The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-07-24
EIlS AR
STABBED and INJURED
Five Men Have Flesh Hacked Into
strips And Two May Die.--One Man.
Sustained Thirty-F our Stabs.-Joe
Miller in jail Charged with Attempt
to Murder.

Five men we're badly stabbed and
slashed with knives and number Of
others hurt in a bloody race riot al
PinnickinnicE mining camp Sun
day morning which was the termina.
ton of big christening party held
at the home of Pete Horkovitch.
Four of the injured are in hospital
two of them being in critical con-
dition; the host of the party lies in
precarious condition at his home
a dozen or so are wearing bandages
and sings applied by physicians
one man is in Jail and several more
will probably be there with him
shortly.
Pete Horkovitch, a miner at Pin
nielSinnick mine, held the christsn-
mo party in honor of the baptism OF
his infant boy. The affair was to
& be one of extraordinary proportions
in social and entertainment way
and Pete had invited a large num-
Der of foreign laborers of Pinnickin.
nick camp and of the Phillips Sheet
and Tin Plate mills to attend. He
had made extensive preparations for
the event for the two days proceed
ing it. A liberal quantity of food
and refreshments was secured. An
idea of the extensiveness of this
feature of the affair can be gained
from the fact that sixty-five pounds
4 of fresh meat, fourteen cases of beer
and q generous quantity of whiskey
aud other LIQUORS were included III
the make up of the bill of fare,
Other food stuffs and refreshments
we're obtained IN like proportions.
1t was to be a regular old-fashioned
affair and it was to be imbued with
all Of. the characteristics and GUS
toms Of his countrymen.
Among those Pete invited to the
affair we're Italians, Hungarians,
Poles. Russians and a number OF
other foreigners but there was one
class, of nationality, he did not an
wife because he was not upon the
most intimate terms with them.
These were Croatians and it appears
that they had had feud of long
standing with some of the other for
eigners in that community.
When the festivities of the big
event were at their height it appears
That the Croatians got real sore be-
cause they had not been included
among the invited guests, and they
decided to go over to the party to
sec about it. After they arrived at
Pete's house. which was the head
qllatcrs for the affair, they kicked
mp n muss about the old grudge they
had and started fight with Pete
aHorkoyitch This was long after
the christening and the guests had
been indulging in dancing, singing
and other various amusements and
at the same time partaking of the
refreshments which had been pro-
vided in such liberal quantities.
About the time the fight started the
most of the men were feeling pretty
frisky from the result of the intoxi-
cants. -
The fight between Pete HorE|,
witch and the Croatians started as 4
fstfglrt but in short time it grew
bloody for knives of the stilleth
kind were brought into play. No
sooner had Pete gotten well into the
fray than number of his friend
jumped in to help him ont. As
soon as blood began to flow ter
rikle le ensued in which about a
s-hundre& ben took part. gSiepds on
bch sid jumped into Nile
"a Iearly every participa lad a
..hife. Blood was spilled over
the place and the din of bakan was
something awful.
The arrival of officers with {
crowd of other men stopped thu
fight but it may have been that thu
participants had fought to exhaus
ton. When the dust of battle clear
Cd away the ground was strewn will
tSe wounded and many We're stopp
inG the blood which gnshed from
slasbes in their bodies.
pie ambulance from the ST
arE hospital was summoned AM