The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-22
Mob Defies Sheriff Dur ing Monday Attack at Plant RevOlvers Used By Rioters and Guards Reply With Repeating Rifles.

Hour Sheriff, Un-
 able to QueH Riots,
 Calls for State Troops.
 New York, July 22 Two dead and six seriously injured, one probably mortally, was the harvest reaped by rioters at fhe Standard Oil and Tide water plants today as the re- suit of two attacks on the dep- utiesA guarding the property.l
 Two fires also occurred, one in the Standard Oil plant, where watchman' house was virtually destroyed, the. other in the yard Of the Tide water plant, where the slaves and lumber were stored.
 This last fire was started by. means of burning oily waste. thrown over the walls by riot-s ers It was speedily extin- guished with, trifling loss.
 Rain. Stops Fighting
 Those killed in the fighting were Stanley aflref1zoS 2s seaIs old, and .Nicolay Ivvaexkiu, 19, both of whom were shot through the heart by Win chester rifle bullets apparently fred by sthe guarde The men were killed during an attackson the barrel works of the ddewajter plant which began -,+ .k 4aSS Sfeaf7t frlv- nall <r1 hour The sudden heavy downpour of rain had much to do with stopping this fight
 feature Of this attack was the dehancst by the strikers of Sheriff Eugene Kinkead, who has tried to submit their Grievances to ar4b1tra- ton.
 He rushed up to the rioters when the melee was at it's height and com 1nanded the men to desist. He was greeted with eJeers and left the scene. asked for troops and that coznpan- lies from Newark and Redbank will soon be on the scene.
 In a statement regarding his call for troops, Sheriff Kinkead said:
 sI telephoned to the governor that 1t was necessity to call out the mi Itia. The men are not aInena.ble to reason. They don't seem able to dis ting1isfI between my men and the men paid as guards. The situation is beyond my control and I have asked the governor to send men at once. =
 Fighting began early today when mob storned the plant After several shots had been fired by the strikers and guards. the crowd withdrew. Sher- if Kinkead telephoneds to the depart 111ent of labor at Washington to ask that mediators be dispatched in1nedi- -E- 1r.-,- -,% &t t1<, trouble. He Eaid he hoped it would not be necessary to call out the state troops
 Scores of strikers and others gath cred at the works of the Standard Oil company today. Fire broke out in a watchmanss house but it was quickly exf1nguished. The strikers say the trouble started when Tony Bednank was shot while walking near the com pany's works
 The crowd, led by John Surgen. a former Austrian soldier. charged up the bank to attack the company's guards who were stationed behind the. oil tanks. Surgen fell at the first fire and his body rolled down the bank.
 The crowd pressed on and in the next exchange of shots Steve Fvo11Ia. "a 16 year old boy, was wounded
 street runaor was. cnrrent after } the early morning fighting that two guards in the Standard Oil plant had
 
 some color was lent to the report ] when an ambulance drove to and Z entered the works. It bore no in jured men, however, when it left 3the plant and the surgeon in charge asaid he had been unable to find any injured inside needing attention.
 Strikers and sympatFizers gather led in groups on the streets leading Ito the oil works but made no threat lening. move toward the plant. Among several orators who addressed them was Frank Tannenbaum, an Indus trial Workers. of the World leader
 At one large gathering the men 5tdid not take kindly to his utterances and he was howled down. The plant of the Tidewater Oil Company, with in a half mile of the Standard Oil works. remained closed today Its officers issued another statement re- ateratiiag that there was no tsrike at the works. that the men are loyal, that they were driven out by the mob. that the plant was now shut down. but because the company did mot deem it advisable to e'run.''
 Shortly before noon after several hours of comparative peace. a crowd s0f 500 assembled near the barrel works Of the TIdewater oil Go. and
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