Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1894 — RIOTS GALORE. [ARTICLE]

RIOTS GALORE.

Climax of the Troubles In the Pennsylvania Coke Regions. The troubles of tho past week in the Pennsylvania coke regions came to a climax, Wednesday. Strikers attacked tho works of tho 11. C. Frick Coke Company at Connollsville. Tho doputies on guard fired. The strikers pressed on and killed Chief Engineer Paddock, boat him and crushed his head with stones. 'Hearing M Paddock’s murder hundreds volunteered to avengo his death, Tho pursuing party, In command of county detective Frank Campbell, overtook the strikers half a mile from Davidson arid opened lire upon them* The strikers lired In return, but ran on. Three strikers fell, one being killed instantly, shot through £he body, and two others wero fatally wounded. Another of the strikers, who got the start of tho main body, was shot by a deputy. lie was also killed Instantly, tho ball penetrating his neck. A dispatch from Uniontown, Thursday, April 5, says: At 10 o’clock to-day the dead bodies of eight Hungarians were found in a woods near Dawson by some boys who wore going across the (fields to school. The men were found lying In different sections of the woods, and all had bullet holes through their bodies and wero more or less beaten np. Whore they came from, or by whom thoy were killed is yet a question, and tho discovery is tho sensation of the day in the coke region. It is supposed they were shot yesterday afternoon by dopntlcs during an attack on tho Broadford works, and crawled out Into the woods to die. In the conflict at these works there were volleys of shots fired,

and one Hun was killed outright during the attack. The bodies found have been identified as members of this mob. They are Still lying in the woods, and the authorities refuse to care for them. Tho general feeling among the more intelligent strikers Is that they cannot win against so much feeling stirred up against them by yesterday’s troubles, together with the unpropitious timo for a strike. The foreign element, however, are nothing daunted and any further bloodshed will be caused by them. The region was quiet last night, so far as rioting was concerned, but the spread of the day’s work at Davidson caused great excitement. At all the plants where work is being attempted the strikers are gathered in large numbers. At Mt. Braddock, the famous Hill Farm mines and Rainey’s Moyer works, there are several hundred strikers gathered about waiting for an attempt to operate the plants. Deputies are at all the plants armed with Winchesters.