Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-20
Strike Riot at
 Roosevelt N. J.
ONE MAN NORMALLY WOUNDED
 IN CLASH WITH DEPUTIES
Is OTHERS SHOT DOWN
At Private Depot of the Williams & Clark Plant, Where Deputies Were Awaiting the Arrival of Strikebreak- ers-Deputies Pursued Strikers.

Roosevelt. N. J.. Jan 19.-One man was uortallv wounded and Is others were shot down-all of them striking employees of the American Agricultural Chemical company-in a clash today between several hundred strikers and sixty sheriffs deputies The officers at the time were awaiting the arrival of a train which was supposed to con- tain a force of laborers to take the places of some of tho 800 men who quit work on January End, when their wages were reduced.
 Accounts are conflicting as to whether the strikers or the deputies were the aggressors. w. Edwin Flor ance, Middlesex County prosecutor, after an inquiry during which he eX- aimed nearly a hundred participants and eye-witnesses, announced that he would at once place the evidence be- fore grand jury.
 Man Dies Of Wounds
 Desidori AIesandro, 3S years old, of Carteret, N. J. who was shot in the back and the leg. died tonight. Stephen Dodd. g, of Cateret, has a revolver bullet wound and some fifty buchshot wounds in his back and ac- Ten other men are suffering severely from bullet and 'buckshOt wounds in the abdomen and legs.
 Deputies Opened Fire.
 The trouble occurred at the Gen. tral Railroad of New Jersey private depot of the Williams and Clark plant a subsidiary Of the American Agri- cultural Chemical company Prose- cutor F1orance said tonight that strik- CTS and police told him that as the train, on which it was thought there were stTik kebreakers, came to a halt a force of sixty armed deputies open ed fire and pursued the waiting strik- sy.g- a1-J into I,r Demonstration by Strikers. The prosecutor said that deputies testified that between 200 and 500 strikers had made a demonstration against an earlier train; that when the deputies approached this train, in- tending to escort company officers from the depot to the plant, strikers armed with clubs and revolvers opened Ire, WherenpoD, accorGt g to the pros ecutOr- the deputies returned the shots, not aiming to hit, but firing in- to the air or toward the ground. Says Strikers Were Unarmed. J. R. Crane, Roosevelt's street com missioner, who testified at the prose cutor's inquiry, said he witnessed the rioting and that the strikers were un- armed and were attacked by the dep- uties. He said he saw one beaten with the butt of a revolver after fall ing to the ground and that he saH no shots fired by the strikers. Police officers after the fighting picked up over 50 revolver and shot gun shells from the ground.
 The company, in a statement to- night said strikers entered the train which they suspected was carrying strike and attempted forcibly to remove factory employees on their to work and that the deputies went tc i the employees aid
 S@rikabre.LA-e The company installed a force of strikehreakers at the factories today 1 During the afternoon the strikers held a meeting, at which they were ad- dressed by an organizer of the Amerf- can Federation of Labor. Tonight q searchHg}lt. playing from the top oI the Williams and Clark plant. re- veaIed quiet streets in Roosevelt and q squad Of deputies guarding the com pany's property. Sheriff Houghtor earlier had communicated by telephone | with Governor Fielder regarding the situation.