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Show Guards Shoot More Than a Score in Riot at Ohio Steel Works; Citizens Finally Rout Mob. POSTOFFICE BLOWN UP; REGULARS JOIN MILITIA YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Jan. 8. Four men were killed, nineteen other persons, including a woman, shot, and fifteen city blocks destroyed de-stroyed by fire as a result of riots growing out of the steel mill strike here last night. At 3 o'clock this morning the fire was still raging, having caused a loss estimated at from $800,000 to $1,000,000. Troops of the state national guard were gathering outside the city, but will not be brought in until after midnight. Pending their arrival armed citizens patrolled the strike zones. Rioters who for hours held the city in a reign of terror, looting stores and the postoffice and setting fire to many buildings, began to quit the streets after rumors of the arrival of the troops spread. Citizens, however, fear a new outbreak at daylight, as it is known that some of the rioters have obtained a supply of dynamite. YOUNGSTOWN, O., Jan. 8. After a uight of looting and arson at the hands of a drunken mob, the situation in East Youngstown was gradually being gotten got-ten under control early today, but the authorities expressed fear there would be another outbreak at daylight. The fire which had destroyed between forty and fifty building was still raging, but the streets have been partially cleared of rioters and the fire department has been brought here from Youngstown to combat the flames. The situation is tense, however, and fears are expressed that rioting might be resumed momentarily. For practically practi-cally six hours crowds of men, many maddened with drink, ran through the streets, smashing the windows of buildings build-ings with clubs and then tearing out entire fronts. The rioters then would loot the place and apply the torch. Citizens Organize. "With the rioting at its height, Oscar Diser, city solicitor of Kant Youngstown, Youngs-town, organized a body of citizens and, armed with revolvers, 'marched to the point where the rioters had just looted a building. Tho citizens fired a volley over ithe heads of the rioters, who returned re-turned the fire. Diner ordered his men to fire again, this time pointing their weapons point blank at the mob. About !a dozen men fell. Armed with night I sticks, the solicitor and his men waded into the rioters, using their clubs freely and scattering them into groups. These : were finally rounded up and loaded into various kinds of vehicles and taken to the county jail. The streets were in this way partially cleared so that the Youngstown fire department could be brought in to fight tho flames. : Scores Arrested. Nearly half a hundred men were arrested ar-rested and taken to jail, while others were loaded into wagons and taken to their homes. Many of the men suffered suf-fered from cuts and ot her won rids, the result, according to 'the authorities, of fighting among themtfclvr-H. One of the buildings attacked by the mob was that in whirh the postoffice was located. According to reports, riot- ! ers forced their way into the building, compelled a man who was on duty at ' the time to open the safe and then : looted the pi a re. The building was ; later burned. Troops Arriving. Company K of the Eighth regiment, Ohio National Guards, arrived here early today nnd marhed at once to East Youngstown. The report that troops had already begun to arrive seemed to awe the rioters and resulted in many leaving the city, according to the police. The names of four additional injured have been reported to the authorities Robert Davis, employed by a raihoad, was hit by a stray bullet, ami badlv wounded while at work lafe lust night. His condition is critical. An unidentified unidenti-fied foreigner was also shot and suffered suf-fered internal injuries. His recovery is in doubt. The others weio not seriously serious-ly hurt. THREE ARE KILLED AND THREE OTHERS FATALLY WOUNDED By International News Service. EAST YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio. Jnn. 7. Three persons are dead nnd ciijhtepn others wounded, three mortally, as tho result of a riot here tonight. Six thousand striking eteel workers, mostly Austrian?, are plllaerinp nnd looting the elty. filx entire blocks have been burned with a loss estimated at JS00.000. The rioteia have stolen 500 pounds of dynamite and have already blown up several building. Two regiments of state militia ordered out by Governor Willis are beginning to arrive. They are the Fifth and Rij.'lith regiments from Alliance. The Fourth regiment will follow aH SOon as ft can be mobilized. Two companies of United Stales regulars regu-lars from Columbus are reported to bnv been ordered out because of tho loot in? and burning of the postoffii-e. Fire Beyond Control. The fire In the business soetlon Is bp-yond bp-yond control. The fire department was drivm back' with shots and Atones when it attempted to quench the flames. Frenzied with liquor looted from saloons, sa-loons, the moh has the city in terror to-nlcht. to-nlcht. The bridge to St. Guthcra has hern burned to prevent the rioters from reaching reach-ing that town. Two rioters were killed In a naloon fighl. Nineteen persons were shot In a battle between strikers and special police at the plant of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube company. The strike nl this plant Is the bitterest. Three other companies are Involved In-volved