New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-25
FIVE PERSONS SHOT IN
HASTINGS STRIKE RIOT
Guards Fire Unfortunately,
Wounding Woman Nursing
Baby Far Away.
BATTLE RACES Is MINUTES
National Conduit Strikers Re-
turn Rifle Volleys of Specials
with Revolvers-Fifty Dep
uties Soon Arrive.

A woman and four men were wounded
at Hastings on Hudson yesterday after
noon. when guards at the National Con-
duit and Cable Companys plant fired
upon a crowd of strikers that attacked
workmen who refused TO strike Only
one of the persons known to have been
hit was concerned in the strike, though
It is thought that several strikers were
wounded and were taken care of by
Hungarians who have been employed by
the company.
"Steve" Sillick. who. it s. alleged.
broucl ont the row. is in the Dobbs
Ferry .,al and is expected to die.
He was shot in the abdomen. Coroner
lies. of Yonkers, went last night to take
his ante-mortem statement. The woman.
Mrs Julia Kuchrcc who was shot In
the neck. is in a critical condition. while
the others. Antonio REQ, Michael Cleo
and John Othouse. are not so badly
hurt.
A week ago five hundred men employed
IN the wire department of the works
went on strike for raise of - cents IA
day in their wages of 81 %, and as a
result the shops were closed and 100
men were locked out.
Edward S. Perot, president of the COM
pany. announced that yesterday the
plant would he reopened and that all
who cared to go back to work would be
received at the old rate of wages. Most
OF the men desired TO return, but the
wire workers who went on strike re-
fused to go back TO work. They gath
cred about the shops and jeered at the
workers when they came out at noon.
When the men were returning TO work
at the close of the noon hour there was
crowd of strikers gathered about the
gates. The workers were again jeerod
and then an argument was started by
Simck. Some one threw a stone and
then other missiles were hurled. The
special policemen, who were armed with
repeating rifles. ran from the buildings
and poured an indscriminate fire into
the crowd The woman who was shot
was sitting on a stoOp several blocks
away from the factory and was nursing
baby. The child fell to the ground as
the woman clutched her throat where
the bullet entered and at first II was
thought that the little one was killed
This Infatuated the foreign element,
and men who were indoors opened fire
with revolvers on the guards. For near
w fifteen minutes the firing kept up on
both sides.
Later III the afternoon Sheriff Doyle
Of Westchester County arrived from
White Plains with fifty deputies. all
armed with repeating rifles. and last
night the streets were patrolled as if the
town were under martial law.
Not one of the special guards was
wounded in the fighting that followed
the first volley. as the men who fired at
the guards were armed merely with re
volvers that could not carry the dis
lance between the strikers and the
guards.
II is said that before the shooting the
superintendent of the works, l.. l. Van
AIKEN. was roughly handled by some o.
the strikers as he was attempting TO
drive Silick from in front Of the gates
II is announced that the gates OF the
works will be opened this morning TO
AL who return to work. As the fifty
men employed by the company as
guards have been reinforced by fifty
deputy sheriffe. it is believed there VIII
be no further trouble.