Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1894 — RIOTOUS WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

RIOTOUS WOMEN.

Another Desperate Encounter in Pennsylvania Coke Regions. Fifteen JJadly Wounded and More Troublo Feared. A Scoitdale, Pa., dispatch May 4, says: A riot occurred at the Painter works of the McClure Coke Company about six o’clock today. The company made an effort to start this and other plants of the company, Tuesday, and today the women living at the plant determined to drive the “black legs” from work. They assembled and with tin pan 3, clubs, coke forks and brooms marched to the coke yard. Sanford White, mine superintendent; Ewing Roddy, bookkeeper, and a lot of deputies were op guard. A shot was fired to scare tho women. In less than a minute the men living in the housos rushed to the scene, when White opened fire on the crowd that numbered over one hundred. The affray occurred between blocks of ovens, and at the first fire from White and the deputies three men fell wounded. One was shot through the thigh, one through both legs and the third in the neck. It is believed the latter is hurt fatally. The women carried off the wounded, and the now infuriated men set upon White and Roddy, whom they seemed to regard as responsible for the shooting. Before a sufficient numbor of deputies could be massed at this point Sanford White was completely surrounded. Ho was brutally beaten over the head, knocked down, kicked and bruised about the body. His recovery is doubtful, While all this was going on, the deputies managed to shoot one woman, who is dying. Roddy, the bookkeeper, was - thought at first to be bady injured, but he escaped with only slight bruises. The doctors of the towi were summoned and are now caring for thi wounded. White’s wounds were dressed and he was sent to tho Miners’ Hospital in ConneHsviile. It is now believed that at least fifteen were shot. There is great excitement. Mobs are assembling ai various points to raid the plants now it operation. A number of striker’, wer< carried from tho battle-field and .t is believed that they were killed, Dr. W. H. Cole, the company physician, stated that fifteen strikers went down in tho three charges. These men ami one woman were carried off tho ground after the first charge, and when the mob finally retreated they bore away at least ton more. Three of them were left near the works.