The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 13, 1892, Page 6

| | | NE CARNAGE. | THE ARM OF TOIL IS RAISED | TO DEFEND ITS RIGHTS. For Uhirteen Hours the Horri- ble Battle Rages. Cinnon Loaded With Pig Tron is ed Upon the Foe—More Than a Score ot Men Lie Dead Upon the Field. Pittsburg, Pa., July 6 —Labor :e ccived its first baptism of blood to diy in its latest conflict with capitel | and emerges victorious, for the tine at least. Monongabela’s flowing tide bas been reddened with the blood of « siilant and defender, and to-ni labor stands guard over the captive army of Carnegie’s Heesi had striven to further enslave the workingmen of Homestead. All day long the frowning -hills ie d to the roar of cannon, the fles and the shrieks of the victors and vanquished. Winchester rifles s who crash of ri- in vain coped with artillery, dyna- mite and streams of burning oil, brought into use by the brawny handed defenders of the rights and homes of American laboring men. When the setting sun shed iis last rays upon tie river the baffled min ions of monopoly in protection’s guise hoisted the white flag and laid down their arms. Labor had won the battle. But not until twenty-one lives had been sacrificed and more than 100 wound ed. The force embraced all the men employed in the extensive plants of the Carnegie Iron and Steel com pany at Homestead, eight miles east of Pittsburg, and a bat- tle, which for blood thirstiness and bioodiness of execution has not been excelled in actual warefare, waged from 4 o'clock in the morning until 5 o'clock this afternoon and only ceased when the force of Pinkertons brought to the place the strike,unconditionally surrender- ed, leaving their arms in the barges some to suppress in which they had been transported to the works. The riot to day was the culmination of the which have been brew stead troubles at Home | month. for the pas negie company submitted a sexle to govern their workmen in the steel plant avd announced that it was their ultimatum. Tho scale 1 sweeping reduction in skilled men and it was officially an nounced that unless the term were complied with before July 1 the places of the workmen would be fit!- ed by others. This was followed by a prempto ry refusal on the part of the com- pany to recognize the Amalgamated Association of Iren and Steel Work- ers, as such, and to confer with any committee of the workmen short of an acceptance of the terms offered. WOULD NEVER SUPMIT. The men stated they would neyer submit to the proposed and announced their to resist any effort on t the Carnegie company tos reduction determination ut of ag conservat | which had held the ‘and all records of { strove. their plant with non-unior 1 both sides were determined, procceeded to prepare for test which culminated in deeds of bloodshed witnessed to-day in the big hive of industry on the Monon- gahela. The contest was precipitated by the workmen at Homestead by hanging H. C. Frick, president of the company, in effigy, and in retal- iation the company ordered an im- mediate shut down of the big works two days before the time provided by the contract under which the men were working. The employes atonce proceeded to organize for the defensive and the company erected a high board fence around the entire works, giving them the appearance of an immense stockade, the sides being pierced with port holes. | Yesterday the Carnegie company announced their intention to proceed to get ready to make repairs and the officials asked the sheriff to appoint deputies to protect their property. both the con- | hundreds of others, armed with guns The sheriff sent a small squad of men up to the works, but the strik- | ers assembled in force and notified | secured a small brass ten pounder | Geeds, however, were committed | them to get out of town as no dis-/ cannon and planted it within a steel | while the prisoners were being ce fyaliurassse> ye em . 