America.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 30, 11 January 1916, Page 5

America.

SERIOUS STRIKE RIOT. ONE KILLED : FORTY INJURED. HUNDRED RIOTERS GAOLED. DAMAGE BY FIRE £200,000. MARTIAL LAW IN FORCE. [United Press Association,J (Received 8.15 a.m.) New York, January 10. A serious strike led to rioting at Youngstown, Ohio, resulting in one person being killed and forty injured. One hundred rioters were - put in gaol. The business section of the town was destroyed by tire, causing damage to the extent of £200,000.

The trouble commenced with an attempt to reduce the wages of the tubing mill employees by twenty-five cents daily. The strikers took possession of the streets,' looted arid then fired a saloon, and driijk-maddened, attacked the other siylbou, and subsequently the large general stores ■ in the main street. Of twenty saloons in the town only two wore not burned, and they were looted..

A mixed crowd jeered the workmen crossing a bridge, and a wild shot was rived, which the guards answered by firing over the heads of the crowd, which replied, and exchanges of shuts followed.

An urgent call that the citizens were being maltreated and that there was indiscriminate shooting In the streets, brought several companies of militia by train under Brigadier-General Sparks, who proclamed martial law. Order is being gradually restored.

POWDER WORKS BLOWN UP.

EIGHT DEAD : : MANY MISSING.

TWO PRO-GERMANS ARRESTED.

(Received 9 a.m.) New York, January 10. The Dupont powder works at Carney were blown up. Eight persons are known to be dead, and many are missing. A steamer alongside the docks was blown partly out of the water. Two arrests of pro-Germans, who arc suspected, have been made.