scalp wounds.
In the first conflict fully ten Hungari-
ans fell to the ground and were car
ried away to their settlement, while a
great many were injured by flying mis-
siles. The sight of the wounded and
the dying falling at their sides only in
, furiated the mob, which rushed on the
} deputies like wild men and women.
, They pounced upon White, who was
!. still lying helpless near the ovens, and
beat him into insensibility with clubs
and stones AS Hungarian was about
to kill him with an ak James Tarr, a
,, deputy, knocked the Slav down with a
, club. White received three very severe
scalp wounds, his skull was fractured
and he was injured internally and has
been vomiting blood ever since the bat
tie. He is thought to be fatally in
r jured. tr
AS soon as White was unable to raise
!, his head above the ground the furious
= Slavs attacked E. b. Roddy, book
keeper for the company, who has been
: acting as deputy since the strike be-
r gan. He was slashed twice on the
head with hatchet and was badly in
a jured internally. He, too, has been
:. vomiting blood.
Q The marauders did not give up the
invasion until the last eputy had taken
! shelter in the tipple. A shower of bull
i let's was poured into them as long as
9 the ammunition lasted and as fast as a
Slav would fall he would be carried
: away. The ammunition at last gave
;. out and the guards fled to the tipple for
q protection.
8 II is impossible to tell how many
. Huns were shot. They were carried
i. away as fast as they We're dropped out
$ of the ranks, and it is said by persons
, in the riot that at least three or four
We're killed outright One woman was
h shot in the breast and another through
d the thigh, but both will recover.
Deputy Sheriffs Mat Allen and John
IS Richards took posse of deputies and
started at once for the scene of the
@ @ riots. They found the men and wom-
If en- all in the houses, and without meet
d ing the least opposition arrested sixty.
d three of those who composed the mob.
,s They We're brought to Jail here under
rs the protection of twenty-five Win.
o chesters In the gang of prisoners
IS We're twelve women and ten children.
% AT the time of the trouble thirty men
i. were at work, all of whom have since
a. quit. The works are idle.
t The situation in the coke region is
Il alarming. The big operators say they
n. will start up on Monday morning re-
s. gardless of consequences, and numer
c. GUS repetitions of the days bloody work
p are inevitable LtE
y Late reports from the north end
e where the works of w. j. Rainey are
r. in operation, are to the effect thai
a armed strikers are assembling in larg,
"a a numbers for the purpose of raiding tn,
r active plants. Fears are entertained
| of further scenes. t H" 2