Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-06-14
A BATTLE.
One Striker Killed and Two Others
Dying.
"SCAB" WORKMEN ARE LABELED.
Fired Upon from Ambush-A Bridge Partly
Burned-GuarSfs Driven Away from
q Trestle and the Trestie
Set on Fire.

O NIoNrowN, Pa, June 1.-THE truce
is ended and armed deputies in the
coke region had to kill or be killed.
One striker killed in his boots, two 9th
ers dying and another shot through, is
the result of the battle yesterday
morning at Lemont. There were six
deputies on one side and mob OF
strikers on the other. The circum-
stances that led up to this latest of the
many tragedies of the coke region
w ere developing since Saturday after
noon and are as follows: Four Ameri-
can workmen, John Delany, Oliver At
tleby, John Britt and James Furlough,
who live at Leisenring, have been
working at the Frick Coal Co.'S valley
works for some time. They came to
New Haven Saturday afternoon, where
they were to take the Leisenring cleo
trio road for home, where they had
not been for a month.
AS soon as they alighted from the
train at New Haven, they were sur
rounded by a mob of several hundred
strikers from Trotter and other works
in the vicinity. The strikers first beat
the four workmen and then put tags
on them bearing the inscription, "Black
legs" also covering them with chalk
marks. They then marched their
prisoners to the Leisenring works and
from there to the Trotter, Morren and
in fact to all the works on the line
from New Haven south, holding them
up as decorated samples of ''scabs' for
the revilings and abuse of strikers
everywhere.
The Fricz Coal Co. heard of the peril
Gus position their workmen were in
lease the men from the costody of the
mob. Field Deputy Matt Allen and
six men were sent to New Haven on
the evening train. They were misled
by false information, the friends of the
strikers battling them at every turn,
but they followed every clew they
could find and were securing the coun-
try all night in search of the mob.
1t was daylight when the squad of
tired deputies reached Lemont- Not
long after daylight the men began to
assemble on the commons by the hum
dred. They engaged in the widest
demonstrations. When deputies came
from under cover they were quickly dis
covered. Then the mob raised howl,
and surrounded them Many of the
strikers had revolvers, and all carried
clubs. They moved against the depu-
ties, who retreated under shower of
clubs and stones
At this juncture Deputy Allen and
three other deputies came up. Allen
was mounted. Riding up to the adj
vancing crowd of miners, he told them
to go back, saying he did not want any
! trouble, and that there would be trou-
bic if he or his men were attacked or
injured. The answer to Allen was
general yell, and one of the strikers
covered him with his pistol and fired.
The shot was close shave for the top
| of Aliens head. Allen turned in his
saddle and called to his five men to fire.
! Each of the men afoot had Winches-
ter. Allen had two revolvers. They
/ opened fire together, and the strikers
stood to it and fought gamely.
| The first shots were fired by them
and they fired as coolly and as rapidly
as did the deputies. They kept closely
in on the men who were working the
Winchesters, realizing that the rifles
would be useless in the melee at close
quarters, while their own revolvers
would be just as effective as those of
the officers.
The deputies gave ground, but kept
up their fire. They were driven to the
extreme end of the company's ground,
where they made a stand. BY that
time three of the strikers were down,
and when the deputies stopped and
prepared to fight it out there the mob
recoiled.
The instant the strikers stopped fir
ing the officers stopped also. The
strikers began at once to carry away the
wounded. The dead man and two who
were fatally wounded were left in the
road where they fell, but there were
others who were able to get away with
a little assistance.
FIRED UPON FROM AMBUSH.
CRIPPLE CREEK, Col, June 11.-About
8 o'clock yesterday morning party of
fifteen deputies, while approaching