Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-08-23
Bullet from Crowd Kills Deputy
Sheriff Exler.
GENERAL
BECOMES
More Than Score Wounded, Ten Of
Them Fatally.
WHOLESALE ARRESTS MA
MADE
Riot Follows a Comparatively Quiet
Day and Comes without Warm
ing - woman shot
in Neck.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Aug. 22.-One state
trooper, one deputy sheriff and three for
eigpers were shot and killed tonight In a
wild riot at the Pressed Steel Car plant in
Schoenville, whose employees are now on
strike. At least score Of persons we're
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 re-
ports from the morgue. hospital and sew
eral physicians offices:
Dead:
JOHN L. WILLIAMS, state trooper.
HARRY EXLER, deputy sheriff.
THREE FOREIGNERS
Fatally injured;
JOHN C. SMITH, state trooper
LUCEELAN JONES, state trooper,
SEVEN FOREIGNERS
George Kitch and John O'Donnell, state
troopers, were seriously injured and one
woman was shot in the neck.
over a score of persons received more or
less serious injuries.
Many Arrests Are Made.
While the riot lasted. mounted state
troopers galloped Unfortunately through
the streets with riot maces drawn, crack
the vicinity of the mill. Deputy sheriffs
and troopers broke in the doors of houses,
suspected of being the retreat of the
strikers, and wholesale arrests were made.
From $3.50 to 1850 scores Of persons were
arrested and placed in box car jails in
the mill yards.
During the early stages of the rioting
women we're conspicuous Some Of them
At1,a 1fHa Tnl.r
clubs and stones. These women, all for
eigners, insane with rage, were mainly re-
sponsible for melting the men to extreme
measures.
Attack ON StOcknde.
Shortly before $3.50 o'clock tonight a mob
of men gathered about the Schoenville
entrance to the Pressed Steel Car works
and without warning made concerted
attack upon the big swinging gates OF the
stockade. The attack was resisted by
state troopers and deputy sheriffs. who
used riot maces. In the melee Harry
Exler a deputy sheriff, aged so years
was shot and instantly killed bya bullet
fired, it is said, by an alleged strike sym
pathizer.
In an effort to arrest the man picked
out of the crowd as the one who did the
shooting, State Trooper Smith was in
stantly killed by a revolver bullet Two
other troopers on foot were also shot
falling into the arms of their comrades
For the first time since the inception
of the strike the state troopers tonight
opened volley fire on the mob. Six
strikers fell at the first round. The mem
bers of the mob then opened fire with
rifles. Two mounted troopers dropped
from their horses fatally shot. They were
taken to the Ohio Valley hospital in a
dying condition.
Rioters Attack Ambulance.
AS an ambulance made its way from the
car plant to the hospital carrying wounded
troopers the vehicle was attacked and the
driver forced to flee for his life. The
frightened team of horses attached to the
ambulance plunged wildly in and about
the crowd. Two men were trampled un-
der the horses hoofs. The ambulance was
finally driven to the hospital by a detach-
ment of troopers.
Sheriff Gumbert, at the county tail
called for fifty men to serve as deputies
at the strike zone at lO:3O. Ar IL o'clock
the sheriff started in an automobile for
the scene of the rioting. He took with
him ten riot guns and two boxes of riot
ammunition.
The county morgue has sent for the
bodies Of the dead troopers and deputy
sheriffs