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Show STRIKERS FICHT WITH SOLDIERS One Workman Fatally Injured and Two Bystanders Hurt in Encounter En-counter at Butler, Pa. Soldiers Pelted With Bottles and Pieces of Coal, Whereupon They Ride Into Crowd, Firing Their Weapons Into the Ground. Butler, Pa. In a riot following the unexpected arrival here of a detachment detach-ment of state constabulary late Sunday Sun-day afternoon, a striking employe of the Standard Steel Car company of Lyndora was probably fatally injured and two bystanders were seriously wounded. Fifteen supposed strike leaderB were arrested. The strikers gathered around the plant, angered at the arrival of the troops. This caused the clash. The approach of the constabulary became known through strike pickets. An alarm was sounded throughout the little suburb of Lyndora, where the plant of the Standard Steel Car company com-pany is located, and within a few moments mo-ments thousands of strikers and their sympathizers lined the streets. Slowly the troopers cleared the streets, and all railways were apparently appar-ently clear as the car company's plant. Marching order was again formed, "out the troopers had not ridden twenty yards before they were pelted with bottles, slag, pieces of board and lumps of coal thrown from the tops of the houses along the narrow street. The troopers were ordered to draw and load their guns. As the column of forty men advanced the crowds again surged into the streets. Pul ting their horses to a trot, the constabulary con-stabulary rode into the crowd, firing their weapons into the ground. It was during this clash that three persons were shot The strikers used revolvers revol-vers freely, it is said. Following the clash the strikers gathered on a hill and held an impromptu im-promptu meeting. They were addressed ad-dressed by Father Becavaca of the Catholic church, who advised against violence and bloodshed. |