The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-01-08
ONE KILLED
MANY HURT
prsINESS DISTRICT OF EAST
YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, Is
IN RUINS.
TORCH IS APPLIED
Fourteen Saloons are Looted and
Destroyed by Fire - PostofIice
Building Sacked and
Burned.

EAST YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Jan.
S-The twenty-five hundred state
troops which were ordered here by
Governor Willis were still aboard
their special train at 9:3O this
morning and will not be sent into
the town unless there is resump-
non of the rfoting which cost one
life last night and resulted in the
injury OF thirty-seven others.
Mayor Cunningham today esti-
mated that property was damaged
TO the extent Of about one million
dollars during the nine hours of
rioting last night by mob of sew
euaI thousand strikers of the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube COM
pany and the Republic Iron and
Steel company.
Practically all Of the business dis
tIfct is In ruins and buildings
which were not razed by incendiary
flames were looted and wrecked by
mobs. Fourteen saloons were de-
strOyed.
The rioting started shortly after
six O'Clock last evening when two
thousand strikers assembled at the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube conn
pany and jeered employees who had
refused to quit work. j. NJ. Woltz.
head OF the cOmpany's police, fired
what he alleged to be a blank cart
ridge into the crowd. The strikers,
armed with knives and revolvers.
then rushed the plant and fired the
Office building and store house Of
the company.
The business district Of the town
was then invaded by the rioters.
The police and deputies were unable
to stop the rioters. The mob cut
electric wires and slashed hose when
fremen attempted to put out the
flames. Barrels OF whiskey were
rolled into the streets and the strik-
ers drank from cups formed OF
their hands.
Five hundred pounds Of dynamite
was taken from freight car and
the strikers made improvised bombs
and threw them into buildings.
The pOstoffice building was burn
ed after 1t had been ransacked.
None OF the contents were saved.
The International Bank building
Was also destroyed.
Twenty foreign families are
homaless as . result Of the spread
OF the flames.
The schoenfeld jewelry store was
fired after the mob broke into the
building and stole $4,000 worth OF
je~elry.
Fifty strikers have been arrested
by Sheriff Umstead and his fifty
deputies, who sent q call to Cover
nor Willis for state militia.
The rioting gradually died out
late in the night of its own volition.
The strike began December 2'til
when three hundred unskilled Ia
borers OF the Youngstown Iron and
Steel company struck for higher
wages. The walk-out grew until II
spread to the Youngstown Sheet
and Tube compsny's plant. Both
plants employed about i:.5OO men,
of this number, six thousand are on
strike. The rest of the men are idle
because the plants were not op
Grating.
Yesterday all the independent
plants. following the action Of tht
United States Steel Corporation, in
creased the pay of their men ter
per cent effective January 4. 1915
This would be 22 cents an hour fol
the men now on strike, but thu
nnion leaders said they will hold
out for all their demands.
The Brier Hill Steel company ant
the Youngstown Iron and Steel com
pany are not affected by the ten pei
cent wage increase.
East youngstown was reportet