1 ‘order was intended that no damage! built embrazure soas to command corted through the str jwould be done to any property. | the bargeswhich were moored at cort EpDOIn ted wat the strikers. sworn in as/ the river ban! ee ito b- give bonds for the Cuties (When aan ory They even offer- deputies andt faithful performauce of their s of the peace. lined tne ee which had this offer was dce | commit been di ree the action of the workmen, turbulent sp immediat thec in check, was The develo that the applica sistance of the for the purpose of ce intended tub part of th clandestinely detectives ments to day trot >a coup ¢ BH introducing into Pinkerton | S| ives had been vyoused some five or six miles the city on the Ohio river at two model barges had been prep or ed for them. The barges weré of | the best build and were usedin ship ping iron rails down the river fiom | the Carnegie miiis at Braddock. | The holds were filled with bunks. cooking arrangements and other 2¢ commodations and as an extra pre ciution, as ifin preparation for the siege to which they were subjected to day, were lined with heavy steel plates on the inside, while the who'e back deck Was protected in a similar manner. It was the intention should reach the about 2 o'clock this morning. but the guards which were on duty along the river got word of the threatened invasion | of the hated Pinkerton meu and pre pared to receive them. The barges were towed up the river by a tow| boat, but long before the Pinkerton men had reached Homestead thou sands of strikers had gathered on the banks of the iver to give them | a warm welcome. When the boats attempted to land the workmen | broke through the fence surround ing the mill and, intrenching the: selves behind piled up steele prepared to resist the landing the detectives. By four o'clock in the morning an effort was made to land the detece tives, but the strikers met th: that the men works mand a fierce battle was pe sides exc shots. The detectives ed with Winchesters, point where the attempt to land wis mide, there nnging ah was a steep embank ment anl they were compelled to ¢ sy in single file aid) were soon driven back to the boats by the stes from the shore The no the battle spread about the bx like wildfire and thousands of men, wowen and ehildren thronged to the river bank to witness the tight | The Pinkerton men were determined to land and they poured volley after volley into the ranks of the strikers, many of whom were stricken down by the bullets some of them beiug fata!ly injared and others killed outrig As the} battle progressed the strikers took up 2 position behind a breast works hastily constructed of steel rails and billets and from this point of safe refuge were able to pick off the de- tectives as soon as they appeared on the deck of the boats PINKERTON MERCENARIES DISABLED. ough in progress. | In the meantime Captain Hind aud Superintendent Kline of the Pinkertons disabled and the tire became so fierce that the crew of the tow boat hastily cut loese from the barge and steamed up the | river,carrying as many of the wound ed as they could reaca to Braddock. from which place they were sent down t> the hospitals for treament at Pittsburg. Seven of the force were thus car ed for, while the strikers that fell | wounded were caried to their homes at Homestead, the dead being taken to the undertaking establishments | in the town. The news of the riot reached Pittsburg as early as 6 o'clock in the morning and thousands | of mill workers who are now idle | pending the conference on the scale congregated in the streets while were and revolvers and well supplied with | Ammunition took up the line of! march to reinforce the strikers. As soon as day broke the strikers | timbers for ithe balls fr ith: detectives to leave the vess=! or of ihe’r Ustruck the detee-) suffer the terrible fate of be tives over the head and shou!ders, baried alive. Hose were wy seri nh some cases} rails | str tated, both 7 f had their revenge. They carried oil con down by bullets fred bythe jit, ihe holds, pomed it into the| ; ; ; é j be uriiiure und then set nit pe evide that the jit on ¢ the bargee paries was cither exhausted cr they river and case at points be-| worn out {9 conti HE low ; ade two } be When the tlawes broke through ‘ the SH Mgt WES | the decks the cheers which rent the react lotwas tired tip Were deafening and the noise Tow = 2 : co + ive aek | made to burn the bouts, with tf Tire hulls o of the| hiss fiei ‘ river wet sterally crowded eet less 2 eled | peepie sho cowd witness from this for rpe SNS (ipl all thet was transpiring J officers of the 2 fod on the battlefield he out of | tien, who went to the serene in thei), ev of the Uy builets | aiteruc ‘Lhe day was one tlist will be re-| | surrender, }sach jed to the place. were sent to the Pittsburg county no allegiance .to By | jail, jeould not be cout hey want-| president Wyhe and Hugh O’Don- ed to see the carnage go on, and it) oy counseled no violence and the| was not until some of the stikers |men did not again meet the guards pointed their guns at the outsiders | yrjce of them were badly eimused | was made it was found that at least |termination to give the jed signs of ‘exbaust between decks by an es- 1 the streets. At the men ti 3 site side of the rotected with threw vad ties “A Duelin Which the Participants ond THREE TEXANS DEAD. She Likes the Family. Denisoo, Texas, July 5.