New-York tribune., 1916-05-03
2 Killed, Scores Wounded,
as Big Mob Attacks
BraddOCk Works.
GOVERNOR ORDERS
MILITIA ON DUTY
Troops Sent to Suppress Rioters
Wrecking Plants in Pitts
burgh District.
lBy Telegraph 70 ne Tribun.l


Pittsburgh. May Tive men were
/ killed. five fatally injured and more than
a score slightly injured in a hot fight at
the Edgar Thomson steel works, in
Braddock, this afternoon. when strik-
ers from the Turtle Creek and Monon-
gahela valleys tried to force their way
] into the plant through deputy sherlhs
and coal and iron police.
Governor Brumbsugh tonight or
dered the 18th Infantry. National
+ Guard. the Governors Troop, Sheridan
/ Troop. Sunbury Troop and II Troop OF
cavalry 20 immediate duty in Brad
dock and the vicinity. The 10th Regi-
ment is ordered TO hold itself in resdi-
ness for a call.
In the face OF deadly fire from riot
guns and revolvers the strikers. after
retiring from their first attack, with
two men dead and a half dozen injured,
attacked the plant a second time, and
were dispersed. after one OF the
| bloodiest battles in the history of Al
legheny County's industrial disturb
ances
/ Barricading themselves behind steel
bllets and in small outbuildings ten
feet inside the plant wall, the deputies
and guards directed volley after volley
into the ranks Of the strikers. The
latter, fighting stubbornly, retreated
under the fire, carrying some men ana
leaving others wounded.
Snipers Pick on Deputies.
Snipers hidden in windows and door
ways in Thirteenth Street tried TO pick
off the deputies who were lighting to
hold back the mob, and two Of the de-
Tending force are said 10 have been
wounded.
Women Joined in the fight 20 enter
the plant and two OF them were
wounded. Chief Deputy Sheriff David
Braun directed the defenders, and Is
said 10 have directed his men 10 hre
into the crowd after efforts 10 move
the mob with shots in the air had
failed.
Sherif's deputies rushs by sutomo-
bile from East Pittsburgh and Will
merding. where they were guarding
plants Of the Westinghouse company
were forced 10 fight their way through
a maddened throng at the Bessemer
station Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
TO reach the other deputies.
Charging the deputies second time
the strikers Engaged in hand-to-hard
struggle with the guards and deputies
ten feet inside the plant. and, though
handicapped through absence Of hre-
arms, forced back the armed guards
several times
Attack Office in Plant.
Tn. strikers attacked the office OF
| ". J. Dixon, superintendent OF trans
nortation. and with clubs and stones
almost wrecked u. Deputies were
/ forced 70 use the Office as a barricsde,
and from behind it they poured snot
after shot into the crowd which surged
about the entrance TO the plant.
Many injured were spirited away by
fellow strikers. and the exact number
OF wounded probably will never be
/ known.
+ As one striker fell the throng surged
forward and closed up the gap. Some
: times r wounded man was trampled on
by hundreds Of persons before he was
/ carried away.
/ Company officials and deputies at the
plant arc unit in declaring that eO
/ per cent cf the men who charged the
plant were foreigners, most o. whom
were drink-crazed.
! District Attorney r. II. Jackson an
| rounced that he would at once take
steps for the deportation OF foreigners
who took part IN the riot.
Physicians and ambulances were
summoned soon after the rioting COM
menced. but the danger of stray bull
/ lets and the menacing mob made it al
i most impossible for help 10 reach the
victims. Long after tho rioting was
over wounded persons dragged them
/ selves into physicians Offices 70 have
/ their wounds dressed
One Of the dead men was found in an
alley some distance away from the
/ plant. lie had been carried there by
. fellow strikers, who dropped him and
/ fed.
Great Damage Done.
The rioting followed day Of rev.
clry which alarmed the residents OF
I the Braddock and Rankin districts.
/ Plants were entered and employees
chased from their posts. Great damage
was done in many places, and residents
/ OF the district, with the manufacturers
and merchants. have joined in an ap-
| peal to Sheriff George W. Richards for
protection either OF state troopers or
militia.
Private citizens and "any decent
men" were being deputized in the
/ estimated that at least 1000 men have
/ been sworn in TO act as deputies.
{ A controversy arose at the conclu-
/ sion of the riot rs 70 who fred the frs.
/ shot Some persons asserted that an
/ intoxicated striker. stepping IN front
/ Of the gate, pulled revolver from
/ his pocke, and fired six shots into the
/ crowd Of deputies. Others say an eX-
cited deputy fired into the air 10
/ frighten the mob.
/ Anna Bell. the young woman leader
/ OF the striking Westinghouse employees.
was arrested tonight on the charge oi
murder in connection with the Brad
dock fatalities.
Arrangements were made az mass
/ meeting Of $500 strikers from plants
/ in the Turtle Greek Valley tonight 20
| picket the Edgar Thomson works to-
morrow. Six furnaces in the plant
were banked tonight, indicating that
/ the company does not intend operating