Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-08-28
FATAL RIOT SUNDAY
SIX PERSONS KILLED AND 10
HURT AT PlTTSBURG.
Strikers and Troops Clash at Steel Car
Plant-Women Take Part in Battle
One Deputy Sheriff and Several
Foreign Workmen INTELLECTUALLY
men Charge the Crowd

Pittsburg, Pa, Aug. 23.-In battle
Sunday night, following wild riot,
six were instantly killed, 10 perhaps
fatally wounded and nearly a score
seriously hurt. The rioting followed
day of quiet and broke without warn
ing. The fight occurred at the Pressed
Steel Car pan at Schoenvilie. Follow
ing is partial list of dead and wound
ed, made up from reports from the
morgue, hospital and several physi-
clans Offices:
Dead: John l.. Williams, state
trooper; Harry Exler, deputy sheriff;
three foreigners.
The dying or fatally injured: John
H. Smith,. state trooper; Lucian Jones,
state trooper; seven foreigners.
George Keith and John 'Donnell,
state troopers, were seriously wounded
and one woman was shot in the neck.
Troopers Hit Every Head
While the riot lasted, mounted state
troopers galloped unfortunately
through the streets with riot maces
drawn, striking the heads of persons
lettering in the vicinity of the mill.
Deputy sheriffs and troopers broke
in the doors of houses and wholesale
arrests were made. From $3.50 to 1880
0 clock scores were arrested and placed
in boxcar jails in the mill yard.
During the early stages of the riot
ing women were conspicuous. Some OF
them were armed and others effectively
used clubs and stones. These women
all foreigners. appeared to BIS insane
with rage and were mainly responsible
for melting the men to extreme meas
ures. At midnight the strike zone wal
quiet.
Open Fire on the Mob.
Exler was killed first and the other
lost their lives in trying to arrest hi
assailant.
For the first time since the incep
ton of the strike, the state trooper
d tonight opened volley fire on the mob
D Six members fell at the first round.
] The members of the mob then opene
C fire with rifles. Two mounted trooper
r dropped from their horses, fatally shot
e They were taken to the Ohio Vale
hospital dying.
d As an ambulance made its way frol
0 the car plant to the hospital carryin
n wounded troopers the vehicle was a
t tackled and the driver was forced I
e flee for his life. The frightened horse
0 attached to the ambulance plunge
l. wildly in and about the crowd. Tw
n men were trampled under the hoofs {
d the horses. The ambulance was final
d driven to the hospital by detaehmeI
l. Of troopers.
i Deputy Sheriff Dies Game.
l. Soon after this deputy sheriff WI
ie surrounded by a crowd of strikers.
L last desperate attempt to save hir
W self the officer drew his revolver al
II emptied the contents into the crow
a Then throwing the weapon away,
N cried, 81 give up. am all in"
4 The next moment five bullets we
fred into his body. Not satisfied eve
re then the crowd kicked and beat Il
d, body until the features were mutilat
t. beyond recognition. Sheriff Gumbei
at the county jail, called for so mi
es to serve as deputies in the strike 20
" at 1880. At II O'Clock the sher
ut started in an automobile for the zoI
he He took with him 10 guns and tV
D. boxes of rifle ammunition.