Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-22
RESUME RIOTS
IN BAY0NNE
Strikers Shot and Injured
Following Attempt to
Enter Plant
5000 ANGRY WORKMEN,
Police Unable to, Cope With Situation
Governor Fielder Expected to
Send Soldiers

Bayonne, N. J. July 22-Two strik,
ers were shot anc probably fatally
wounded. and several others less seri-
ously hurt in an attempt by the
strikers to scale the walls Of tins
Standard Oil Company's plant hero
shortly after 8 o'clock today.
Bayonne, n. j., July % With
several regiments of militia standing
in readiness to answer a call from
Sheriff Kinkead, Bayonne was still II
the hands of the Standard Oil Com.
pany's 5000 rioting strikers today.
This morning strikers set fire tc
the Standard oil telegraph office al
Avenue J and Twenty-second street
It was shortly after dawn wnen the
strikers renewed the disorder of yes
terday. The few police who were OF
guard were utterly unable to cop
with the situation. 1t is expected tfa
Governor Fielder will order regI
ment of the National Guard to tn.
strike zone.
Bavonne was city of terror ias'
night. The strikers applied the torcl
to several outbuildings around the
plants. and the fire department
wearied by strenuous efforts during
the day !abored al night to prevent
the blaze reaching the OF! mad napthla
tanks. a long string Of box cars
was destroyed.
Sheriff Eugene F. Kinkead and
First Assistant Prosecutor George !
Vickers who talked to the strikers IL
an effort to get them to return tt
work. remained at the scene until 8
o'clock.
At 10 o'clock Mr.. Vickers, who il.
also a lieutenant colonel in the Fourth
Regiment, n. G. N. j., called Gov
ernor Fielder on long distance tele-
:phone. He told the governor about the
seriousness of'::the situation and de
clared that it would be necessary to
call out the guard today unless the
trouble ends at once.
= Sheriff Kinkead instead OF going. tc
his summer home at Deal, n. J..
went to Sea Girt last night, and had
long conference with the governor
which lasted until after midnight. He
told the governor that it would be
necessary in his opinion, to call on
the State troops.
Bayonne. N. j., July 22-Arson
murder. and riot in the Bayonne STRIKE
districts has completely paralyzed
the operations of the Constable Hoos
! Oil Company and the Tidewater Oh
Company, subsidiaries of the Stan.
F.; dard Oil Company, and threaten tn:
valuable properties with total destruc'
tion.
John Starancsah, a 19 year old boy
was shot through the head and in
stant!y killed by a policeman last
night when an effort was made tt
drive the infuriated men of the Con
| stable Hook plant away from thu
gates of the Tidewater Oil Company
More than two score other person:
| received wounds from bullets anf
bricks during the rioting which con
tinued throughout the day.
/ Just before midnight an attack wa
made on the pumping station at th
foot of Twenty-eighth street. One o
the MAIN feed pipes through which
crude oil is pumped to the severn
plants in the vicinity was severed am
the oil ignited. The conflagration wa
declared to be perilously near mum
her of naptha tanks. A horse riddle,
by Police Inspector Cady was sho
from under him and the officer wa
so painfully wounded as to necessl
tate his removal to the Bayonne Hos
pital. An automobile owned by G
B. Hennessy. general manager of tn
Constable Hook plant, which attempt
ed to negotiate the distance betwee
Ocean avenue and the plant alon
Twenty-second street, was completed
demolished.
Mayor Pierre Garvin, of Bayonn'
sent a telcpraphic request to Gov