fj 1M" SUMMER TRAVELERS Will Had the best list of resort hotels la THE DISPATCH. Read the "travelers' accessories" ad. vertlsements in same colHma. THREE CENTS. H C" J"WS. ffje pttwttfi Mill Hnd the best list of resort hotels in THE DISPATCH. Read Ihe "travelers' accessories" ad vertisements in same column. 1? 'Pi FOliTY SEVENTH YEAH. PITTSBURG, THURSDAY. JULY 7. , 1892-TWELVE PAGES w$mm j r jri i If & ?mh i j TRIP OF TERROR 10 HOIST EAD Disastrous Cruise of the Lit tle Bill and Its Two Model Barges. DEADLY WOEK AT DAW. Mnkertons Twice Defeated in an At tempt to Make a Landing. Loading a Trainload of Men on Barge3 at Davis Island Dam Silent Bide Up the Elver Unable to Surprise the Workers Telegram Sent Ahead by a Scout The First Attack A Bush and Deadly Fusillade Requesting the In vaders to Leave A Declaration of War The Second Attack Cannon ading the Boats A Morning's Bloody Work. THE MTUATION THIS aiOKNETG. At 3 A. SL the strikers are In complete possession of Homestead. Comparative peace reigns because there is nobody left with whom to fight The captured Pinkertons were rescued from their peril ous position after midnight by the volun teer Amalgamated deputies. Governor Pattison still refuses to send the military. Sheriff McCleary will endeavor to organize a citizens' posse at 9 o'clock. Many of the wounded and dying are now in Pitts burg hospitals. The strikers are awaiting the next move. The towboat Little Bill lay at the Davis Island dam shortly before 1 o'clock yester day morning having in tow a pair of forti fied and provisioned barges. At 1 o'clock a special train on the Pittsburg, Ft. "Wayne and Chicago stopped at the nearest point to the boat and 290 stalwart men, all carrying valises and packages, alighted from the train, were marshaled in a column of twos and marched to the boat. The appearance of the men would have led one to the conclusion that they -were ont for an excursion or a picnic No firearms of any kind could be seen. Many of the men were well dressed and had the appear 'ance of being properous business men, brokers or cle,ks. Some were gray-haired old fellows, others -were lnsty young men, but the majority were men in the prime of life and all were muscular looking and well-developed. Sley had been brought to Greenville Junction from all the large cities in the country where they were massed and con veyed to the landing at Davis Island dam. They were Pinkerton detectives. As they marched laughing and talking down the bank to the river the fireman on the Little Bill began to pile coal into the furnaces, and there was a scene of great activity all over the boat. Ten minutes after the whole party had embarked the pilot rang his bell and the engineer opened the throttle. Then began a trip up the Ohio river which for fatal results was hardly equaled in her history even during the Bebellion. The boat swung out into the middle of the river and steamed quietly up stream. To all appearances she was only a towboat with two barges such as are landed ac the wharves of this city every day, gen erally carrying iron ore, fire brick or pig metal. Carrylnjr a Dangerous Cargo. Not a light was to be seen anywhere but on the decks of the steamer herself. The barges, one bearing the name "Cincinnati" and the other "Gray's Iron Line," were closed up and dark and a casual observer would never have imagined that they held Fuch a large or dangerous human cargo. "Within the boat all was activity. A great stack of Winchester rifles was piled up in each barge. These were dis tributed among the men, who proceeded im mediately to cleaning and loading them. Then there was distributed to each man a liberal supply of cartridges, and for use in case of emergency basins, buckets and hats were filled with the death-dealing messen gers and placed where they would be easily accessible. These preparations took con siderable time, and when the boat reached this city and passed under the Smithfield street bridge the men, tired out after long journeys, turned into the comfortable bnnks ranged in tiers along each side of the barges and sought repose. ., Failed to Surprise Ihe Watchers. It was the intention of these men tq b11. quietly up to Homestead, land at the big mill of the Carnegie Company take possession of the entire plant and give the locked-out work ers a grand surprise when daylight would break. But daring, well conceived, well arranged and well carried out as the details of the plan were they resulted in a surprise to more than the Homestead workers. Through some means as yet unknown the locked-out workers had received an in timation several days