The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-08-26
MORE TROOPS
SENT TO RIOT
State COaStabulaTy at MCKe0S
Rocks Reinforced.
THE DEATH LIST GROWING

seVen Are Dead and Seven Fatally
Wounded-Strikers Kept From the
streets-seores Under Arrest-AI
Weapons Being confseated and
Search Being Made For Dynamite.
Pittsburg Aug. 24.-News from the
strike zone at the plant OF the Pressed
Steel Car company. in McKees Rocks
comes like the calm after a storm.
With the exception Of a clubbing ad.
ministercd to a physician who loitered
longer than the state troopers thought
wise. there was no violence OF any
sort on the scene OF Sunday nights
Wild disorders.
Tho streets OF McKees Rocks are
absolutely deserted save for a few
mounted state troopers who. with car
bines unsiuug and riot maces drawn.
walk their horses along sidewalks. IN
specting houses and stores for crowds
OF strike sympathizers
Twenty seven Under Charges.
Informations against twsntv-seven
prisoners now detained in the box car
Jails. charging them with aggravated
assault and battery carrying conceal
ed weapons aud melting a riot were
made by the state constabulary. Sev-
eral score OF others are in custody for
participation in Sunday nights dis
orders
\ house-to-hOuse canvass Is in pro
gress. All weapons are being confis-
Gated by the troopers. while a rigid
search is being made for dynamite. a
large quantity of which is reported to
be in the possession OF the strikers
The death list resulting from the
rioting was increased to six. though
four mems lives hang by a thread in
McKees Rocks hospitals. As near as
official records can be compiled the
dead and wounded are as follows:
The Dead.
Deputy Sheriff Harry Exler beaten
and stabbed 10 death.
Trooper John l.. Williams. OF the
state constabulary home in Pueblo.
Colo. shot dead.
Unknown striker check No 77s.
shot dead
George Millhouse. single striker:
died from bullet in lung.
Adam GumbernOt Schoenville: shot
four times
Trooper John c. Smith. twenty.one
years old. OF Centralia Pa. shot in
LEFT side.
Mike Desorki. striker shot in lungs
and abdomen
Probably Fatally Wounded.
Trooper Patrick O'Donneu. OF North.
ampton. Mass. shot through the body.
Trooper Lucien Jones. OF Morgan
town. W. Va shot in side and badly
stabbed
Adolph Stahl. striker shot through
the left luns
Hike Tysowski. striker. Schoenville
shot three times.
George Hernshka. employe OF Star
Enamel company. shot through back.
Unknown woman. shot In back: will
die.
Unknown Polish boy. shot with rifle.
Lesser Wounded.
Trooper George NJ Kitch. OF Column
bia. Pa. beaten and stabbed in re-
sisting attack Of mob: sent to Mercy
hospital
FRANK Hamet. striker. shot in the
shoulder and elbow: taken to Ohio
Valley hospital
Mike kurshinski striker. slight bul.
let wound in head: taken home.
Unknown Russian. striker shot
through temple; taken away by the
strikers
John Suter. striker. slight flesh
wound in arm.
Frank Nemath. striker. dubbed in
riot
Additional constabulary have left
PunNsutawney and Wilkes Barre and
will augment the face Of state troop
ers now at the car plant under com.
mand OF Captain Marsh. Sherin Gum
bert. Of Alleghe-s county has sworn
in fifty additional deputy sherins in
anticipation Of renewed rioting. II is
not unlikely tat the state militia from
tho eastern part of Pennsylvania will
be ordered 10 Pittsburg within the
next twenty-four hours II conditions
warrant.