Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1916 — PITCHED BATTLES BY PITTSBURG STRIKERS [ARTICLE]

PITCHED BATTLES BY PITTSBURG STRIKERS

Two Die and Many Hurt In Riots Tuesday—Over 400 Shots Fired By Strikers and Deputies. Pittsburg, May 2.—Two men are known to have been killed, four probably fatally wounded, and a score of others seriously hurt this afternoon when a mob said by the authorities to have been composed principally of foreigners; attacked the Edgar Thomson works of the Carnegie Steel company in Braddock. A pitched battle lasting an hour followed during which 400 shots were fired, but the rioters were finally forced to retreat in the face of a deadly fire from the riot guns and revolvers of deputy sheriffs and plant guards. The situation is quiet tonight but 2,000 citizens of the borough have been sworn in as deputies and are patrolling the streets. ■Many of those injured in the fighting were spirited away by the rioters and for after quiet had been restored the injured continued to be brought to hospitals for treatment. Snipers hidden in doorways and windows tried to pick off deputies who were fighting to hold back the mob, and two deputies were said to have been hit. Women also joined in the mad fight to gain entry to the works and two of these were wounded. The two men killed were foreigners.