The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-24
|. DAY AND NIGHT.
State Police Patrol the Streets
of Mckees Rocks.
The Arrest of Suspicious Per-
SONS Continues.
UNDER ARMED GUARD
Funerals of the Dead Strikers
Will Be Conducted.
Additional Details Regarding
the Riot Coming Out.

Pittsburg. Pa. Aug. 24.-The sec
ond day of the reign of martial law
in McKees Rocks, the scene of Sun
day nights turbulent disorders in and
about the plant of the Pressed Steel
Car. company, augured well for tenn
porary truce of hostilities.
The arrival of additional state po-
lice under command of Captain
Robertson, of the Wilkesbarre bar
racks, evidently had a quieting effect
upon the foreign strikers and their
sympathizers. Even at the early hour
Of dawn. the few persons who were
going about their business on the
the streets of McKees Rocks carried
about them an air of peaceableness in
sharp contrast to their agitated ap-
pearance of the past 4S hours.
From now on. mounted troopers
and deputy sheriffs, will patrol
and night. rendering well nigh impos-
sible a recurrence of Sunday nights S
unrestrained violence.
The arrest of suspicious persons
ment made by Captain Marsh An
additional box car Jail was prepared
before dawn as the two now in use
are over crowded with 81 prisoners.
Today will be marked by the
funerals of the rioters to be held in
the Greek Catholic church, McKees
Rocks. It is the intention of the
strikers to attend in body and ac-
company the strikers bodies to the
cemetery for interment. To offset
any demonstrations at the funeral of
the strikers. deputy sheriffs will be
present at the church and grave yard.
The bodies of Troopers John Smith
and John L. Williams were forwarded
to their homes early today, the former
to Centralia, Pa. and the latter to
Pueblo, Colo. The caskets were heaped
with wreaths and floral tributes, re-
membranes from the state and county
authorities as we'll as comrades of the
dead troopers. The burial of Deputy
Sheriff Harry Exley was also held early
today. Sheriff Gumbert for the county
of Allegheny, remembered his brave
deputy with a wreath
!. It has developed that Trooper Will
Hams. just before he left Greensburg.
Pa, expressed his belief to his com
radeS at the barracks that he was on
his way to his death at McKees Rocks.
Fellows he is reported to have
said. IT feel certain that something is
going to happen at McKees Rocks and
for the first time since have Joined
the constabulary. 1 feel like turning
away from duty"
Williams was one of the first to fall
in the Sunday night riots and as his
body. lay in the morgue, the features
were hardly tinguishable as, after
death. he had been trampled upon and
beaten almost, beyond recognition.
1t has developed that Deputy Sheriff
Harry Exley did not fire his revolver
Sunday night until he himself was shot
at and probably wounded. according to
a statement made by Sheriff Gumbert,
who absolved Exley of the blame of
being the aggressor in precipitating the
clash between the authorities and the
strikers.
Sheriff Gumbert also announced that
he had received a letter from the pres
ident of the Pfttsburg Railways COM
paDy, reque sting protection for passen-
gers and cars passing through the Nc
KEGS Rocks strike zone. The sheriff
said that certain lines entering Schoen-
vile will discontinue service tempor-
ariIy until order is restored.
Graphic sideHghts of the riotous
hours of Sunday night have just pierced
the veil of gloom that has surrounded
McKee's Rocks for the past 48 hours.
Loopholed and barricaded Greene's
hotel resembled block house during
the fatal riots. A number of the Hud-
son river workmen employed in the car
works, board at the hotel, and James