Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-30
TEN lNJUREDIh RIOT.
Y. AT UN|0NT0WN mine
bs --4AA-
Trouble Starts When Crowd
Tries to Prevent Miners
From Working.
:, FIGHTING becomes VICIOUS
FIGHTING incomes vICI
-tStete Policemen Greeted With Bullets
and Stones ns They Attempt to
= Di,rerse observation-disclosures Are
- Overwhelmed by Numbers.
fBy Associated Press.l

UNIoNToWN. PA. April 2s.-Four
State policemen and half dozen
strike sympathlzers were injured in
riot at Mine No, 1, of the Tower
Hin Coal and Coke Company, ten
miles from Uniontown, today. Fifty
or more arrests were made. the
prisoners being brought to Union
town.
The injured policemen: I.ieutenant
Charles T. Smith. Corporal Earl c.
Keesman, Private Arthur Fox and
Private Henry c. Gabel.
Son after dayhreak a crowd of
men and women. estimated at about,
500, assembled at the mine which
mas been seriously crippled by the
coal strike. and sought II prevent a
dozen or more miners who reported
ior work from entering the ut.
shower Officers With stones.
Three state policemen who were
were greeted witha shower Of stones
! The troopers were overwhelmed nv
numbers, but continued Ia fight
while the mine manag emcut sent a
call TO Cniontown for help. Some
adoitional State policemen wore
. quickly on their way, willis Geru,y
; slfriTs were hurried from near bv
points.
They arrived not minute TOO
. soon. for the little band Of ;roops had
{ been hard pressed. some Of them he
Z ing Knocked down and badly beaten.
me crowd was rounded un by the
7 new force. but 1T was som. minutes
: before the more heNigercnt were
{: suouued, az the troopers were not
: mounted. Five men in tho crowd
: armed with pistols, opened ere on
! The troops, and it was reported hero
/: that all of them had been captured
Half dozen or more OF tho rioters
were more or less seriously hurt. one
Sof them being shot, while u great
.mhny others showed evidenCe.aof the
eight.
s When the crowd had finally been
: dispersed and the troopers had
rounded UP their prisoners. they
were loaded into motor trucks and
;brousht TO the county Jail.
(. Little Girl Is Wounded.
:: Mary Raven, a 2-y.ar- child.
was Shot and dangerously wounded
during fight at the Orient min. OF
the Orient Coal and Coke Company.
near Tower HIN, later IN the day
Louis Hill. deputy sherifr on guard
at tho mine. was attacked by ten
men. After being Knocked down he
drew his pistol and wounded John
.Hamie. miner. One bullet went
wild and struck the chilli.
/: Several union meetings had been
scheduled throughout the county for
tomorrow, but Sheriff Shaw said to-
might that any measure necessary
.W!l be taken TO prevent assemblies
:ihe miners. he declared, have up 10
: this time. had the right OF assem-
ABLY as long as they took part in no
ssmarches, but since they have violated
y heir privileges. they will be restrain
:ed from now on from taking part In
ANY sort OF gathering.
About twenty extra State troop-
:ers, besides those rushed into the
county today. have oeen requested
from the barracks further east. Cap
lain Smith. In command. said tonight
On telephone conversation that the
situation is everywhere quiet to-
night. Observers at Uniontown, how
ever, 'ntimated that further trouble
Was likely unless close watch is
kept by the authorities