New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-20
Agricultural Chemical Co,
Employees Attacked at
Carteret Station.
FALLEN WOUNDED
AGAIN FIRED UPON
Town Official Stops Reprisals
Cries. Those Barbarians
Will Kill You AL


Company's fertilizer plant in Carteret.
y. j.. we're shot down Yesterday morn
ing by deputies hired 10 protect the
concerns property. One man is dead
and several are seriously wounded.
Thirteen OF this score Of victims
were shot in the back, according TO re
ports from two hospitals in Elizabeth
and physicians in the Borough Of
Roosevelt who are attending those who
Go not require hospital treatment.
The shooting is described by the
strikers and by disinterested citizens
who witnessed the encounter as a wan
ton, unproyoked and unjustifed act on
the part Of six special deputies fur
nished BY the O'Brien Detective Agency,
Of Newark
More than 300 men were in the crowd
which offered target TO the bullets Of
the deputies. Most Of them we're Hun
garians and Poles, sprinkled with few
Italians. The list Of dead and injured
in hospitals IS as follows:
pESEDEGlo Aieo'snd-o. twenty sish, tsis7' nr-
married. nv.ng n Chrome. ih-ee 'no,s 'n -,
,i,r n ,he Aeian Brothers nJ,gua' =, 90
o. m.
DABICk raul. f0r.Y. Hungarian. married. car
ttre,. Two shots IN er one n hand.
CONCHATo. Anon. nfy-tso. Hungarian. Carter'i' d
shot IN bsos D: n,rH
popp S.sphon hh1 1i7c. hungarian miTed.
Csrerei ouc@hot wounds ~ bach a'a oo.h ts'
r.ppA stefan f7rty-four. Hungarian. married.
Csrerel: c' leg fun Of tuckshot
rrEry Joseph. nineteen Hungarian. chrom, tTo
sho.s .n hsck.
Go>Hos. Andres. twenty seven Hungarian
Chrome bullet ia i,' .es aud A. base of spine
GoRAmsK}. Io92. ... a''y. hrr''n'n' married
koNrD, shy. ,fisraeL twenty nirs Hungarian.
t4-c-.. shct iu .e't hip
KoRNIZLO. Jacob. thirty Hunssrian 'ho' In risl.
foot
NJ SiLA john. twenty four Hungarian. married
tauer-.. SIX shots in righ- les
rA1ry. Cs-man. thi-y-eight. Hungarian. mar'iei.
chrome sLo' n lef arm and abdomen
sABET>RY. John. twenty eight. foe' CHROME B
uuckshot wounds in BODY
All except Conchato and Sabetsky
arc in the Alexian Brothers Hospital.
The two mentioned are in the General
Hospital. The borough authorities Of
Roosevelt have the names Of seven
others who are being attended by phy-
sicians. Several Of them have slight
wounds in the back.
Near Railroad Station.
Most Of the strikers in the party
which was attacked formerly worked
either in the plants Of the Williams &
Clark Company or the Liebig Chemical
Companv. Both are suxiliaries OF the
American Agricultural Chemical Com
many. Of > Rector st.. as is the Ar
mour company's plant in Chrome,
mile and a quarter away which Is
also affected by the strike.
The two first named plants are in
Carteret. near the railroad station Of
the Sound Shore branch Of the Cen
tral Railroad OF New Jersey. Both
Car,eret and Chrome are in the Bor-
ough Of Roosevelt.
The borough was full Of indignant
groups last night, in spite OF two
meetings that had been held TO urge
tbe men to forego their desire for
reprisals and let the Law take ITS
course. Two powerful searchllghts
played over the swamps around the
plants where the shooting occurred
County Prosecutor Floranee, Of Mid
dlesex. arrived early from New Bruins
wick and began an inquiry behind
closed doors Almost a hundred wit
,esses we're examined Strikers. citi-
yens and deputies testified. The depu-
ties maintained that they fired only
after they had been fired upon.
Declare Act Wanton.
Those who insisted that the attack
waS entirely unWarranted pointed out
tho significant fact. however. that not
a weapon was picked up near the terri
,o,- over which the shots flew. nor had
onv weapon been found on "A victim or
a,,on, the score or more taken 10 Bor-
ough Hail and questioned afte- the
Gmong the principal witnesses who
,,oared at Prosecutor Florance's in
o,,,irv IN Borough Hall was Joseph ".
crane. street Commissioner lie SAID
10 was 200 feet from the Williams 4
LII ,lant when the sixty deputies
.1ebed out and opened fire on the
strikers. lie saw asou, twenty pickets
detach themselves from the group as
I.,o3 nv AZ the station. They went
,52pDca stGpPsG the r, cars to see if any strike,
toters tndoIe we're aboard, found none and
so announced from the Ss1 rear platform std% r.
,riLors at this information,
ONE. 9tnTa aid. and this seemed TO be the
signal for the d. SePp,iSs jo GarR TasR pIsTt 5TG%
the l%iu the strikers. who had come
ana anu '1o to the station to hear the report
Of the picScts.
Fallen Wounded shot AGAIN
gr.,o said he saw no weapons
.,,ong the strikers except poss'piy
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