The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-24
Dead and WOUNDED Are Num-
erOus and Troopers Handle
IdIeTs Very Roughly
STRIKERS NOW REALIZE
THEY ARE ENTIRELY OUT
Forces Are Strengthened and Stssi
Car Company Is Frmer in Its
Stand That Men Shall Not
Be Taken Back.

Pittsburg, August 23.-Three columns of
smoke hoated lazi1y from the chimneys
of the Pressed Steel Car eompany,s plant
in Schoenville tonight
These mute signals told better than
official pronunciamentos that the strik-
ing employees of the car plant had yet
to wait long to win their fight against the
car company officials, for the plant was
still in operation despite the wild ef-
forts of infuriated mobs to scare off the
imported workmen during the past "a
hours.
Tonight the striking men realized for
the hrst time that their jobs were no
more; that the company could do with
out them and that they no longer were
wanted within the big gates of the chr
plant. The women and children of the
strikers grasped the situation as soon
as the men, and the idea of starvation
and eviction with winter coming on caused
walls OF anguish in many strikers
cottage.
FORTY state police are on their way
here tonight to augment the company Of
mounted constabulary now on duty at
the car plant. Since last nights carnage
these fearless cavalrymen have evinced
a desire to strike fear into the hearta
OF the men who took their comrades
lives. The strikers realize that the
mounted troopers are more than a match
for them Yet all during the day these
troopers have been subjected to abuse
fiom house windows and doors whenever
they CHANGED to pass a strike syrnpa-
thizer's home. In retaliation not striker
nor sympathizer left his doorstep TODAY
but he was uphanded and searched. Be-
sides the searching the troops insisted
on examining the bodies of the strikers
and if they bore bruises or traces of be-
ing clubbed, they were promptly arrested,
as the troops considered such evidence
proof that the men had participated In
last nights rioting.
Viewed With Disfavor.
The strikers wives were viewed with
disfavor by the troopers today. Several
of them, carrying large baskets, were
made to turn over the contents to see
that they were carrying nothing contra
band into the houses
Twenty-Five men were arrested and put
into the box-car tails by nightfall. The
men who resisted \ >re manacled to the
troopers horses and d agged through the
streets to the plant entrance.
At noon the great bells at the Catholic
cathedral In McKees Rock began to
ring. This was kept up for over two
hours. Then the bells were ordered ST.
fenced by state troopers. as II was pointed
out that such demonstrations at the pres
ent time only went toward agitating tho
strikers.
Late today stri wives besieged
Lieutenant Smith ae state constabu-
larry for news of their missing husbands
The lieutenant had ten hats gathered
from "bloody corner after the conflict
last night Several of the women claimed
that the hats belonged to their husbands
or sons and wept copiously over the
headgear.
Awed and Gloomy.
The strikers seem awed and gloomy
tonight at the extent of last nights ia
taities. The gloom over the little car
company village is also attributed to the
fact that tomorrow funeral has been
planned for the strikers who were vic
tins of last nights rioting. So far as
the strikers bodies will lie in state at
the Catholic cathedral in McKees Rocks
during the morning and headed by tho
strikers and their sympathizers will be In
tered tomorrow morning in the little cem-
etery just outside of Schoenvile.
The news that additional constabulary
were on their way from Wilkesbarre and
would be in the strike zone before morn
ing seemed to act as quietus upon those
few strike sympathizers who gathered in
doorways during the evening and dis
cussed the situation.
meeting of the striking employees of
the car plant scheduled for the late aft
ernoon was not allowed to take place.
The announcement was also made late
today that the United States government
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 Vans. who swore to the
charges before United States Commits
soner Lindsey on Saturday.
If an investigation of the peonage
charge shows that prosecution is war
ranted new suits will be drawn, making
separate charges against President Hoff-
stot Foreman Cohen and the Pressed
Steel Car company as a corporation.
The death list resulting from last
nights roting still remains at six, though
four men are lingering at hospitals at
McKee's Rocks.
Many on Injured List.
Although the riot was IL hours old an
accurate list of the casualties was stiu
unobtainable Unoffcially however six
were known to have been shot to death
and two others believed to have been
killed. but carried away in the confu-