Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-08-25
STRIKERS HAVE LOST THEIR FIGHT
Even Eugene v. pebs Admits That
Words Are of no Avail, as Riots OF
Sunday Night Put Men in Position
of Outcasts-Martiai Law NOW
Reigns.
tpy Associated Press.)

covered the little manufacture village
Oh Mckee's Rocks like q pail today.
Long funeral professions, pitiful In
their attempt at proper decorum.
wendell their way at queer hours from
the Greek Catholic church to ST.
Mary's cemetery, a small burying plot
Just outside Schoenville. Strikers
and their families followed dressed
in their fnery and bearing an air OF
deep grief
One band OF eight musicians furn-
ished the tunes to which the strikers
tramped in dust and CRIME TO pay
their respects to the men they lcok
upon as martyrs to now lost cause.
The finding, late today, of three
more bodies OF terribly beaten strike
sympathizers, was also horrifying III
its ghastlness for troopers, detailed
to the work of searching for dead and
wounded, made little effort TO spare
the feelings of the men who gathered
about them when the bodies, two I'M
der a pile of railroad ties. AMI one
under a culvert on the tracks of the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad, were
pulled into sight
The corpses. hardly recognizable as
these of human beings, were hastily
piled into a morgue wagon and turned
over to the county officials.
Truce in HostiIities.
With the burial CT the dead strikers
and the finding of the additional bed
les came a truce in hostilitIes. From
dawn to night-night not a pistol She
was heard; neither was an arrest
made
The striking men and their sym
pathizers during the day kept quiet
and even gave up mass meeting
planned for the late afternoon as they
believed any gathering of the work
men could do NO good at this time.
Even Debs Silent.
Eugene V. Debs, the socialistic ora
tor was in McKee's Rocks to address
the strikers, but even he declared that
words were of little avail now. as the
riots of Sunday night had for once
and all placed the strikers in the posi-
ticn of outcasts whose cause was all
but lost.
And on every hand it is conceded
that the strikers have lost their tight
The Pressed Steel Car Company plant
todav was in operation with over l.
600 men at work These men. while
not all skilled OF finished workmen,
turned out three steel cars, which
were placed in view just outside the
car plant.
Martial Law Reisns-
Martial law reigned supreme In the
strike zone today. There was lit'icl
chance for disorder to have developed
effective Roadway. Sixty-six men
loaded into a special car from the box
car jaiIs in the car company's plant
yard and brought to Pittsburg In the
afternoon. where they were arraigneG
before a magistrate on charge OF dis
orderly condrct and carrying conceal
ed weapons
The men were later transferred 10
the county jail to await court hear
mgs-
Search foT Arms
At SHUTDOWN tonight began the
search for weapons by the state police
Using search warrants issued by
magistrate under a law passed oy
the last Legislature. making il Illegal
for foreigners 20 have in their homes
or in their possession firearms.
The total death list resulting from
Sunday nights disorders nov totals
eleven. while two are In hospitals ex-
oectcd 20 die within the next =
hours. The less seriously injured arc