New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-25
STRIKE INQUIRY TO-DAY
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visited McKee's Rocks TO address the strikers
not verified.
MARTIAL LAW SUPREME
Martial law reigned supreme In the strike zone
to-day. With over one hundred and fifty state
and county officers patrolling the streets and
the company 'stockade there was little
chance for disorder to develop effective head
way.
On every hand tonight IL is conceded that
the strikers have lost their fight. The Pressed
Steel Car Company plant was in operation to-
day with thousand men at work.
These men. while not all skilled finished
workmen. turned out three steel cars. which
were placed on view just outside the gates In
a measure. President Hoffstot seems to have
made good his word given at the inception Of
the labor trouble. that he would never give In
to the strikers if he was ruined financially and
his plant had to lie idle for two years.
Sixty-six men We're loaded into a special
from the box car jails in the car company plant
yard and brought 10 Pittsburg in the afternoon.
where they We're arraigned before magistrate
on charges Of disordery conduct and carrying
concealed weapons. The informations were
sworn to by state troopers. Manacled together
in gangs of four the were transferred 10
the county Jail later. to await court hearings.
At shutdown tonight began the search for
weapons by the state police. using search war
rants issued by a magistrate under a law passed
by the last Legislature making it illegal for
foreigners TO have in their homes or In their
possession firearms of any description The law
under which the troopers searching is so
broad that men found with weapons in their
homes may be arrested on sight.
Over fifty imported men quit work and left
the car plant to-day. No effort was made TO
retain them by the company. Additional work.
men. 1t is said. will be brought TO the mill
dozen strikers families vacated company houses
this forenoon for more peaceful settlement.
DEATH LIST ELEVEN
The total number of deaths from Sunday
nights disorders is now eleven. while two per-
sons are in hospitals expected 10 die in the next
twenty-four hours. The less seriously injured
are all reported to be improving slowly.
The bodies of Troopers John Smith and John
l.. Williams were shipped TO their homes early
to-day. the former to Ceptralta. Penn and the
latter 10 Pueblo. Col The collins We're heaped
with wreaths and floral tributes, remembrance
from the state and county authorities as we'll
from the comrades of the dead men. The
burial of Deputy Sheriff Harry Exler was also
held early to-day. Sheriff Cumbert for the
county of Allegheny. remembered his deputy
with a huge wreath.
1t developed yesterday that Williams Just be-
fore he left Greensburg. expressed 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 ct feel
certain that something is going to happen at
McKee's Rocks and for the first time since 1
have Joined the cOnstabulary I feel like turning
away from duty"
Williams was one Of the first 20 fall on Sun
day night and his body lay in the morgue
yesterday the features were hardly distinguish
able. after death he had been trampled upon
and beaten almost beyond recognition.
II developed late last night that Deputy She.iff
Harry Exley did not fire his revolver on Sunday
night until he himself was wounded. Sheriff
Gumbert absolves Exley of the blame Of being
the aggressor in the clash between the author
tiles and the strikers.