—Mr. and Mrs. Terry Scott of Rod River coun- an Outsider Die Instantly. guests at the Delmonico. The lon, Tex.. J 5 are spending e took p! rth» city. The : with ths fourth “a the wife of o eloes the lon the boats yUTS & ment was kept up boat were s steel p.aies Man were ¢ terior ever, they :ent sh and injury to the port holes of the boa terrib! imprisone: mod When it was foand that 1 pression could be made by too ! non on the boats made 1 ih e town | | to tire the bi and thus co syel i the stocks ei | and vil sprayed on the de of the barges While this wes 5 ao i MADE THEM SALUTE THE FLAG. | being done barrel after barre! of cil sides As ‘ ess Sanat Was Clupiied into the river above the procession reached the mooring place, the object being to Amalgonsted association hall the al'ow it tc float against the boa's P.ukerton’s had to remove their hats and then ignite them. aud + ulate the tlug. When they re- Tins terrible deed was attempted ev d ther Lats mea and women o them with umbrellas and. sticks | nd abused the: inable. termin: scveral times, but the boats did not burn and the mob beea:ne infuriated | and Luiled dynamite bombs at the! sat effect. ain e ry Way Imag- a de Kill the priscners, and | it was with great difficulty that the! restrain +d. finally There seemed to be tion to vessc's with 5 SME FINKERTON’S SURRENDER. | crowd could be Pinkertons) yy, Tie situation of the e meu were locked up| Was <1 i to appall the clone st | in the opera hoase, where they were hea:t. fhe men had not left thel +, po kept for the night. Thousands 1 1 1 t tl : te awe were Cooped ap ab 1© however, gathered aroand the build Meee eee = ete mob tne ing, and the wounded men were tow boat i lett them and th & ptina coustant state of terror, were So ¢ upassed by the mad- jand it was long before their wounds dene Larmy that uo suecor could eould be dressed After the prisozers had been re reac: them 5 : ‘ | T:rce times they run up a flay of trues, barges the ri ters | he but ss many times it was ©) imembered with horn r by the people | eae yallow the Piukertons to! ' F agreed ts allow the Pinkertons to jof the borough as well as but this was not secured without the the =a of the had lost friends an dari who for | the second time will be called upon | to pay enormous amounts of money} | entaile | zens of the entire county, ect zreatest nm on of whom} odin the shape of riot losses. | 1 Atmaidni S-| Pittsbarg sl train ht a sy from charge of McCleary and the Pinkerions outbierks, came up im ands of turbulent « that a heaving was obtained. sent to} At 5 o'clock Se DRS jand crippled. Eleven were the Pinkerton men/+ Pittsburg hospitel. hung out avother white flag, ates Me Dowels this time it w 1 gl Aa committee of st t aboard to prepare terms cf capitulation. ( : theudead: They guaranteed : Suoruy after miduight be returned | the Pinkertons proyided they left to this city aud reported their arms and ammunition behind |}, 7 Rrewed hve Dodie and agreed to leave the place un: | Adispatch just recsived at 11! guard. The detectives had no alter- | | o'clock says one of the detectives native and promptly accepted the gicg in the lock up this evening from terms of the men, some of the men| | the effects of the injuries received saying it was the first,time they bed | ithe march from the boat to the| submitted to such a humiliating sur- g nd : an coroner of Alle-| a \ visited Homestead | as respec and al county, kers wv ung for the purpose cf pre for an inquest on safe conduct for | that he ail Another is expected to die be-| render. fore morning. SEVEN INVADERS KILLED. When an inspection of the boats) Carl Schurz has expressed a de- dem cratic | seven of the Pinkertons were killed | national ticket a vigorous support. and twenty or thirty wounded, many! 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