Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1910 — WOMAN SHOT IN A RIOT [ARTICLE]

WOMAN SHOT IN A RIOT

Sheriff Appealed tutor Pruteclluu After Fight at Hammond. Women Active Participants In Strike Row with Police—Deputies Refuse to Serve. Hammond, Ind., Jan. 28. —Officers of the Standard Steel Car company appealed to Sheriff Thomas Grant for protection to life and property, following a riot at the plant, in which 1,000 men and women strike sympathizers participated and five persons were injured. Fifty citizens of Hobart, IndL, sworn in as deputy sheriffs by Deputy John Green refused to serve when they learned they were expected to do strike duty at the Standard Steel Car company plant Sixty men were deputized, but when the time came to leave for Hammond fifty of them demurred and refused to go. Mrs. Annie Hondak, a woman strike sympathizer, was wounded in the shoulder by a bullet Women were the active participants in the riot Wielding clubs*, stove pokers and hurling pepper they fought a squad of policemen who were trying to force a passageway to the gates of the plant for Superintendent H. B. Douglas and the office force of the company. The men hurled pieces of ice at the police.