Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1910 — WRECK PITTSBURG MINE [ARTICLE]

WRECK PITTSBURG MINE

Mob of 400 Destroys Clemens Mine in Pennsylvania. * While Leaders Held Parley With Su> peri ntendent, Members Complete .. Wrecking cf Property. ----Pittsburg, . May .6.—Four hundred miners, marched on the Clemens Coal company strip mines and demanded that the men stop work,; at the same time declaring that if the men returned io work they would have their heads chopped off like chickens. ■ While the leaders of the mob were talking to the superintendent the balance of the mob started in ‘ the work of destruction of the mines by breaking pumps and engines and./throwing them down the pit-. .’.;■ Train cars were, turned, loose and allowed to run down the inclines. Telephones were torn out of the offices and thrown, out of doors ana wires torn down. When the wreck was complete the mob departed. The majority of the mob were foreigners and while they did not carry the red flag of anarchy, they Carried red handkerchiefs on stigks. <„