before that such an attempt to gain control of the mills would be made. In addition to the famous picket line around the works the leaders sent trusty couts down the river to keep them posted on the movements of any mysterious looking craft that might be moving toward Homestead. llio Scouts Worked Well. 8o well had the scouts followed their in structions that they knew of the fitting up of the barges before the work was com pleted. At ten minutes before 2 o'clock yesterday morning one scout on the Monon gahela wharf saw and recognized the barges as they passed under the Birmingham bridge. He yelled to the pilot: 'Are you going to Homestead?" Np reply was received. The boat steamed on. The scout turned up the wharf and, running like a scared deer, reached the Western Union telegraph office and wrote out this message to the leaders; "Watch the rivers. Barges left here." A minute later a well-dressed young man who had been watching ihe scout rushed info the telegraph office aud demanded that the message be not sent He was too late. The message was on the wire. The demand for its suppression came from a scout on the other side of the conflict bounding the Alarm at Homestead. When the message reached Homestead there ensued a scene which has seldom been paralleled in the country's history. To say the news spread like wildfire would not express the rapidity with which the contents of that fateful message spread through the big borough. Three minntes after it had been received the great whistle at the electric light plant in the heart of the town began to blow the gener.il alarm which ail expected sooner or later, and which eveiybody feared. As the hoarse, mourn ful sound swept through the town the peo ple jumped from their beds and raised their windows. " Men were running through the streets shouting "On to the riverr' "The black sheep are coming!" "On to the river!" In a few moments the streets were filled with a wildly rushing mob of 5,000 men, women and children. "On to the river," was taken up by all and a weird, buzzing, swelling roar went up from the whole village, which had in it that indescribable something which strikes terror to the heart of the strongest All Hearted for the River. In less then 10 minutes after the alarm message reached Homestead eTery street and alley leading to the river was fillled with a surging wild mass of human beings, rushing madly for the shore. Many of tneni carried guns, rifles, revolvers and other weapons. Many carried clubs which they had gathered along the streets, or the palings torn from fences as they went along. When the advance guard of the mob reached the river shore it was dark, and a dense fog hnng over the valley almost ob scuring even the lights of the blast furnaces across the river. Instinctively the crowd turned up the river shore toward the works. As thev ran along the rough, steep and uneven'shore at a speed that would under ordinary circumstances kill a man, the word was passed along the crowd that COO black sheep were ooming up the river on boats to be landed in the works and take the places of the locked-out men. The SI1I1 Fence Torn Down, On, on to the works the crowd ran with accelerated speed. The information they had received had maddened them, and when they reached the famous 16 toot tence they were ready for anything. Some one suggested tearing down the fence and taking possession of tbe works. The suggestion caught the crowd. The word was passed alone. A rush was made. A section of nearly 200 feet of the high barrier went down as if it had been pasteboard. With a wild yell the mighty mob rushed on over i above the old city poor farm. Soon the first gray 'streaks of dawn ap peared in the sky. No boat had yet hove in sight, though thousands of eyes were straining to catch the first glimpse of her., Suddenly a cheer from the lower end of the town announced that the headlights of the approaching steamer had been sighted. Those at the mill could not see her, but the word was passed along to them so quickly that they were aware of her approach. Becelvlng the tittle Bill. A few moments later the red lights of the boat were discovered through the fog by the men at the mill. Another cheer went up followed by a grand rush for the water's edge. The boat came up rapidly, the Little Bill between the two great clumsy looking barges, and passing up to a point directly opposite the center of the mill yard ran the'barges close up to the shore. A moment later and 40 or 50 men stepped out from a door in the end of the nearest barge to the small deck on the bow. Each man carried a Winchester repeater and