Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 1

fi A prr fT'l 771 r.3 i 1 Ji.iL iLli Established July 29, 1786 5 9 The 4 eat her Fair Starl-lhc VotinHrfor- Your Favorite IkiU -Taiti TWO CENTS A COPY. MONDAYc: HORNING, AUGUST, 1909. PITTSBURGH, Sis if "itfa f- I GRADE CROSSING, WHERE LOCOMOTIVE CRASHED INTO TRACTION CAR UPlClOf FO til fiiuQliU tiSLlJ BKS la i-?" i nv Exley Reply To Pi flPC 0 v--a mm i1 i li uLi 1 1 IPi IE a I 4 ir uuullli-ij: fillfillf 1IK Battle Seconds Fight, Which More Casualties, Follows Soon, After. Hospitals, Physicians Offices and Drug Stores Are Filled- With Wounded. SHERIFF WILL HAVE MORE DEPUTIES ON HAND TODAY At least five men vrere killed and a dozen iroundedV some of tUtm- perv haps fatally, in a pitched battle fought last uight in the vicinity at tiie plant of the Pressed Steel Car Company at McKees Rocks.

Striliers, state con-: stabulary and deputy sheriffs took part tn the struggle. The scene' of 'conflict centered about O'Donoyan's bridge, -which. -stretches across the Pittsburgh Lake Erie railroad yards frOi Island ae- Victims of Riots Jnue, McKees Rocks, to ths intersection of Nichol, Graham and George i jta P. R. R.

Improvement Pro-! gram, With Greeusburg to Cost $1,000,000. TO REMOVE TUNNEL Grades Wii! Be Eliminated and Trackage increased on Lines West of Pittsburgh. MAY MEAN NEW RAIL ORDER Official announcement vas. made last I t. A 4 1- n.gi.L uy me i ennsyivania lunroai Lom- ttat'it -was prejjarir.g to spend in the grades and a3d- ins to-the trackage en the lines 'of Ptltsbiirgh and Krle, and also that it "svould aj-k for tolds today for iraprove-iTienU to ho made at Gresasburg- at a approximating $1,000,030.

Details of tho P'ana for the other irn-jrove meats have iiot yet teen worked out, but it "hi understood that they nre to be of a general character. ThH also may 'mean "-an additional order for rails. I 'Ihe Greeusburg contract Is the third larjse one to be givea this year by the rr.i&ylvar;i&. i ito aau-iiouai rracts are 10 oe run through Grceosburg. a tunnel win be removed and the grade of 1 per cent will be cat down a half.

The tunnel In luestion is MilSor Main street, Greens, Lurg-. ana Is 27 feet lonr. JMg A-ch- to lie Oonstrucled. The grade crossing at liar j-Ijoti avenue will be eiitninated and the 3b-fcot arch bridge at Arh gtret will ii replaced ty )-foot arch, under viAOx the street vlll ran. This new tav Traces u.

tiii p-jsuf 1 ar feet. the this arch v.i'l be very expensive one to construct. Reinforced cncret will be buUt a Maple street, STaln street and avenue, and the cut between Main street and Pennsylvania will he to accommodate four tracks. At Harrison avenue the -com- Ctrntbinfd on Second Fase. NEWS' -SUMMARY- loiimos.

Mexican fareirn minister, in dispatch to ambayjador at Washington, said there wis no fsar of uprising- in that country. I 'age 3. DOMESTIC. Tropins sent by former President 'Itoosevtlt will be installed- in the hew bunding; oi the national rr.usam.Page S. Vresioent Taft spent "a busy Sunday discussing various aftalrs of state with' cabinet oaicera.

Page- S. STATE. Patriotic Order the Sons of America will bold tiate convention in V'a3hlrtori this -week. Ten thousand are rxpeoteJ. Page 6.

PutJer ruth who eloped with girl her father forbade to marry was arrested, thivKed with passing- several forged checks. Pa t-e 6. LOCAL. Ir.Oia. htm Vfliivl fl till score were wouadvd In two fierce bat ilea between MvKees Rwk i-oter' and constabulary troopers and deputies at the junction of McKeea Kocks and Srtowe township, last night.

Over ImK) ehot were HreJ. Victims were kiiicd in srrtet cutf.it 'by the riotous mob lik rats a trap. Stats troopers restored order after the second battle and malr.ed or. guard all night. Hospitals.

officer, and crug stores filled with wounded. Page 1. J. Corey, venerable citizen of Brad-d-jck, conducted ac old-fashioned Methodist meeting that was most impressive. Pag-e s.

