Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-05-03
Pitched Battle With Off
GERS at Carnegie Steel
Works Fatal to Two.
PEDESTRIANS HIT
BY STRAY BULLETS
More Than 1000 Persons
Take Part: Militia Called
Out to Help.

May Two strik-
L ers are known to have been
killed. four probably fatally wounded
asd score of others seriously hurt
this afternoon when mob, said by
the authorities to have been com
posed principally Of foreigners. at
tackled the Edgar Thomson works of
the Carnegie Steel company in Brad
dock. A pitched battle followed last
ing an hour. during which four hun
dred shots were fired but the rioters
finally were forced to retreat in the
face of deadly fire from the riot
guns of deputy sheriffs and plant
guards.
Both the men who were killed and
majority of the wounded were
members of the mob but the authori-
ties have not yet determined il they
were strikers. A number of pedes-
TRANS also were hit by stray bullets.
The situation is quiet tonight but
two thousand citizens of the borough
nave been sworn in as deputies and
are patrolling the streets. District At
torney II. ii. Jackson announced that
he would take steps at once for the
deportation of all foreigners connect
ed with the trouble.
Spirit Wounded Away.
Many of the strikers injured at the
Edgar Thomson works were spirited
away by the rioters ad for hours aft
er quiet had been restored injured
continued to be brought to hospitals
for treatment. Snipers hidden in door
ways and windows tried to pick off
deputies who were fighting to hold
back the mob and two deputies were
IN hax h al.
joined in the mad fight to gain entry
to the works and two Of these were
wounded.
The two men killed were foreigners.
The mob first attacked the office
OF w. J. Dixon, superintendent OF
transportation at the Edgar Thom-
son works. and with clubs and stones
wrecked it. Deputies rushing TO pre-
vent the destruction of the office were
compelled 10 use it as barricade, and
from behind the wreckage they
poured shot after shot into the mob.
which withdrew. After stoning the
plant for 45 minutes another charge
was made and in a hand-to- hand
struggle the deputies and guards were
forced back inside the plant.
Dispcrsc strikers.
After Il fierce battle which ragged for
several minutes the mob was forced
back out OF the gates and finally com
PEELED to run for shelter before the
hot fire of the deputies. Reports re-
ccived here tonighrsaid that two COM
panis OF state corstabuiary, which
have been on strike duty at Wilkes
Barre, Pa, have been ordered to
Braddock and will arrive tomorrow
morning
The disorder started early in the
day when procession was organized
by Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring strikers at East Pittsburgh
to continue their efforts to bring out
the workmen in the other factories
of the Turtle Creek and Monongahela
valleys in support Of their demand
for an eight-hour day.
Storm Buildings.
They stormed the buildings of the
Sterling Steel Foundry company,
whose employees have been working
eight hours day for sometime. The
workmen were driven out and much
damage done. This success was
quickly followed by attack on other
factories in the neighbOrhood, the
marchers continuing their work of
destruction at every place where the
men refused to join them.
BY noon the crowd had swelled to
a mob of two thousand persons. many
of whom were visibly intoxicated.