Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-24
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 or Gun
carnegie Company Issues Statement
Asserting More Men Arc at
Work Than on Monday.
THREE POLICEMEN VICTIMS
IN PITTSBURGH DISTRICT
BABY is ALSO VICTIM OF Gun

PITTSBURGH. PA Sent. oa-Tvo
men were killed and three others scri-
ouslv injured in clash between state
| constabulary and strikers at Farrell
near aharoh' this evening. y squad of
twenty h'c' troopers armed with rifles.
charged a crowd OF strikers who pclt
ed the troopers with stones and other
missiles. Several shots were fired bv
the troopers and deputy sheriffs who
participated in the battle. which lasted
Tor an hour. The crowd when driven
! from the streets. continued the bonn
bardment from windows and house.
tops.
The man killed was John Bandsack.
"a s1riher. one Of the injured was IA
woman This is the third fatality i'm
day morning.
place Whcre one man was Killed and
many were injured in an outbreak last
Three men were shot and seriously
wounded in battle between mounted
po!iGg and strikers in the hill district
gan with an attempt of the police 10
disperse crowd and ragged for half an
| hour.
Rioting I'm Youngstown.
| a dispatch from Youngstown. Ohio.
! tonight told Of serious rioting around
the steel mills there late this after
The first '' Serious pS'Seo outSrea Sre 'qne' in this
city since the strike began occurred
tonight when one man was probably
seriously hurt. and severda others
we're Injured in riot in the Lawrence
4 repor, from New { Castle tonight
said that Mrs. Sophia Johnston. who
nirbt waS sh9t 6,od in n strike riot here last
Twelve other persons who were in
}ured ard in last lano,a nights riotinE are en-
| the wife OF a striker. She leaves two
adult children.
One Killed In Buffalo.
message from Buffalo tonight said
that one man dead, three wounded
and baby possibly fatally injured.
was the results of the first serious
clash between strikers and armed
! steel Company. al Lackawanna. " y.
tonight. Nearly half a hundred shots
were fred into mob of 5000. which
attacked two men leaving the plant.
The man killed was kasamin Mazurek.
iwenty-four years old, OF Lackawanna.
Acting on report that a concen-
plant by strikers and sympathizers AT
) O'Clock tomorrow morning, the Buff
faia police riot squad. armed with
shotEuns. was hurried to the scene
and body of state troopers has been
dispatched from the headquarters at
The first indication. OF trouble today
came when about 400 men started to
gamer in the naiShborhood of the
sist!k WIlcre the strikers hOld Uhclr
meetings in Lackawanna. This crowd
was dispersed without trouble. Within
a short time another mob formed in
front of No. > gate of the plant Be-
fore $50 o'clock a mob estimated az
at least 5000 men was surSing 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 surCcd toward the
men, who remained at their work, the
guards opened fire.
The guards outside of the gate fired
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
commandeered by the police.