The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-30
More BIoodshed Today in Law
renee Mill Strike.
VICTIM EXPECTED TO DIE
Squad of Militia Charged Crowd of Syr.
ians Who Refused to Disperse and
John RAINY Fell-Leader Ettor
Says the Worst Is to Come.

Lawrence, Mass, Jan. 30.-The quiet
Of the forenoon following the killing Of
woman and the stabbing of a police
man yesterday afternoon in the strike
OF the textile mill workers was broken
at about noon to-day in a clash between
200 Syrians and a squad of militia,
which resulted in the probable fatal
wounding of John RAINY, Syrian.
The Syrians had gathered on Court
street with the intention, it is under
stood, Of parading, and squad of militia
was sent to disperse them. The Syrians
resisted, and the soldiers were forced
to charge. During the skirmish, RAINY
was badly stabbed in the chest. At
the hospital, where he was taken, it was
said that he would probably die. The
surgeons were unable to tell whether the
wound was made by knife or bayonet.
The order OF Strike Leader Joseph j.
Ettor to keep away from the mill dis
tricts was generally observed to-day.
Ettor believes that the worst il yet to
come. To-day he voiced the possibility
of sympathetic strike on the part of
the employees of the local street rail-
way company. Many carmen, he said,
had joined the Industrial Workers of
the World, which is conducting the tex
tile strike; others were to join and all
would leave their cars when the call
came.
At meeting of the strikers commit
tee to-day a delegate reported that To-
cal men were furnishing strike breakers
and receiving three dollars for each one
furnished. Already, the delegate said,
$50 men have been furnished. Cries OF
Shoot them" greeted this announce
ment.
School Committeeman John J. Breen,
who was arrested last night on the
charge of completely in planting" Of
dynamite, pleaded not guilty in police
court to-day, and his case was continued
to Friday,
Colonel Sweetzer sent an official com
to the strike leader, Joseph
J. Ettor, to-day, telling him that outdoor
meetings would be prohibited. Ettor
replied that he had no intention of hold
ing any. Parades also were forbidden by |
Colonel Sweetzer
Woman Killed by Bullet.
The victim of yesterday afternoons /
riot was an Italian woman. A man near
by was firing a revolver into the ground |
when the woman dropped. 1t is believed |
she was struck by glancing bullet
She died on the way to a hospital.
Police headquarters was notified at the /
beginning of the trouble. AT that time l
The mob of nearly 1000 was charging up !
and down Union street, yelling, with /
,ome OF the crowd discharging revolvers.
they were near the Everett mills.
Police Sergeant Spranger and four Off
,ers went to the scene, but had little ef
iect in quelling the disturbance. Officer
oscar Benoit became separated from his
and while surrounded by
nearly a hundred angry, threatening
men, was stabbed in the back He was
.aken to the Lawrence hospital, where
{ was found his wound was not serious,
md he was later sent home
Additional officers hurried to the scene,
lut although they used their clubs freely +
hey made little impression on the crowd
lntil two companies of militia arrived
IN the double quick with fixed bayonets.
Upon coming up with the leaders of the
rowd, who seemed determined to stand
heir ground, the militiamen used their
life butts. Two of the soldiers broke
heir rifles during the mix-up, and it is
believed many of the rioters were seri-
,usly injured.
Neither the police nor the militiamen
ired any shots The rioters who were
lischarging firearms could not be picked
nut by the officers, and no arrests were
made. An hour after the trouble start
d, the streets were cleared at that
,oint.