Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-24
Quiet at McKees Rocks as
Funerals Pass.
TROOPERS GUARD STREETS
Strikers and Sympathisers Held in
Awe by Armed Force.
AFRAIDTo HOLD MASS MEETING
Eugene v. Debs Was on Hand to
Address Workers at Indian
Mound.

PITTSBURG, August .4.-Wrth tps
armed guards at the Pressed Steel Car
plant augmented by the arrival OF Troop
B, Pennsylvania state constabulary, from
Wyoming, Pa, and the attention OF tho
strikers and sympathizers occupied in
burying their comrades killed in Sundays
riot, conditions at McKees Rocks today
were quiet. Troopers arc now in posses
sion of every part of the strike zone. Tn
less by assault there is no way OF ap-
preaching the big mill by persons not de-
sired
About 1000 imported men arc busily
working in the car plant today. Reports
from the hospitals today state all the
injured are improving.
The first funeral was that of Joseph
Hruska. a Russian striker. Iuterment
was In st. Mary's cemetery. Stowe town
ship, following church services. Hundreds
OF men accompanied the body to the
grave. but there was no demonstration.
Fearing the state constabulary would
raid them and arrest their leaders. strik-
ers called off q meeting which was to
have been held at noon at the indian
Mound. Eugene V. Debs. socialist candi-
date for president last year. was at the
ing the men when the decision was reach
ed. Emma Goldman. reported to be here,
did not put in an appearance.
Over fifty imported men quit work and
left the plant today. No effort was
made to retain them by the company.
Additional new workmen, 1t Is said, will
be brought to the mill.
State Police Reinforced.
The arrival Of additional state police
under command of Capt. Robertson Of
the W'ilkesbarre barracks early this
mn laoA
upon the foreign strikers and their SYM
pathizers. Even at the early hour of
dawn the few persons who were going
about their business on the streets car
ried about them an air OF pezceabieness
In sharp contrast to their agttated ap-
pearance of the past forty-eight hours.
The arrest of suspicious persons will
continue today. according to a statement
made by Capt. Marsh. An additional
box car jail was prepared before dawn.
as the two now In use are overcrov7ded
with etghty-two prisoners
The bodies of Troopers John Smith and
John L. Williams were shipped 10 their
homes today, the former 70 Centralia.
Pa. and the latter to Pueblo. Col. The
caskets were heaped with -wreaths and
state and county authorities as we'll as
comrades OF the dead troopers The
burial Of Deputy Sheriff Harry Exley
was also held early today.
Premonition Of Death.
It developed that Trooper Williams,
just before he left Greensburg. Pa, ex-
pressed his belief to his comrades at the
barracks that he was on his way to his
death at McKees Rocks
Fellows he is reported to have said.
Il feel certain that something is going To
happen at McKees Rocks. and for the
first time since I have Joined the con-
stabulary I feel like turning away from
duty" Williams was one OF the first to
fall In the Sunday night riots, and as his
body lay in the morgue yesterday tho
features were hardly distinguishable, AS
after death he had been trampIed and
beaten almost beyond recognition. II
developed late last night that Deputy
Sheriff Harry Exley did not fire his re
volver Sunday night until he himself was
shot at and probably wounded, according
to a statement made by Sheriff C;umbert,
who absolved Exley Of the blame of being
the aggressor In precipitating the ciasI,
between the authorities and the strikers.