Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-06-14
FOUR SHOT, ONE DEAD
IN RIOT AT 4. S. &R.
PLANT This nAORIVInC {

One striker wa shot dead and
three seriously injured when a
mob Of 1000 attempted to break
into the plant of the American
Smelling & Refining Company short
ly after 10 o'clock this morning.
Dead.
STEPHEN DUDOCK, 80 years
old, of State street.
The Injured.
HENRY LACKOWITZ. Of State
street, bad wound in right leg. TAX
en- to hospital.
JOSEPH PAUL, shot IN left leg
while standing on c. r, r. tracks.
Taken to hospital.
Name of other injured man not
learned.
Sheriff Bollschweiler said at
10:45 o'clock, after learning OF the
morning riot, that he will press in
to service 400 deputy sheriffs from
all sections of the county, in antic-
ipation of tonight's riot. He said
that this force of men will arrive
here between 2 and 8 o'clock this
afternoon.
Yelling like feinds and and hurl-
ing bricks and rocks more than
1000 of the foreigners made a
dash for the plant this morning
Shortly before they had secured
fire brands from the smoking deb
ris of the trolley station and with
these they rushed towards the fence
in an attempt to tburn it. The de-
tectiyes inside the plant shouted
n the mob in warning but they
were undaunted and continued to
rush the plant. They struck the
fence from the little road that leads
from State street and managed to
break a Iart of 1t down. This was
the signal for the men inside 10
shoot. Dudock was well in the lead
of the rioters and fell at the hrst
renort Two bullets had entered
his neck, the right side being al
most severed.
Rioting Last Night
The rioting experienced last night
before the huge plant of the Amer
lean Smelling and refining COMPANY
was exciting, but not very damaging
The excited mob of 1o,Ooo men,
women and boys at hand was not
ouieted until the detectives ana dep-
uty sherffs, stationed on hlgh pullu-
inps at the plant, had fired numerous
shots in the surging crowds ana pre-
vented all attempts to set flre 10 the
high board fence which surrounds
and protects the property. Scores
we're hit by flying bricks and bullets,
while extensive damage was reported
in that vicinity, caused, principally,
nv bricks and stones thrown by the
striking employees of the A. S. ana
r COMPANY and the Barber AS
phalt Company.
Arson was resorted to last night
by thes trikers and others IN an at
tempt to send fear into the owners
of the huge buildings, and two troll
lev stations and numerous advertfs-
ing signs were burned down by the
frantic mob before the brilliant
searchlights were turned on and the
crowds dispersed with the aid or
screeching bullets. The first fire oc-
Cured at $50 O'Clock, and spelled
the doom of the small hanty useo
as a trolley waiting room IN 'front.'
of the A. S. and r. plant. An alarm
was turned in from box 5S' at the
United Lead Works, adjoining the
smelter plant, and the companies
hurried to the scene. .....
Two Firemen Hurt.
Two firemen, John Danner and
Charles Mckenzie were hit by fylns
stones, when the strikers turned up
on the fire fighters and showed their
resentment of any attempt to pre-
vent the course of the flames by
hurting rocks at the heads OF the
men at the hose. The strikers
watched the shanty burned and at
tempted to fire the fence. TWO
searchlights picked out the criminals
and expert rifemen, stationed in the
plant, fired several rounds of shots
over the heads of the masses. The
strikers beat a retreat, and the sta
ton in front of the United Lead
Works and the large real estate sign
of the Massopust Realty Company
south of .3ph adek's place, were
ignited.
The strikers returned the fire or
the detectives last night, for the
first time during thep resent trou-
BILE. They also stoned and shot bull
let's into passing trolley cars, and
passengers were forced to drop
down to the bottom of the cars to
escape injury. Motormen stuck to
their posts and went through the
mob at high speed. There were
twelve people in one car, which was