Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-07-21
Strikers Rush Police, Who
Fire Over, Then Into,
Their Ranks.
INSPECTORS HORSE is
SHOT FROM UNDER HIM
Wounded Men Prisoners in
HOspitaI-Others, Believed
Injured, Carried Away.
FlREMEN SUMMONED TO
FIGHT MOB WITH HOSE
Crowd Smashes Windows in
Firehouse for Revenge on
the City.

BAYONNE, July 21.-One man was
shot to death and almost threeseore
wounded today when 5000 strikers
and sympathizers attacked the police
and deputies guarding the big plant
of the Standard Oil Company at Con-
stable Hook. The dead man was John
Moosky, eighteen years old, one of
the strikers. and was one of the mob
that tried to assault Police Inspector
Cady after the latter's horse had been
shot from under him
Molosky was shot in the head and
died three minutes after arriving at
the City Hospital. Almost threescore
other strikers were wounded by the
shots of the police and special depu-
ties. but so far as is known none of
them is fatally injured.
The rioting assumed such serious
proportions this afternoon that Pierre
P. Garven, mayor of Bayonne, called
for the State militia. Adjutant-Gen-
eral Sadler, however, sent word from
Trenton that Governor Fielder would
have to issue the order. He told the
mayor that the governor would not
call out the troops unless Sheriff
Eugene Kinkead called for them, ard
then only as a last resort.
AS a measure of precauhon, the
sheriff today ordered every saloon lin
the city closed.
OF the fifty-three injured taken to
the Bayonne Hospital, fifty are men
and boys. who fought about the gates
of the plant; the other three are po-
licemen.
sheriff Addresses the Mob.
Sheriff Kinkead arrived on the
scene shortly after noon and took
command of affairs In an endeavor
to bring an end to disorder by means
of persuasion, the sheriff, soon after
his arrival, rode in his automobile to
p square where a. crowd or BOO per-
sons were assembled to discuss the
strike and watch the gates.
Standing In his car, he addressed
the crowd, telling the men they must
remain orderly and what his duties
were in the situation. He called on
every man who would obey him to
hold up his hand and majority did
SO.
Sheriff Kinkead spoke for half an
hour and several times the men
cheered his statements, especially his
the difficulty. The sheriff said he
was willing to meet representatives
of the strikers, hear their grievances
and do his best to bring about 4
settlement. In consideration of this
he asked the men to disperse peace
ably to their homes and they said
they would do so. A committee OF
three was appointed by the men to
meet Sheriff Kinkead later in the
day.
There were three separate attacks
by the rioters today. The first was
at the frehouse of an engine COM
pany and here all the windows were
broken after which the crowd moved
on and attacked the police near the
main gate of the Standard Oil plant.
Three rioters were injured by bullets
Srom the poicemens pistols before
the crowd left.
300 Go Ont Mt Tidewater.
The rioters then made their way
10 the plant of the Tidewater Oil
Company, half a mile away, which
remained in operation today, though
the strikers had been led to believe
that the men there would join them
today. AS they approached the plant
/ 300 Of the men there left their work
and marched out to the crowd, but
apparently this did not satisfy the
rioters. as they made rush at the
police on guard.
The most serious fighting of the day
followed and 1t was during this at
tack that Molosky was killed and
majority of the injured received their
wounds. The police at first, 1t is
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