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Show CLUBBED TO DEATH BY IRATfe STRIKERS Nii- I nlnii Mm tW-r.Ml.1 ati I Ills Hkall ' -rii.hfI Wllh m tlUI. dames WUtoh, agef 4H years, was killed, and hia aon-lu-la w, ri. J.-Iewia, wns, severely Injured by a gang of Hungarian Hun-garian strikers who waylaid them on their way lo work at the (.ran'-ty Island colliery of the Peluware Sl Iludnon company at OUphant, I'a. The affair liHik place only half a mile from the ciimp of the Thirteenth regiment ut Oliphant. Lewie got away, but Win-aton Win-aton e akutl waa crushed with a club and he fell nnflonafdous. While be lay prostrate and dylijg the crowd jumped on him. kicked him In the fuce and beat hi in with clUtrti. WlnMon Was curried home by William Doyle, a nonunion non-union man, arid Mra. Doyle, who witnessed wit-nessed the itiurder. Ilerry HI iu rock, Tom Treston and alleged to have committed the crime, have fled. (Six men and women who vere in the crowd from wbob tha aa-aailanta aa-aailanta emerged were arreated and held In f lft.oo ball each aa witnesaee. Mra. (ieorge Marshal, colored, wife of the proprietor of a hotel at Jcasup, armed with shotgun, safely escorted a hunted non-union man through a crowd of 100 strikers from the hotel to the SterrlrU creek colliery stockade Friday. When the crowd began to avenge Ithclf by bomburding the hotel, Mra. Marahall fired on the Bearcat group and peppered a dozen men with bird shot. This scattered the mob. |