moun-ta to SHOTS Ml WSBLES F1HEI flT HABCHEBfr Citizens and Police Block Streets After Order Banning Parade Is Defied-And Many Street Fights Follow. THOUSANDS TAKE PART IN RIOTING IN STREET Resisting the efforts of Carnegie citizens and police to halt them and prevent a parade late last night, Ku Klux Klan members broke through a cordon of 1,000 persons and automobiles jammed to stop them and a few minutes later one man had been-shot and killed, another shot and probably fatally injured, two others seriously hurt and a score of others injured by bricks and other missiles. The riot occurred in Main and Third streets, and followed the demands of several citizens to the klan members to lower: the American flags which they carried at the head of the parade. The dead man, attired in robes of the klan, was picked up from the street by other klansmen during the struggle and taken to the office of Dr. F. B. Jones, nearby. He had been shot in the head. The injured were hurried away from the scene by friends and taken out of the borough in auto-- raobiles and ambulances, summoned a few minutes after the first shot had been fired. Half an hour after the k'ansmen had been halted at the bridge, and during which 'time they stood their ground without offering forced resistance, a united effort was made by the men on foot who were leading the column to break through the cordon of citizens and officers. Citizens Scattered. It came suddenly and without warn- Taken unawares for a moment the citizens were scattered in al, di- jections. and the klansrr.en swept for- ward singing "Onward Christian Sol-diers." Other citizens who had crowded the street, but had taken no part in the demonstration, rushed forward then and bricks and stones began to fly through the crowd toward the marchers. Several minutes later shots were f.red and the borough police, deputy 5heriffs and other officers, unable to rontrol the situation, appealed for i in from nearby boroughs. With the first cries of "take down that flag," addressed to a klansman leading the column, resistance of the officers and citizens became stronger and the cries rallied many to offer their aid in checking the onward movement of the klansmen. Several minutes, after the first disorder had subsided, one man was picked up dead from the street and three others, shot and wounded fcy flying missiles, were carried away to ambulances and started out of the borough to hospitals. The first demonstration occurred in Main and Third streets. The column had been stopped by about 1.000 citizens who blocked the street with automobiles and for half an hour the klansmen ignored the cries directed at them to lower the flag. Despite police orders prohibiting ihe parade. Instructions were issued 10:30 o'clock by officers of the klansmen to start the parade as soon as initiation exercises would-be cora-I'leted. The police orders went out to the Ulan members In charge of the initia- tion following the arrest or in the borough early in th. night. These men. police say, were self-appointed tratnc oincers uku tioned themselves, with revonem holsters strapped about their bodies, at the main arteries leading into the borough to direct members of the klan. who were arriving from Ohio nnd other places for the exercises, toward the farm Word came back to the police, it is that the narade would be held with the nrrival of a high olhcial anu (J members of his stiff from the na-ilonal headquarters of the klan in At-'mita, Oa. A special train ctf oaches. carrying these officials and nany otlwr klansmen arrived in tne orough at o'clock and the men were taken to the scene of the initia-'on in automobiles. The initiation had started before they arrived, but they participated in it. Streets Are Crowded. An officer of the Carnegie klan of the order, said late night that the members in the boroush were not taking yart in the initiation und that they ATOM would remain in the town to assist in he parade. He refused to teli Jjis name. A force' of deputy sheriffs and several county detectives, assisted by the borough police and constables, patroled the streets, but found everything early in the night Members of the klan began arriving in Carnegie early yesterday afternoon, coming in from all roads, entering tha borough in special trains, street cars and automobiles. One train carried a large delegation from Steubenville. Autos Are Halted. The first men to reach the town took up their places at the intersections of main traffic centers, and with revolvers in full view," It is said, began to direct traffic, ignoring all autoists who did not have a flag bearing a white cross on the radiator of their machines, but r.ot interfering with them in their progress. Autos carrying the insignia of the klansmen were ha ted for a moment by the men and directed toward the farm where the Initiation exercises were to be hela. Late last night It was estimated that about 30.000 were in attendance and several thousand were being initiated. The klansmen were without masks, but each had a narrow white ribbon tied in the lapel of his coat. Women Members Meet. An armed guard of klansmen. stationed at resrular distances around.the farm, prevented unauthorized perrons from entering the restricted arca.JThe' autos were parked in a large field nearby and the members walked from them to the initiation ground, on which hjore than a doezn larse crosses, electrically; lighted had been erected. Four bonds provided before and during'the exercises. They were still in progress last night when the order was issued, for the parade, and it was said thnt arrangements would be made to the parade immediately after the on-chi'on of the "'-rises. Pr.Cortding the initiat'on the woman's auxiliary of th order hld a meeting in Carneg'e and marched to the farm where, for a time, the members were interested spectators. More thin women are estimated to have been iu the field at one time. The eight men arrested were charged with carrying concealed weapons and impersonating an officer and were taken to the Carnegie police station. They said they were, W. H. Crawford. Zephyr street: H. J. Flacic. White street; David Cable. Schade street; W. F. Miller. Joseph Williams, Joseph Fitzroy, C. E. Wolf and John Fitzrou. ail of Pittsburgh. Attorney Charges Gulf Refining Attempted To Control Gas Price AT'PTTX. ur. 23. Cbsirges of of the Txas anti trut laws were fled by Attorney Cno-al v.V A. Kpe'inff the H'l'f ReOn'ng Com-, pany of Houston in district lirrt; today. The petition ch.irce? that the compTv entered a conspiracy with some Sirt filling stat'on. and companies to control gasoline prices, and sks that the charter of the company be forfeited" and that it be subjected to penalties set out in the anti-trust laws. WHAN KPLED BY TPA1H Crossing the tracks of the Baltimore Ohio railroad at Tenth street. J3rad dock, last night. Mrs. Mary Diegan. (3 years old. of 1109 Washington street. Eracldock. was struck by a westbouni passenger train and killed almost ibp fctantiy.
