Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1910 — BLOODSHED FOLLOWS STRIKE [ARTICLE]

BLOODSHED FOLLOWS STRIKE

1,000 Employes of the Pressed Btecl Car Company Walk Out. Practically without warning 1.0G 1 ) men, mostly foreigners, employed ..v the erection department of the t company, at Schoenville, Pi,.;quit work. Within an hour after the beginning of the strike, a workman had been shot In the left arm and Chief Smiths of the company’s police had been severely beaten by members of the strikers' body and taken to a hospital. The trouble Btarted over the discharge of four members of the Industrial Workers of the World. I - Earthquake in Montana. A slight earthquake shock was felt In Helena, Butte and Anaconda, Mont. No damage Is reported.