The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08

tied wines, beer and whisky After Iootlng the saloon they set it on fire The building, a three-story structure, was destroyed.
 John Baker striker, was mistaken Tor workman today and was beaten unconscious by the mob Stephen Gard nef' foreman, while returning from work, was attacked. He was badly | beaten and was found unconscious bert Atwood, a timekeeper, was also oadiy hurt by the rioters Strikers 1 turing the afternoon devoted their time to shooting into the mills across the Manoning river
 several automobile drivers attempted to Ignore warnings to stop and were taken rom their machines and the machines were wrecked
 f11ty rioters were arrested by the po- nee and placed in the East Youngstown iock-up. When the police were compelled to leave the jail in order to patrol the ire zone, about 100 strikers gathered about the place and threatened to 1orcibly re- lease the men. Mayor w. ii. cunningham at once swore in 50 deputies and ordered them to remain on duty at the jail throughout the night
 At midnight reports were received that rioters had started toward Youngstown threatening trouble. Deputy sheriffs left
  According to telephone reports, liquor crazed men were drinking stolen whisky from buckets in the fire lighted streets of East Youngstown
 An unidentified foreigner vas shot and killed when rioters attacked a saloon on Wilson street shortly before midnight As the man smashed a window of the building with d brick shot was fired from inside the building and the man fell dead. Rioters then set fire to the build- ing.
 WILL CLOSE PLANT
 President James A. Campbell of the youngstown Sheet and Tupe company announced tonight that the plant would be closed until such time as the ''proner authorities see fit to protect those em- ployes who are willing and anxious to work.
 The outbreak tonight did not come as surprise to the residents of East Youngstown All day the entrances to the steel mills were watched by crowds or strikers, armed with heavy clubs, knives and revoivers and men who attempted 10 enter the plants were Griven away by threats of violence As the day advanced the strikers grew more aggressive hurl- Ing stones and clubs at workmen. Lunch baskets were taken and Aes:royed Street cars were stopped and workmen forcibly removed. When a man refused to join the strikers he was put on a car going IF the opposite direction and sent home. Cars were bombarded with stones and windows broken when motormen failed to stop at the command of mob leaders. Frederick Fletcher, a newspaper man, was mistaken for a workman and at tackled. He was knocked down but es- capped before being seriously injured
 WOMAN IS WOUNDED
 Mrs. Helen 10th, one of the women who were wounded, and an unidentified woman were standing near the plant with scores of women and children when the riot started. Mrs. 10th was within a few feet of her home and was watching her two children play nearby, when sne fell unconscious with two bullet wounds in her body. She was rushed 70 hospital where it was said her condition is crit ical. The unidentified woman also was wounded. Physicians declared she had only a slight chance to recover
 At 9:30 o'clock tonight Mayor Car rell Thornton of Youngstown issued orders to proprietors of saloons to close their bars at the regular closing time tonight and not to open tomor- row. The saloons here will be closed indefinitely
 A call was sent to the Youngstown fire department early in the night, but officials refused to send the firemen, saying they were not assured protec- tion from the mob. Bremen from sur rounding towns responded and aided in fighting the flames, but they were hamperVl by the strikers who are a1- legged to have thrown stones at them, cut the hose and in other ways in- terrupted the firemen's efforts to check the blaze. Twenty foreign families up tos 9 o'clock had been made homeless by the fires Reports said that when the fire communicated to the Scheen- field jewelry store several men entered the building and it is estimated that S5000 worth of jewelry was stolen. The buildings destroyed were in Wilson and Short streets, the business section of the town.