Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-13
MURDERED BY STRIKERS.
FATAL RIOTS IN THE PENN
SYLVANIA COKE REGION.
While Inspecting the Davidson
Works and Brutally killed-A
Rupning Chase for Niles-SeveraI
Rioters Are Shot Down.

Works and Brutally killed-A
Running Chase for Niles-SeVeral
Rioters Are Shot Down.
4 dispatch from Uniontown, Penn, says
Anarchy is running riot throughout the en-
| tire coke region of this section OF Pennsyl-
| vania More than two-thirds of the thirty big
| coal mines and of the 1900 furnaces in
which their product is turned into coke
are deserted. OF the 10000 miners and
cOkers who should be in tho pits and at
the ovens moro than 10,000, mostly Hun
garians and SavOnians. whose ideas are as
foreign to America as their language, arc
'tramping over the country in bodies of 500
and upward forcing those who have not
Joined them in their strike against the mine
operators to do So
Crazed by liquor and by the ince ndiary
speeches poured into their ears hour after
hsur by dozen demagOgic leaders, these
mobs know no license. recognize law,
have no mercy and seem to be devoid Of
reason.
Three hundred deputy sherifs have been
sworn in and armed with Winchester rifles
for the protection of life and property. The
strikers are prepared to go to any length TO
gain the point of having every mine and
oven in the section abandoned. Nine per-
sons it is said. have been killed and several
wounded.
Tho actions of the foreigners, and espe-
cially the killing of an official of the Frick
Coke Company, so Incensed the better class
of people that there was talk of lynching the
men who did the killing.
The war began at daylight at the Trotter
plant. About 1000 men camped in the woods
during the night and at daybreak marched
on the men who had refused to Join them.
One after another plant was raided and the
workers driven from the ovens and forced to
fee for their lives. The deputy sheriffs
could do nothing with the mob.
Several of the nOn-unionistS were badly
beaten and left for dead. The wives of the
strikers joined them and led in the assaults.
At only one place did the rioters meet with
much resistance. This was at the Davidson
plant of the Frick Coke Company. About 3
o'clock mob of 500 strikers gathered at the
plant and demanded that the nOn-unionists
throw down their tools.
Chief Engineer Joseph H. Paddock or
dered his men to stand firm. This order
was the sequel for q fusilade of stones, sugs
and pieces Of iron. Paddock was struck in
Il dozen places and fell senSelcss. Then one
of the mob shot him through the back of tho
head. Having scared the nOn-uniOnists
away from the plant, the mob ratreated to-
ward Connellsville.
A posse was hurriediy formed and started
in pursuit of the rioters. The latter passed
around ConnelIsvillo and We're met on the
YOughingheny River bridge and were Or
derad to halt
They refused and the posse opened fire
one Ofth0 HungarIanS tell, mOrtaiy wounded
and died in few minutes.
terrible hand TO hand struggle took
place. Guns, revOlvers, blackjackS and
clubs were used, Three moro men were
killed and forty-three of the rioters wero
dubbed into submission and were taken
badly wounded to the COnnellsville Jail.
Among the prisoners is the man who shot
Paddock. Sheriff Wilhelm ordered the
prisoners removed to UniontOwn.
Assistant Chief Engineer Cole, of the Frick
Company, took part in the defense of the
Davidson plant and was badly injured, but
will recover. He assisted the deputies on
the bridge, although badly wounded.
Several small battles took place in different
parts of the region, and in these, it is said,
two persons were killed and many wounded
Several of the rioters arrested on the bridge
will not recover
At 10 o'clock p. m. there were siXty-fOul
rioters In the UntoDtown jail. Outside a wild
mob clamOred for their release.
Appeals were made to the Governor for
troops. There nre several companies of the
Tenth Regiment around ConneIlsvilIe, and
they, as wei! as the Pittsburg regiment, were
hourly expecting to be ordered out.
Campod in Everson Grove, near Scottdalc.
were 1900 strikers, mostly Hungarians,
Poles and Slavs. They wero huddlej
around hundred large wood fires, and sym
pathizers supplied them with provisions.