Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-14
MEN GRAB EMBERS FROM
SHANTY THAT BURNED
CONTINUED from Dage IL

Indications we're this afternoon
that the Standard Underground Ca
BILE Company would remain closed
| indefinitely and tina for this reason
orders were being checked up to be
sent to the concerns plant at Pitts
| burgh, Pa. The company men de-
clare they cannot grant a general
increase of fifteen per cent. The
strikers seem disinclined to reduce
the mount of their demand. They
are meeting twice daily.
r. & Fl. Men Get Raise.
It was rumored late this after
noon that a strike was in progress
at the works Of the Roessler q
Hasslacher Chemical Company, but
that was denied and it was stated
that men in the plants of that COM
pany were fully satisfied having re-
coived increases ranging from n
to two cents an hour
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.
r-The excited mob of 10000 men,
women and boys at hand was not
uuieted until the detectives n dep-
uty sheriffs, stationed on high build
ings at the plant, had fired numerous
shots in the surging crowds and pre-
vented all attempts to set fire TO the
high board fence which surrounds
and protects the property. Scores
were hit by flying bricks n bullets,
while extensive damage was reported
in that vicinity, caused, principally,
by 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 the strikers and others In an at
tempt to send fear into the owners
of the huge buildings, and W troll
ley stations and numerous advertts-
ing signs were burned down by the
frantic mob before the brilliant
searchlights were turned on and the
crowds dispersed with the aid OF
screeching bullets. The first fire oc-
Cured at $50 O'Clock, and spelled
the doom of the small shanty used
as a trolley waiting room in front
of the A. S. and R. plant. An alarm
was turned in from box So. at the
Lead Works, adjoining the
smelter plant, and the companies
hurried to the scene.
Two Firemen Hurt.
Two fremen, John Banner and
Charles Mckenzie were hit by flying
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 shantys burn and at
to fire the fence. Two
searchlights picked out the criminals
and expert ritlemen, stationed in the
plant, fired several rounds of shots
over the heads of the masses. Thai
beat a retreat, and the sta
ion in front of the United Lead
Works and the large real estate sign !
If the Massopust Realty Company
south of Joseph Gadey's place, were
gnited.
The strikers returned the fire or
he detectives last night, for the
irst time during the present trou-
Die. 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
posts and went through the
mob at high speed. There were
twelve people in n car, which was
running into this city, in which sIx~
teen windows were smashed. A
drunken man who proclaimed IN
front of the mob that he worked for
"Guggtes' was set upon at $50
O'Clock and admonished for ms
wrongs. He was frightfully beaten
and, undoubtedly would have been
killed, but the movable searchlights
came upon the trouble and riflemen
scattered the group with two shots.
The injured man was dragged by
friends towards Maurer.
Chief Engineer Frank Comings, who
took Office June 1, attended his first
as chief in answering the alarm
from box 50. He succeeded in reach
in the scene of the blaze without be-
injured and this he attributes to
the speed with which he was travelling,
claiming the strikers did not have a
chance to hit him.
Excitement Intense.
Excitement was intense when the
waiting shanty was burning, the fire
companies arrived and strikers were
stoning the A. s.. & r. plant. The
were extinguished amid protests
from the strikers and as soon as the
fire company had departed the enraged
turned over the shed and set fire
to it again. The strikers and thousands
of people stood about the glowing fire
and many cheered. AS the flames
were burning briskly and became visi-
BILE for some distance there ran out a
dozen shots from rifles of the guards
in the A. 8. & R. plant. There fol-
lowed the widest kind of excitement
as the multitude scattered. A major
ity of the men, women and children
ran towards the main portion of the
city and in the rush many fell and
were trampled upon. Several were
bruised and scratched, but from all
reports no one was seriously injured.
Crowd Scattered.
The crowd remained scattered
throughout the NIGHT and much of the