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Show llSALT LAKE AND STATE NEWS RIOTING IN lilt TIWNffMIIIEAY Murray, Utah, May 17. Fifteen sti Iking smelter employes were arrested ar-rested by deputy sheriffs this morning morn-ing for clinging to workmen who tried to entor the plant of tho American Smelting and Refining company. A stick of dynamite "was thrown upon the company's ground last night and exploded, bnt It did no damage. Salt Lake, May 17. With the throwing of dynamite Intended to blow up the smelter gas plant, which would have wrecked the town of Murray, and an attempt to assassinate Superintendent "W. V. Norton, which through mlataken identity, resulted In the wounding of a striker, the strike situation at Murray burst In-lou In-lou rioting and disorder last night lha was only quelled by tho arrival of a squad of heavily armed deputy shorlffs, who drovo the strikers from the smelter at the points of rifles. A bullet fired from ambush, Intend, ed for Superintendent W, "W. Norton, hit Mike Strakovlch, a striking Austrian, Aus-trian, as he was coming down the path from the smelter office at 10 o'clock last nighL Strakoich resembles re-sembles tho big superintendent to a marked degree and it is considered certain that tho strikers had planned Norton's assaaslnation. Learning their mistake, the assassins picked up their wounded countrymen and carried car-ried him to a doctor's office Norton was in the office at the time. Regardless of tho danger, he proceeded down the path to tho street, guarded by a deputy sheriff. N shots wero fired at him. Half an hour after the attempt at assassination the strikers gathered In large numbers about tho eastern fence of the smelter, boldly defying Iho few doputv shorlffs on gnaid at the entrance. A party of the strikers made thelv way to the fence and hurled a stick of dynamite in the direction di-rection of tho great gas tanks, where enough gasoline to wreck the entire smelter and most of tho town of Murray is kept Tho dynamite exploded with a deep roar a short distance from the tanks Several strikebreakers working in the open were hurled from their feet. Revolver shots were fired iinsdc and outside the fenced inclosure. Unable to cope with the threatening threaten-ing situation, the smelter officials sent an urgent call to Salt Lake for deputy sheriffs. Sheriff Joseph C. Sharp mustered seven deputies, armed arm-ed them with rifles and revolvers and dispatched them to tho scene in automobiles. au-tomobiles. In the party were Deputies Dep-uties Axel Steele. John Corless, Richard Rich-ard Eddlngton, Fred Butler. Andrew Smith. Sanford W. Hedges and William Wil-liam Schettler. |