The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-23
SIX ARE KILLED IN
BLOODY BATTLE

Pittsburg. Pa. Aug. 22.-Tn a battle
between state troopers and strikers to-
night, following wild riot. six were
instantly killed. ten perhaps fatally
wounded and nearly score seriously
hurt.
The rloting followed day of quiet
and broke without warning.
Tho fight occurred at the Pressed
Steel car plant at Schoenville.
Following Is a partial list OF dead
and injured, made up from reports
from the morgue. hospital and several
physicians Offices;
Dead:
John l.. Williams. state trooper.
Harry EXler. deputy sheriff.
Four foreigners.
The dying; fatally injured.
John c. Smith, state trooper.
Lucelia Jones, state trooper.
Seven foreigners.
George Kieth and John ODonnell,
state troopers, were seriously injured
and one woman was shot in the neck
While the riot lasted. mounted state
troopers galloped indiscriminately
through the streets with riot maces
drawn, striking the heads OF all per-
sons lettering in the vicinity Of the
mill. Deputy sheriffs and troopers
broke in the doors of houses suspected
of being the retreat of strikers, and
wholesale arrests were made From
$50 to 1880 scores were arrested
and placed in boX.car jails in the mill
yard.
During the early stages of the riot
ing women were conspicuous. Some
of them were armed and others cffec
I lively used clubs and stones. These
women. all foreigners, apparently IN
sane with rage, were mainly RESPONSE
Bile for melting the men to extreme
measures.
At midnight the strike zone was
quiet
Many Are Killed.
Those killed were Deputy Sheriff
Henry EXler. State Trooper Smith and
two other troopers. An unidentified
deputy was killed later. making five
officers dead III all Three strikers
were perhaps fatally hurt.
EXler was killed first and the others
lost their lives in trying TO arrest his
assallantS
For the first time since the incep-
tion of the strike the state troopers to-
night opened yolley fire on the mob.
Six strikers fell at the first round
The members of the mob then
opened fire with rifles. Two mounted
troopers dropped from their horses, ia
tally shot They were taken TO the
Ohio Valley hospital. rying.
AS an ambulance made its way from
the car plant to the hospital. carrying
wounded troopers. the vehicle was at
tackled and the driver forced to flee
for his life. The frightened horses at
tached TO the ambulance plunged
wildly In and about the crowd Two
men were trampled under the horses
hoofS. The ambulance was finally
driven to the hospital by detachment
of troopers.
Shoots Into Crowd.
Soon after this a deputy sheriff. not
yet identified, was surrounded by a
crowd OF strikers. In a last desper.
ate attempt to save himself the officer
drew his revolver and emptied the con-
tents into the crowd. Then, throwing
the weapon away, he cried Il give
up; | am all in
The next mement five bullets were
fred into his body. Not satisfied even
then the crowd kicked and beat the
body until the features were mutlated
beyond recognition Sheriff Gumbert
at the county Jail called for fifty men
TO serve as deputies in the strike sec.
ton at 1870. At II o'clock the sher-
ift started in an automobile for the
scene of the rioting. He took with
him ten riot guns and two boxes of
riot ammunition.