The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-10-22
Many CASUALTIES
RESULT OF OUTBREAK
IN Steel DISTRICT
Mounted State Troopers Are Kept
Busy During the Day, and Night
Riot Requires Their Al
tention Again.

Pittsburgh, Oct. 21.-Ri0ting which
broke out in the Braddock steel mill
district today was renewed tonight
when a crowd of about fifty strikers
and their sympathizers clashed with
several workmen who had just left
one of the plants shortly before 7
o'clock. One man was shot during the
melee and many others were injured.
State troopers, attracted by the
noise of the fight, rushed to the scene
on their mounts and rode into the mob
using riot clubs freely.
When the troopers put in an appear
ancc the crowd greeted them with a
shower Of stones, clubs and bottles
and an unidentified man drew re-
volvcr and fired five shots, one of
which struck Joseph Dinnock, in the
vicinity Of whose home the disorder
occurred. He was not seriously hurt.
Finally Disperse Mob.
The troopers finally dispersed the
mob and arrested two men who reg"
istercd at the police station as Joseph
Owener, aged thirty four, and Won
Wash, aged forty-tivc, both of Brad.
dock. The two prisoners, according
to the police, had sustained severe IN
juries in the fight
In the riotng of tonight more than
a score Of workmen were injured, it
is said, and they were rushed to the
emergency hospital at the Edgar
Thompson steel works.
Authorities Of Braddock tonight an
nounced that policemen would be put
on with the regular force Immediately
to assist State troopers in ratrolling
the streets in the strike zone.
The disorders today covered an area
Of fifty city squares, resulting in
injuries TO many persons and the ar
rests of twenty men, who are hciu un
charges OF carrying concealed weap-
ons, suspicious persons, rioting md
disorderly conduct.
Fight During Lunch Hour.
The most serious fray coIay o22ur-
red at Braddock where workme. in
the Edgar Thompson plant OF the
Carnegie steel company We're permit.
ted to leave the mill for their ,unch
the first time since the strike was de-
clarcd. When they attempted t. re-
turn they were surrounded by crowd
near the mill gate and almost M
mediatcly fighting started
The situation soon passed beyond
control Of the town police and State
poiccmc nwcrc summoned from Ran
kin, near by. They answered the can
mounted and quickly cleared the
streets although a number of persons
were injured before quiet was reStor-
ed. Fourteen men were arrested and
the mounted officers remained on duty
in the streets.
No estimate of the number of in~
ju-ed was made by the authoritic
who said that most OF them were
foreigners who were taken i'm hand by
friends and not sent to hospitals
Seven, however, were cared for in an
emergency hospitals, including one
trooper, who was reported to have
been dangerously wounded, but who
) later returned to duty.
Attack at Carnegie Plant.
Men employed at the Mngo June
ton, Ohio plant Of the Carnegie Stcc
Company, were said to have beer at,
tackled early in the day ana number
hurt. Efforts of citizens to have Gov.
"rnOr Cox send troops into the coun
tV to preserve peace were met by tn,
declaration Of the mayor Of Ming,
junction that he had sworn in a nun
Der Of special officers and had tn.
situation well in hand.
All the steel union organizers in The
district assembled here today for thci1
, weekly conference. They reported &c
; ". Il. Foster, secretary Of the strikt
committee, that there was it'll,
change in the situation, according /,
an announcement at strike hcadouar
tcrs tonight.