STRIKE RIOTS IN AMERICA
SENSATIONAL AFFAIR AT PITTSBURG. THE POLICE OBLIGED TO SURRENDER. SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE. ANOTHER FATAL COLLISION IN PENNSYLVANIA. ! UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I (Received July S, 1J a.m.) Washington, 7th July. A body of 300 police tried to protect the non-Unionists at Pittsburg, but the strikers opened fire on them with revolvers. The police replied with volleys from their Winchester rifles. The strikers then hastily erected a fort of steel bars, and garrisoned it with a thousand men. They also procured cannon, with which i fire was opened on tho police, who tried to land from tho river. After a brisk fight the i police were ultimately obliged to surrender, , and were then allowed to dopart. Thirty-eight men were killed, but the loss was mostly on the sido of the strikers, only ; a few policemen being included. Hundreds of strikers are still concealed, ready to shoot the police if they attempt to land again. The police came into collision with the strikers at Carnegie's homestead, in Pennsylvania. Five persons were killed and many wounded.
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Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 7, 8 July 1892, Page 2
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177STRIKE RIOTS IN AMERICA Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 7, 8 July 1892, Page 2
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