The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-01-11
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TORCH TO TOWN
Six Blocks Burned, Three Killed
and 10 Injured
TROUBLE THE ELIMINATION OF
STRIKE AT STEEL MILL
Pitched Battle Result Of Strike in
Which Lives Are Lost and Business
Portion of Town Burned.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.-Three men
we're killed, 10 persons, including
woman, wounded, six city blocks were
burned with a loss estimated at $780,,
900, and state troops were called out
to restore order as the result of riot
ing in East Youngstown following a
battle between a crowd of strike SYM
pathizers and armed guards at the
plant of the Youngstown Sheet &
Tube company Friday night
Rioters stole five hundred pounds of
dynamite and have dynamited sew
eral houses, it is reported. The bridge
from East Youngstown to Struthers
was burned to prevent rioters from en-
tering the town. Two companies of
United States regulars from Columbus
are reported TO have been ordered to
East Youngstown because of the loot
ing and burning of the postoffice
The trouble was the elimination of
a strike of laborers which began at
the plant of the Republic Iron &
Steel company a week ago and spread
to the plants of the tube company,
the Youngstown Iron & Steel COM
pany and the Brier Hill Steel COM
pany, all independent" concerns
The men demand % cents an hour
the companies offer an increase from
1917 to % cents. The riot started ear
ly Friday morning when the strike
sympathizers and workers at the sheet
and tube plant clashed. Stones were
thrown and several shots were fired
but no one was injured. Later in the
afternoon a riot occurred just outside
the tube company's plant and two mer
were injured so badly they were taker
TO a hospital.
The most serious trouble starte(
Friday night when the day shift a
the sheet and tube mills left work
A crowd of six thousand gathered a
the entrance to the works and STONED
a squad Of private police in charge
of Chief ]. NJ Wolff of the sheet an(
tube company force.
According to the statement made by
Volt, he fired blank shot into the
air to scare the crowd, and then fir
ing became general. Nineteen in tn,
crowd were injured, following which
the crowd, frenzied surged into the
East Youngstown business district anC
set fire to several buildings. AS the
torch was applied first to a clothing
store and then to a jewelry store, the
footing began. saloon was fired
and looted, the liquor being distributed
through the crowd.
The Youngstown fire departmea.i
went to the scene of the fires, but
was driven off by the crowd. The
East Youngstown department also at
tempted to check the blaze, but the
hose was cut and the firemen driven
away. The flames quickly spread and
more than Is buildings were de-
stroyed. More than 20 families are
reported homeless as a result of the
fire which at an early hour still was
burning beyond control.
Sheriff Umstead found the situa-
ton beyond his control and asked that
state troops be sent here. Governor
Willis ordered the Fifth regiment with
headquarters at Cleveland and the
Eighth regiment with headquarters al
Bucyrus to this city. The Fourth reg
mobilize and move to the scene of the
trouble as soon as possible.
One man who was killed has no
been identified He was fatally eho
while attempting to loot a store il
East Youngstown. Some one inside thu
store fired the shot
Shortly before midnight mob lead
ers broke into a freight car contain
ing five hundred pounds of dynamite
They took the dynamite and started
toward the residential part of Eas
Youngstown, declaring they woult
blow that section of the city to pieces
An unidentified foreigner was seel
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