Hellraisers Journal: Rescuers on the Scene of Disaster at Harwick Mine at Cheswick, Pennsylvania; Families Plead for Help

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Quote Mother Jones, Pray for dead, ed, Ab Chp 6, 1925—————

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday January 27, 1904
Cheswick, Pennsylvania – Sorrow and Dread at Scene of Harwick Mine Disaster

From The Pittsburg Press of January 26, 1904:

Harwick Mine Disaster Cheswick PA, Ptt Prss p1, Jan 26, 1904—–
Harwick Mine Disaster Cheswick PA, Ptt Prss p2, Jan 26, 1904

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Hellraisers Journal: Reward Offered for Slayer of Fannie Sellins, UMW Organizer Who Lost Her Life in Freedom’s Cause

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Quote M. Robbins, for Fannie Sellins, Wkrs Wld p4, Nov 28, 1919———-

Hellraisers Journal – Monday July 26, 1920
Reward of $5,000 Offered for Apprehension of Slayer of Fannie Sellins

From The Pittsburgh Post of July 23, 1920:

Slayer of Woman In Riot Sought
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Reward Offered For Apprehension
of Guilty Person.
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Fannie Sellins in Jail, Hgtn WV Lbr Str p1, May 22, 1914
Fannie Sellins in Marion County Jail at Fairmont, W. V.
-from the Huntington Labor Star of May 29, 1914
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A reward of $5,000, thought to be offered either by the United Mine Workers of America, or by Fred Broad of New Kensington, a son-in-law of the slain woman, will be paid for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the slayers of Fannie Sellins, labor organizer, who was killed in a mine strike riot near Brackenridge almost a year ago. The reward has been advertised in the local papers.

The circumstances surrounding the death of the woman leader was a subject for discussion at recent labor meetings in Montreal, and it is said that the campaign for a solution will be continued this summer.

Mrs. Sellins was shot down the night of August 26, 1919, during a riot between guards and strikers near the pit mouth of the Allegheny Coal and Coke Company at Brackenridge. The guards were arrested after the riot but they were released because of insufficient evidence. Since then there have been no new developments or arrests in the case.

[Note: there was no riot. Company gunthugs attacked picketers who were peacefully assembled, as was their right.]

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[Photograph and emphasis added.]

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