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Show THE PREVAILS IT CHI PLANT Four Killed and Fifty Are Wounded in Strike Riot at Hammond. HAMMOND. Ind.. cpt. P. An nrmcil truce prevailed tonight at the plant of the Standard Steel Car company, com-pany, where four strikers were killed, one was probably fatally wounded, and about fifty others were wounded in a fight between 1000 strike sympathizers and forty policemen and special guards. The fighting was the result of efforts ef-forts of strikers to prevent more than 200 men who had returned to work from entering the plant. Tht.' police and guards asserted they were fired on and assailed by strikers when an attempt was made to arrest the leaders of the strikers' forces, seven of whom were afterwards placed in jail. Similar trouble was fen red when the returned workers should leave the plant tonight, but the losses in the morn it:g apparently cooled the combatants temporarily. Only a few small groups were in evidence and no violunee was attempted. Although there was said to be no intention of recalling state troops who for several weeks recently policed the car plant, Mayor Daniel Ilrown held a long distance telephone conversation with Governor Cloodrieh at Indianapolis. Indianap-olis. The mayor said the governor commended the police for their prompt action this morning. All of the dead and many of the wounded were of foreign birth or descent de-scent and the seven men arrested are Hungarians. Augmented forces of police, guards and deputy sheriffs will guard the car plant to prevent recurrence of tie rioting. |