New-York tribune., 1909-08-24
STRIKERS LOSE HEART
THEIR WOHEN VAIL At
IU'KEE'S ROCKS.
Coustabulary Enforce Military Larc
-Streftcars HaHGd-TIro
Bombs Found.


night. These mute signals told better than on
ciaI pronounciamentcs that the striking en-
plOyCs of the car plant had yet TO wait long TO
win their fight against the car company officials.
for the plant still in operation despite the
wild efforts OF infuriated mobs 70 frghten away
the imported workingnen i'm the last twenty
four hours
Tonight the striking men seemed TO realize
for the first time that their Jobs were mors
and that the company could do without them.
The women and children grasped the situation
the men, and the idea of starvation
and eviction with winter coming on. caused
walls of anguish in many strikers cottage.
I'm going the riot ground deputy sherifs
found two unexploded bombs which had been
thrown during the disorder
Forty state police are on their way here to-
night TO augment the company of mounted con-
stables now on duty at the car plant. Since
last nights carnage these cavaIrymen have
evinced desire TO strike fear into the hearts
of the who took their comrades lives.
The strikers realize that the mounted troopers
are more than a match for them. Yet during
the day the troopers have been subjected to
abuse from house windows and doors whenever
they chanced to pass a strike sympathizer's
home In retaliation every striker or synpa-
thizer left his doorstep to-day held up
and searched. Besides the searching the troop
ers insisted on examining the bodies OF the
strikers. and if they bore bruises traces OF
having been dubbed they promptly
rested. as the troopers considered such evidence
proof that the men had participated in last
nights ri0ting
VIEWED WOMEN WITH DISFAVOR
The strikers wives were viewed with dsfavor =
by the troopers to-day Several OF them, carry
ing large baskets were made 10 turn over the
contents 70 that they were carrying nothing
contraband into the houses
Thirty-five men were arrested and put into the
boxcar jaiIs by nightfau The who resisted
were rnanacIed to the troopers horses and
dragged through the streets TO the plants
trance.
As every IN the vicinity Of Mckee's Rocks
has been armed for some time. the haul OF
weapons was large to-day.
An evidence of the temper Of the ccnstabuIary
was an assault upon DIR. Hanover, one OF the
heroes developed IN the riot last night. After
labOring for twelve hours dressing the injuries
Of many victims DR. Hanover was hit on the
head with mace by a trooper while talking To
a friend in George street this morning. He was
not seriously hurt. 1t is said the doctor refused
10 keep on the move when ordered to do 50.
Martial law practically prevailed in Schoenville
to-day
Mike MeIinska. an alleged strikebreaker.
caused a panic in the stockade at the car plant
late this evening. when he produced a revolver
and saying Now. hike for that fence. you
scahs" began firing He is said 10 have wound
ed four strikebreakers
Meljinska was then set upon by about thirty
Of the strikebreakers and badly beaten. The
sixty deputy sherifs assigned to duty in the
stockade were unable 70 qusT the excitemeut
and members of the state constabulsry were
called In from the streets. They rescued Mel
iinska who was attended by DIR. Davidson. this
company physician.
The MCKees Rock City Council, at a special
meeting late tonight called for the purpose. ap-
pointed a committee ~ go at once TO Harris
burg and ask Governor Stuart 10 call the state
constabuary from the plant of the car COM
pany. Neither the car company nor the strikers
were criticised at the meeting the purpose being
simply to protect the citizens Of McKee's Rocks
and Schoenville
DEATH ROLL TOTALS SEVEN.
The death list resulting from last nights riot.
ing was swelIed tonight when Mike" Desoski.
one of the strikers died at the Mercy Hospital
from, eunshot wounds I'm the lungs and abdomen.
This brings the death list up TO seven. Five
others are in a precarious condition, while sew
enteen are in the hospital seriously wounded.
President James u. Gallery of the Pittsburx
Street Railways Company issued an order to-
night suspending travel over the Neville Island
ing through the strike President Gallery
declares his company Is longer abls TO cops
with the strikers and that the lives of all pas
sengers are in danger. He declares that when
Sheriff A. G. Gumbert places armed men on each
car passing through the strike territory travel
NAV be resumed. Gallery tried TO FORMAL
notice on Gumbert this evening. but could nou
find him. and the service suspended
AT noon the great bell of the Catholic Cathe-
dral at McKee's Rocks began ringing. This was
kept up for hours. Then the bells were
ordered siIenced by state troopers. IL
pointed out that such demonstration at the
present only tended to agitate the strikers.
strikers wives besieged Lieutenant Smith. OF
the state constab bulary, to-day for news of their
missing husbands. The lieutenant had ten hats
gathered from Bloody Corner after the
aict last night. Several of the women claimed
that the hats belonged TO their husbands or
sons and wept copiousIy over the headgear-
The strikers seemed awed and gloomy to-
night at the extent of last nights fatalities Tho
gloom over the little company village
also attributed TO the fact that tomorrow a
funeral has been planned for the strikers who
were victims OF last nights rioting. As far as
plans for the funeral have been made. the bodies
will be laid in state at the Cathedral tomorrow
morning and headed by the strikers and their
sympathizers. will be buried tomorrow after
noon in the little cemetery just outside OF
SchOenville.
The news that additional state constabIes were
on their way from Wnkes-Barre and would be
in the strike zone before morning. seemed to acs
as a quietus upon the few strike sympathizers
who gathered in doorways in the early evening
and discussed the situation There is no use
now" said one of the striking men. ito try tn