A murderous assault occurred on non-union construction workers who were erecting a new building for the Follansbee Brothers steel mill. The attackers were union ironworkers mostly from Mingo Junction. The non-union workers were employed by the Fort Pitt Bridge Works and contracted by the Follansbee mill. The Fort Pitt Company, while paying their workers union scale had been using men who did not belong to the union. This insured the anger of union workers.

The carefully prearranged attack involved about 8 men who rowed skiffs across the river from Mingo Junction and brutally assaulted non-union workers at the Follansbee mill.  W.M. Wilson, a foreman, and Charles Newcomer, an engineer, were badly beaten.  One attacker pulled out a revolver while others used black jacks and pieces of gas pipe. Fleeing workers gave the alarm and Sheriff Carman and deputies from Wellsburg soon arrived.  The fleeing attackers crossed over the Wabash Bridge back to Mingo where several were arrested later by Sheriff Carman and deputies of Wellsburg. They were assisted by detectives of the Fort Pitt Bridge Company.

• Steubenville Herald Star, “Murderous Assault on Workmen,” June 14, 1906. p. 1.