Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-24
TROOPERS CHARGE
AT FARRELL PLANT
AND KILL TWO MEN
Outbreak at Buffalo Results
in One Death and
Several Injuries.
THREE POLICEMEN VICTIMS
IN PITTSBURGH DISTRICT
Serious Rioting Also Reported
From Steel Mills in
Youngstown.
BABY is ALSO VICTIM OF GUN
carnegie Company Issues Statement
Asserting More Men Arc at
Work Than on Monday.
BABY is ALSO VICTIM OF GUN

PITTSBURGH, PA. Sent. 23-Two
men were killed and three others seri-
ousiE injured in clash between state
constabulary and strikers at Farrell
near Sharon. this evening. a squad of
twenty-five troopers armed with rifles
charged crowd of strikers. who pelt-
ed the troopers with stones and otber
missiles. Several shots were fired bv
the troopers and deputy sher.ns who
participated in the battle. which lasted
for an hour. The crowd when driven
from the streets. continued the bonn
bardment from windows and honse-
tops
The man killed was John Bandsacl.
Striker. one of the Injured WAS a
WOMAN. This is the third fatality in
farreil since the strike started yester-
Tonight's riot occurred at the same
place where one man was killed and
many we're injured in an outbreak las
Three men were shot and seriously
wounded in a battle between mounted
n99ii4f 20 ei, and strikers in the hill district
gan with an attempt of the police to
disperse crowd and ragged for half an
EtDtInSi In Youngstown.
dispatch from Youngstown, Ohio.
tonight told OF serious rioting around
the steel mills there late this after
The first serious outbreak ' il in this
city since. the strike began occurred
tonight when one man was probably
seriously hurt. and severdal others
were injured in riot i'm the Lawrence
Vile mill district tonight.
said that Mrs. sophia Johnston. Who
nirb Ma5 shot 9ed in strike riG5 here last
T1elve other persons Who we're tGs in- /:
fp9eeted to reeoyer, iiFs, Johnston1 n was vas
adult children.
One Killed In Buffalo.
message from Buffalo tonight said
that ono man dead. three wounded
the oaPs rssufs of ,be ry
clash between strikers and armed
guards at the plant of the Lackawanna
Steel Company, at Lackawanna, n. Y,
tonight. Nearly half hundred shots
were fired into mob OF 5000, which
attacked two men leaving the plant.
The man killed was Kasamin Mazurek
twenty -four years old, of. Lackawanna.
Acting on report that concen-
trated attack would be made upon the
plant by strikers and sympathizers at
5 o'clock tomorrow morning. the Buff
fala police riot squad. armed with
shotSuns, was hurried TO the scene
and body of State troopers has been
dispatched from the headquarters at
Batavia.
The first indication OF trouble today
came when about 400 men started TO
& thcr in the naighborhood Of the
hall where the strikers hold th cir
meetings in Lackawanna. This crowd
was dispersed without trouble. Within
short time another mob formed in
front of No. gate OF the plant Be-
fore $3.50 o'clock "A mob estimated at
at least 5000 men was surging about
the street in front of the gate but
did not assume dangerous attitude
until two workmen were seen leaving
the plant. They were greeted with a
shower Of stones hurled by the mob.
No one needed the order of the guards
employed by the plant to stand back,
and as the mob surged toward tho
men. who remained at their work, the
guards opened fire.
The guards outside OF the gate fred
revolverS into the crowd and they
were re-enforced by others inside, who
poked the barrels of sawed-off shot
guns between the pickets of the fence
and also opened fire into the mob. The
temper of the crowd. the police say
then became so ugly that they did not
disperse until Police Chief ellison ar
rived at the gate with a large number
of men, who rushed the mob with their
clubs.
When the mob was finally scattered
by the combined efforts of the police
and special officers from the plant, the
dead and injured were sent to the
hospital in moving van. which was
Communicated by the police.