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PITTSBURG, THURSDAY. JULY 7. , 1892-TWELVE PAGES
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TRIP OF TERROR
10 HOIST
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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
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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
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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
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