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Show AN . AWFUL WAR The Mob Led by a Wife and Mother. MANY BADLY INJURED And Some Will Die-Never Did Women so TJnsex Themselves In all the World's History More Trouble U i Feared from the Strikers In Fact it is Promised. Scottdale, Pa., May 4. The north end of the Connellsville coke region is in a fever of fear and excitement tonight. The terrible work' at the Painter plant of the McClure company, bad as it was in itself, is feared as still more foreshadowing ihe beginning of times and conditions tuat are inevitable unless this strike is epaedily settled. The battle today was between striking strik-ing Poles, a small number of dequties and a comparatively few men at work at the Painter plant. Deputy Sheriff SanforJ- White and Chief Clerk Ewing 11. Rjddy were terribly beaten and are in a critical condition tonight. Five men and two women on the 6triker8' side were shot and two of the men are dangerously wounded. Six of the rioters have been arrested and are now in the Uniontown jail. The Painter plant was closed down by the strikers on thettu inst, and was idle until Wednesday ltft. Early this morninz, Joe Sconesky's wife went about to the other houses and got the women of the striking Foles to join her in a raid on the plant. About ti o'clock, she had 15J men, women and children in tne ranks ready for the raid. The men remained in the rear and the women and children, led by Mrs. Kconesky, made a rush for the coke yard. This region has seen many savage affairs in which women uusexed themselves them-selves by deeds of violence, but the old timers say that never before has there been seen such a spectacle as this, j Eveiy person in the assaulting party i had some sort of striking weapon, even the children, screaming as they flour-; flour-; ished sticks suited to tneir size. Many of the women bore axes and some of the men of the mob carried ball bats and hatchets. Deputy White was the first on whom a blow fell. Mrs. Sconesky had a club and her husband wielded an axe. Roddy and a clerk name James Tarr saw him fall. In the face of the fearful odds these two men sprang to his rescue and fought their way to his side. Then the irantic radiers fell upon Tarr and Koddv, as White struggled to his feet, covered with blood. The three men fought desperately, desper-ately, but the odds were too great and finally all were down apain, under the itet of the mob. Roddy was beaten and cut about the head almost as badly as White. It is believed that at least fifty were shot. ..... Tonight White is in the miners' hospital hos-pital at Uonellsville. The latest reports re-ports are that he will die. RodJy was brought to his home here. He is vomiting vom-iting blood and is very badly injured. Two of the Poles shot in the melee are pronounced to be m a ery dangerous condition and are likely to die. Sixty-three rioters, among them twelve women and ten children, have been taken to jail and warrants for Cftv others have been sworn out, but the men cannot now be found. To ' night the Painter plant is in charge of j a large aumber of deputies, and the company is determined to operate it Moee Tkocble Imminent. Counellsville, Pa., May 4. At no time since the strike was inaugurated has violence been so imminent as now The wholesale evictions to be madt and the resumption of the companies are sure to incite violence. The companies com-panies sav they will btart unless the itainey work- are closed down tomor row. Raineyis eecurinz all the large contracts at handBome figures and the other companies will not stand idly by and see themselves ruled out of the market. Two of the leading companies com-panies announce they will start up all their works, if in doing so they have to deputize haif '.heir men and ask for more protection from the state troops. A number of deputies were sent to the Calumet works today There is every indication of trouble there, and at Monmouth. Miners from --Latrobe and otner places gathered there and are camped on the hillside. During the day they paraded to and fro past the works at Monmouth. The red 'flag was prominently dis played and incendiary threats were uttered. ut-tered. Onr Grandmothers' Way Was to eteep roots and herbs and ue it every night. We can do the same by using Paries' Tea. Nothing acts as promptly and without discomfort. Not j a pill or a cathartic but moves the bowels every dav. Sold bv Smoot Drug Co. " |