on every face there was a look of determina tion. In the doorway behind those on the deck there could be seen many more faces and the glistening barrels of many more rifles. A gang plank was thrown out and the men on the boat started toward it, then glancing at the multitude of determined men on the shore, they hesitated. A Warning From the Shore. "Don't step off that boat!" was the cry from, 50 men on the shore, but a command ing voice from tbe, boat said "forward." Just as the first man was about to step on the gangplank, the first shot was fired. No one seemed to know from whence it came, but someone yelled that it had come from a port hole in the side of the boat and a vol ley from a score of millworkers' guns fol lowed. Then followed a momentary silence, as' the invaders quietly ranged in line, broken by a volley from 40. rifles. Most of them must have fired into the air, as, with the solid mass of humanity, only a few feet away from them they could not have missed a mark had they fired point blank. But many of them fired into the crowd and several men fell. A wild scramble of 3,300 to 4,000 men and women followed. Up the steep bank, 40 feet high, and down the river bank toward the village they scrambled in a wild frenzy ot terror. Men fell and were trampled un der foot by those who came after. Keeping Up a Brisk Fire. All this time the invaders were keep ing up a rattling fire, which was briskly returqed by a couple of hundred of the mill workers, some of--"'Hi had stood their ground while others 1 ... n.A. ....if ut bvuiuaui a taiU UBh treated to the mill yard at the top of the bank and tfere screened behind piles of metal and steel piled along the front The first man to drop was Martin Murray, shot through the side. A moment later Joseph Sodak stooped to pick up Murray when a bullet struck him on the upper lip just below the nose, dropping him dead be side Murray. In the meantime, Henry Strelgle, who had retreated to the top of the hill and was firing at the men on the boat, fell over with a bullet through his neck. He died in a few moments. On the boat the man who seemed to be leading the armed party was shot and fell on the deck. After he had been carried inside and the men on the boaf had all retreated into the covered barges firing ceased on both sides. A Plea for Peace. Then came a conference .between the leaders on the shore and a stout, middle aged man on the boat, who seemed to be a leader. Said the mill worker who had stepped down to the water's edge: "On behalf of 6,000 men I beg of you to leave here at once. I don't know who you are or from whence you came, but I do Know that you have no business here, and if you stay there will be more bloodshed. We, the workers in these mills, are peace ably inclined. We have not damaged any property, and we do not intend to. If you will send a committee with us we will take them through the works, care fully explain to them all the details of this trouble and promise them a sate return to your boats. But in the name of God and humanity, don't attempt to land. Don't attempt to enter these works by force." Defiance From Pinkerton Men. The leader on the boat, resting his rifle across his left arm, stepped to the front and, speaking so that those on the bank above him could hear, said: "Men, we are Pinkerton detectives. , We were sent here to take possession of this property and to guard it for the company. We don't wish to shed any blood, but we are determined to go up there and will do so. If yon men don't withdraw we will mow every man of yon down and enter in spite of you. You had better disperse, for land we will. A deathly silence followed this speech. Then the leader of the mill workers spoke again. Every man within sound of his, I voire listened with breathless attention. THROWING BOMBS ON TO THE BAKGES. "I have no more to say," said he, "what vou do here is at the risk of many lives. Before you enter those mills you will trample over the dead bodies of 3,000 honest workingmen." SUenos Before Another Storm. The next two hours were passed in om inous silence. The leader of the Pinker tons at 6 o'clock again stepped out and commanded the men to disperse, as at 7 o'clock he would take his men into the mills aeainst all obstacles. But before 7 o'clock came the mill workers had put up a substantial breastworks of structural steel behind which they crouched with loaded guns. At 7:45 the Pinkertons stepped out on the forward deck preparatory to landing. The leader swinging an oar was the first to emerge, but before he or the men behind him could make a jump a rattling voile v from the mill