Conductor cf car on which. Deputy Ksley was kiHed srav a remarkable" description of the battle. Pasre 1. Crayon artists who ar tail to fcava worked Eaast End folks also are reported to bave conducted. themselves improperly Ja Phtiadelphla.

Page 5. Kijr property owners signed petition ob-JectinR to the selection of the Pee body site for oity psphalt ite, vrhiie Super-fntmdnt O'Toole thinks it in tha best io'aiion thar can be found. Page 2, A slow movir-- freight, on tlie Pitt-1 Lake Krie rwirRarl EIGHT LIOHS iiy HAlLSDAlJ P0ITR1PTQ TEN CENTS A WEEK. --tid Sf- ckets Brings First Causes to clear trie traces cfencss. neiore-- then moved forward about 20 feet man who had sccot body into the car.

and ocxied'id in Iw.lng; moved about 10 No. -'4 cf the Pressed Steel Car THE DEAD. -r DEPUTY SHERIFF HARRY EXLEY, aged 55, 137 -'Moultrie street, shot and beaten to death in a street car. Bojiy at morrjue. TROOPER JOHN L.

wi LU AM S. aged 23 Gresnsburg, riddled with bullets "on Donovan's Body "at Clever's undertaking rooms, Chartiers GEORGE MILLHARDER, aged 20, a PoU of Lewicke street, McKees Rocks; died' at 12:3 Ohio Valiey hospital; body at A. "Haser's undertaking rooms, 414 Chartlert McKees twice thrcugh: body." ADAM "29, 13 1 Orchard street, shot four tfmest died at m- in hospital. "J' v- unHnswn. to be new workmen in rlddlsd with bullets cstreet car.yat fact cf DoriayanV bridge, (.

wounded In fight in car; shot In l2i irt Mercy hospital. TROOPER UUCIEN JONES, beaten "and thoV -cn lpsnovan's bridge. TROOPER VVILUIAM O'DONNEL, Connecticut, shot. in side near heart, taken to Ohio Valley hospital. Cannot live.

'TROOPER GEORGE M. KITCH. CclumSila, scsip wounds; in Mercy hospital. TYSOWSKI, agsd 30, 46 Orcnari Schcenviile, shot through fcrtsst by GEORGE JERN3JKA, aged 24, het through back. FRANK-NAMET, Hungarian, shot; in.

shoulder and chest. JOHN SUTER, thct In temple, was unable to give his name. ADOLPH 319 Munson street, shot ir cfrsst. SAMUEL George street, Schoenville, shot in back. MlCfiAEt.

BELICHiyaiS Heien street; shot in the head. Unknown boy, aged 12, shct through the, arm. Unknown neck grazed by bullet; injuries' dressed at drug 315' Helen i- Eight unknown rners, slightly Injured; attended at drug store. Unknown Italian, shot in' breast; unconsclcus at Ohio "Valiey Jics-pital; -under arrest by troopers. at McKees Rocks Bleriot Aeroplanes Coming to America Duplicates of "Machine That flew Across Channel to 5e Seen.

fSrKciu. TKisusAX to QxzsTve Ximks. Aug. -Two Bleriot.fiy-ing machines, -duplicatis of the famous Bleriot which fit a- across the Erig-1'ah chsnneland the large.Bleriot will- be-: seen'- in" America next month. telagrange.

-shor vied, with Fsrman for European, aviation" honors ever a year Ago. before "Wilbur ranee, is iitteiy io come over Witn tnem over With them pilot. j. sauinier, who cam3 to- Ke Xork a Ehort time ago es Bleriot' tid today he bad just received aj istter-trora. bis trotner Baymond C.

Sauinler, stating-tb at arrangements were being made to -ship two of, the Bleriot to the United States for exhi-b on as ebon as possible after the raceg at Rheims. WELL KKBWK FfilEST CEAQ FattiY'-Tii02ia5 J. Btieey, Friend of i Actors, Passes-' jorw' YOPJ, Aug. Father Thomas J. Ducey, rector ef St.

Leo's Roman Catbol'C church nnd one of the best-kuown. priests in the country, died today at James, Long Island, dropsy. -'Aai-'-Das-lor of LeQ's, in the tbe hotel and on the edee of Tei.der ioin, he numbejrd-'-sraong his frierds hundreds -of actors and- r.acy well-known annua! visitors New -Yorij. 'lfs was born la but America, iather -Ducey vj3 year eld. SCENE AT CORAOPOLIS Troll LLngine, Oi tied neiu Coraopolis Car Turned Over By Light Freight on P.

