The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-01-08
Ten Blocks Of the Town De.
stroyed at Loss Of Not Less
Than Million Dollars. 81
ONE LIFE AT LEASH L0ST.
Rioters Scoop Up Liquor In
HoHoWof Hands and Then
They Apply the Torch.

T.
YOUNGSTOWN, jan. 8.-TcaidnR
new outbreak OF rioting this morn
ing when crowd OF strike sympa-
thizcrs gathered on the hill opposite
the Youngstown Sheet and Tube
CompuMy's pant, Brigader General
John q. Speaks ordered four Cleve-i
land mi ltla companies OF the Fifth
regiment to tho strike scene. Two
companies marched into the plant to Z
rc-enforce 100 strike guards and tho
other two companies pHtrOlled tho
oppo ite hills to prevent mob or
ganixing. Operations ut the mill atsc
entirely suspended today and no At
tempt was mnde to operate II.
Three hundreds Office employees
are marooned In the plant, where
they spent the night for safety, and
to keep fires going.
General Speaks has received an aI-
peal from. citizens OF Strutlers TO
send hep at once to that village for
protection from rioting there. The
me sage stated TINT u mob had for1rl-
cd and Is engaged In a general fights
In the streets, men shooting md beat
Ing up each other. General Speaks
ut once sent two companies of militia
to Struthcrs.
Atnoon today state troops were IN
full control OF the situation at East
Youngstown, and II was expected that
complete martial law would be de-
clared before night IN order to pres
vent any new outbreak after night
fall tS,
A near clash In authority occhrred
this morning when Mayor w. H Gun
ninghain. OF East Youngstown, de-
cllned to Issue the necessary formal
appeal to General Speaks to bring
In his troops and the militia was
held at the city limits until an agrees
ment would be reached. Cunningham
wanted to call on the two Youngs,
town militia companies for strike
duty first, but when Speaks made 1t h
plain that 1t would DC more likely to-
start, fresh trouble II local forces
were employed. Cunningham yield
ed and the Cleveland guardsmen
were sent into the steel mills.
A canvass VI morgues and hospiz
tails at noon gave list Of one dead
and twenty-three injured as the re-
suit OF last nights steel strike riot
ing In East youngstown.
The dead man is yet unidentified.
He was 20 years old. and WAS shot
while looting store. &
Later reports said that the eitiar
ton at Struthers was under control
but troops will be kept on duty
there to prevent further trouble.
National guardsmen with fixed
bayonets drove back a mob Of sltik-
ers who threatened the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Company's plant
here early this afternoon. The stftl
ers had formed on the hill opposite
the plant during the morning anu
made a rush towards the mill.
Militiamen inside were ordered y
meet them, and repulsed them ppr
suing them to their original position
on the hill. Patrol lines were then
established on the main streets ana
orders were given that no one should
pass the guard unless properly idens
titled.
Brigadier General John G. Speaks
and Lieutenant Colonel @. q: WEI
brecht, assistant adiutant general
related today how they were arsii
upon last night by sympath
In EASE youngstown. I'VE were Just
beyond the bridge leading into the
plant where the nrst shots were mr.
ed said Colonel Weybrecht. e no.
ticed rioters aiming their guns a our
direction and suggested to General
Speaks that we move over q little.
ooh. no, said Speaks, lets a. Re y
all In And we did. We came near
taking in all the bullets "A tlie
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