Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-24
PRESSED STEEL
COMPANY PLANT
BEING OPERATED
CAR CONCERN CONTINUES TO
KEEP MILLS OPEN
STRIKE sYMPATHlzERs MAN.
AcLED TO HORSES
Troopers Search Houses at Schoen-
willie and confiscate Weapons.
To Probe Charges of
Peonage
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the Indian mound. This point, 1t is
believed will be the scene of any fur
ther disorder.
During the rioting last night several
street cars of the Pittsburg Railway
company were damaged with showers
of bricks, while bricks from freight
cars on siding of the Pittsburg 81
Lake Erie railroad were used as mis-
siles by the rioters and scattered over
wide territory. Other property of tho
companies was destroyed
Everyone within the strike district
today is stopped by the police and thor
oughly searched.
An investigation by the Associated
Press indicates last nights battle re-
suited from the fact that three new
members of the state COnstabulary re-
fused to obey the commands of the
strikers when ordered from car.
These troopers, on their way from
Greensburg, Pa, to the plant, were IN
citizens clothing. For weeks the strlk-
ers have been holding up street cars
and ordering the occupants out. Last
night the three troopers and deputy
sheriff resisted the order, and for tWen-
tv minutes a battle ensued.
1t is apparent today that all the dead
and a majority of the injured fell in
/ this battle.
Many Clubbed and Wounded
Later. when reinforcements arrived
many more were clubbed and shot, but
the first battle waged by only four men
against a mob. was the fatal one.
Information against tWenty-seNen
prisoners now detained in the box car
jails charging them with aggravated
assault and battery, carrying concealed
weapons and melting a riot, were made
today by the state COnstabulary.
Several score are in custody for par
tfcipation in last nights disorder.
A house-to-house canvass was made
today and all weapons found were
confscated by the troopers.
A rigid search was made for dyna-
mite. a large quantity of which is re-
ported to be in the possession Of the
strikers.
A force of deputy coroners has been
dispatched to McKees Rocks with
instructions to ascertain if possible
the identity of the instigators of the
trouble.
Practically the entire detective force
of the county has been sent into the
strike zone for the first time since the
inception of the trouble.
Mob Enters Private Residence
Mrs. Michael Nestor of McKees
Rocks reported to Lieutenant Smith
of the state constabulary today that
members of the mob had forcibly en-
tered her apartments while she was
on another floor visiting friends and
the men CTaWlcd under beds, into
closets and hid behind furniture. A
squad of state troopers pursuing the
fleeing rioters entered the apartments
and locked the doors behind them.
Mrs. Nester said the troopers then
dragged the men from their hiding
places and one by one beat them un-
mercifully with the three-fOot hickory
clubs.
In the melee, beds were torn apart
and ripped up: mirrors were smashed
and the furnishings of the fiat more or
less demolished.
In going over the riot district deputy
sheriffs found two unexploded bombs
which had been thrown during the dis
orders.
Trooper Williams, who was killed,
joined the Constabulary from Monterey,
cal He was a scout under General
LaWton.
The Pressed Steel Car company Of
flcially turned over its plant to the
county sheriff at noon today. The
She if, i'm turn has placed the respon-
sibility for the protection of life and
property in the hands of Captain
Marsh, who now has under him 1l5
deputies and troopers.
According to reports, Troop p, state
constabulary. under command of Cap
tain Robinson. has been ordered to
McKees Rocks, and it is said, has al
ready started for the place.