New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-23
FIVE KILLED In RIOT
STRIKERS RUSH STOCKADE
1T SCHOENVILLE.
Deputy Sheriff and State Trooper
and Three Foreigners Dead
Ten Fatally Hurt.

Pfttsburg, Aug 22.-One state trooper one
deputy sheriff and three foreigners were shot
and killed tonight In riot at the Pressed Steel
Car plant in Schoenville whose employees are
now on strike At least a score of persons
were seriously wounded ten fatally. The riot
Ing followed a day OF quiet and broke without
warning.
AT midnight the following partial list of dead
and injured was made up from reports received
from the morgue. hospitals and several physi-
clans offices:
WILLIAMS. John L.. state trooper
EXLER. Harry. deputy sheriff
Three foreigners.
FATALLY INJURED
SMITH. John C. state trooper
JONES Lucean state trooper.
Seven foreigners
George Kitch and John o. Donnell state troop
ers. were seriously injured and one woman
shot In the neck. More than of persons
received more or less serious injuries
The riot scene was practically indescribable
Mounted state troopers galloped indiscripi-
nately through the streets with riot maces
drawn. cracking the heads of all persons loiter-
ing in the vicinity of the mill Deputy sheriffs
and troopers broke In the doors of houses sus-
pected of being the retreat of strikers. and
wholesale arrests made. From 9:}O 20
IL 30 o'clock scores OF persons arrested
and placed in box jails and in the mill
yards
During the early stages cf the rioting women
were conspicuous. Some of them were armed
others effectively used clubs and stones. These
women. all foreigners insane with rage. were
mainly responsible for melting the men to ex-
treme measures At midnight quiet reIgned in
the strike zone
Shortly before a;30 o'clock mob Of strikers
gathered in front Of the swinging gates of the
stockade and began a concerted attack. The
state troopers resisted. and in the fight Harry
Exler. deputy sheriff fifty years cid shot
and killed b. supposed sIrike sympathzer.
In an effort TO arrest man picked out of the
crowd as the one who did the shooting. Williams.
state trooper was killed by revolver bullet.
The state troopers then opened fire on the mob
in volley for the first time since the inception
Of the strike Six strikers fell to the ground at
the first round three OF them fatally >vounded.
An ambulance which was carrying the wounded
20 a hospital was later attacked and the driver
forced to flee. The frightened horses plunged
through the crowd. knocking down several per-
sons. detachment OF troopers went along with
the ambulance to the hospital.
SHERIFF CALLS FOR DEPUTIES
nfty men TO serve deputies at the strike zone
at 10 30 o'clock Al IL o'clock the Sheriff start
ed In automobile for the scene OF the rioting.
He took with him riot guns and two boxes
OF riot ammunition
The county morgue has sent for the bodies Of
the dead troopers and deputy sheriff
The Ohio Valley Hospital has treated ten in
jured
Ptomaine poisoning is element that is
Stunning an Important place In the strike situa-
ton. Four OF the brought here from the
East 10 take the places of striaers are in
serious condition at the Ohio Valley Hospital.
and IL is said many Of their fellow workmen are
under the care OF physicians in the company's
stockade suffering from the same malady. The
cause of the disease is alleged to be due 10
timed goods In the company's commissary.
mass meeting OF the strikers was held to-
day on Indian Mound. The men were coun-
selled by several speakers TO avoid violence and
10 treat as friends the imported workmen. be
cause at heart they with us, and are held in
the plant against their will" said one OF the
men who addressed the meeting.
PHYSICIAN TWICE WOUNDED.
Shortly after midnight to-day DIR. ]. W. Dav-
idson. the physician in charge of the Pressed
Steel Car Company emergency hospital. while
walking toward a car 10 return his home in
Pittsburs. was twice wounded once in the neck
and once in the forearm by bullets said To have
been fred by strike sympathizers The physi-
clan was rushed into the plant stOckade and his
wounds dressed His condition is not consid-
cred serious.
During a fight early to-day between state
troopers and n crowd OF idle men near the
Schoenville entrance To the ear plant, IL was
ported that William Lee. one OF the executive
committee of the strikers. had been fatally
shot by a bullet from automatic revolver.
The report could not be verified
Salvato Merrena. civil engineer. Of New
York. is among those who have been severely
beaten by the strikers. He is in a hospital in