New Britain herald., 1916-01-08
FRENZIED MOB CAUSES
 $1,0OO,OOO DAMAGE TO
 EAST YOUNGSTOWN,
Looting, Killing and Burning, Strikers Swd Streets of Town Which Now Lies in|
 Ruins---2. .OOO Militia Called Out.

Youngstown, O., Jan. S.-Feari& new outbreak of rioting this mort when a crowd of strike sympath# gathered on the hill opposite Youngstown Sheet and Tube
 pany plant, Brig. Gen. John c. Sp ordered four Cleveland militia $ panies of the Fifth Regiment tds strike scene. Two companies marM into the plant to reinforce one dred strike guards, and the otherM companies patrolled opposite theN to prevent mob organization. OlN tion at the mills are entirely pended today and no attempt made to operate it.
 Three hundred office employees marooned in the plant where spent the night for safety andS keep fires going.
 Struthers Will Resist.
 Led by Mayor A. B. Slough, citizens of Struthers village, aH the Mahoning River from Youngstown, have armed themsH and massed on the bridge leas across the river ready to repes threatened invasion of strikers. ] men are armed with rifles and rE 1 vers. A charge of fifty pound dynamite has been placed beneath 1 bridge and a wire made readyI | carry a current to set off the and blow up the bridge the moi a mob starts across.
 By noon today practically 1 company of the three regiments l prising the Second Brigade of 1 Ohio National Guard was eithd l the city or it's suburbs. The
 bilization of the Fifth and Fd 1 Regiments was accomplished in al | ord time.
 Brig. Gen. Speaks distributed men at important points. The fs Regiment will be kept on its
 outside the city until it is needed At noon today state troops we full control of the situation at l Youngstown.
 1 A near clash in auth; rity occI this morning when Mayor W. H. ningham of East Youngstown
 cIined to issue the necessary i'd l, appeal to Gen. Speaks to bring troops and the militia was held d city limits until an agreement | be reached. When Speaks naI | plain that it would be more liRe start fresh trouble if local forces employed, Cunningham yielded
 the Cleveland guardsnlen were into the steel mills.
 At noon today canvas of mol and hospitals gave a list of one
 and twenty three injured as tn. suit of last nights rioting
 dead man is yet unidentified.
 The wild scenes of rioting
 footing which marked last i
 left the thriving little city a
 of embers. One life is kI to have been lost, fully
 blocks of the town, including
 entire business section, were bll
 and several thousands of people
 driven from their homes. Incl
 was placed at no less than $1. GOO.
 Two weeks ago laborers of the| public Iron and Steel company s1 for an increase of wages from 1a to 25 cents an hour. The Yol town Sheet and Tube company d ed them 22 1-2 cents an hour mediately after the United S| Steel Corporation had announced increase of. 10 per cent for Id CTS. This was rejected by the VI CTS and the strike has since bed progress. Reports today are prevl 1 that strike breakers had been | ported which precipitated the troI Physicians who were called to after the wounded placed the I Der at one hundred, although fifteen had been brought to hosH here. While the majority had shot, there were many wounds E l knives, bearing out the statementH ! when the rioters were finally from Wilson avenue, the maln 1 of the town. they began ugt 1 among themselves. Saloons Closed.
 Mayor Carroll Thornton, of YouA | town. two miles from the bug 1 town. was expected to issue an oN | today closing all saloons in the while arrangements were being r8 to restrict, and perhaps prohibitS sale of fire arms, if the militarya not act. There was no liquor qH ton to settle in East Youngstown5 of the twenty saloons all but two been burned and they had been ed. ae
 The trouble began late yesteH when the day shift at the planH the Youngstown Sheet and Tube x pany quit for the day. Tie Is is located on the flats of the Mahos River, several hundred feet from hillside on which is built Youngstown where most of the WI men live. The mills are read from the town by a high bridge, s1 ming the railroad yards which been carefully guarded by pri1 watchmen since the laborers at plant several days ago joined
 laborers of the Republic Iron
 Steel company and other mills m strike for an advance of 25 cena day.
 crowd of men and women