The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-17
MOB STORMS JAIL;
THREE SHOT DEAD
Strikers, Seeking to Liberate I'M
prisoned Friends, Are Moved
Down by Volley. =.
Eight Wounded in Riots Started
when Grocer Denies Credit
to Strikers.

Johnstown, Pa, April 17.-Order
again reigns at Windber, after a night
of riot and bloodshed in which three
lives were sacrificed and dozen men
were seriously injured. With daylight
arrived the state constabulary, ordered
to Windber by Governor Pennypacker,
and the town is now practically under
martial law.
To avoid the possibility of a conflict
of authority, the state police were
sworn in as deputy sheriffs Immediately
upon their arrival and Windber is now
as quiet as tho nothing had happened.
The miners did not return to work
in great numbers this morning. altho
four mines of the company are in oper-
alton with limited, forces.
This morning Sheriff w. C. Begley
and force of deputies escorted the
eleven men arrested last night to the
streetcar line and started them on their
way to the county jail at Somerset. The
officers were all armed with rifles, and
formed Gordon around the prisoners,
who were handcufed together. Appar.
emily. the foreigners were completely
cowed as the threatened attempt to res
cue their comrades was not made.
Terror Turnout Night.
After weeks of anxiety the situation
brought about by the controversy of
the coal miners with the operators cul-
minated last night in a riot at Windber,
near this city, which ended in blood
| shed. Four are dead and a number are
| injured, and turnout the night the
town was patrolled by armed guards.
The shooting was brought on by an
assault upon the Jail made by striking
miners who attempted to rescue COM
rades who had been placed under ar
rest. The riot occurred in the early
hours of the night and continued for
several hours. working the residents to
such pitch that the night was one
/ of terror.
The dead are principally foreigners
and were miners who were out on
strike. They are Peitro Martini. An
tonic Mazuca aud Paul Zills, who was
/ the leader of the mob Curtis Kester.
7 IL years old, bystander during the
trouble, was shot thru the bowels. His
| condition is serious.
l.. When the deputies fred on the mob
the latter fed, leaving three of, their
number on the ground dead, the strik-
ers refusing to permit the undertak.
ers to remove the bodies, the latter re-
manned where they fell until an early
hour this morning.
During the riot about twenty of the
miners were placed under arrest and
landed in jail.
Fire Department as Aid.
Under the leadership of Paul Ellis.
who was shot dead subsequently,, the
| mob assailed the Jail, throwing stones
and any missiles that were at hand.
The deputies surrounded the Jail, and
with the aid Of the fire department,
tried to restore order
| The mob was persistent and refused
to listen to cooler heads, who advised
them to dispense and go home. and.
closing in on the Jail, began to assai1
the deputies. The latter tried to stop
the onslaught with bayonets, and when
it seemed that the deputies and fire.
men would go down before the infuri-
ated men, the deputies fred.
This was not done, however, before
knives and revolvers appeared in the
| hands of the strikers
But one volley was fred, and at the
sound Of the guns the mob broke and
fed.
Mining Engineer Delaney. who was
hurt by a brick thrown while the riot
ers were storming the Jail, and was
taken to the hospital was reported this
morning to be in a serious condition.