Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-08-24
At Least Two Dead Men Were Carried
Away by Friends.
HEAVY DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
Street Cars Are Wrecked and Many
Vehicles Smashed.
ORIGIN OF THE TROUBLE
Pressed steel Car works Employees
Strike to Abolish Percentage
Pooling syAtem Alleged 10
he Inadequate.

PTTTsBITRG. Aug 2s.-The McKees Rocks
city council late tonight at special meet
ing called for the purpose appointed COM
mittee to 20 at once to Harrisburg and ask
/ Governor Stuart to call the state con-
stabulary from the plant of the Pressed
Steel Car company whose $500 employees
are on strike. Neither the car company
nor the strikers were criticized at the coun-
ell meeting. the purpose being simplay TO
protect the citizens OF McKees Rocks and
schoenville
The death list resulting from last nights
wild rioting was sweiled to night, when
Mike Desoski one of the striking men
living in McKees Rocks, died at Mercy
hospital from gunshot wounds In the lungs
and abdomen. This brings the death list
up to seven. Ali of the seriousley wounded
are showing slight improvement.
Three columns Of smoke rises from the
chimneys OF the Pressed Steel Car com
panys plant in Schoenviile tonight, the
plant being still in operation despite the ef-
forts Of mobs to scare off the imported
worklngmen.
Tonight the striking men seemed to real
ize for the first time that the company
could do without them.
Forty state police are on their woy here
tonight to augment the company of
mounted constabulary now on duty at the
car plant.
The strikers realize that the mounted
troopers are more than a match for them.
Yet all during the day these troopers have
been subjected to abuse from doors when
ever they CHANGED to pass strike SYM
pathizer's home. In retaliation every
striker or sympathizer who left his door
step today was searched. Besides the
searching the troopers insisted on examin-
ing the bodies of the strikers, and il they
bore bruises or traces of being dubbed
they were promptly arrested, as the troop
ers considered such evidence proof that
the men had participated in last nights
rioting.
The strikers wives wers viewed with dis
favor by the troopers today Several Of
them, carrying large baskets. were made to
turn over the contents to see that they
were carrying nothing contraband into
the houses.
Twenty men were arrested and put into
the boxcar tails before nightfall. The men
who resisted were manacled to the troopers
horses and dragged through the streets to
the plant entrance. At noon the great
bells Of the Catholic cathedral in McRees
Rocks began tolling. This was kept up
for over two hours. Then the bells were
ordered silenced by state troopers, as it
was pointed out that such demonstration
at the present time only went toward agi-
tating the strikers.
Late today strikers wives beseiged Lieu
tenant Smith of the state constabulary for
news of their missing husbands The
lieutenant had ten hats gathered from
bloody corner after the conflict last
night Several Of the women claimed that
~ h.te al osad N husbands n
sons and wept copously over the head
gear.
The strikers seem awed and bloomy to-
night at the extent Of last nights fatali-
ties The gloom over the little COM
pany village is also attributed TO the fact
that tomorrow a funeral has been planned
for the strikers who were victims of the
rioting. So far as plans for the funeral
have been made, the strikers bodies will
lie in state at the Catholic cathedral in
McKees Rocks during tomorrow morning
and escorted by strikers and their sym
pathizers will be inferred in the little ceme-
terry Just outside OF schoenville.
The news that additional state consta-
bulary were on their way from Wilkes
barre and would be in the strike zone be-
fore morning, seemed TO act as a quietus
upon those few strike sympathizers who
gathered in doorways during the evening
and discussed the situation
meeting OF the striking employees Of
the car plant scheduled for the late after
noon was not allowed TO take place
The announcement was made late today
that the United States government will
heed the peonage charge against Presi-
dent f. n. Hoffstot and foreman Samuel
Copen Of the Pressed Steel Car compony
to the extent Of making a thorough in
] .F Tau an hxF
Albert Vamos. who swore TO the charges
before United States Commissioner Lind
sey on Saturday.
Aside from the human sacrifice. prop
erty was damaged to the extent of thous-
ands Of dollars Three street car lines
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