Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-13

5 had been ordered in readi-
5 notice was denied by Sheriff
He stated the calling Of the
ce to the community and be
some Of the prominent citi-
he declared he had not done
Sheriff Houghton about
clock this afternoon, the sher-
protection at the Perth Am
of the Atlantic Terra Gotta
position as he could, but the
tile with the handful of avail
number were unable to check
became troublesome.
and the mob fell back. Then the strik-
ers began to stone the millIun-dollar
acid plant. The armed guards evident
lv thought extreme measures were due
and shooting for blood started.
As brick bats and stones hit the iron
sheeting of the acid plant with bangs
that could be heard for several blocks,
the sound of a fJsilade of shots from
the guns of guards rang through the
air. Even this did not have a ten
dency to halt The drink-crazed strikers.
They were determined to wreck havoc
upon the company's property. A pitch
ed battle continued for two hours and
a half, at the end of which three men
laid strp+pi1aI ont IN, tbo rnoIyiln and
four others walked about nursing less
serious shot wounds. The injured per-
sons are:
Names of Injured.
Martin Bartoszcivicz, OF Catherine
street, shot seriously in the thigh of
the left leg. Taken to the hospital.
Tony Rochetski, 64S Elizabeth street,
shot in lefi slGe. Attended by DR..
Meinzer and sent home.
Frank Saehera, 726 State street, shot
in the right side. Attended by DR..
Meinzer and sent home.
Charles Miklos, of Inslee street. Shot
In the LEI. leg and treated at home.
George Cjoni, of Inslee street. Shot
in first joint of left hand, Attended by
DR.. Meinzer and sent home.
Ignatz Panek, of Inslee street, was
shot in the left leg, q bullet going
through his trousers and just grazing
his skin.
Joseph Machesky was probably saved
from instant death by his suspenders,
which stopped a bullet that would prob
ably have entered his heart. He proud
ly went among the mob and displayed
the bullet and a hole in his suspenders.
HurI Rocks at Ambulance.
None of the injured persons are
/ likely to die unless complications set
In, the attending physician declares.
Bartoszcivicz appeared to be the
most seriously injured. He was
taken in charge by Patrolman Cal
vim. When the ambulance vas sent
after him it was stoned as it passed
through a gang of strikers. When
the victim was taken aboard 1t was
taken around the back way through
Maurer for safety.
The shots were fired by guards
patrolling the top of the sulphuric
acid plant. They used riot guns,
Winchester repeating rifles and re-
volyers, The sight of persons shot
and lying in the roadway evidently
caused the strikers to desist in at
tack on the plant shortly before 10
o'clock.
Roundsman Morris and Patrol
men Calvin, A. Jensen, Harding,
Hartung and Weitzen were COM
PEELED to stand as dummies while
the strikers waded in to the A. s. &
R. plants and guards were shooting.
AT the time R~oundsman Morris was
lying in Joseph Gadek's place with a
badly laceTated scalp as the result
of being hit with a stone and Patrol
MAI Andrew Jensen was standing in
front of Gadek's place with blood
trlckling from a scalp wound and
from a wound in the calf of his
right leg into his shoe. They are
Patrolman Gutowski were the vic
Tins of the strikers.
Policeman Tries to Arrest Man.
just before the strikers began
their wild attack at the gate house
a number of them played havoc with
the officers when they attempted to
arrest a Hungarian striker who hit
John SkrOcki on the head with a
stone. Skrocki and William Masso-
pust were driving out to see the
strike about Z o'clock when one man
threw a heavy stone and inflicted a
severe l~aceration OF Skrocki's scalp,
which was attended by DR.. Meinzer.
Patrolman Jensen grabbed the man
who threw the stone, placed him
under arrest and handcuffed him.
He placed him In Abraham Berkof' s
huckster wagon. A wild mob pur-
sued and stoned the rig. Berkofi
was hit on the head and fell off the
wagon. He ran away and left his
rig. Roundsman Morris and Patrol
man Jensen then started to walk
their prisoner. They were stoned
for several hundred feet and finally
took refuge behind the grocery and
provision store of Joseph MaZgaj al
1853 State street. The excited strik-
ers swarmed the front of the store
and demolished it with bricks and
stones. Mrs. Mazgaj tainted away
in the store and Patrolman Jensen,
, seeing he could do little else, re-
leased the prisoner on parole and
ran for his life. Just previously
Roundsman Morris had been hit
back of the ear and forced to fee.
other patrolmen escorted him to