Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-08
By .iSSociatff PrcsS

Youngstown, Ohio, Jan. S.-Fearing
Il new outbreak of rioting this morn
ing when a crowd of strike SNmpa-
thi2erS gathered on the hill opposite
the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Com
pany plant, Brigadier-Gene John &.
Speaks ordered four Cleveland militia
companies of the Fifth Regiment to
the strike scene. Two companies
marched into the plant to reinforce
100 strike guards and two other COM
panies patrolled the opposite hill to
prevent the mob organizing. OPP
erations at the mill are entirely suS-
pended to-day and no attempt was
made to operate it,
Three hundred office employees are
marooned in the plant, where they
spent the night for safety and TO keep
fires going.
BY noon to-day virtually every conf
pany of the three regiments compris-
ing the Second Brigade of the Ohio
National Guard ordered here for strike
duty was either in the city or its sub
urbs. The mobilization of the Fifth,
Eighth and Fourth Regiments was
accomplished in record time.
The Fourth Regiment will be kept
on it's train outside the city until it is
needed. Its forces can be on the scene
in forty-five minutes if necessary.
Ready TO Blow Bridge
Led by Mayor A. b. Slough, 200 citi-
ZenS of StrutherS village, which lies
across the Mahoning river opposite
East Youngstown. have armed them
selves and massed on the bridge lead
ing across the river ready to repel a
threatened invasion of strikers. The
men are armed with rifles and re-
volvers. A charge of fifty pounds of
dynamite has been placed beneath the
bridge and "a wire made ready to carry
a current TO set off the blast and blow
I'M the bridge the moment q DnOh St ri c
across. \ notice has been posted to
this effect and all persons warned
away from the bridge. Damage TO
property had been threatened in
Struthers.
Riotin9 Started
General Speaks has received an ap-
peal from citizens of Struthers to send
help at once to that village for pro-
lection from rioting there. The mes
sage stated that a mob has formed
and is engaged in a general fight in
the streets, men shooting and beating
up each other. General Speaks at once
sent two companies of militia TO
Struthers in automobiles.
Later reports said that the situation
at Struthers was under control, but
troops will be kept on duty there to
prevent further trouble.
The civic and military authorities
now believe that for the present at
scenes of rioting and looting which
marked last night and left the thriving
little city a mass of embers. One life
is known to have been lost, fully ten
blocks of the town, including the en-
tire business section, We're burned and
several thousand persons were driven
from their homes. The property dam
age was placed at no less than
$1.000.000..
Physicians who We're called to look
after the wounded placed the number
at hundred, although only fifteen
had been brought to hospitals here.
While the majority had been shot,
there were many wounds from knives,
bearing out the statement that when
the rioters were finally driven from
Wilson avenue, the main street of the
town, they began fighting among them
selves.
Wanted Increase
Two weeks ago laborers of the Re-
public Iron and Steel Company struck
for an increase of wages from 19la to
% cents an hour. The YOUNGSTOWN
Sheet and Tube Company offered them
22la cents an hour Immediately after
the United States Steel Corporation
had announced it's increase of 10 per