vard erased them to retreAt hastily and four men dropped, in tneir tracss. xne Pinkertons re turned the fire from the portholes and from n l the ends of the boat, wounding a number of the workers who were in exposed positions. The firing from the boat was thereafter kept up at intervals until 10 o'clock. Cannonading from b Steel Barricade. At 9 o'clock the fnsilade become strong and heavy. The mill workers had secured a small cannon and planted it on the hill side, concealed by shrubbery on the op posite side of the river, from which position they were firing at the boat. The men be hind the steel barricade and a number of sharp shooters who had been distributed along the river front were at the same time doing lively work. The Little Bill, with her dead and injured Pinkertons, had withdrawn early in the second skirmish to Port Perry, leaving the barges moored, but just when the exchange of snots was the heaviest she returned and steamed in for'the barges. A derisive yell from the 150 men behind the barricade and the 2,000 unarmed who were bi,ck in the mill on the trestles and other points out of range, greeted the little steamer. A hot volley from the sharp shooters and the millworkers raked the steamer fore and ait as she turned her broad side to the shore. Running a Fierce Blockade, A dozen bullets struck the pilot bouse, and the occupant dropped so quick that it was thought be bad been killed, and the crowd broke into cheers. Men on the boat returned the fire, but instead of landing the Little Bill floated on dowu past the works, running the fiercest blockade that has been witnessed on this continent since 1805. There was a perfect shower ot lead from the boat, but it was returned with an energy which her perforated sides will attest l,or many days to come, and it was kept up as long as she was in range. During this lusilade tbe cannon across the river was busily engaged. Scrap iron, nails and slugs were being fired. Suddenly Silas Wain, sitting on a pile of tricks in the mill yard out of range of the guns on the boats was .seen to keel over. A dozen men ran to him. A piece of scrap from the cannon had struck him in the neck, severing the jugular vein and almost' tearing his head oft He was instantly killed. Transferrins the Cannon. This stopped tbe cannonading from north side of the river, and by a code of signals known to themselves the workers signaled and the cannon was brought over to $ha mill where it was planted behind a big armor plate, stood on end, 25 yards from the boat Men came 'running with gun rw&nd soon the little brass cannon was firing at the boats i while the sharpshooters kept up an incessant popping' at the exposed portions of the barges. After awhile a hole was broken in the brick? wall of the pump house, and the cannon was taken into that place of shelter, within 40 feet of the boat, but the gnn could not be trained on the boats, and the position was adandoned for the original one behind the armor plate. The cannon, however, proved ineffectual in piercing the iron clad roofs of the boats, which had evidently been prepared for just such a contingency as this, and the workers so desperate that they were beyond reason, began to invent other plans of attack. Dynamiting the Barges. Numerous big packages of dynamite sticks, weighing a half pound each, were brought, and -from their barricade shelter the men began to throw them at the boats. The explosions were terrific. When the dynamite sticks struck the roofs of the boats they demonstrated the character of the boat coverings. Not a mark was left where the explosion occurred. The violenoe of the explosive stuff could be heard for many miles around, and it was kept up, now and then punctuated with the report of the can non or the sharp crack of the rifles, until 4 o'clock in the evening. In the morning also a few barrels of oil were poured on the water, with the inten tion of settingfire to it as it floated down on the surface past the boats, and thereby ignite the boats themselves, but the oil was a lubricating quality and would not ignite. This desperate move, however frightened the Pinkerton men and thereafter not a shot was fired from the barges., LIKE RATS IN A TRAP. A Pinkerton Detective Relates Ihe Story of the Surrender: Were xposed to the Ballets of Men Who Were Entrenched Behind Steel Billets. The train bearing the wounded Pinker ton men arrived at the Union station at 7:30 last evening. A large crowd had as sembled and it was rumored that all the dectectives were to arrive. The injured men were: THOSIA8 CONNORS, New Tork, struck by dynamite bqmb In the back and