Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — RIOTERS SHOT DOWN. [ARTICLE]

RIOTERS SHOT DOWN.

MOB OF COKE STRIKERS MEET WITH BULLETS. Wire* of Striker* Precipitate a Bloody Conflict—Guard* Fire on the AmitotuKxcltement Throughout the ReglonMore Trouble Predicted. Fifteen Laid Low. The coke strike resulted in a bloody riot at the Painter works, near Scottdale, Pa., in which fifteen persons, including a number of women, were •hot, several of them fatally. The trouble was started by a mob of women, wives of the strikers, who had determined to drive out the “blacklegs” at work for the McClure Coke Company. The women assembled about six o’clock in the morning, and with tin pans, clubs, cokeforks, and brooms marched to the cokeyard. Sanford White, mine superintendent: Ewing-B. Roddy, book-keeper, and a lot of deputies were on guard. A shot was fired to scare the women. In less than a minute the men living in th j houses near by rushed to the scene and White opened fire on the crowd, that numbered over one hundred. The affray occurred between blocks of ovens, and at the first fire from White and'the deputies three men fell, wounded. One was shot through the thigh, one through both legs and the third in the neck. The women carried off the wounded, and the now infuriated men set upon White and Roddy, whom they seemed to regard as responsible tor tne shooting. Before a suffitfient number of deputies could be massed at this point Sanford White was completely surrounded. He was brutally beaten over the head, knocked down, kicked and bruised about the body. His recovery is doubtful. While all this was going on the deputies had begun to use their Winchesters, and shot one woman. Roddy, the bookkeeper, was thought at first to be badly injut ed, but he escaped with only slight bruises. There is great excitement throughout the entire region. The strikers are becoming desperate, and mobs are assembling at various,points to raid the plants now in operation. The operators and leaders of the strike predict turbulent times within the next few days.