On April 2, 1891, at the nearby Morewood Mines of the H.C. Frick Coke Company, sheriff's deputies killed seven strikers, and two more died later. They were among some 16,000 workers striking for higher wages in the coke region. Thousands of mourners attended the funeral of the original seven victims, who were buried in a mass grave in Saint John's Cemetery, Scottsdale. By late May the strike had collapsed, and the organizing of coke workers suffered a severe blow.