The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-08-23
sixed Killed, Many Others, In.
cluding Women and Chill
dren Were Injured.
CLASH AROSE OVER, ~
OF TROOPERS TO OBEY ss..<,< <ss
Strikers Ordered Occupants to vacate
Street Car, But Three Troopers Who
Were in Citizens Clothes Refused
to Obey and the Trouble Began.

Pittsburg, Pa, Aug. 23.-Following
one of the most fatal and desperate
strike riots experienced In Pittsburg
in over score of years. a quiet but
tense situation prevailed at 8 o'clock
this morning at McKee's Rocks, the
scene last night of the terrorizing con-
tlict between the state, county and
special police and the employees Of the
Pressed Steel Car company.
Although the riot was twelve hours
old, an accurate list Of the casualties
was still unobtainable. Unoficially.
however, six were known to have been
shot to death and two others be-
lieved to have been killed. but car
ried away in the confusion. q dozen
men, both strikers and police. were
in the hospitals perhaps fatally in
jured, while at least two score men.
women and children were suffering
from bullet wounds and injuries in
flicted with clubs and stones.
The dead:
DEPUTY SHERIFF HARRY EX-
LER, aged "a, married.
TROOPER JOHN L. WILLIAMS.
UNKNOWN STRIKER.
GEORGE MILLHOsE. aged 26.
striker.
ADAM GUBERNAT, aged 20. :.
Probably fatally wounded:
Trooper John C. Smith, aged 81.
Trooper Patrick O'Donnel of North.
ampton, Mass.
Trooper Lucien Jones.
Adolph Stahl, aged 81, striker.
Mike Tysowski, aged 22. striker.
George Weinshka, aged "a.
An unknown woman, shot in back,
will die.
Unknown Polish boy less seriously
wounded.
F., Trooper George M. Kitch.
f; Frank Hamet, striker.
Mike Kurschinski, striker.
An unidentified Russian striker.
! JOHN Suler, striker.
Frank Nemath. striker.
Aside from the human sacrifice, the
property damage amounted to thou
sands of dollars. Three street cars
were wrecked. many vehicles smash
ed, streets Uttered with window glass,
close to a hundred doors of houses
broken and half q dozen horses shot
to death.
The shooting continued from vari-
ous sections of the strike zone long
after the main battle had been fought
last night but did not reach serious
proportions, and the troopers re-
NAMED close to the plant. Just as
the dawn was breaking the constabu-
larry, mounted and heavily armed, rode
to the scene of the riot and gathered
the hats, collars, coats and other
wearing apparel which were taken to
the company's Office. Every possible
ers of these articles with the view to
deaths of the officers.
An investigation by the Associated
Press shows the rioting to have been
caused by three members of the state
constabulary who refused to obey the
commands Of the strikers when or
'dered from the street car. These
troopers, on their way from Green's
berg, Pa, to the plant, were in citi-
GEMS clothes. All were armed. For
weeks the strikers have been holding
up the street cars and ordering the
occupants of them out. Heretofore all
have obeyed. Last night however,
the three troopers refused to be or
dered about by the strikers.
Broke Up Home.
Mrs. Michael Nestor of McKee's
Rocks reported to Lieutenant Smith of
the state constabulary thday that last
night during the riCting. fifteen
members of q mob had forcibly en-
tered her apartments while she was
on another floor visiting friends and
that the men had crawled under the
beds. into the closets and hidden be-
hind the furniture. A squad Of state
troopers. pursuing the feeting riot
ers. entered the apartment and
locked the doors behind them. Mrs.
Nestor said that the troopers issued
from their hiding places and one by
one beat them numerically with
three foot hickory clubs. In the melee
the beds were torn apart and ripped
np, mirrors were smashed and the
furnishings Of the entire fiat more
or less demolished. Mrs. Nestor has
been married but two months and
her home represented the savings Of
herself and husband. The woman
was informed that her only recourse
was to sue the county Of Allegheny
tor damages.
DIDN'T Kill HER
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