L. Bcad. v'r'V 4 IvIAKY FBOM DEATH One passenger dead, one seriously Injured and a half store slightly hurt is the result of a wreck-ou the Pittsburgh street railways line yesterday, a Coraopolis car a light freight train on the Pittsburgh Lake, Erie read came together. 5 esterday afternoon about o'clock at' a 'grade cross tag at" th Ne vllle island side of the Fleming park bridge. "T.1!bur Casber, aged 32,: of 617 street.

Coraopolis, was under th car and died la an ambulance 'on. his way to the Ohio Valley hospital just 30 miuutes after. the Mrs. David Wood of Yotingstown was the only ether passenger to be seriously injured. She Is now In the Ohio Valley hospital suffering- bruises and shock, but will recover.

The accident occurred about. 200 feet from the end c. the A light Ehifting pushing 3ix empty- coke lacks, struck the city bound car, pushed ii over on its side and then "came-to' a' stop. Caesber was standing-oiv the back platform when the crash caroe. He was caught between th rear ttepa and the ground and crushed.

Posse ejers -i a Heap, When the car went over tho 20" pas-, stngers were thrown in a heap on the jfloor but r.o one-was Eerlously except Mrs. "Wood. JSix windows on the tight side of the car v. as brokei, but so gently did the car go over on its side that it was uot even scarred where It was struck by the nrst coke rack. In going over the car left' the trucks and settled easily on' its Two minutes after "the the passengers wera out cf the car, few the worse for their experience.

Mrs. Wood was hurried to the hospital. The big double truck ear was in charge of Conductor J. Connelly, giajrers row, West Carson'-etreet. while Patrick Mussman of" Island avenue extension, McKees Rocks, was the mctormaa.

At 4:3) o'clock, three hours end a half after the wreck, the car; was righted and was brought to Pittsburgh for repairs. Train Crete's Storu. The train which struck the eariwas in charge of Conductor. Peter Burns of School' Coraopolis. J.

P. 0'Ion-ineil of Fleming park was the engineer. and the balance of thft train crew en- that the crgmeer whistled for the cross- ing, the train was lu full view of yie (crew of the car at all tim? and that no effort was made to stop before taking the crcs-iing- in front-of the The exact cause of tha accident has not been iearneu, Mrs. Caesber; antt her infant child were on the car with her husband, tha only victim of ths wrtck, and while Caesber'a body wa'e beinj extricated under the car. and.

'waiting- for- an-, ambulance the young- rJraost SThe was tskea to br borne by ana the dead' Lu-ly of husband v.asi turne-1 over to a McKees itocks 'undertaker. I V-r Hit streets, Kcncenviiie. There were two distinct battles. The. first was fought at 9 o'clock scl resulted in the death of.

Deputy Sheriff Karry Exley and the wcuadln ot several The second fight occurred calf an hour later four were killed and dozen or more persons -wounded. A large crowd of strikers bad congregated at the Schoenrill end or the bridge early in the erenicg. Every passing street car was' held: up ami several suspected rriea were -dragged out and -compelled to return to the City. Wlien the 9 o'clock car reached this point, it contained two passengers, an unknown -woman and Deputy Sheriff Exley. Several pickets asked.

where be was going and commanded him to lea-c tb.e car. "Get out of here," he replied, "or I'll pepper you full of ballets.7' Draws IT is Bevolver and ITires Five Tint es. Without further warning 'he drew a revolver and fired Ave hots into thc- With the ferst shot, bricka began to thmUsh'tiiQ indovs, a tjer'Ot SblcS -'Btructtff'Exley-' tbedbead." Pla fell to the floor of tao car ncd strikers, going to the dc-or, emptied their revolver iato his irostrat3 body- A nurried eiatainatlon showed that he was -in a dying ccnaition, at a signal from one of the strikers, the mob rushed down George street yelling as they ran. In less than half a ninute the street was deserted. Tbe men in charge of the car stuck to their posts, and when the fight was over they turned their car and recrossod the bridge, taking the dying man with hem to'the office of Dr.

C. McKinccn of Island avecue" McKees Rocks. "Exley expired within a minute after being taken into the physician's office. His head showed the marks of a score cf bricks, some of whicli formed ugly black bruises, and others cut deep gashed into his skull. A number of bullet boles were found iu his chest and abdomen.

