Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-22
Fresh Outbreak Occurs at
Bayonne Plant of the
Standard Company.
GUARDS ARE ATTACKED
Latter Open Fire Upon
Crowd and Number Fall
in the Street.

New York. July 22-Two dead and
six seriously injured, one probably
mortally, was she harvest reaped by
rioters at the Standard OIL and Tide
water plants in Bayonne today as the
result Of two attacks on the inside
deputies guarding the property. Two
/ fires also occurred, one IN tne Stand
ard Oil plant where a watchman's g
house was virtually destroyed; the
other in the yard Of the Tidewater Oil
company, where slaves and lumber
were stored. This last fire was start
/ ed by means of burning oily waste
thrown over the walls by rioters. It
was speedily checked with trifing
/ loss.
Those killed in the fighting were
[ Stanley Murefko, 29, and Nicoiay
Iwaszkiu. 49, both of whom were shot
through the heart by rife bullets, ap-
! parently fired by the guards. The
men were killed during an attack on
the barrel works of the Tidewater
plant which began at l1:40 a. m. and
lasted for half an hour a sudden
heavy downpour of rain had much TO
do with stopping this fight.
A feature Of this attack was tAe de-
fauce by the strikers of Sherif Eu-
gene Efnkead, who has labored patient
Iy with the men to keep order and to
bring an end to the strike. He rushed
up to the rioters when the melee was
at its height and commanded the men
/ to desist He was greeted with jeers
and left the scene.
Later it was announced that he had
F asked tor troops, and companies from
/ Newark and Red Bank we're expected
soon to be on the scene as all prepare
tons had been made for such q call
( Sheriff Kinkead's call was made direct
/ to the governor by telephone and later
he dispatched written order. In a
statement regarding his call for troops
/ Sheriff kinkead said
Militia Needed,
"I teIephoned to the governor that it
I was necessary to call the military. The
men are not amenable to reason. They
don't seem able to distinguish 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"
OF the wounded in today's fighting
John Surgen, said to be a former
. Austrian soldier, who led the fighting
in the first attack which was made
early today on the Standard Oil plant,
+ is probably mortally wounded. He was
shot through the abdomen.
Until the men got out Of hand to-
/ day. Sheriff Kinkead had every hope
that he would bring about a settle
ment of the differences of the Stand
/ ard Oil strikers. who went out late last
week and Monday following a demand
+ for a Is per cent increase in wages
. The Tidewater plant was shut down be-
cause of the disorder The sheriff,
with a committee, had consulted with
+ Standard Oil officials and expected TO
+ have another conference with them late
today t4e also teIephoned TO Wash
ington for conciliators. and two were
on their way to Bayonne when the dis
/ order was resumed and the sheriff
+ de6ed.
Just before 3 p. n. a crowd Of men
standing about $50 yards from the
/ Tfdewater plant were fred on by the
+ inside guards there. Some OF the men
+ Immediately replied firing revolver
I shots