SAVAGE STRIKE RIOTS
SHOOTING IN THE STREETS LIQUOR SALOONS WRECKED By Telegraph—Presh Association—Oopyrtjln New York, January 10. A serious strike, with rioting, occurred at Youngstown, Ohio, resulting in one man. being killed and forty injured. A hundred rioters were lodged in aaol. The business section of the town was destroyed by a fire which caused damage estimated at £200,000. • The trouble commenced in an attempt to reduce wages of tubing mill employees by 25 cents a day. The strikers took possession of tho streets, and Icoted and then fired a saloon. Maddened by drink tlioy then attacked other saloons and subsequently the large-general stores in the main street. Of twenty saloons in tho town, only two were unburned, and they were looted. A mixed crowd jeered at some workmen crossing the bridge. A wild shot was fired, and the guards answered it by firing over the heads of the crowd, which replied, and exchanges of shots followed. An urgent call that citizens were being maltreated and that indiscriminate shooting was going on in the streets brought several companies of Militia by train. Brigadier-General Sparks proclaimed martial law. Order is being gradually restored.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2667, 12 January 1916, Page 6
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192SAVAGE STRIKE RIOTS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2667, 12 January 1916, Page 6
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