The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-04-19
DEPUTIES FIRE
UPON STRIKERS
Riot Follows Celebration In a Penn
syIvania Mining Town.
THREE DEAD, OTHERS HURT

7 Clash With Officials Occurred when
an Attempt Was Made to Rescue
Comrades Placed Under Arrest For
Participating In Fray-Further
Trouble Feared.
Johnstown, Pa, April II. - As the
! result of riot at Windber, Pa a
mining town, three men were shot
dead and several others severely
wounded. The place Is in state Of
terror, the sheriff has been summoned
and an appeal made to the governor
for state assistance. The dead men
are foreigners.
An eyewitness OF the riot, in de.
kcribing the affair, said the trouble
| started when Deputy Sheriff w. NJ. Nc.
Mullen went to the mass meeting held
b. the striking miners in wood at
the edge of the town Many of the
miners had been drinking. and the
sight of a deputy made them furious.
7 he officer was quickly surrounded by
miners, who threatened to kill him.
McMullen, realizing that his situation
YES desperate, fed for his life. finding
'Cfuge in the house OF Councilman
Charles Davis. Practically every man
who had gone to the mass meeting
;nined in the chnse after the fleeing
deputy. and soon after the latter had
entered the Davis house it was sur.
rounded by mob OF 1000 shoutin.
tursing miners, who challenged Nc
Mullen to come out. When McMullen
failed to appear the mob attacked the
house and literally wrecked it. The
deputy sheriff was roughly handled,
but again managed to escape.
The members Of the Davis family
fed to the homes of neighborg for
shelter Other deputies who had been
on duty guarding the property of the
coal company had been notified Of the
trouble by this time, and 20 of the
rioters were landed In the lookup at
Windber. The mob. headed by Paul
Zills, then planned an assault on the
jail with the purpose OF releasing the
prisoners. A great crowd of the strik-
era with Ellis at their head marched
to the center of the town and prepared
to storm the jail. The deputy sheriffs
fixed the bayonets to their rifles and
surrounded the Jail to keep it from the
mob's possession, if possible.
At signal the mob began to close
in on the Jail, shouting to the deputies
to throw away their guns and give up
the prisoners The officers first tried
to keep back the mob with bayonets,
but the effort was ineaectual, and
when it became certain that the little
band Of deputies and tremen could not
stand before the bowling, infuriated
men, they opened fire. Those Of the
foreigners who We're closest to the Jail
had already begun using Knives in the
attempt to disarm the deputies, while
others ttoulished revolvers. The dep
uties fired bat one voley and the for
, eigners broke and fled in wild disor-
der, leaving three OF their number
dead in front OF the Jail. The wound
ed who We're able to walk were hurried
to their homes and boarding houses,
while an ambulance took the more
seriously hurt to the Windber hospital.
Trouble is anticipated when the con
ttsbulary arrives AT the mines, as the
foreign element are very antagonlstic
20 the state officers. The names of the
dead men are Pietro Martini, Paul
Ellis, leader of the rioters, and Antonio
Mazuca The boy who was fatally
wounded is Charles Foster, 2 ltngi,
neer Delaney was hurt by being struck
,n the head with brick