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Show RIOTERS ATTEMPT : TO BURN OHIO CITY REIGN OF TERROR PREVAILS IN OHIO CITY FOLLOWING STRIKE OF LABORERS. Four Men Killed, Nineteen Wounded and Fifteen City Blocks Burned With an Estimated Loss of $800,000. Youngstown, O. Four men were killed, nineteen persons, including a woman, wounded, fifteen city blocks were burned with a loss estimated at $800,000, and state troops were called out to restore order as the result of rioting in East Youngstown following a battle between a crowd of strike sympathizers and armed guards at the plant of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube company. Friday night. Two rioters were killed in a saloon fight, one was shot and killed while attempting to loot a store and an other when he smashed a window of a saloon. The trouble was the culmination of a strike of laborers which began at the plant of the Republic Iron & Steel company a week ago, and spread to the plants of the tube company, the Youngstown Iron & Steel company and the Brier Hill Steel company, all "independent" concerns. The men demand 25 cents an hour; the companies com-panies offer an increase from 19V4 to 22 cents per hour. |