Emery County Progress | 1907-09-07 | Page 2 | Girls Protect Mob's Victims

G ris protect mob s vict ms steubenville Steu benville 0 A labor day riot that bade fair to end in a tragedy had it not been or the bravery of two young women occurred here monday afternoon the victims of the crowd s rage were joseph robison who re calved a fractured skull and john hatton who ft as cut and bruised while shielding the men miss mary magee and tulla rooks received cuts and bruises on the head and body and are in a serious condition robison and hatton came here from st louis to work in a mine where a strike Is in progress As they left the telephone office they were set upon by a crowd and were being badly beaten when the two girls rushed into the thick ot the trouble and frantically pushing and shoving their way through a crowd of about fifty men reached the two victims to whom the young women were strangers the girls threw them selves on the prostrate men protected their heads and received on their own bodies the 1 icks and blows of the mob one of the men wha was wielding a piece of iron hit miss magee on the head during a lull in the assault the police reached the scene and rescued robison and hatton only one arrest was made