right arm crushed; will die. JOHN McGOVEBN, of Philadelphia; bullet In calf of right leg. THOMAS O'BEILLT, New Tork; bullet In back; seriously lnjnied. CHABLES NOETHBOP, Chicago; badly bruised about the body by the orowd. JOHN SPEEK, Chicago; bullet in leg. CHAELES CEITTELLEN. New Tork; bullet In left hand, one in heel and another in bead; none serious. He was able to walk to the hospital. JOHN CAELIN, rib bioken by falling timbers. The wounded were all removed to the West Penn Hospital. While waiting for the ambulance it was thought that Connors was dying. He asked for a priest and one was sent for to St Philomena Church, One of the priests in attendane reported at once and administered the last rites of the Church. Connors was very weak when placed in the ambulance. John McGovern, one of the injured men, caid that the majority of the men were in jured early in the fight He said: "We weV toldthat we were to act as watchmen; thathere would be a little trouble in get tingXinto the works, but after we were llonce in everything would be allrigit If they call that a little trouble I don'tVant to Bee a large one. We were taken otMhe boats on the rocks below Pittsbnrgomewhere, and the first we knew we were being fired on from the shore. After landing at the works we attempted to go ashore, bift were driven back by the men on the bankl They had the best of the situation in eyery way, and besides were entrenched behind steel billets that were bullet proof, while we had nothing but a shell over us that the bullets crashed through like so much paper. We dare not show the slightest portion of 'bur bodies or their sharpshooters would pink us. In the after noon they commenced throwing dynamite bombs and we finally concluded to give it up and displayed a flag of truce. We were like rats in a trap, and if we had waited until night I don't think a 'man would have been left out of the 325 to tell the tale. How about the strikers fir ing upon our flag of trtfee? That is not so. I was received with cheera and a conference was held, but I am sorry to say they did not live up to their part of the contract We were given one hour to pre pare to capitulate, but as soon as tnr arms were stacked the crowd rushed on board and toek everything in sight Then a line was formed and we were compelled to fun the gauntlet. Manv of the men were shame fully abused, being knocked doifn and kicked while down. Only the injuied and those aiding them, escaped the orcTeal. I have had enough of it and don't think I will ever attempt to go through such a scene again." OFF TO THE HIGHLANDS Andrew Carnetfe can d Not Be Foil Aberdeen. - ' fBY CABLE TO THE DISPATcn.l Aberdeen, Scotland, July 6. An at tempt was made to obtain the views of Mr. Andrew Carnegie on the steel works riot to day for The Dispatch, but he ooujd hot be fonnd, At a late hour it was learned that he had left Aberdeen. l"t night after taking part in the library dedication. He has gone to the Highlands, AFTERNOON OF "Workers Become Frantic in Their Efforts to Destroy . the Barges. THEBESORTTODYNAM L OODSHED A Giant's Address as "He Prepared'frS to Hurl a Bomb of Death. Pumping Oil Into the River With a Fire Engine The Execution of the Can nonDeadly Work of the Sharpshoot ersThe Women Brought the Fight era Food Arrival of Weihe and Other Amalgamated Officials Their Efforts for Peace The Southside Reinforce ments and the Final Surrender of the Pinkertons. At noon the terrified Pinkertons in the doomed boats again raised the white flag. Again came the shouts of the maddened mob, "No quarterl" The white flag was withdrawn, but scarcely had the door closed when the cannon spoke again and tbe splinters flew from the bow of the "Monongahela. " One of the Pinkertons showed himself and a dozen shots rang out from the sharp-shooters among the work ers, and the body of a man fell on the bow of the boat Then it settled down to a steady fight By this time hundreds of tbe strikers had received arms; every pile of Iron held a sharp-shooter watching for a human target Every stock of coal that faced the river was a fort The strongholds of the workers were in the laboratory, the water tank, the pump houses and the gas house. Several did very effective work from an old shearing machine under the Pemicky bridge. A number of others from Braddock were sheltered by the piers of the bridge on the other side. Prom there they kept up a continuous fire as long as a target was offered. All along the Pemicky road there were thousands of men and women. Cheered Whenever Man Fell. The long trestle and the new station in the mill were black with people who