Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-07-22

Pitched Battle at Plant.
Special bp United Press Wire.
Bayonne, July 22:-Sheriff Kin
kead at 1890 O'Clock sent rush
request to Governor Fielder for the
state troops to quell the rioting mere.
Two men were killed shortly al
ter noon today in an attempt to rush
the walls of the oil plant here. Both
were strikers.
A large crowd of strikers gathered
before the entrance to the Tidewater
plant and at a signal made rush
for the gates. AS soon as the armed
deputies inside caught sight of them
they opened fire with repeating
rifles. Two of the strikers, Gerensh
Woski and Nicolo Erankt, fell and
died instantly. Wosh was shot
through the head and bullet pene-
trated the other mans heart.
Four more strikers were rushed to
the hospitals, where the extent of
their Injuries have not yet been as
certained
1.-Two chikEep also fell when the
deP lies 80 a liling
strikers. Vaieski Sareni, a twelve
year-old girl, and Carroll p Sappipa,
a fifteen-year-old boy, both watching
the fighting, fell to the ground at the
first volley. Their injuries have not
been determined.
The police this afternoon would
not attempt to estimate the number
of men injured In today's battle.
The strikers cottages are situated on
every side of the plant and the police
are confident many were taken into
the houses and not reported. Some
estimated the number to be twenty
five, pointing out that guards had
fired directly into the closemassed
onrushing strikers.
At l o'clock today there were
thirteen men in local hospitals Sc
riously wounded and local authori-
ties issued appeals for more nurses
and doctors.
There were open threats against
the sheriff and local officials this af-
ternoon Strikers were openly
threatening to blow up the plant.
They were incensed at the deaths of
their comrades and promised quick
retaliation. Mingling among the
crowds was Frank Tannebaum, the
New York /. w. w. agitator, urging
them not to go back to work unless
their demands were granted and
seeking to organize them.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
A. F. of L., dispatched three men to
Bayonne to attempt to organize a
union, it was reported this after
noon.
Two strikers were shot and proba-
bly, fatally wounded and several
others seriously hurt in an early
morning attempt by strikers to scale
the wall of the Standard Oil Com
pany's plant.
One hundred and fifty strikers Sc
creted themselves behind church a
few yards from the factory's walls
and made a rush to scale the wall.
AS their bodies appeared on top of
the wall squad of the company's
guards opened fire from the inside.
Two dropped back fatally wounded,
while some of the strikers opened
fire ON the guards. 1t was reported
two of the guards were shot, but this
could not be confirmed as. the gates
were kept locked. The injured strik-
ers were sent to the hospital. Sher-
lift Ktnkead, stated he had not re-
quested Governor Fielder for state
troops.
The fire department was called out
to extinguish blaze in the tele-
graph office of the oil company's
at Avenue ] and Twenty-Second
street. The fire, according to the
police was started by strikers.
George E. Clifford, manager of the
plant, said he had no statement to
make this morning other than that
the company would 'stand pat and
defend its property. He intimated
the factory was barricaded from the
inside and prepared to withstand
any onslaught
The damage occasioned by last
nights confiagration was estimated
today at 100000.
Sheriff Kinkead announced at II
O'Clock he wired the department of
labor at Washington, asking the
services of a mediator to attempt a
settlement of differences between
the oil company and the strikers.
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