Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-28
MORE TROOPS
n. SENT TO RIOT
State COnStdbuIary at MCKeGS
Rocks Reinforced.
THE DEATH LIST GROWING

Bsven Are Dead n Seven Fatally
Mounded-strikers Kept From the
6frcets-Scores Under Arrest-AlI
Weapons Being Confiscated and
Search Being Made For Dynamite.
Pittsburg, Aug. 24.-News from the
strike zone at the plant of the Pressed
Bteel Car company, in McKees Rocks
NM like the calm after a storm.
With the exception of a clubbing ad-
ministered to a physician who loitered
longer than the state troopers thought
wise, there was no violence of any
sort on the scene Of Sunday night
wild disorders.
The streets of McKees Rocks arr
absolutely deserted save for a few
mounted state troopers who, with ca
bines unslung and riot maces drawn,
ralk their horses along sidewalks, in
lpecting houses and stores for crowds
" strike sympathizers.
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Informations against twenty-seven
prisoners now detained In the box Ger
1ails, charging them with aggrav8.ed
assault and battery, carrying conceal
cd weapons and melting a riot, were
made by the state constabulary. Sew
eral score of others are In custody for
participation in Sunday nights dis.
orders.
A house-to-house canvass Is in pro
gress. All weapons are being confs-
Gated by the troopers, while a rigid
search is being made for dynamite, a
large quantity of which is reported to
be In the possession of the strikers.
The death list resulting from tho
rioting was increased to six, thouch
four mems lives hang by a thread in
McKees Rocks hospitals. AS near a.
Official records can be compiled the
dead and wounded are as follows:
The Dead.
Deputy Sheriff Harry Exler, beaten
and stabbed to death.
Trooper John l.. Williams, of the
state constabulary, home in Pueblo.
Colo. shot dead.
Unknown striker, check No. us
shot dead.
George Millhouse, single, striker:
dted from bullet in lung.
Adam %Gumbernot, %Schoenville; shot
four times.
Trooper John c. Smith, twenty-on,
years old, of C~entralia, Pa. shot in
left side.
Mike Desorki, striker, shot in lungs
and abdomen.
Probably Fatally Wounded.
Trooper Patrick O'Donnell, of North.
ampton, Mass, shot through the body.
Trooper Lucien Jones, of Morgan
town, w. Va, shot in side and badly
stabbed.
Adolph Stahl, striker, shot through
the left lung.
Hike Tysowski. striker, Schoenville
shot three times.
George Hernshka, employee of Star
Enamel company, shot through back.
Unknown woman, shot in back; viii
die.
hhAO 1 ilo IVY IN Will III
Lesser Wounded.
Trooper George M. Kitch. of Colum-
bia, Pa. beaten and stabbed in r..
sisting attack of mob; sent to Mercv
hospital.
Frank Hamet, striker, shot in the
shoulder and elbow; taken to Ohio
Valley hospital.
Mike Kurshinski, striker, slight bul.
Let wound in head; taken home.
Unknown Russian, striker, shot
through temple; taken away by the
strikers.
John Suter, striker, slight fesH
wound in arm.
. Frank Nemath, striker, dubbed in
riot.
Additional constabulary have lef'
PunXsutawney and Wilkes-Barre and
will augment the face of state troop
r now at the car plant under com.
mand of Captain Marsh. Sheriff Gum
bert, Of Allegheny county, has sworn
I'm fifty additional deputy sheriffs In
anticipation Of renewed rioting. 1t is
not unlikely that the state militia from
the eastern part of Pennsylvania will
be ordered to Pittsburg within the
next twenty-four hours If conditions
warrant.