STRIKE RIOTS.
TKOUBLE IX yOUXGSTOWN. MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED. (By Cab]®.—Press Association.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, January 10. Serious strike rioting occurred at Youngstown, Ohio, resulting in one person being killed and forty injured. One hundred of tho rioters were arrested . The business section of the town was destroyed by fire, the damage amounting to £200,000. The trouble commenced in an attempt to rcduco the wages of the tubing mill employees by twenty-five cents daily. Tho strikers took possession of the streets and looted and then fired a "saloon. The cirink-maddenfed men attacked other saloons, and subsequently the large general -stores on the main street. Of twenty saloons in the town only two were not burned down, and they were looted. A mixed crowd jeered at some workmen who were crossing tho bridge. A wild • shot was fired, which the Guards answered by firing over the heads of the crowd, numbers of which replied, and exchanges followed. An urgent call that citizens were being maltreated and that there was indiscriminate shooting in the streets, brought several companies of the militia by train to the spot. Brigadier-General Sparks proclaimed martial law, and order is being gradually restored.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15485, 12 January 1916, Page 4
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