The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-08-27
SEVEN LIVES
TOLL OF RIOT
May Reach Eighteen In Final
Count at SChOenVIIIe
ORDER IS "SHOOT TO KILL"

State Troopers Striking Fear INTO
Hearts of Men Who Took Comrades
Lves-strikers at Pressed Steel
Car Works Awed and Gloomy
Realizing For First Time That Their
Services Are Dispensed With
Pittsburg, Aug. 24.-The death llst
resulting from Sunday nights riot
ing was swelled last night when Mike
Desoski, one of the striking men, dleu
from gun wounds in the lungs and aD-
domen. This brings the death list up
to seven. All of the seriously wound
ed show slight improvement.
Following a night of murderous as
saults, bloodshed, death and carnage
Monday was a day of holdups, pound
ed heads and fractured skulls at the
Pressed Steel Car works at Schoen-
Vile.
The members of the state constabu-
larry began dealing summary ven
geance upon every foreigner they
could find upon the streets. Every
man was held up at the point OF car
bine and made to disgorge from every
pocket. If a revolver was found upon
him he was marched to the box car
lookup, at every step receiving a none
too gentle tap from troopers baton
or the butt of the carbine.
Martial law has been declared, and
the troops have received orders to
shoot down persons melting riot or
provoking a disturbance.
When the final count is taken the
death list from the riots OF Sunday
night probably will reach eighteen.
Last night the striking men realized
for the first time that their jobs were
no more, that the company could do
without them, and that they no longer
were wanted within the big gates of
the car plant.
The women and children of the
strikers grasped the situation as soon
as the men, and the idea of starva-
ton and eviction. with winter coming
on, caused walls of anguish In many a
strikers cottage.
Forty state police today augmented
the company of mounted constables
now on duty at the car plant. Since
Saturday nights carnage these cav
alrymen have evinced a desire to
strike fear into the hearts 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 Monday, these
troopers were subjected to abuse from
house windows and doors whenever
they CHANGED to pass a strike SYM
pathizer's home. In retaliation not
a striker or sympathiZer left his door
step but he was halted and searched.
Besides the searching the troopers in
sisted on examining the bodies of the
strikers, and if they bore bruises or
traces Of having been dubbed they
were promptly arrested, for the
troopers considered such evidence
proof that the men had participated
in Sunday nights rioting.
The strikers wives are viewed with
disfavor by the troopers. Several of
them, carrying large baskets, were
made to turn over the contents so that
they might be carrying nothing con-
traband into the houses.
twenty-five men were arrested and
put into the box car jails by nightfall.
The men who resisted were manacled
to the troopers horses and dragged
through the streets to the plants en-
trance.
The announcement is made that the
government will heed the peonage
charge against President Hoffstet and
Foreman Cohen of the Pressed Steel
Car company to the extent of making
a thorough investigation of the allega-
tons made by Albert Vans, who
swore to the charges before Commits
sioner Lindsay.