Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-23
WILD RIOT
FOLLOWED
BY DEATH
Ten Are Fatally Injured in
Addition to Slain
BATTLE STARTS WITHOUT
WARNING TO ANY ONE
STEEL CAR PLANT NEAR PITTS
BURG SCENE OF RLooDsHED
Soldiers Ride Through Streets Of
SchoenVilIe and with Riot Maces
Beat Spectators on
the Head
STEEL CAR PLANT NEAR PITTS
BURG SCENE OF BLooDSHED
rBy Associated Press.I

nITTSBURG, Aug. 22.-In battle
between state troopers and strik-
= ers tonight, following a wild riot,
six were instantly killed, ten perhaps
fatally wounded, and nearly a score
seriously hurt.
The rioting followed a day of quiet
and broke without warning.
The fight occurred at the Pressed
Steel Car plant at Schoenville.
Following is a partial list of the dead
and injured, made up from reports at
the morgue, hospitals and physicians
offices:
The dead:
JOHN L. WILLIAMS. state trooper.
HARRY EXLER, deputy sheriff.
THREE FOREIGNERS.
The dying:
JOHN H. SMITH, state trooper.
LUCELIAN JONES. state trooper.
SEVEN FOREIGNERS.
George Keith and John O'Donnel.
state troopers, were seriously wounded,
and one woman was shot in the neck.
While the riot lasted mounted state
troopers galloped indiscriminately
through the streets with riot maces
drawn. striking the heads of all per-
sons lettering in the vicinity of the
mill.
Deputy sheriffs and troopers broke in
the doors of houses thought to be the
retreat of the strikers and wholesale
arrests were made.
Scores Are Arrested
From $50 to 1870 o'clock scores were
arrested and placed in box cars used
as jails in the mill yard.
During the early stages of the riot
ing women were conspicuous. Some Of
.I,Z,
and stones. These women. all foreign
ers, apparently insane with rage. in
cited the men to extreme measures.
AT midnight the strike zone was
quiet.
Four deputy sheriffs at first reported
killed and several strikers wounded.
Those killed were Deputy Sheriff
Henry EXler, State Trooper Smith and
two other troopers.
An unidentified deputy was killed
later, making five officers dead in all.
Three strikers were perhaps fatally
hurt.
Exler was killed first and the others
lost their lives in trying to arrest his
assailant.
For the first time since the inception
of the strike the state troopers tonight
opened volley fire on the mob. Six
strikers fell at the first round.
The members of the mob then opened
fire with rifles. Two mounted troopers
dropped from their horses, fatally shot.
They were taken to the Ohio Valley
dying there.
Ambulance Attacked
AS an ambulance made it's way from
the car plant to the hospital carrying
wounded troopers the vehicle was at
tackled and the driver forced to flee for
his life. The frightened horses at
tached to the ambulance plunged wildly
in and about the crowd. Two men
were trampled under the hoofs of the
horses.
The ambulance finally was driven to
the hospital by a detachment of
troopers.
Soon after this a deputy sheriff, not
yet identified, was surrounded by a
crowd of strikers. In a last desperate
to save himself, the officer
drew his revolver and emptied the con-
tents into the crowd. Then throwing
the weapon away, he cried: IT give
up. 1 am all in"
The next moment five bullets were
fired into his body. Not satisfied even
then, the crowd kicked and beat the
body until the features were mutilated
beyond recognition.
Sheriff Gumbert, at the county Jail.
called for fifty men to serve as deputies
in the strike zone at 1890 p. m. At
IL .. m. the sheriff started in an au-
tomobile for the scene of the rioting.
He took with him ten riot guns and
two boxes of riot ammunition.