The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-22
Seven Men Shot In Riot at
MCKee'S Rocks.
CONSTABLE IS FIRST TO FALL.
Three Bullets Pass Through Clothing
Of Chief of Police After He Has
Ordered Crowd at Steel Work.
ers' Meeting to Disperse.

Pittsburg, Pa, April 81. In a
bloody battle between strikers and
township constables at McKee's Rocks
at least seven persons were seriously
injured, and three of them are likely
to die
Those fatally injured are: Consta-
bic james NJ. Daniels, who is shot
through the abdomen and chest; Joe
Biernot, striker, shot several times
by the constables, and an unknown
striker, who refuses to give his name.
One of the attacking strikers was hit
by train as he was escaping from
the pursuing mob and knocked over
the bank. He is thought to have fallen
into the river. but no trace of him
could be found. A farmer named Han
nan was shot through the hand, and
two unknown foreigners were carried
away by their friends. apparently bad
ly injured
The battle occurred in the now no.
toriOus Bloody Angle. where so much
rioting and bloodshed occurred in the
last strike and where the Victor bank
was looted and two employees killed
some weeks ago.
There had been a mass meeting held
by Industrial Workers of the World
on nearby Indian mound, and about
250 of the foreign speaking workmen
on their way back stopped at Bloody
Angle to talk matters over. One lead
er was haranguing his fellow work
men in an unknown tongue and they
were getting wildly excited when Chief
of Police Edwin Silvers of Sloe town
ship. with Constable James NJ. Daniels,
came up to the crowd and ordered it
to disperse.
The speaker shouted something as
he jumped from the perch on which
he had been standing and there was a
spit of flame from the crowd and Con
stable Daniels fell to the ground, shot
through the body.
Three bullets passed through the
clothing of Chief Silvers. but none
hurt him. The mob, after its first
fire Of perhaps Il dozen shots, made n
rush for the PROSTATE constable, but
began to shoot fast. Daniels rose to
one arm and lent his fire while four
other cOnstables who had been in the
next square came running up, shooting
as they came.
Get that big fellow; he has killed
Jimmy" shouted Chief Silvers to his
men as he tried to bring down a large
foreigner who had been shooting from
behind tree.
One of the cOnstables closed with
the foreigner, who, chased from his
hiding place, ran toward the Ohio
river with constable in hot pursuit.
The man pursued tried to cross the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad
tracks just as "A freight engine running
wild came along, and he was tossed by
the cowcatcher over the bank.
BY the time the pursuing constables
got down to the bank there was no
trace of the rioter who had been hit
by the train, and it is not known
whether he was knocked into the wa
ter and drowned or whether he made
his escape by swimming
In the meantime Chief Silver and
his men were having a hot time in the
angle. The foreigners gathered up
rocks when their ammunition became
exhausted and hurled them at the con
stables, who were backed in against IA
fence and had to fight their way out.
A constable named Johnson had his
revolver knocked out of his hand 10y
a rock.
Chief Silvers at this moment dropped
the rock throwing striker with his
handy billy, At one time six of the
strikers were on the ground writing
near Daniels, who had once more
managed to stagger TO his feet only TO
be knocked down again.
Finally he thought of an extra re-
volver which he had slipped In his in
side coat pocket, and he pulled it just
as he got his back against the fence
and open fire on the mob. When Dan
iels came In with his new gun the mob
wayered. broke and fled.
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