JT ——— rs a THEY FOUGHT ALL DAY, Battle Between Carnegie Steel Workers and Pinkerton Men. Many Killed on Both Sides Dur- ing the Fierce Encounters, Pennsylvania has had another experiences With labor riots, and this time, as during the fearful scenes which were witnessed daring blood wind valuable proparty the railroad riots of 1877. has been shed, life jeopardizsd ¢ time there was no ion of property, but the mob was thiy well organized, well disciplined and had efficient officer at the head to conduct the operations The force embraced all the men employed in the extensive plants of the Carnegie Iron and Steel Company at Homestead, some eight miles east of Pittsburg, and a battle which, for bloodthirstiness and boldness of execu tion, has not been excelled in actual warfare was waged from 4 o'clock in the morning until 5 in the afternoon, and only ceased when the force of Pinker tons brought to the place to protect the property, unconditionally surrendered. leav. ing their arms in the barges in which they had been transported to the works The riot the culmination of the troubles which have been brewing at Home stead for the last month. With the utmost secrecy the Carnegie firm engaged 800 Pink erton detectives, brought them from Chicago, New York and other points, and, after the Sheriff's deputies were driven away from the Homestead plants, the firm decided to put the Pinkerton men into the works at once to protect the property, as well as the lives of any of the locked-out men who uld be duced to return to werk. placed in danger. This dest thor OCioex WAS i= Instantly the Pinkertons were made to pay for their work. Every man of the first rank were shot down, Two fell into the water and were heard of no more, One other died, but his body was recovered and the others were seriously injured, That was the opening of tht battie. The firing from the barges at once became gon- eral As soon as day broke, the strikers secured a small brass ten-pounder and planted it within a steel billet embrasure 80 as to command the barges which ¢ moored at the bank of the river. At the same time a force more than 1000 men took up a position on the opposite side of the river, and also planted a cannon, which they protected with a breastword of rail road ties, The firs from both sides was ki pt { up, the barges havin plerced along cannon ware f Of baon It react wit! 0! H force ing at women the ) The wa they were s headed mil! yar before the ga ashore, The out nto the landing as w a paper wall b p to this of life on the feet of the she of the hoats w men as could forward decks the rapidly com the slouch} Pinkerton « tt De the no he fall if n lusty on the intruder Don't co they velled Why de decent mer Not a wor as the boat plank was thy covered as Et | they 1 rifles from t It will nev the first shot w that has made ing The first to have heen the gang of men ) Was altterward kil The last n before the ter, surging against MX foil Workers, who stoesd with t Finkertons, fairly under rifles, trying to keep the from what seemed certain death a bell far ahwove the roar of arowd, came the volos of an, hatless and coatiems, the angry men “In God's name,” ho oried, “my good fel lows, keep back, don't press down and force them to do murder It was too late, the appeal was drowned by the sharp report of a Wine ester from a man in the bow of the boat. The first ball had hardly loft the smoking barrel on ita mission of death before it was followed by a sheet of flame from a score of rifles in the Pinkerton's hands, William Foy, who | stood at the front with his foot on tae gang plank staggered, and fell, his blood gushing out. For a moment the crowd was struck dumb by the attack Ouly the | roans of several wounded men were hoard he echoes of the rifles had hardly roached the neighboring hills ere the orowd replied Out from the semi-darkness of the morning fBashed a wall of fire. The men on ths bank, 100, had arms and were using them The leader of the Pinkartons clapped his hand to his brenst and fell overboard, sink. ing beneath the waters, while several other Pinkertons stagger the crows ir ba the muzeies ¢ mili men the angry Hugh O'Donnell tried 0 oheck he ed back and were carried i few minutes later | driven Hike sheop between lines of strikers to | beaten first with Nets and then with inside the boat bY their comrades, a man's head desparate, He ttle Bill off and booming ar and tried to swim The pilot of the I, & boat was driven g Iynamite piles of coal water and thers struck in the air men rent Nharpshooters and shot out to Some explo lamage wh eo boats and sent fries At th ing ) ing successfiu the wild he» every the alr with : ned nt Var a Pinkerton on of the str wera sta avery time the posit ie pias man looked men ikery cannon burst iynamite Gireat the — the and el to chunks thrown boat, the most of splashed the water Finally it wore which only Meanwhile the under dragging a their ing for their woundasd, seemed their certain at wera huddled toad and car waiting for what all overtures Fin kertous deck foom. as of surrender bad been refused Finally it was evident to everyboly that He If they were not re Hoved, and the leaders the strikers sieaded with their foll to allow the | inkertons to surrender The anges was drownel with No! No “We'll kill them "“"Ibey shall have no mercy tha they would soon of YW er shouts of Hike dogs!’ "but when, a white handkerchief appeared on the top of of the barges the firing ceased and the strikers consented to A pariey The Pinkerton men as soon as they found it was safe to talk, offered to surrender If the leaders guaranteed them protsetion, The promise was given, and 25 men marched off the boat and gave up their arms Then the promise that they should not be harmed ssomed to be forgotton, They were ne the Opera House, All the way thay were clubs, and wyery conceivable weapon Every man was sore and coversd with blood ol Ro he found shelter, Having locked the Pinkerton: up ani sur. rounded the building with an armed guard th e strikers telegraphe! Sherif MoCleary to come to Homestead and take the prison ers to Jall. The Bheriff left Pittsburg on the first train No sooner were the detectives safely In nil than the two barges were thwoughly tearchel! by the Homedesd men, wnd the ne cartridges and uniforms were removed, night of June 24, and | ate : ! ] | mn | big as from the rrels of oll were pours! upon the two boats and they burnel to the water's sige at sunset, Up to o'clock the following evening eleven deaths had been reported from yesterday's fight, In the city hospitals were thirty three of the wounded. These, of course, | did not include the scores of strikers who were carried away by their friends at Homestead, nor any of the 136 Pinkerton mon who were battered, bruised and male treated, principally by the wowen, after they had surrendered. The Pinkertons say that seven of their men were killed outright and eleven wounded They believe several dead men were thrown off the Little Bill into the river. The number of Pinkertons placed in the lock-up and rink was 254 At 12) in the of ten cars backed quietly V. and C, depot, at Homeste wares morning a special train into the FP, ad, Sheriff Mc History of the Trouble | men agreed to acoe £ for steel nllets Frick, 0] This made a An uitimatum was then made by that the new wags #2 would no iff however enc sonie be = that alter th world tw no conferet after this M Carnegie to fortify the wor ¥ ives began | ston H 110 a uikdings and a « of snalier shops and sheds 6 Space Am where Bessam ras al hig t {he great steel w Twelve nesten | Toes weupyY much ng these are the conve r sieel is made the armor plas mill mill, the finishing d part the twenty. twouin ting the beam I, the plate mil open. hearth the ten inct the ment the | hand 19 h mill, aod the big plate pressing rox Hh The water for the works comes from th | Monongahela River and is sufficient in quar tity to supply a town of Max (ne dred and Nitty bollers run the the pumps and the steam hanmers Natural gas for is wnpany’'s own well About 455 men ar i, and the outout Is fom great Krupp wor nu great engine fael furnished by 1) soy Utne on BURT, many The Carnegie company has purchass! 100 additional acres and will add it to the works next year, It is already fenced in by heavy barbed wire The steel works are completely surrounde | by a stout board fences twelve feet high, bullt upon a foundation of slag three fest high. The fence is taree miles long and is strung along the top with three strands of barbed wire, so connects! with the electric plant that the turning of a switeh makes the wires alive with a powerful current of ele tricity Hydrants are stationed at frequent inter vals, from which great streams of hot or cold water oan be poured, The fence i» lighted with slootrie lights, while powerful search lights make the approaches as clear ae day. Four-inoh portholes are bored in the fence. The office is fenced additionally and a raliroad track connects It with the Munhali station A bridge connects the office with a build ing outside the works, The place has been completely fortified, and pr fone have boon made to accommodate aa army of de fenders A big eanmera has boon set up to take ine stantansous plotares in oase of riot, On the river front is an armed steel lausocs, S— So ————————— m ‘ n I'he Centre of New F oundland’s Capita Swept by Flames. All the Principal Buildings in the City Laid in Ashes, A dispatel fy land AY wer the city » broke out | he city of fn steep h J 1 anst , and tho heart section » the dry do comprised Line whar! in ond of the ’, 4 QL A me nn th pal busines } are along I'he 1 and public over the brow esidenoes nd up and b untain iwest fr nearly mile un th h Cathe intain Hie mont Cat} ‘a th all ihedral is the harbor, mgh the heart clograp WOOT n At that hour troved Her Matoety's x heck nearly §77 ToMas Haunt is the nearest living of Shakespeare. He is a Australia and i= eighth In de rela. resident of from five cent | Shakespeare's sistar, Joa: Geronar GovLp didn't go to « tend. he went into his father’s off age of sixteen, and at twenty eig a six millionaire 1 his own right Sexaron Mir shaved off a beard which nineteen years It not recognize him after th has wn fo did a morph ols ARLL, { Oregon he ha is sald his daughter met Paesipest Torrie of Wabash College, has retired from service alter holding office thirty years He has bean on duty all that time except two months, a record n easily paralleled ALEXANDER HExny, inventor of the ool shrate | Martin! Hoary rifle, used exclusive ily in the British army, is a Scotchman by birth, and recently celebrated his seventy fourth birthday Tre most interesting person present at the ast meeting of Black Hawk war survivors at Freeport, 11, Mre. William Law. horn, of Lena, 1H was in the fort at Apple River at