cheered on the sharp-shooters below, while the deserted Carnegie offices in the armor plate mill were crowded with eager people. The hills on both sides of the river were lined with watchers, who cheered loudly whenever Piakexton man was seen to fait The sight of blood maddened them. "Don't let one escape alive," they shouted. Hngh O'Donnell, who had done all that was possible to avert bloodshed, at this point invited a party of newspaper men to the cupola of the new converting mill,recent ly erected by Julian Kennedy. From there they had a full view of the boats and the crowd and witnessed scenes such as few people ever have witnessed. Many a battle has gone down in history where less shoot ing was done and fewer people killed. There were hundreds of men well armed thirsting for the lives of others in the boat, while thousands of men and women stood Just out of range and cheered them on. Each crack of the rifles made them more bloodthirsty and each boom of the cannon more eager tor tbe blood of the officers. One of the strikers remarked: "There is bnt two weeks between civilization and barbarism. and I believe it will only take two days of this work to make the change." Indeed.it looked as If the veneering of gentility had been badly cracked already. The FinkertonvEel Boomed. Then another shot and another cheer told that someone had been hit The Pinker tons were too badly scared to make any effort to shoot, and were crowded like sheep into the Tennessee barge, which lay far- thest, fron? the shore. Fresh ammunition and, arms had arrived for the workers from Pittsburg, and the men bent harder to their tasks. They worked nearer the river, that .their fire might be mpre deadly. The workers could be seen dragging their bodies like snakes along .the ground to where they could get a better shot The cannon would again roar, but the shot would land in the water above the boat Once a piece of ope ol the doors fell with a shot. Several of the imported officers were revealed, and a score of shots were fjred in quick succession. Someone must have fallen, for cheer on cheer ot triumph went up from thousands of throats. At every shot of the camion, thereafter a volley of shots was beard from the sharpshooters, who had seen someone on the boat They only shot when they saw something, and every crack ot a rifle meant an attempt on a human life. A QWn.' Armed With Dynamite. At 1 o'ejook there was a wild commotion at the new station. A tall brawny work man waved two sticks of dynamite high ATTEMPT TQ 35UKN' THE 0ABGE3. above his head. By his side sat a basket full of the deadly explosive. The raob that a moment before had been wild was silent and listened. His voice was loud and dis tinct He said: Men of Homestead and Fellow Strikers: Our friends have been murdered; onr brothers have Been shot down by hired thugs before our eyes. The blood of honest workmen has been spilled. Yonder in those boats are hundreds of men who have mur dered our frlendsand who would ravish onr homes. Men of Homestead, we mast kill them. Not one must escape alive. "Ave, Aye, Are." chorused half a thou sand voices. Then the herculean workman continued: The cannon ,s failed to sink the boats I to bnrn tbem. Who will le bombs will do the work. the oil tiiiR fall follow me? T As he spokl he flourished the dynamite -core wavld their clubs, and regardless at they were within range ol JO L lOheir haste to take ' JT -p- 'ere not savages, but huma men of Tit-. perhaps a few hours before had held infants on their knees, or kissed farewell. They were good. strong men wrought up by the sight ot blood, aid ready to take the lives of those who threatened them and theirs. Barllns the Sticks of Pynamlte. With their penknives thev scooped np holes' for the cartridges and the fuse. The latter was very short; it wonld burn quickly. The crowds conld see them light the matches and hold the messengers of death until they burned close. Then with strong right arms drawn till every muscle showed like whipcords, they let them fly and the explosions were cheered by the eager mob. The distance was long and the bombs had to be thrown from behind some shelter, and many ot the missiles fell short of the mark, but when one landed on the roof cheer on cheer went up. One man had crawled down among the strnctural iron ind then by mak ing a throw of nearly 100 feet struck the boat The front end heaved and a few boards flew. He lighted another fuse and another stick of dynamite. It described a semi-circle in the air, leaving a trail of smoke behind. It was going to land square on top of the Monongahela, but in stead of