the Republic Steel & Iron com-pany. com-pany. the Hiier JJIM Steel company and the Youngstown Sheet & Iron company. The fllit renters about the plant of thq Sheet Tube company, however, It being be-ing declared thn t war muni t ions n re being be-ing manufactured there. The autnorfttea cbi im tb at the 1 rouble huh foment er by persons Interest ed In closing allied munitions mu-nitions plants. Agitators at Work. In the rrowd thai surrounded this plant at quitting time tonight were more than a score of agitator?. They harangued the men and by t he time the gules wet o swung open to let out the few person w .still working in the plant, the mob was rioting. Weapons of every description were Iti evidence. A tii in la ne of ppeelal police gna rded the men leaving the plant nnd as t hey ca me Into view the strikers opened fire. It was promptly returned and nineteen persoi.s, one a woman, were wounded. The bullets of the policemen cowed the rnob. I s members broke and ra n. only To be marshaled into line by lenders when the ritv proper was reached, h, tjlt. business busi-ness (-e' i ion I he meih broke Into squads and F-attered. Without lite Hiehtcst effort ef-fort at secrer-y, buiiding alter tu-lldlng was fired. When fire-men responded to the a la rms ' hey were erected with revolver re-volver a I mi s. They were driven off. Neither tiu: city police nor the scores of (Continued on Page Three.) STRIKERS IRE SIT; TBI SET ON FIRE (Continued from Page One.) deputy sheriffs hastily sworn In for duty were able to hold the. mob at bay. From building to building ran the looters. loot-ers. Several liquor stores and saloons were stripped and soon scores of the rioters were frenzied with drink. Members Mem-bers of the mob clad themselves in expensive ex-pensive garments taken from stores. They danced and yelled in the light of the burning buildings. Women and girls fled and the residence section of the town is now dark, as, behind bolted doors, families cower in fear of attacks, which screams of hate from the strikers have led them to expect. Tn addition to tho nineteen persons who were shot, a man sustained mortal Injuries when he fell from the second -story window of a building that he was looting. Rioters late tonight Invaded Youngs-town. Youngs-town. Mayor Thornton promptly ordered all saloons closed but t lie strikers wore well supplied with liquor. Muttering threats, they paraded the streets, but so far no violence has occurred. Strike for Higher Wages. The strike started a week ago. The laborers la-borers demanded 25 cents an hour, an advance of 1 1 cents over the old sea le.' The companies tried to compromise on a basis of 22 cents an hour. Telegraph and telephone offices are under police guard, following an attempt tonight to cut off Youngstown and Kast Youngstown from the outside world. The cities are on opposite shores of the Mahoning Ma-honing river. Measures also have been taken to protect the lives and homes of officers of the eteel companies. Early in the day Sheriff Umsteart of Miihoning county --allad for aid, declaring ihat he and his deputies could no longer cop with the situation. But before help could have arrivnd. had it bc-m dis- . patched immodhitely. the storm broke. Fully 100 strikers gathered at the . plant of the Younest-wn Sheet & Tube ! company. As the thin stream of workers work-ers trk'kled from t he works and across the bridge to the. street level, a shot was fired. Phint guards returned it. hut were driven bak into the sate building. This was fired and the guard was smoked out. Rain of Bullets. The men retreated, tiring as they ran, into the plant proper, where they continued con-tinued to pour bullets into the mob until their ammunition was exhausted. .Sheriff rmstead, with several deputies, went to their aid, and, at the risk of their lives, conducted the special policemen to places of safety. VVord that a woman, Mvs. Helen Toth, had been wounded, seemed to ualvauizc the strikers Into a frenzy. Top mo, with a pi;ir, started for the town. (."Jalhfr-ing (."Jalhfr-ing recruits as it rolled nlong, the. mob wa s fully ijitil'i si ron g when the business section was reached. The torch was applied to half a dozen buildings and looting bgan. One Jewelry i store was literally t urned inside out. j Onifi valued at ?&nifi wre taken. Gleam -! ing diamonds sliFtened on grimv hands j and valuahie watches wr stuffed Into ! pockets as carelessly as if they were to-I to-I bacco boxes. ; Drink as They Run. ! The vangiifir. of the mnh preserved a ; Fern tlancc of ordr as tiie MrM saloon w:is 'entered. TVe. reluctance of the bartender 1 lo stvp the strikers, however, earned I hint a he :Wl"iig l rip through window tnnd amateur dispensers began ripern lion. 'lYurets were npend and T f t to run, ; while the rioters, made drunk with their ; sudden sens of power, drank the limiors las t hey v.: v. In V..t i!rv goods ptorcp cods were ; thrown a'rf;r nr.d trampled .c, y tie ;-r'kcrs. C-.- -rimy giant w:;;p,! himself him-self in yard rfrr-r vard of p;d" blue silk, 'while his companions' snvieked maudlin I appla "sr. : others bede-k'-'d 1 hcmselves anrj a ; mummers' p;r"ade uas siart.'i. Ajjothr ! corned ia n broke a ai-k of tint:;- nyer his ! lead and stood fori ii will i e us a crhosL Tliis. too, bci-an-,f a favor; pa; time. Pni--- and yo"-'n? joined ; h- recJ rind ran An effort in ehek rle mob u n mad" 1 -v John i;. i ;rnr.ev, ".Vplrej- I ,a rh!u nY.d Th-i':vis l-'yv.n. 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