Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-23

ers have been holding up street cars ana
ordering the occupants of them out.
Heretofore all have obeyed. Last night,
however. the three troopers and a deputy
sheriff were passengers. and being arm
ed, refused To be ordered about by the
strikers. They resisted and for twenty
minutes a battle ensued. 1t Is apparent
today that all the dead and a majority
of the injured fell in this battle. Later
when renforcements arrived many more
were dubbed and shot but the first bat
tie. waged by only four men against a
thousand strike sympathizers, was the
fatal one.
1t is said the three troopers had not yet
Joined the constabulary stationed at the
plant.
The force of state police located at
Punxsutawney, Pa. which recently took
charge of the strike situation at the
Standard Steel Car works, Butler, Pa,
has been ordered here and is expected TO
arrive during today. The question OF or
dering out the militia has not yet peeh
decided.
Leniency heretofore displayed by the
stabulary toward the strikers Is an
sent today. Stringent measures are be-
ing used and the least overt act com
nitted by the strikers is met with riot
stick or the hoofs of a policeman's horse.
Mass Meeting Prohibited.
Attempts are being made today to pre-
vent the holding of a mass meeting at
this time the meetings of the idle men
have been held daily. Thousands of
strikers began their journey to the mound
early today but many of them were
forcibly and abruptly halted and started
in an opposite direction.
Owing to the sulen demeanor of the
strikers the strength of the conStahulary
is concentrated In the vicinity OF the IN
dian mound. This point, it is believed,
will not he the scene of any further dls-
order
Sheriff Gumbert is being beseged with
complaints from large disinterested cor
porations situated or having property
within the strike zone.
Informations against twenty-seVen prls-
oners now detained in the box car 1alls,
charging them with aggravated assault
and battery, carrying concealed weapons
and melting q riot. We're made today by
the state constabulary. Several score OF
others are in custody for participation in
last nights disorder
A house-to-house canvass is in progress
TODAY. All weapons are being contiscated
nv the troopers, while rigid search IS
being made for dynamite, a large guam
tty of which is reported to be in the pos
session of the strikers. A force of deputy
coroners has been dispatched to Mchees
Rocks with instructions to ascertain II
possible the identity of the instigators of
The trouble Whether they are strikers
or officers. Coroner Jamison says, they
will he dealt with according To law, when
found.
Practically the entire county detective
force has been sent into the strike zone
for the first time since the inception of
the trouble.
During the rioting last night several
street cars of the PittShurg Railway
Company were damaged. while bricks in
a number of freight cars siding of
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad
were used as missiles by the rioters and
scattered over a wide territory. Nalua
BILE property of other companies was de-
stroyed, resulting in a demand being
made of Sheriff Gumbert for more ade-
quate protection. During the night the
sheriff swore in fifty extra deputies. and
as many more will be added before to-
night.