Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08
THREE KILLED
AS RESULT Of
DAYS R|QT|NG
Employees of Youngstown Sheet
and Tube Metal Company
All Walk Out.
5000 TROOPS ON SCENE
TO PREVENT RloTING
Six Blocks in the City Burned;
Strikers Threaten to Blow Up
Residence Section.

Youngstown, Ohio, Jan. 7.-1hres
men were killed, more than twenty
persons wounded, six city blocks Of
buildings burned, with loss Of $780,.
900, and three regiments 70 state
troops called out to restore order, -
the result Of riotinq in East Younos.
town tonight, following 4 battle 30.
tween a crowd Of strike sympathizsrs
and armed guards, at the plant Of the
Youngstown Sheet 4 Tube company.
BLOW UP BRIDGE.
The bridge from East roungstewn
to struthers was burned to prevent
rioters from entering the town. BE.
sides the state troops, two companies
of United States regulars from Col
umbus are reported to have been q.
dered to East Youngstown bseauss.eS
the Iooting and burning Of the. pes&-
Office.
The trouble was the Culminatlon Of
a strike OF .lebnrerxl which heg1n IaG
the plant of the Republic Ironik Steel
company week ago, and spread 70
the plant OF the Tube company, the
Youngstown Iron & Steel company
and the Brier Hill Steel, company, all
independent concerns. The men, de-
mand Is cents an hour. The company
offers an increase from 10 to % cents
an hour r".s e .'s.r ! - : K. K
The trouble started early this morn.
ing when Strike sympathiZerS and
workers at the Sheet and Tube plants
clashed. Stones were thrown AMI
several shots fired, but no one was In.
jured. Later in the afternoon a riot
occurred just outside the Tube com.
pany's plant and two men were so
badly injured that they were taken
to hospital. .N
Crowds Stone Police.
The most serious trouble started
tonight when a day shift at the Tube
mills left work. A crowd of 5000
men gathered at the entrance to the
works and stoned a squad of private
police in charge Of Chief J. NJ. Woltz.
of the Sheet & Tube company force.
According to statement made by
Woltz he fired a blank shot in the air
to scare the crowd and then the fir
ing became general. Nineteen in the
crowd were wounded, following which
the mob sWerved into the Youngs-
town business district and fired sew
eral buildings. AS torch was first
applied to clothing store and jewell
ry store, looting began. A saloon was
fred and looted, the liquor being dis
tributed through the crowd.
Drive Firemen Away.
The Youngstown fire department
went to the scene of the fires, but
we're driven off by the crowd. The
East Youngstown department also At
empted to check the blaze, but tie.
lose was cut and the tiremen driven
away. The flames quickly spread and
It midnight were burning beyond
control.
Sheriff Umstead found the situation
beyond his control and asked that
'tate troops be sent here.
The first man killed was fatally
hot while attempting to loot q store.
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saloon fight.
Fifty Rioters Arrested.
Shortly before midnight mob lead
rs DloAe into a freight car contain.
ng 500 pounds of dynamite. They
ook the dynamite and started toward
he residential part of East Youngs-
own, declaring that they would blow
hat section of the city to pieces.
An unidentified froeigner was ser
,nsly shot while looting the post
flee shortly before fire destroyed
he structure. Fifty rioters were ar-
ested by the police and placed In the
last Youngstown lookup.
Columbus, O., Jan. Two regi.
nents Of the Ohio National Guard.
omprising more than 1900 men, TO-
light were on their way to Youn1p-
own, to assist local authorities IN
yelling rioting, which broke out late
,day in connection with the strike
f steel workers in that ely. A.
ther regiment was mobiliSing IN thA
ity and had orders to proceed TO
oungstown.
Before daybreak tomorrow: It wao
xpected, 260O guardsmen under colE
land of ,Brigadier General John c.
peaks, of Columbus. would be Il
oungstown, ready for duty.