The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-04-19
DEPUTIES KILL
STRIKING MINERS
We're Shot BY Them While Try
ing to Rescue Fellow
Workman.
TROOPS ARE CALLED FOF
Town of Windsor, Pa, is in q State q
Terror, as 1t is Feared the Strik-
ers viii Resort to the Use
OF Dynamite.
TROOPS ARE CALLED FOF

OF Dynamite.
Johnstown, Pa, April 1S.-Three men
were shot dead, a boy fatally wounded
and Il mining engineer. Eugene Delany,
seriously injured in u riot at Windber
among the striking coal miners last
night. The place is in q state Of ter
ror. Sheriff Begley has been sum-
moned and an appeal has been made to
Governor P~ennypacker for troops. Sew
eral others of the rioters sustained
slight injuries. The dead men II
most of the injured are foreigners.
The foreign element had been cele-
brating Easter Monday in the mining
section and much liquor had been
used. The streets We're thrCnged all
day with a boisterouS crowd, but no
sign of trouble appeared until last
night. a body OF strikers were as
sembled in front of the Windber Jail
discussing the mass meeting that had
been held during the afternoon and
which had been addressed by three
Catholic priests. The discussion grew
into argument. Soon there was a free
for all fight. Strike deputies made a
number of arrests, All of the arrested
men were union men and their COL
leagues set up a cry that they were
being disseminated against.
Mob Attempts to Rescue Prisoners.
The arrested men were marched to
the Jail door, but there a moi had
formed and an attempt was made to
take them from the officers. Forced
back from the Jail doors. the mob,
growing more violent every minute,
threatened the deputies until the Off
GERS fired.
When the smoke had cleared away
and the victims of the shots We're
viewed by the crowd there We're cries
of anger, and soon miners that were
armed returned the shots of the depu-
ties. The firing ceased almost as soon
as it began, however, and the crowd
filed away from the Jail.
There is much dynamite stored here
and it is feared the strikers will re-
sort to the explosive in revenge.
Shortly before midnight the town
,Guieted down and the crowd began tC
disperse from the streets. The state
lconstabulary had been summoned from
G~reensburg but q freight wreck has
delayed their special train and they
will not reach Windbcr until today
Trouble is anticipated when the con-
StaDulary arrive at the mines as the
foreign element are very ~antagonistic
to the state officers.
When something like order began tC
appear in the town it was learned tina;
Me names of the dead men We're:
PEITRO MARTINI.
PAUL ZILLS.
ANTONIO MAZUKA.
The boy who was fatally wounded
Is Charles Foster, Il years Of age.
Late last night the bodies of the mer
who had been shot We're removed
from the streets where they had fall
len to an undertaker's establishment
CHARLES Foster, the 1~2-year-old boy
that was wounded, died ut the hospi-
tai. Word vas also received from
Somerset that Sheriff Basley had
started for WinGber TO take charge
OF the situation.
Story of an Eyc Witness.
An eye witness Of the riot in describing
tho affair said the trouble started vine,
Deputy Sheriff w. II. McMullon went tC
the mass meeting hold by the strikin,
miners in a wood al tn" edge Of the town
Many of the miners had been drinking ant
the sight of the deputy made them furious
The officer was quickly surrounded b,
miners who threatened to Kill him. Nc
Mullen realizing that his situation wa!
desperate fled for his life. finding rcfug,
in the house of Councilman Charles Davis
Practically every man who had gone t
the mass meeting Joined in the chase afte
the fleeing deputy, and soon after tn,
latter had entered the Davis house it wa
surrounded by a mob OF 1000 shouting
cursing miners who challenged McMullel
to come out. When McMullcn failed t
appear the mob attacked the house ar,
literally wrecked it. TIN" deputy sheriff
was roughly handled. hut again manage
TO. escape. Tho members OF tho Davi
family fled to the homes of ~neighbors TO
shelter.
Other deputies who had been on dut
guarding the property of the coal compau
had been notified OF the trouble by thi
time and twenty of the rioters wer
landed in the lookup At Windber.
Inflarned by Liquor.
Inc mob, headed by Paul Zills. the
marched to the center Of the own and Or,
pared TO storm the Jail and release tn
rioters. The deputy sherilfs fixed RI
'hayoncts to their rifles ard surrounded til
gam to keep 1t from the mob's possession
II possible. The members of the fire de
partllelt were also called out to help re
store order. The Foreigners were ur~e
20 be orderly and to leave the town, bu
inf1aned by liquor they refused to lister
greeting the efforts to rac:fy them wit
boots and jeers.
AT a signal the mob began to elise in q
the jail, shouting to the deputies to thro,
away their guns and give up the prisoner:
INC o1hcers first tried 20 keep back tn
mop WITH bayoncts. but the effort was in
"!tectual, and when il became certain tina
the uand OF deputies and tircmen coul
not stand before the crowding, infuria re
mob they opened fire. Those of tho 70,
"ignGrs who were closest to the iail ba
already begun using knives in the attenr
10 dlsarln the deputies, while others 1ou,
shed revolvers. the deputies fred on
vollcy, and the foreigners broke and flo
In wild disorder, leaving three of thei
number dead in front 81 the iail III
wounded who We're able 70 walk Wera hu,
ricd to Their homes, while an ambu1,nc
,ook the more seriously hurt to the Wire
ser hospital.
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