Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-14
70 SHOT IN
STRIKE RIOTING
Eight Men Reported Dead at
Youngstown, 0.
MOB FIGHTS THE POLICE
Attempts to Burn Plants and Ere
Spreads to City and is New Beyond
Control-Miitia Gales Out.

Eight men were reported de q,
twelve others are wounded proo'
ally fatally, and tie business >ec'
lion of East Youngstown, i've niles
east of Youngstown, O-:io, IS bIrn'
lng as result Of a frenzlea
NIB of 1900 Youngstown sheet and
t4be strikers attempting to burn the
tube company's plant.
F.remen +. ON surrounding t1Wns
we're summoned and they were a.
tempting to check the blaze, but the
,cnGagration quickly communicated 0
lie frame buildings and it is CAFE
tie entire business section, compris'
ing about seven tlocks, will be de
stroyed.
Riot calls were sent to Youngstown
and Alliance. Companies H and NJ, OF
70 the FIFTH regiment, O. N. g., were IN
mediately dispatched to the scene. -
Hcemen from Youngstown and twenty
five deputy sheritfs under the dlre1'
ton of Sheriff J. G. Ums cad were
rushed to East Youngstown en- spe'
cial train.
1t is alleged that many of the strlk
crs had been drinking and sc~re
were crazed with liquor wlren the r:1t
occurred. The mos walked tt tie
plant without any demonstration anu
few were aware of any intentions to
burn the plant until several men were
seen with lighted torches.
When the mob rea 3hed the entrance
of the plant they were met by a de-
;achment of police numbering aD u
twenty-five, each armed with a reVol
yer. The officers are sal to have or
dered the mob away when the str X
ers, it is alleged, attempted to rush
through the 0. en- gate at the entr ne
According to residents in the Ilcln'
ity when the HUNDREDS of angry
strikers rushed, each officer discharg
ed a revolver. Twenty men fell wit
bullet wounds in their bodies while
the others ran wildly down the street
The watchman's small shanty was
ignited and destroyed.
Flames from the burning shanty
communicated to the bridges crossing
the company's railroad and cGnnect
ing the plants The bridges were de
stroyed, but the blaze was checked
before it ignited the plants.
Firemen from surrounding towns re
sponded and aided in fighting the
flames, but they were bampered by
the strikers who are alleged to have
tossed stones at them. 1t is assert
ed that the strikers cut the hose and
refused to permit the firemen to checE
the blaze.
Twenty foreign families were made
homeless by the conflagraticn whic1
laid their homes in ruins. The fol
lowing buildings are in ruins;
Kaufman Brothers, clothing store
$1,000; Newman & McGrattan, sa
loon, $4,000; Michael Bonanan build
ing. $4,000; E. Schoenfeld, jeWelrJ
store, $4,000: Ranner store building
$4,000; Office building Of youngstown
Sheet and Tube company, not estimAt
ed; twenty dwellings In short street,
post office building.
Tie two women who were woun1e
were standing near the plant VIII
scores of women and children whcI
the company policemen opened tir>
on the crowd CT strikers.
Mrs. Helen Troth was standing
within few feet OF her h,me, an
was watching her two children pla
ing nearby when she fell unc~nsc Gu
with two bullet wounds in her bcdy
Three hundred laborers OF the
Youngstown Sheet G Tube mpanj
Joined the strikers at the Repu /.
Iron & Steel czmpaEy's pants, bring 3
ing the tCtal num.er CT men t IN o
strike at the two establishments u
to 5000. A large part OF The j-he-t
tu5e ccm. aly, whi h employs 500
men, w Idle. 1t was e3- Ta..tcd y,
0C0 workers were affected by he
strike.
Official annount om"nt was male =,
the Youngstown 1Eee. & Tube C M
pany, OF a raise i'll ihe wages CT Ill
mon Ia, or from 1S15 cents t. % cen
per hour. The Republic Ir,n e Gte3