striking the roof it splashed into a bucket of water. It sizzled for a moment and then went out without exploding. It bad hardly died though when another from the pump house fell on the roof. It lay there smoking for a mo ment while the workers prayed it might wreck the boat There was an explosion, and a hole was torn in the roof. It was not known whether it killed anybody inside, but when the boards flew up a' gondola hat went flying into the air. Another bomb was thrown into the bow of the boat The clearing smoke showed a door was gone. Human forms were seen within and were a sign for another round from the sharp shooters. Killed While rifting Their Dead. At 1:35 several men went out to pick up their dead comrades on the bow of the Monongahela. There were half a dozen more shots and the two men felL Then came more curses for the firm and more cheers of victory. One sharp shooter called out, "Them two will never build any fine libraries for the bloody Scotchman." "Death to Frick, too," came the reply, and the bloodshed went on. Another stick of dynamite fell on the roof at 1:40, and at 1:43 another tore off a part of the planks. Then the men drew closer and their work became more deadly. Then it was decided to throw oil again and burn the boats. At 2:10 the hose car riage belonging to the city and a half dozen barrels of lubricating oil were brought to 'the water tanks, together with a fire engine, but there wasgreat difficulty in getting it to work. In the meantime a new supply of dynamite had arrived, xne boxes were knocked open and the mob drew ont the ex plosives as unconcernedly as they would their food. Then they made another rush on the barges and there was more sharp firing. Shortly after 2 o'clock a coal steamer's whistle was heard and the sharpshooters stampeded to the rear for a moment, think ing another force of deputies had arrived. The alarm was false, and they got down to their work. Then they got the oil to flowing, but, as in the norning, it circled around the boats and all attempts to ignite it were futile. Efforts of ihe Amalgamated Offlcinls. The fight still continued and more at tempts were made to burn the boats and the 300 Pinkertons within. It was four o'clock when the giant form of President William Weihe, of the Amalgamated Association, appeared. Hundreds followed him into one of the mills. He tried to address the mob but they refnsed to listen to him. President-elect Garland was also there, but the cries ot "Burn the boats;" "Kill the Pinkertons," and "No quarter for the mur derers," drowned his voice. At last Vice PresidentMcAvoy climbed up onto one of the big converters and told the men that if they would permit these officers to go unhurt he promised that not another Pinkerton would ever set his foot in Homestead. He told them they had revenged the death of their brother laborers and they answered, "Yes," but just then the crash of a heavy explosion of dynamite was heard, followed by a score of shots and more cheers. Jones & Laughlin's delegation had filed in by this time, headed by the American flag arid a drum corps. The beleagured Pinkertons heard the cheers for the rein forcements and again ran up, the white flag. Then Hugh O'Donnell, mounting a pile of iron, and with the Stars and Stripes falling about him, shouted to the rioters. He tola them the Pinkertons offered to surrender and leave Homestead. He promised they wou.ld not return. They refused for a time, but finally agreed to release them if they gave up their arms. Hugh O'Donnell, waving a white flag, approached the barges and the firing ceased- He told tQc Pinkertons the term of sur render and they accepted them. The mob surged down the bank, with rifles still cocked, for fear of treachery. There was no need of it, for the men within were terror ized, They gave np their arms and surren dered. ' Then began a scene of brutality and pil lage, snoh as probably never has been equaled in the history of America., The Pinkertons were beaten beyond belief as thev came unarmed and defenseless into the I hands of their victorious foes. , RAN A GAUNTLET OF i Brutal Attack on the Pinker tons After They Had Laid Down Their Anns. THE MOB WANTED BLOOD And Clubbed the Defenseless Hen as Tliey Left the Barges. Women Threw Sand In Their Eyes While Their Husbands Spat in Their Faces A Second Assault on the Vanquished Under the Starry Flag ot Labor Hall An Amazon Blinds a Detective With Dust and Then Knocks Him Down With a Stone The Exciting March With the Prisoners From the Barges to the Big Frame Building A Bald on Underclothing How a Joke Avert, ed a ColllBlon That