Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-12
BAYONllE OIL STRIKERS
KILL YOUNG BRIDE AND
SEIZE RAILWAY 'DEpOy
All Police Driven From Oil Plan
District Except 100, Who
Are Powerless Against
Mob
EFFORT TO BURN FAMILY

BAYoNNE. N. J., OCT 12.-ons vuun
has been killed. four strikers injured D..
haps fatally. four policemen wounded N
more than thirty men wounded by bufsts \
thirty-six hours In the hook" distri5.
where striking workmen Of the big stssd-
ard oil plant rule today
Chief Of Police Michael +. Reilly dsol>ru6
that last night was the worst he had spul
in twenty years OF handling strikes N
firemen answered thirty alarms durinx 0s
night
Hearing that Samuel Greenburs, q =
loonkeeper, was comforting with strfk>
breakers. a mob stormed his place early b
day and broke In the doors as Greenbuff
with his wife and children In their MIA
clothes. fed to the roof. Grsenbuu
fastened the hatch and the mob set hrs b
the building.
DETECTIVES TO RESCUE
A squad Of detectives charged the crvv1
drove them OF and brought the family dov1
ladders as firemen put out the nra NJ
| strikers returned later and wrecked 10
building.
A fireman was shot by strikers todsy
while attempting to attach a hose 70 8
| fireplug with view to turning q strssn
| Of water on them.
At o'clock this morning Inspector csdY
and fifty police drove of two boatloads 4
| men, said to be strikers endeavorinR TO 4
hre to the plant Of the Tidewater OIL con
| pany.
Behind their dead Iine," which cuts q
the lower end Of Bayonne. strikers were b
complete control. and gradually were stc)-
| ping all Industrial operations In ssvsni
plants today by preventing loading At pius
and turning back all who attempted 70 pas
the line.
One hundred policemen, quartered IN a.
engine house opposite the plant Of the Tide
water OIL Company. were the only poics
below the dead line" today. They sast
to protect the plants, but failed during h<
night when mob of several hundred s1lk'
ers held up fire apparatus going TO a hrs n
the Lehigh Valley yards. Strikers cut he
hose as fast as It was unrolled. The police
| charged, and In the fight which follove1
/ Mrs. Sophie Torek, bride of three weeH&
was killed as she leaned from an upper vim
dow. two strikers were probably fatally 10
jured and more than a score received bulH'
wounds.
As the strikers dispersed another ~
engine was held up and turned back hoS
distance away as II responded TO an ai.'H
of fire from the Standard OIL plant nv
| piuChy enBluciucu tTlco 70 hoicS aie'-
through and pleaded in vain that nrs
the plant might wipe out a large part Of y:
city should II spread to the big tanks o. =,
SEIZE RAILROAD STATION
Strikers seized the Twenty-second ~
station OF the Central Railroad OF New ~
sey and threatened a jail delivery ~.
turned back by Michael r. Reilly, -
Of police. yesterday. -
Bayonne officials announced shortly 9.
midnight that they would not ~
National Guard aid. Nelson b. O.
Judge Advocate General of the feno
Guard. sent here by Governor fieioe
investigate the strike situation, annouao
today he saw no need "as YETI for osn''
troops.
vIGILANTEs RECOGNIZED
A vigilance committee consisting o. y
residents Of Bayonne. who have been se''.
organizing ever since the close OF ne
oil strike a year ago to protect -
and families. today was officiaily ~
nized by the city authorities
One hundred and fifty young men 'n''.
bern OF the cOmmitteA were sworn ~ ?