A Big Strike On

üniontown, Pa., April 3.- The storm has broken, and the scènes of 1S91 are being repeated throug-hout the coke region. The big coke strike, with all its attendant destruction of property, is now in full force. Monday morning the cali of the Scottdale conven tioa was obeyed by more than half the workers in the coke field and it took fully 5,000 men from work. The situation is now one of great peril throughout the coke section, and more destructive outbreaks are expected at any time. The suin and substance of the opinions of both operators and emplo3res s that there will be no ovens burning to-night in all the coke-making región. The ranks of the strikers have been so reinforced that the lowest estimates give them 10,000 men. From the outset the strike has been turbulent, with a tendency to open defiance of law. There was rioting in several quarters. It has grown steadily worse, but there were more serions outbreaks in this end of the field. Workmen vvere driven away by strikers at several of the plants, guns, clubs and stones beingthe weapons einployed. It has been reported to the labor leaders here that the movement now embraces the entire coke región and not a plant will be allowed to opérate without a struggle. The strikers openly threaten to burn the plants rather than see them operated at present prices for labor, and if they attempt this loss of life will certainly follow.