The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-15
THE MOB PREVAILED
OPERATIONS AT WARNKE WASH
ERY PUT A STOP TO.
STRIKERS SHOT BY DEPUTIES.
LIVELY FIVE MINUTES AT DUR
YEA YESTERDAY.

auIIets Flew After Mob Had AsSaiI-
ed workers and Deputies With
stones-TwO Men Wounded and
others Had Close CaIIs-Strikers
Charge the Deputies With RiOting
and FeIoniOus WOunding-Twen-
ty-fve Strikers Arrested by Depu-
ties and Jailed Because They
could Not Give $4,000 Bail Each.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Aug. IA riot
occurred at the Warnke washery at
Duryea this afternoon. Trouble had
been brewing since early this morning.
Before o'clock five hundred men and
boys had collected about the place and
threatened to interfere with those who
wanted to go to work. Sheriff Jacobs
had a number of deputies on the
ground, and they held the. crowd back.
The works were started up, but re-
NAMED in operation only a short time.
The crowd ON the outside threw stones
over the stockade at the deputies who
were on guard inside. Several times
the deputies We're tempted to fire.
Rather than have any trouble work
was suspended for the time being.
The deputy sheriffs returned to
Wikesbarre early this afternoon, re-
porting all quiet at the washery when
they left. They had hardly reached
Wilkesbarre, however, when the dep
uties on guard were attacked. Sew
eral men in the mob also attempted
TO climb over the barricade The dep
uties warned them to- go back, and
when they did not a volley was fired,
but most of the bullets went high into
the air. Harry Collins was shot through
the right leg. Andrew Mdrlack
a Lithuanian, received flesh wound,
and another foreigner had a narrow
escape, a bullet passing through his
coat. A negro employed at the wash
cry, thinking his life was in danger,
escaped from the barricade and ran
down the street He was pursued by
an angry crowd, who cried, Hang
him! Hang him!" The man was finally
run down, but before any harm could
be- done number of constables res
cued him.
Deputy sheriffs from Luzerne and
I,ackawanua counties went to the
scene of the rioting, but when they ar
rived all was quiet, the mob having
dispersed. An eve witness says the at
tack, the shooting and the, retreat did
not last more than five minutes.
Warrants by Both Sides.
Warrants were sworn out before the
burgess. charging the deputies with
rioting and felonious wounding. The
constables went to the washery and
placed rs men under arrest. They
were arraigned before Burgess Bur-
lington tonight, and held in $4,000 bail
each. They could not furnish bail and
were brought to the county Jail here.
The United Mine Workers say the
shooting was uncalled for, and the
deputies alone are to blame. Vice
President Rescavage of the Miners
Union of the District No, ]. says the
deputies We're in an ugly mood all day.
Sheriff Jacobs of Luzerne county is
in Hazleton. The office here is in
charge of Chief Deputy Rhodda. He
denied a report that gained currency
tonight that Sheriff Jacobs had ap-
piled to Gov. Stone for troops. He
says all is quiet at Duryea now, and
he does not expect any further trou-
BILE. If it is decided to resume opera
lions at the washery again the sheriff
will have a guard strong enough to
preserve order and give enough pro-
lection to those who want to go to
work.