His identity was established by his bat The body was taken to the county morgue. It was only a few. minutes later that the xaoD returned to -the 'scene of tlie fight. Lying on. the ground beside the spot where the car stood found a bundle belonging to the dead deputy.

It contained a broken mirror, a suit of underwear and several other articles of wearing apparei. Exley was seen at CLartiers and Island avenues about two boura before? he lost his life. When he was shot be was on his way to the Pressed Car Company's plant, where be had been doing duty -as a deputy sheriff; for tb.e past five weeks. "the second ficht, which occurred whea the 9:30 car arrived at the scni id-place was the bloodiest of the two. Fully 1,000 persons were on the tcene.

when the car swung on to the bridge. All of them eagerly scanned the passengers it contained. Gf the six persons ia the car three wero'" sn'spc-cted of being new men. They wre commanded to give an account ot "tfcnis4lve. but before they answered, some one hurled -a stone throng's, the car A Bricks Furnish -Ammunition for Riott'j s.

At this the three men pulled their revolvers and hega firing iptn tha mob. In a inoinent the battle was on in earnest, both side3 "firing vullcs at each other. A carload of bricks, standing cn a side track, scarcely 20 feet from the street car, furnished the ammunition for a large, number the rioters, and in a moment every window in the car was broken and thi ee unfortunate occupants were lying on the floor bleeding and almostcoyered with bricks. ins 7 CuXlQU 9 esawei Car Conductor Says Other Deputies Wera Near, but mmMMM: TOlf ONT EOL Frederick Hauch, conductor the street car In which Deputy Sheriif Harry Exley W3 killed, during the outbreak in McKees Rocks last cig.bt, gave a graphic description of the sht. The eonductor had ordered all the passengers to alight, when the strikers pressed bat Ex-ley remained, fighting until he waa finally dragged out The fight of the the.

conductor says, ready b--gan at his ear. Conductor ilauch's story foiioR-s: "I couldn't tell who fired the first shot, tut the battle began at "car. The motorman, Louis Kaxtlick, narrowiy escaped death, as he stuok to his post. We were running- Island avenue car No. 3040.

At the Pcnovan bridge at o'clock several men boar ded the car and apparentlyrecognized a man the front corner. He was Uxley. They jeered him, and. others outside oar called him names and 'as the car went slowly over the bridge a crowd followed, continuing the abuse. "The shooting began at Geores street and Nichot avenue.

I stopped the car and told everyone to slight, for I scented trouble. The crowd was becoming more threatening every helped the women off, safely, and only Exley remained. Kxlep Declares Himself. "The crnwd closed in sides of the car. Some one scornfully called IZx-ley a deputy sheriff.

lie stood, up, turned back his coat; displaying his badge, and said: "Tes, I'm a deputy sheriff, all right:" "The whole crowd yelled back, jeering, and closed tn on the car. I 'beard a. shot. Then I saw Exley point. rg his revolver out, the wir-dow and firing, as fast as he could.

Ke was aiming directly into the 'crowd. He turned, firing a. volley cut of the other' side of the carj then fired out the in." the rear. I leaped off and A moment, later Contraued a Scocd Pare. Sunday Closing laws Again Ignored and Crovv-ds Are Happy.

-ATLANTIC CITY, N. Aug. day cloiiag law? were again Igp.ore-J by the saloonkeepers end other resorts here today propnefors of Another record- breaking crowd kept the ebaii game ar inlet park bartenders and all The baa waa played si usual under protection aud there was no iuterfert-r cs with other antuseiuents." mo chases mm Altoona. -Doctor Heseues Wcinan ia Danger cf Seriods Injury. AL.TOOXA Aug.

22. (Special.) A trolley car this evening struck, J. J. wife of aa AUoona merchant, and Miss Slviua Hudson, raid the horse tore oT at breaknecx who -waa driving, fell, hanging from side c.i the buggy-i Dr. J.

B. FinT.c-y, ho was pOiSlfi? at the time, la bis av.t.y, his ccr; and av tureu-f'r to the Etrest acd iul Qj rrr-tvi had; fahta Tb infuriated mob rushed into the car, and ia tbeir frenzy toro mrs5 of the clothing from two cf their victims, who were killed outright in lha. heat of the battle. One cf them, though mortally wounded, staggered to the front end of the car and dropped to the ground, where his body vasf riddied with V'; The mob, forcing its way into the car, also emptied its revolvers into tb prostrate bodies of their victims. A men were howling and ing, and in tbeir frenzy hundreds of revolver cbct3 vere red into the air.

