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TWO MEN KILLED IN ALIEN RIOT IN MINING TOWN Two Women Favorable To Organization Attacked by Foreigners FIGHT IN SELF DEFENSE Twenty-Four Men Under Arrest on Charge of Riot, Gun Carrying and Murder By S. THOMAS ZENER, Jr. to lit(Special LILLY, Telegram PA., April The 7.-This Flery Cross) tle mining town today assumed a belligerent, anti-Protestant attitude after a restless Sunday following the attack upon Cambria county Klansmen Saturday night after they had burned a cross on an overlooking hillside. Strangers within these borders are regarded with utter suspicion, and the religion of anyone seeking information is closely questioned. The situation has assumed a religious status entirely. At Johnstown, 20 miles west, 24 alleged Klansmen are held without bail in the county jail. Charges of carrying concealed weapons, riot and murder were charged against them before Alderman Levergood Monday. Three Klansmen, Worthy Davis, Johnstown; Sarrah Johnson, Revlock, and Samuel Evans, Southfork, are in the Memorial hospital there, suffering from wounds received in the melee Saturday night. None of them is seriously injured. Took Special Train Cambria county Klansmen boarded a special train at Johnstown Saturday night and came to Lilly. Upon arrival the Klan members marched to a field near the town and burned a fiery cross. While the ceremony was in progress, two men attempted to enter the field, around which a cordon of robed Klansmen had been stationed. They were frustrated in their attempt. There was no initiation service at the field. In an orderly fashion, the Klansmen marched back to the special train, which was waiting for them on a siding. During the march two women, Anna M. Hanna and Esther Hanna, said to be Klanswomen, cheered the men. They were attacked by a mob of ruffians who had gatherd along the line of march. Esther suffered a broken leg, and is said to be in a critical condition. Jeered and Hissed Nearing the railroad tracks, which are separated from the town by a low fence, the Klansmen were the objects of jeers and hisses from a large crowd of local miners and townspeople who had gathered to threaten them. A group of men ran from a side street carrying a section hose. This was attached to a fire hydrant and a forceful stream of water turned onto the peacefully marching Klansmen. One member of the Klan delegation stepped out of the ranks and gave battle. He succeeded in stopping the stream of water. The first shot was fired by some one in the mob. This was the signal for the riot and the townspeople crowded around the Klansmen and general melee followed. The Cambria county men were mobbed. Italians Fired Shot Witnesses declared that an Italian, described as "portly" fired the first shot from the doorway of a near-by house. In the riot two men were killed. They are: Philip Conrad, aged 25, Catholic, Lilly. Cloyd Paul, aged 27, Protestant, Lilly. Six men were seriously wounded and are in danger of dying. They are Frank Miasco, Patrick Bradley, Francis Appalucci, Raymond Bradley, Andrew Marcinko and Clarence Patterson. These men were in the mob that attacked the Klansmen. Mob Disperses When the Klan members defended themselves and put up resistance to the attack, the mobbers quickly dispersed. Maimed and injured Klansmen boarded their train and returned immediately to Johnstown. Upon arival, officers met the special train, searched the crowd and every man aboard. It is reported that the crowd gathered at the station also threatened the returning Klan members. Twenty-four of the delegation were then arrested. Residents of Lilly Monday threatened the sister-in-law of Cloyd Paul, the murdered man. Unknown vandals early Monday morning poured oil on the crepe on the door of Paul's residence. M. K. Piper, president of the First National bank, rented a wagon to the visitors in which to carry the wooden cross to the hillside where it was burned. As a consequence, a run on the bank is reported.