The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-21
THREE SHOr TN STRIKE RIOT
FgERCs BATTLE FOUGar AT
PRESSED STEEL CAR PLANT.

Armed 8erlkcra IN ''lDeaoay angie"
cancer Gets nuilesa TheaaGh Absis-
men aaa Chesl--0 one Rlstrr aalsaaag.
PIrTsBUno. April Mn a battle this
evening between car works strikers and
ownship constablas at McKsss Rocks
ssvsnperuOns were Injured. thrss % whom
probably will die.
Constable James NJ DanIels was ahot
through the abdomen and chest Joe
Biernot. n Hungarian striker. was shot
several simeu. a. was another striker
who refuses TO give his name The three
are In the Ohio valley Hospital
One of tho attacking strikers was hit
BY train 90 he vas running from pur-
suers and was knocked over the river
bank. He 10 thought tn have fallen in
the river. No trace 81 him has been
found.
A farmer named Hannah was shot
through the hand and two unknown
Foreigners were carried away by their
friends apparently badly injured Their
naAMaFs cuunOt Do teafue0,
The hattie occurred just AZ dusk in
the now notorious bloody Angls. where
% much rioting and bloOd-hsd took place
In the last strike
There had been = mass meeting Of
Industrial Workers az the World on a
nearby Indian mound and about 30 Of
the foreign speaking wOrkmen on their
way back stopped a. bloody Angie to
talk matters over
One header was haTan guinE his fellows
in an unknown tongue and they were
getting excited when Chief Of Police Ed-
win Silvera with Constable James A.
Daniels came up and ordered the crowd
60 disperse.
The speaker shouted something IN he
jumped from his perch and there was
spit Of fame from the crowd Constable
Daniels fell TO the ground shot through
the body. Three bullets passed through
the clothing Of Chief Silvsrs. but none hit
him. The mob after its first FIRE Of per-
haps q dozen shots made q rush for the
prOstrate constable. bat Chief Silvers
standing over Daniels began to shoot fast.
Daniels rose TO ono arm and lent his fire.
while four other constables who had be~n
in the next block came running NO. shoot
ine IN they GENE.
Get that big fellow: he has titled
Jimmy shouted Chief silvers 90 his men
- no tried On hiring down a foreigner
who had been shooting from behind a
tree.
One of the constAbIea closesa with the
- - ~
place. ran toward tho Ohio Rivsv with
q cunstabtp IN pursuit The man tried
to'esoss the Pitt-burE and lake Erie Rail-
rrad tracks j,Ist as a fright engine came
along and he was tossed over the bank
by the time the pursuing constAbles
arrived there Vas no trace ~ Sp@ ri1tng
who had been hit by the train
In the meantime ChisT Silvers and his
men were having a hot time in the Angie
The foreigners gathered rocks when their
pistols were empt led and hurled them NJ
the oOnstables. who were hacked against
a fence and had 10 fgh' their way ont
A constable named johnson had his
revolver knocked ont 81 his hand with
q rock and was felled with Rnp'he- rock
IN he stoopef To recover a.
Chief SiIvers az this moment droDps.d
the rock throwing striker with his handy
billy.
A; one time sir % the strikers were on
the ground near Daniels who had mana Red
To Etagger To his feet only TO be Knocked
down again. Finally he thought Of an
extra revolver which he had slipped into
his inside coat pocket and he drew IL just
a. he got his back against the fence and
opened fire on the mob.
Watch that little Hun Get him IL
you have TO let every one else Kol' shouted
Daniels to his fellow OGficers He re-
ferred 10 the man Who had been throw
ing rocks a, him. Two membegs % the
McKees Rocks police force who had
come up opened FIRE on the little foreigner.
who stumbled and fell. apparently shot
But he roe and kept his way toward
the river. pursued by Chief Silvers and
fifty others. Over the railroad tracks
and straiRhs over the blua into the Ohio
River went the striker
Chief Of Police Silvsrs rolled down the
bank TO the waters edge and seeing a
skill broke the lock and jumping in rowed
after the STRIKER. who was swimming fon
the other shore. The Ohio River at this
point 10 nearly half . milo wide and the
swimmer had long lead. but a. he scram-
blsd out Of the water on tho Allegheny
side Chief silvers rose In hin boat only
Q few Iengths from shore and called upon
him 20 stop or he would drop him In his
tracks. The foreigner stopped and raised
his hands above HE bead. He was taken
into tho boat. whsre silvors discovered
tina. he was very badly wounded. There
was then a hard pull back 70 the McKsss
Rocks side and 70 the hospieal. where the
ssrihsr became unconscious.
Later fifteen armed mon were put In
charge Of the Ohio Valley Hospital. Il
being feared that friends Of the wounded
strikers might attsmpe a rescue.
Late tonight the police Of McKses Rocks
turned the ars hose on a crowd which had
gathered 20 disouss strike matters. Two
men had their legs broken trying % &C.
cspe the water.
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