Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-04-20
ORDER AGAIN RESTORED.
AFTER NIGHT OF TERROR AUTHOR
tiles ARE ABLE TO CONTROL
RIOTINI MINERS.
BLOODY BATTLEFOUGHT
Three Lives Sacrificed and Dozen Men
Were Seriously Injured When
Jail Is Attacked

JOHNSTOWN. Pa, April 17.-Order
again reigns at Windber after a night of
riot and bloodshed in which three lives
We're sacrificed and a dozen men were
seriously injured. With daylight arrived
the state constabulary ordered to Wind
Der by Gov. Pennypacker, and the town
is now practically under martial law
The state police and deputies have the
situation well in hand and no further
trouble at this time is expected.
The miners did not return to work in
great numbers this morning, although four
mines of the company are in operation
with limited forces.
Take Prisoners to Jail.
This morning Sheriff w. c. Begley
and a force of deputies escorted the
eleven men arrested last night to the
street car line and started them on their
way to the county Jail at Somerset The
officers We're all armed with rifles and
formed Gordon around the prisoners
who were handcuffed together.
Apparently the foreigners were COM
pletely cowed as the threatened attempt
to rescue their comrades was not made.
Another of the rioters was arrested
this morning as he was leaving the
! shot through the abdomen, is still living.
He was reported dead during the night
He was bystander during the fight.
All the remainder Of the wounded are
doing nicely except one.
After weeks of anxiety the situation
brought about by the controversy OF the
coal miners with operators eliminated
last night in a riot at Windber. near this
city, which finally ended i'll bloodshed.
-Four are dead and a number are injured
and throughout the night the town was
patroled by armed guards.
Assault on Jail.
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 AZ
rest
The riot occurred in the early hours of
the night and continued for several
hours, and the night was one of terror.
The dead are principally foreigners
and We're miners VINO We're out on
strike. They are Pietro Martini, Antonio
| Mazuca, and Paul Ellis. who was the
! leader of the mob.
When the deputies fired on the mob
they fled leaving three of their number
| on the ground dead and the strikers re-
|. fusing to permit the undertakers to re-
move the bodies, the latter remained
where they fell until an early hour this
morning.
Celebrating Easter Monday.
The rioters were for most part of the
| foreign element who had been celebrat-
| ing Easter Monday, a holiday that has
| always been greatly observed in this sec
ton by them. Yesterday the streets of
| Windber presented carnival appear
ance. There was mucn liquor consumed
| and many men were under the influence
| of drink.
Former Police Chief Unpopular.
There were many alterations and
| boisterOuS arguments on the streets
| through the day, but no serious ella sh
| occurred. and even a large mass meeting
| was held without any disorder until
Deputy Sheriff w. NJ. McMulen APP
| peared. The foreigners are apparently
anita gonstic to McMulen and have an
old standing antipathy to him: He was
| for five years chief of police of Windber
and during his administration, it is said
made himself unpopular with the miners
Thought Him Spy.
! The sight of McMulIen Infatuated some
of them and he was looked upon as
spy. Many Of the men rushed for him
| and threats We're made against his life
| and he fled. taking refuge in the home of
Charles Davis. The crowd. however.
| gave chase and soon mob of $500 sur
| rounded the Davis home and stoned it
| until the occupants were obliged to seek
| refuge with neighbors.
Many Arrests Made.
| During the riot about twenty of the
miners were placed under arrest and
| landed in Jail.
| Under the leadership of Paul Zils
who was shot dead subsequently, the
mob assailed the Jail, throwing stones
| and missiles that were at hand. The
! deputies surrounded the jail and with the
aid OF the fire department tried to re
| store order.
Battle at the Jail.
| The mob was persistent and refused to
| listen to cooler heads who advised them
| TO disperse and go home, and closing in
| on the Jail began to assaiI the deputies
| The latter tried to stop the onslaught
with bayonets and when it seemed that
| the deputies and firemen would go down
| before the Infatuated men, the deputies
| fired. This was not done. however be-
! fore knives and revolvers appeared in
| the hands of the strikers.
| But one voiley was fired and at the
sound of the guns the mob broke and
| fed.