Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — SIX MEN ARE SHOT Telegraphic Clicks. [ARTICLE]

SIX MEN ARE SHOT

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RIOT AND MURDER IN THE COKI REGIONS. ) Btx Mea Dead and a Dozen Mortal!) Wounded aa the Reenlt of One Day*! Biotinc—Scores of Striker* Arrested and Tried for Murder. Pitched Contests Fougrht. Wednesday was an exciting day of riot and bloodshed, of reckless disregard of law and property in the Penn- ' sylvania coke regions. Nearly 10,000 I striking coke-burners, according to a i dispatch, are inarching from place to place destroying the machinery at the ooke ovens and driving the workmen away. They are armed with sticks, old muskets and revolvers, and unless they are promptly subjugated more bloodshed will certainly follow. Fayette and Westmoreland Counties from Uniontown almost to Greensburg have been converted into a vast battlefield. At night armed sentries are picketed on every hill top. Their figures as they shift their rifles from shoulder to shoulder stand out darkly against the sky. Below them on the hillsides glow the long rows of coke ovens with their canopy of half-lumi-nous smoke. A few workmen skulk from place to place in mortal terror oi being brained by some blood-thirsty striker hidden away in the shadows. The valleys and fields are sprinkled with camp-fires, around which the striking cokers are bivouacked. Al) day long parties of them, led by wildeyed. unkempt Huns, have been parading from mine to mine, wheedling or coercing the workmen into joining their ranks. Six M -n Killed Outright. Six men were killed outright Wednesday and a dozen more seriously if not fatally wounded. The rioting began early, and the climax was reached when a body of strikers, numbering several hundred, marched to the Davidson works of the H. C Frick Coke Company at Connellsville, where men were working. Deputies had been placed to receive them and opened fire. The strikers returned the fire and | charged, driving the deputies and me , from the plant. Chief Engineer Pao I dock, of the Frick Company, ran up in the tipple of the works. The strikers I followed, arid shot him in the back of I the head. They threw his body to the ovens, forty feet below. They then tried to fire the tipple, but left when they saw the deputies returning with a large force from Connellsville. Hearing of Paddock’s murder, hundreds volunteered to avenge his death. The pursuing party overtook the strikers and opened fire. The strikers fired in return, but ran on. Three strikers fell; one was killed instantly, shot through the body, and two others were fatally wounded. Another of the strikers was killed by a deputy at Bradford, a mile distant. Eleven strikers were captured after the first battle, and the pursuing party kept up the chase until Dawson, seven mi'ej distant, was rea-hed, where fifty-three more strikers were captured. The lawabiding element had its waj- and the prisoners were hurried to jail. Scottdale is the center of the trouble. All the meetings have been held there, and the residents are being terrorized almost hourly by parades of the maddened strikers. Some of the American laborers have expressed themselves as willing to work under the old scale, but the Hungarians are not only unwilling to accept the terms offered them by the employers but they are driving all of the Americans away from the ovens. The delegate convention called Tuesday wai stormy from beginning to end. Some of the men wanted a strike at all the works, others at the worksnot paying the Frick scale, while still dthers wanted to declare the strike off until the organization can be completed and the men better prepared for a battle. The convention broke up about 2 o’clock. Before adjournment the radicals pushed through a resolution declaring a general strike. The demand is for 90 cents pier 100 bushels for mining and an advance of 12 pier cent, on the Frick scale for all other work. When the convention adjourned the delegates were sent back with instructions to urge all the men who are out to remain firm and to work dili- : gently to extend the strike. The Frick and W. S. Rainey companies are most seriously affected. Rainey was among the first to ask the sheriff for protection, and his belligerent attitude has brought the ill-will of the strikers down upon him. The concerns affected are the Oliver and the . Cambria iron companies and the LaI mont and Moyer works. I Men from neighboring plants began gathering in the vicinity of Oliver,and lat 8:30 over 1,000 men had collected, i There is a large contingent of Amer- : lean workmen and a few foreigners at . Oliver who are not in sympathy with the strikers, and they refuse to go out, . One Slav ran into the company’s store i and asked to be protected. Then the great mob gathered around the store and attempted to go in and get the man. The deputies on guard brought | their Winchesters into position for action and threatened to shoot if the men tried to force their way into the store. The mob yelled and hooted and threatened to burn the store or blow it ‘ up if the man was not given up. I Serious trouble was imminent, and to avoid it the company officials told the ■ Hun to go with the strikers. He did so, and the strikers left at once, marchi ing toward Leith and Brownfield, the ! big Frick works, where the men are I working and do not want to strike. , They were headed by a drum corps, and created much excitement as they I passed through Uniontown. Nearly all were Slavs. The Leith men had I placed pickets in town, and when they ' saw the strikers coming back to Leith, half a mile distant, informed the ■ men, giving them plenty of time to get . out of sight.

Three persons were injured by the explosion of a bomb in a restaurant in Paris. Corbett will demand Jackson's $lO,000 as a forfeit if the negro refuses to fight in America. Trouble has arisen in settling the differences between the Union Pacific Road and the Western Immigration pool. Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul, addressed the Loyal Legion of New York on “The Duty and Value of Patriotism.” An angry mob of 2,000 attacked the Queen’s Own, the crack regiment of Toronto, while < n parade, and a serious fight ensued. In the Senate a bill was passed permitting horse-racing in tfie District of Columbia, but prohibiting pool-selling and book-making. Seven persons were' killed and several seriously injured by jumping from the windows of a burning hotel in Frankfort-on-the-Main. In the Pollard case at Washington Judge Bradley administered a stinging rebuke to people who attend tfie tritu out of morbid curiosity.