Arizona republican., 1916-01-08
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NCOlAtAi4uOu LAOlAA Id6O OiACJ scare the crowd.
 Then the real trouble started. re- volvers were produced by men in the crowd and answering shots Were sent back The guards answered by firing into the crowd. Men and women, wounded. fell amid the rain of bullets.
 Finally the crowd fell back and vented it's fury by applying the torch to buildings in the neighborhood.
 The first place fired was the two story office building of the Sheet and Tube plant. While the flames were gaining headway, the torch was ap- piled to another building, a small one story store house.
 Not satisfied with this exhibition Of it's fury the mob turned to the business section. Part of the mob entered a saloon and after footing the place and distributing the liquor among the frantic foreigners in the crowd, set in on fire.
 As the flames had spread to ad- joining stores. the crowd began loot ing. Clothing and jewelry were taken from the stores and distributed through the crowd. Bremen sum moned from Youngstown arrived on the scene but before they could get the hose connected up with the city hvdrants the crowd drove the fire fighters away Many shots were fired and the firemen drove off with their apparatus amid a hail of stone.
 By this time the flames threatened to sweep through the entire business section. The infuriated crowd surged through the streets and threats were made to burn the entire town. All available guards were marshalled by the sheet and tube company and by other mills in the suburb in an effort to prevent destruction of their prop ertv
 The trouble was the continuation of strike of laborers which began at the plant of the tube company the Youngstown Iron and Steel company and the Brier Hill Steel company, all connected" The men demand 25 cents an hour, the companies offer an increase from 1912 to 22 cents per hour. The trouble started early this morning when strike sympathiZers and workers at the sheet and tube plant clashed Stones were thrown and sev- eral shots were fired but no one vas injured. Later in the afternoon a riot occurred just outside the tube com pany's plant and two men were in iured so badly they were taken to q hospital
 The most serious trouble started to- night when the day shift of the sheet and tube mills left work A crowd of six thousand gathered at the entrance to the works and stoned a squad of private police n charge of Chief J. NJ. Woltz of the sheet and tube company force.
 According to the statement made by Woltz. he fired a blank shot into the air to scare the crowd and then firing became general. Nineteen in the crowd were injured. following which, the crowd. frenzied. surged into the East Youngstown business district and set fire to several buildings. As the torch was applied first to a clothing store, and then to a iewelry store. the footing began. A saloon was fired and footed, tha liquor being distributed through the crowd.
 The Youngstown fire department went to the scene of the fires but was driven off by the crowd. The East Youngstown department also attempt ed to check the blaze but the hose was cut. and the firemen driven away. The flames quickly spread and more than fifteen buildings were destroyed. More than 20 families are reported homeless as a result of the fire which at an earfv hour still was burning beyond control.
 Sheriff Umstead found the situation beyond his control and asked that state troops be sent here. Governor Willis ordered the Fifth regiment with head quarters at Cleveland and the Eighth regiment with headquarters at Buoy rus 10 this city. The Fourth regiment at Columbus was ordered to mobilize and move to the scene of the trouble ! as soon as possible.
 One man was killed while attempt ing to loot a store in East Youngstown. Some one inside the store fired the shot
 Shortly before midnight mob leaders broke into a freight car containing 500 pounds of dynamite. They took the dynamite and started toward the r/- dential rart of East Youngstown. de- claring they would blow up that sec tion of the city to pieces. An unidentified foreigners was seen 1 footing the postoffice building shortly
 before fire destroyed the structure. A | policeman fired at the man, who was 1 hit in the right leg. He escaped in the 1 darkness.
 l At midnight the flames were still 1 beyond control. Robbers broke into a
 saloon in Wilson street and carried away hundreds of dollars worth of | bottled wines. heer and whiskey. After 1 footing the saloon they set it on fire | The building, which was a three story building. was destroyed
 The saloons, not only of the city of