Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-08
MOB SETS FIRE
TO OHIO TOWN
Torch Applied at East
Youngstown After Pts
tol Duel
ARRIVAL OF MILITIA
Over One Million Dollars Worth OF
Property Destroyed and Stores and
Saloons Looted.

Youngstown, Ohio, Jan. S-Twenty
two hundred State troopers today
took charge of the steel strike situa-
tion in East Youngstown, where riot
ing last night caused at least one
DEATH
Thirty-seven were injured, and pro-
perty damage is estimated at ST.
100000. Practically the entire busi-
ness district is in ruin.
Youngstown, Ohio, Jan. S-Follow-
ING a riot and pistol battle last night
at the plant of the Youngstown Sheet
and Tube Works, whose union en-
ployes are out on strike, a mob ap-
piled torches to buildings in the neigh
borhocd, and at late hour the whole
business section of East Youngstown
was threatened with destruction.
The local authorities, declaring the
situation beyond their control, called
upon Governor Willis for military
protection.
The trouble began early in the even
ing. when a mob of 5000 men and
omen attacked nonunion workers
leaving the plant.
The private police force OF the mill
was lined up on bridge across the
river leading to the main works Of
the plant. Someone in the crowd
threw a rock which struck one of the
mill guards. Immediately several of
drew their. feyolyers and
fired to scare the-crowd. Then the real
trouble started. Revolvers were pro.
duced by men in the crowd and ans
;wering shots were sent back. The
guards answered by firing into the
crowd. Men and women, wounded fell
amid the rain of bullets. Nineteen
were wounded. several probably fatal.
ly.
The fighting spread through the
streets of East Youngstown, and
finally the mob, to vent its frenzy.
took to firing buildings.
The Sheriff Umstead, with Adjutant
General Hough and other National
Guard officers, went to East Ioungs-
town and was attacked by a mob. Red
pepper was thrown in the Sheriff's
eyes and he was badly beaten.
The fire companies which attempted
to check the flames in the business
district were beaten off by the mob
Many shots were fired, but the fire
men got back safely to Youngstown.
The first place fired was ;the' two
story Office building of the; sheet ano
tube plant. While the flames were
roaring into the air the torch was
applied to another building, small
one-story ;house.
Not satisfied with this exhibition
of its fury, the mob turned to the
business section. Part of the mob en-
tered the saloon of Newman anC
McGrattan and after looting the place
and distributing the liquor among the
frantic foreigners in the crowd Sc
fire to the place.
When the flames had spread to the
Kaufman Bros Clothing store ant
Michael Monahan's jewelry store the
whole crowd took a hand in the loot.
ing. Clothing and jewelry were taker
from the stores and distributed
through the crowd.
Firemen summoned from ,Youngs
town arrived. on the. scenes but, befor'
they could get the hose connected W
with the city hydrant the crowd drove
the f!re-fighters away. Many shots
were fired and the firemen drove of
with their apparatus amid a perfect
hail of stones.
BY this time the flames had COM
municated to the three story build.
ing occupied by. Renner's store and
threatened to sweep through the en-
tire business section, The infuriated
crowd surged through the streets and
threats were made to burn the entire
town.
All available guards were marshal
ed by the Sheet and Tube Company
and by other mills. in thesurburbin ar
effort to prevent destruction of their
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