Would Prob ably Have Resulted In Many Mur ders. The scene at Homestead last evening as the Pinkerton men, after their formal sur render, came unarmed from the barges almost surpasses belief. The Pinkerton men first asked the privi lege of bearing ont their dead and wounded. It was granted. One dead man and 11 wounded were carried out Women clad in everything from calico to silk bad joined the crowd, and hooted and howled like the men. It was 5 o'clock when the surrender was made. Tbe crowd heard the cheers of victory and 5,000 people had collected about the mill and along the road at Munhall. A few of the first of the Pinkertons saw the angry faces of the mob and refused to give up their arms. They made a lively fight, but finally bad to give in. By this time the mob had swept on to the boats and bnrst in the doors on the side. This revealed rows of bundles which were .quickly torn away. The Mob lVooted the Boat. The mob pushed in and pillaged the boat Men were seen coming out with life pre servers fastened about their waist3 and laden down with guns, clothing aaj cooking utensils. The boat was provisioned for three weeks and hundreds came out loaded with eatables. Others bore satchels. .Thjj, took all they could carry of " The-wotraded-were carried up" throngmthe howling mob, who swore at them as they lay, some of them dying. At first the mob pitied them. Then it grew mad at the sight of the bleeding Pinkertons. When the others came the women threw sand at them and the men spat on them. Every one had to come with uncovered head. The women hit them with theif umbrellas and threw whole handsful of mud at them. Not satisfied with this, a number of brooms were taken from the boat and they struck the Pinkertons with these as they passed. Soon after a few strongmen stationed them selves at intervals along the route of exit and kicked each one as he passed. Knocked Down With Clnbi. By this timt the toughs, who had never been near where the firing was going od, assembled and began to abuse the defeated men. They had not been in the fight, and tbe brave men who had handled the guns at the front were trying to protect the lives of their prisoners. One man who refused to give up his satchel wa3 finally knockec down. The blood came and the crowd was again a rabble. They gathered sticks and stones. As soon as a Pinkerton appeared above the bank it was a signal for attack. Hundreds of clubs were stolen from the boat and used on the Pinkertons. Many were knocked down and beaten almost into insensibility. It was a sickening sight The men at dawn had said they would land in 15 minutes. The defeat was igno- minious. They bad surrendered under the promise of protection, a promise the leaders were unable to fulfill. There was a solid line of men armed with maces and clubs. Never was witnessed such brutality. The men were beaten from one side to another. As a Pinkerton passed each one struck at his head. Every npw and then one would be knocked down, but while the .blood was still streaming from him they would kick and trample on him. They were not the men who had car ried the guns. They came in afterwards, and only displayed their cowardice by beating men who had surrendered their arms. They threw bricks and stones, and struck their victims with pieces of iron. One man had his skull fractured with a brick, and scarce a man escaped unharmed. Men's heads were cut open, and still men pounded them on the fresh wounds. The March Through the Town. In something less than an hour after the defeated and disgusted Pinkerton forces had lowered their colors the victors marshalled their men in the yard just back of the big water tanks. The captured invaders were in a very bad way both physically and men tally, and as they huddled together on the network of tracks they formed a gruesome spectacle. Their faces were blackened with dirt and powder and stained with blood. Some car ried their arms in improvised slings and many were without shoes, A majority of the men carried cheap leather traveling bags and bundles of clothing. A double guard of Homestead men armed with the Winchesters captured from the barges engirdled the prisoners. Directly behind the guards was a throng of men, women nqd children. Up to this time no attempt at violence had been made. The crowd celebrated the triumph of their champions by repeated cheering, bqtnot until (he head of the procession of victors and vanquished started for the village did Ml V m - . ' '. V Ut I. t3&iL.4&isekJM'. 2 KH.ja.U J4W..J.':. . '. . . , s i.DM&mM&mm& MmmzSMmiimMm 'M'"TMitt
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