Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-03
Two Men Killed
 In Pittsburgh Riot
MOB OF FOREIGNERS ATTACKED
 CARNEGIE STEEL PLANT.
A DAY OF DISORDER

e@ ~ei Et0eLS DufIH9 Which About 400 Shots Were Fired-l Women Joined Strikers in Mad Fight to Gain Entrance to the Works. Pittsburgh, Pa, May 2.-Two men are known to have been. killed, four | probably injured and a score of oth- CTS seriously hurt this afternoon when | a mob said by the authorities to have been composed principally of foreign CTS, attacked the Edgar Thompson Works of the Carnegie Steel company in Braddock. A pitched battle last ing an hour during which 400 shots were finally forced to retreat in the face of deadly fire from the riot guns and revolvers of deputy sheriffs and plant guards. The situation is quiet tonight but 1000 citizens of the borough have been sworn in as dep- uties and are patrolling the streets. District Attorney R. H. Jackson an- nounced that he would take steps at once for the deportation of all for elgners connected with the trouble.
 Climax of Day of Disorder.
 The riot was the climax of a oay of disorder in the boroughs of Brad dock and Rankin during which mobs l1S IdSIOT1eS4 or IOHr DIE steel companies, drove the workmen out and then partly wrecked the interior of the plants.
 Many of those injured in the fight ing at the Edgar Thomas Works were spirited away by the rioters and for hours after quiet had been re- stored, injured continued to be Brought to hospitals for treatment. Snipers hidden in doorways and windows near the Thirteenth street entrance tried to pick off deputies who were fighting to hold back the mob and two deputies were said to have been hit. Women also joined in the mad fight to gain entry to the works and two of these were wound ed. The two men killed were for eigners.
 Poured Shot After Shot Into the Mob.
 The mob first attacked the office of | W. J. Dixon, superintendent of trans portation at the Edgar Thomas Works and with clubs and stones, wrecked it. Deputies, rushing. to prevent the de- struction of the off1ce,3 were con- 1 pelled to use 1t as a barricade and from behind the wreckage they pour cd shot after shot intof the mob which withdrew. After stoning the plant for 45 minutes another charge was made and in a hand to hand strug- gle, the deputies and guards we're forced back inside the plant. 4 Fferce B fie.
 Deputies who had been on guard duty at the Westinghouse plants in Wilmerding and East Pittsburgh, I were dispatched to the seenet but were l forced to fight, their way to the sides of the other deputies who were grad llally heing forced further back into I the plant, After fierce battle the mob vas forced back out of the gates and finally compelled to run for shelt- CT bAfpFe the hot fire of the deputies
 Reperts received here tonight said that two companies of state constabu- lary which have been. on strike duty at AillSesbarre, Pa. have been order cd to Braddock and will arrive tomor- row morning.
 l Disorder Started Early.
 The disorder started early in the morning When a procession was or Fanlzea by Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company strikers at East Pittsburgh to continue their ef- forts to, bring. out the. workmen : in the other factories of. the Turtle Creek and Monongahela valleys in a similar attempt yesterday and the marchers were angry when they set out. rick cts, who had been stationed at a num- Der of BraddoclS factories had been worsted in encounters with workmen as the men were going to work and 1 the plants of the American Steel and Wire company a United tSates Steel corporation subsidy and a nurnper o1 other plants had been shut down as a protection to the employees, the management announced. Other plants continued to operate however and when the news was brought to the marching throng that the fac tories would have none of them, the route was changed an dthey storned the buildings of the Sterling Steel Foundry company, whoset employees have been working eight hours a, day l for some time. The workmen were 1driven out and much damage was done. This success was followed by attacks on other ifactofies in the neighborhood. the imarchers continu- ing their work of destruction at ev- cry place where the men refused tc join them.
 By noon the crowd had. sweIled etc a mob of 1000 persons, many O whom were visib1y intoxicated.
 Meeting nos resistance they march. ed to Hawkins Station where they at. lacked the plant of the Nicholson Chaid company, employing 25O men,
 Frenzied Mob Swept Through Plant
 The frenzied mob swept through tn plant, driving men from their ma chimes and knocking down all wht stood in their way. Twenty or nor, workmen were injured before the. were finally driven out. The moi then turned it's attention to destroy Ing property. trf z tH 5s
 From the chain works ttIe mol moved on the WissvaIs factory of tn Pittsburgh Lamp. Brass and Gas company, nearby. where $50 men, wo men and boys were at iWorlzl Every thing possible was broken lafter tn workers had been chased away.
 Shouting and Hooting.
 Shouting and hooting.g the rioter next appeared at the Thirteenth Street entrance to the Edgar Thorn son Works.
 For 9 time the strikers icontente, themselves with demonstration ii which they called upon iwofl1men in side the wall to come outl and Joil them.
 This continued for perhaps half ant hour when a man rushed out iron . the mob pointing his revolver towar. q the entrance. fired as he ran. Ther n was no response. A few minute : later tbe firing from the mob becam al almost general.
 4 After the street in front of the en