the time of Black Hawk's murderous attack, and dealt out powder and shot to the defen Jing soldiers, wad Nh ] Gatusua A, Grow, who was Speaker of the House of Represeatatives from 1863 to 1868, was a guest at a Chicago hotel recent ly. He issixty-nine years old When first sleoted to Congress Mr, Grow was only twenty-six years of age and had the distinc tion of being thy youngest member of the House, CONVIOTS ESOAPE, A Wholesale Delivery at the Charlies. town (Mass. ) State Prison, A wholesale ssoape of nine of the most daring criminals in Charlestown (Mass) Mate Prison occurred the other afternoon when all were supposed to be at work in the shops. The men were all long term con viets and sentenced to from five to thirty rm They got into the sewer by sawing out the sars of a manhole in the rear of the prison. yard, They then hi £00 feet through a pipe hardly three feet in diameter, and when they emerged sonttored (a all directions, | ST. JOHNS DEVASTATED, | THE ews {| gressmen reviewed a parade in honor anil | | and | Long's | wo —— ———— nr So —— EPITOMIZED, | Fastern and Middle States, Joux De Leen, aged vixty, was shot and killed by his nephew, Martin De Leer Great Barrington, Mass, in a quarrel money, in GV Er Goverxon Apperr and twenty-five Con. the ontennial of Paterson, N, J. THe amount of Defaultes Dann’ ob in the ali fi NY 8426, 006, \ving Han attack AR) ing union with veral strikers hem men were were arrested Joux Do LOW Sp er XWOOD, stabbed jruesta of mira and Mra, R ell, Walke (reneral Donahue i Russell « city offi Washington, iv arn to Wash musideration L age EN estond, Pen at Was the Western legraph Company ver the private to the Pres fent The Becretary and several other members of his re with the President when the news host The Also sent the Ing news [r H foal of excitement letine were sent by eat Ag Bu ities Western hh Company yet offices at Cuances)t, Cris of Hepreseatives, has been Congress at Cordele, Ga Npeaier renomiaated THE special committees of the House Representatives which investigate! the Pen sion Bureau has made a report recommend - ing that the House pass a rasolution demand « r the removal of Green B. Raum from the foe of Pension Commissioner IX conwequence of suggestions by Surgeon Wyman, of #e Marine Hospital the United States Treasury De. har taken steps for the thorough f the baggage of immigrants ng at New York from the prom of Europe (venioral Nery partuent agisinfection Arrivie districts Tsuen Mivaoxt has been presented to the State Department as the new Secretary of the Japauese Logation at Washington NEARLY 900 money order offices have been estabitshiend Inteiy Foreign, Huesny M. Sraxiey, the explorer. hae been detente! as a candidate for the British Parliament for North Lambasth in the Liveral-U nionist interest Tire notorfous murderer known as Mat. thins Hadelt has been guillotine at Valence, France, Five recruits who were on thelr way to Munster, Germany, 10 report for duty be Qn skylarking while crossing the River Werre, and their boat oapizing they were all drowned, THE three men who caused the Birkenberg mine fire in Bohemia, by which 300 lost their lives, have been sentenced —Kire who threw the burning wick, to three years: Ka bode to two years, and Havelka, who econ tossed, to eighteen months, ny in recomnitien of | have been terrorised for the months by a band of brigands under the | They a — the latter founder wl. In the confusion Al tending the wreck two soldiers and throes hildren wers drowned THE losses by the recent floc Is at Matan- |e Cubm, are estimated nt $1. 100 THipry-oxe bandits tern frontie wnt Irom Mantingo xy were ki on the southen ug rhs chomera ut Kur rance epi der — — CIRC For the S103 005 783 IT AMIN ULAl1lU] CHANGES IN An Increas: Fiscal Year "A ULA FAN MAN ATTACKED BY A ZY Judge Clute, of Albany, XN. ¥_ Has a Lively Tussle in His Om Edward McDonald, a wi is middle-aged la! or supposed to be Inman entered Albany, N, YY. and demanded that he sign a $3000 note ~~ County Ju ge Clute’s office at The Judge refused and attempted to leave Moe MeoDonald struck the Ju ige and tried to draw a revolver when the Judee grappled with him, and f afew n them thers was a lively tussie around the off The Judge, still holding on to the in furiated man, managed 10 touch an elects button and the office boy in an ads ng room responded Is boy grabbed McDonald by the legs and he was backed Against the wall all the while making A Vigorous fight, Finally boy got the revolver out of MeDonald's prockont The Judge continued to hold him and the oy red a policeman Mel was taken to Police fenda mrters and « thed Jail. He has been a defendant in a divorce sult and has been banging around Jadge Ulute's offios for some time. The note which be wished signed was made payable to sny ne, the ¢ the : we nad mn ———— WAR ON BANDITS, heir Leader i» Caught, Tortured, and Put to Death in Mexico The people of the town of Elsulsu, Mexion, past three leadership of Martial Casillas, one of the most desperate men in Mexico, have ¢unmitted many murders and robberies, A few days age they made ome of their raids into Elsulan and got away with a large amount of merchandise, killing Jom Loza, a prominest citisen, A posse of indignant citisens was organi and weat in pursuit of the bandits, who tought refuge in the mountains, Fionlly the rendesvous of Casillas and his
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