Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-24
PRESSED STEEL
COMPANY PLANT
IS NOT CLOSED
CAR CONCERN CONTINUES TO
KEEP MILLS OPEN
STRIKE sYMPATl1lZERs MAN
ACLED TO HORSES
Troopers Search Houses at sehoen-
willie and confiscate Weapons.
To Probe Charges of
Peonaqe
LEV Assoclated Press.l

tBy Associated Press.l
n ITTSBURG, Aug. 23.-Three cole
umns of smoke came from the
Il chimneys of the Pressed Steel
Car company's plant in Schoenyille to-
night, the plant being in operation de-
spite efforts of mobs 70 scare off the
imported workingmen.
The death list resulting from last
nights rioting was swelled tonight
when Mike Desoskl, one of the strlk-
ers living in McKees Rocks, died at
Mercy hospital from gunshot wounds.
This brings the death list up to eleven.
The strikers seemed to realize for the
first time the company could get along
without them. More state police nave
been ordered here to augment the COM
panv Of mounted constabulary on duty
at the car plant.
The strikers realize the mounted
troops are too much for them. Yet all
day the troopers were subjected to
abuse from windows and doors when
| ever they CHANGED to pass the house of
strike sympathizers. In retaliation
every striker or sympathizer who left
| his doorstep was searched. Besides
searching, the troopers examined the
strikers personally, and if they bore
bruises or traces of being dubbed, they
were promptly arrested, as the troopers
| considered such evidence proof the
men had participated in last nights
rioting.
Prisoners ManacIed to Horses
Twenty-Five men were arrested be-
| fore nightfall. Those who resisted
were manacled to horses and dragged
through the streets to the plant en-
| trance.
At noon the great bells of the ca
thedral in McKees Rocks began toll
| ing. 49,
This was kept up for more than two
hours. Then the bells were ordered
silenced by state troops, as 1t was
pointed out such demonstration agl-
tated the strikers.
Strikers wives besieged Lieutenant
Smith of the state constabulary for
news Of their missing husbands. Inc
lieutenant had ten hats, gathered from
| "bloody corner" after the conflict last
night. Several of the women declared
the hats belonged to their husbands OF
sons.
The strikers seemed awed al the eX-
tent of last nights fatalities
News that additional state constabu-
| larry were on their way seemed to act
as a quietus on those few strike sym
pathizers who gathered in doorWays IN
| the evening and discussed the sttua-
| ton.
1t was announced today the govern
ment will heed the peonage charge
against President f. N. Hoffstot and
| Foreman Samuel Cohen of the Pressed
| Steel Car company to the extent OF
making a thorough investigation of the
allegations made by Albert Namos,
| who sWore to the charges before Unit
ed States Commissioner Lindsey Sat
urday
Situation Quiet but Tense
Following one of the most fatal and
| desperate strike riots experienced in
| PittsburG for more than a score of
wears. a quiet but tense situation pre-
vailed at o'clock this morning at
McKees Rocks, the scene last night
of terrorzing conflict between state,
county and special police and en-
ployes of the Pressed Steel Car COM
pany.
known dead:
MIKE DESOKI, striker.
! HARRY EXLER, deputy sheriff.
GEORGE MILLHASSER, striker.
JOHN L. WILLIAMS, trooper,
| formerly of California.
ANTON GUBERNET, striker.
JOHN c. SMITH. trooper.
| UNIDENTIFIED WHITE MAN, be-
| lieved to be striker.
A dozen men, both strikers and po-
| lice, are in hospitals fatally injured,
while at least two score men, women
and children are suffering from bullet
wounds and injuries inflicted with
clubs and stones.
Property was damaged to the extent
Of thousands of dollars. Three street
cars were wrecked, many vehicles
smashed, streets Uttered with window
glass, nearly a hundred doors of
houses broken and half a dozen horses
shot to death.
Inquiries Made for Relatives
Daylight changed conditions from a
scene of absolute lawlessness to one of
fearful anxiety Foreign women, who
had fought with q ferocity unequaled
by their husbands, pathetically i'm
plored information concerning a miss
ing relative, probably either shot to
death or mortally wounded.
Shooting continued from various Sec
tions of the strike zone long after the
main battle had been fought last night,
but did not reach serious proportions.
and the troopers remained close to the
plant.
Just as dawn was breaking the con-
stabulary, mounted and heavily armed,
rode to the scene of last nights car
mage and gathered every particle of
evidence. Hats, collars, coats and 9TH
er wearing apparel were found and
taken to the company's office.
Every effort will be made to locate
the owners, with a view of arresting
them in connection with the death of
the officers.
Leniency heretofore displayed by the
constabulary towards the strikers is
absent today. Stringent measures are
being used, and the least overt act
committed by the strikers is met with
q riot stock or the hoof of a police
mans horse.
Attempts were made this morning to
prevent the holding of a mass meeting
at the historic Indian mound, where,
up to this time, the meetings of the
idle men have been held daily.
Strikers Are Turned Back
Thousands Of. strikers began their
journey to the mound early today, but
many of them were forcibly and abb
ruptiy halted and started in an oppo-
site direction.
Owing to the sullen demeanor of the
strikers, the strength of the constabu-
larry is concentrated in the vicinity OF
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