Outrages During the Pennsylvania Coal Strike
According to a statement sent to the governor of Pennsylvania and the president of the United States by non-union miners in the Pennsylvania coal region, a “partial list” of outrages perpetrated, presumably by the miners, during the late strike, comprises the following: people killed, 14; severely injured, 42; shot from ambush, 16; aggravated assaults, 67; attempts to lynch, 1; houses dynamited, 12; houses burned, 3; buildings burned, 10; washeries burned, 3; stockades burned, 2; riots, 69; works dynamited, 6; trains dynamited, 1; railroad bridges dynamited, 4; railroads seized, 5; trains wrecked, 6; attempted wrecks, 9; trains attacked, 7; strikes in schools, 14.