Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-08-24
SEVEN DEAD FROM SUNDAYS RIOT
Strikers Realize Their tieipIessnsss
In Combating Troops-Twenty-five
Arrests Made and Many Men Are
Dragged Through City Streets BY
Constabulary.
fBy Associated Press) .

PITTSBURG, PA. Aug. 23.-The
McKee's Rocks city council late to-
night, at special meeting called for
the purpose. appointed committee
to 20 al cnce to Harrisonburg and
ask Governor Stewart to call the state
constabulary from the plan. Of the
Pressed Steel Car Company. whose
$500 employees are en- strike.
Neither the car company nor the
strikers were critized at the conn-
ell meeting. the purpose being simply
to protect the citizens of Mckee'S
Rocks and Sehoenville.
me death list resulting from last
nights wild rioting was swelled to-
night when Mike Desokel. one OF the
striking men living in Mcnee Rocks.
died at Mercy hospital from gun
wounds in the lungs and abdomen.
This brings the death list up to seven
All the seriously wounded are showing
slight improvement.
Strikers Have Long Wait.
Three columns CT smoke tioated from
the chimneys q the Pressed steel
Car Company's plant in SchoenVilie
tonight. These mute signals told bet
ter that official prenune.ainents tnai
the str king employees OF the car
plant had yet TO wait long TO win
their. fight against the car company
oniclals for the plant was still IN
operation despite imported working
men during the past "A hours.
Tonight the striking MEG 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 ~
the car plant. The women and chill
dren of the strikers grasped the SIT
uation as soon as the men and the
idea of starvation and eviction with
winter coming On i, caused walls OF
anguish in many a strikers cottage
Forty state police are on their way
here tonight TO augment the compan-
les of mounted constabulary now on
dutv. Since last nights carnage these
fearless cavairymen have evinced q
desire to strike fear into the hearts
Of the men who took their comrades
lives.
Realize Their HslpIessness-
The strikers realize that The mount
ed troopers are more than a match
for them. Yet all during the day
these troopers have been subjected
to abuse from shoyse windows and
doors whenever they CHANGED to pass
= .-s,-. t(s.a-o home In re-
taliation net a striker OF sympathizer
left his doorstep today. but he was
uphanded and searched. Besides the
searching the troopers insisted on ex-
aiming the bodies Of the strikers and
IL they bore bruises OF traces Of being
cIub5ed they were -promptly arrested,
as the troopers considered such evil
dence proof tha; TIE men had patti
cipated in last nights r'oting- Tue
strikers wives were viewed with dis
favor by the troopers today Several
Of them. carrying large baskets. were
made TO turn over the contents 10
see that they were carrying nothing
contraband into the house.
Men Dragged Through Streets
twenty-five men we're arrested ara
put into the box car jails BY night
fas.. The men who resisted were
manacIed to the troopers horses and
dragged through the streets 70 the
plant entrance
At neon the great bells Of the Cath
ole cathedral in McKee's Rock began
tollinE. This vas Aept ND for more
than two hours. Then the bells we're
ordered s-ienccd ~ state troopcrs AZ
u was pointed out that much demon
stration AZ the present time only
went towards aeitAiing the strikers
Late today strikers wives besiesed
glcuts rant smith. Of the state con-
stabuIary. To- nfws Of their missing
Husbands The lieutenant had ten
hats gathered from bloody corner
after the conflict last night Several
4 the women claimed ths. the mats
belonged 70 their husbands and sons
and wept copiousiy over The head
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