Showers cf broken glass covered the street and fully a dozeia bashtls of bricks were scattered about inside the car. Two cf the dead men were" lying on the fioor just Inside of the rear vestibule ior. The Teranantc of their clothing left cn one of the bodies was set on fire by an explod'rg beld so close that the cottcn shirt ignited. Fcr a moment the rioters boldly held ground, when 'suddenly wita orjor accord they turned and ran down George street, as in the first 'fight. For several minutes not a soui eared the car.

The -crew left their rS'B during the heat of the tattle and sought shelter, behind a carload c-t bricks near Harriman is Having Rough Voyage Home Sticks to Rooms on Steamship. All Food Prepared Under Doctor's Orders." Bx Associates Pusss to Gatstts Timjcs 1 ON BOARD STEALS ill KAISEK WIL.KELM .11,. Aug. .22. (via wireless via Cap Pace.

EL Harriraaa: has remained ia Ida- suite of rooms ever since iic embcrlied at-Cherbourg on Augtst IS, homeward bound, after treatment at.Bd Ilia laet wish1 as he leftl France "Mv is that 'the voyage back will be as good as that over" has not been realized. The weather has been so rough acd Oisigree- abla that a stronger man well inigbt prefer to remairi indoors. Keverthelesa, Harriman shows need of the "after, cure," which if. is' understood be will take at- Ardeo, his country place, as soon be. iands.

liis move-metits. though enfeet-ied, are tnose of fatis'ue. lis Is pale, and has lbs appearance of, having" recently weight. AH food served to him ia his suite is carefully prepare in advance untlTr or--ders 'from bis Dr. Ljie.

lOiSHLOOi SO POLICE Dry Kiles Dispenses With Hcst "cf Force Because cf Deficit. KILES, Aug. a population of V)xty K.iles.'Is withont any i policemen save th chief In -the day and one patrolman at Recently funds, of the board of public safety, be came-exhausted' and a b.nd issae was voted defeated-; by a Vote of 3 to the council all wiih ev ccpioa of the chief a.vi en nljht pa- ti.oii.7i-;. i i when they returned it was -neeesgary tbe car could be moved. cai 1 1 tte Tbere the tody of- the the was Jying.

They lifted the yards -down. Nichol avenue to gate- was dead isisu turned over loaded Coraopolis ucliaei K.euy isisnc avenae, car. One person wsa kihed and one McK K6ck; N. Withrow, Neville cusly hurt. I'age' 1.

I.dai.d. and James Croxton, Fleming park, PennsylvauiA railroad announcM Engineer O'DonnelL said for imp'-ovements that will cost jhat thft train not proing er three including important changes an hmir when the coition oc-Ore'-nsuurg. Page 1. icurred, ar.d If the crossing had been five Ze. payers wno advocate the improve- raent of Sooth Eighteenth street exten- eet the traln could hav- been call on Mayor Magce to present stopped.

The. men efthe train crew say Here the dead bodies were left lying In the car, and the coroner was noUSec. Troopers Arrive and Sea it er 3Iob. Up to this time the mob worked without interference by officers of any kind. But after the second battle, word was sect to Ueul.

WilUaia Smithl of Troop A. ot the state constabulary. In. a few minutes 20 troopers cexie. 'dashing down Niehol avenue oa a gallop.

The main body the eoo -i scattered. Arriving at the scene cf the conflict the trooper 3 divided' into cf four and dashed into every ftreet in the' vicinity, p-in their c'-Ls and commardlng even'hody to-dar eff the streets. Somo wera t'cnv to obey command had tie -clubbed ever the heaj and fore they obeyed. In the retreat of the second battle the. rioters carried Jit a n-rr-cr of their comrades.

Four were left lying on the grend as "j.d au'l were removed later to the office of Dr. RuS- Hanover, iu the Vtcr bank buildinz. Word ss at ence 6r.t to ee Ohio -Tailey -hri'ital for every a arguments in 2. cf tl'e project. Members of Pittsburgh fcasebd! club ppend Sunday at Atlantic City.

Pag T. Vcys in Gazetts Times world's series contest want Barbeau taken care of. Pagi i Former Pirate may become part owner fend manager of Washington American lensu.i club. Page FIXAXCI.it. i Ufe-os demand maiTe for pig Iron for.

ilivtrv jf the yea.i-. is week -hi the rsew rk rxehange avtriffi v. cH above share; irUinediu-".