Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-12
300 MORE MEN WANTED.
Mr.. Gcisler Tells How His Men Were
Routed-They Were Badly Scared and n
Few Were Hurt-Mr. Abbott's I,struc.
tions TO Employmeut Agents.

MIR. Gcisler Tells How His Men Were
Routed-They Were Badly Scared and n
Few We're Hurt-Mr. Abbott's I,struc.
tions TO Employment Agents.
August Geisler's employment Office at the
foot of Grant street yesterday afternoon re-
sembled house of refuge after a battle.
Geisler sat behind his desk with black eve
and swelled face, and grouped around him
were his men returned from the siege at
Homestead. One had his face patched up
with court plaster; another was nursing an
arm, and all were pretty we'll demoralized.
When asked for an account of his trip to
Homestead, Mr.. Geisler said: "We started
at $50 this morning with 40 men. We had
a car to ourselves and the doors were locked
The Sheriff asked the men if they had
anv weapons They had none. He then told
them not to talk at all or answer any taunts;
that he would do all the talking. If there was
any trouble. When we got to Six Mile Ferry
he told me to 60 back, as there would be trou-
BILE if the strikers saw me, and it was not neces-
sary for me to be there. So got off the train
and crossed over the river to Glenfield to catch
the B. & o. train, and when it came six of my
men were on it. They had escaped from the
train at Homestead and crossed the river. The
train went on"
''At Homestead, SO my men tell me, the
strikers surrounded the train and told the men
that there would be trouble If they went on.
There was a rush to get out of the car and six
escaped, the crowd of strikers chasing them
and howling like hyenas The train started be-
fore any more could get off. The men tried to
get off all the way to MunhaIl station, but the
train did not stop. When it did the strikers
poured in through the windows and put the
men off They took one man bodily and carried
him to the road and gave him toss into the
ditch. They also threw stones at the windows.
The Sheriff could do nothing; he didn't have
time to talk. and no talk would stop such men,"
Edward Meyer, one of the men, then told his
story of the fray in German. He said: THE
strikers howled around us like wild Indians
and brandished their clubs. The men were
scared nearly out of their wits. / was hustled
out of the car, and before / got off the steps
they pounced on me. One grabbed one arm
and pulled one way; another pulled the other.
Someone hit me here with a bludgeon (show-
ing his black eye). They drove us down to
Homestead like so many wild animals. They
wouldn't let us stay there to catch train, and
we started down the track, they following us
Pittsburg about noon. The strikers gave one
of the men so cents and food and sent him
home"
Catching up the thread of the exciting story
where Meyer left of, Geisler said: II got home
at noon, and the men came in groups until all
of the 40, except the three who got into the
works, had come back. They were a rail
straightener, a heater. and a laborer. went
up to see MIR. Abbott, and he told me to keep
the men until further orders. He said it was
fight to the finish, and he would
take the men up If it took all summer. He
didn't like the Sheriffs way of doing things,
and said he should have had deputies. He said
that he thought he would have protection for
the men at the works tomorrow"
II see in the paper that it Is said that Mr..
Abbott didn't give me orders to get men. He
didn't, but Mr.. Schwab, his superintendent,
did"
Geisler showed an order for Is men from
Schwab and said that the number was after
ward increased The order called for Germans,
Hungarians and all the English obtainable.
Mr.. Geisler said that his orders now were to
get all the lsborers he could of any nationality
and afterward they would get skilled laborers.
Geisler had this bulletin printed: Wanted
800 men to work in a steel mill. He said the
company paid the board and wages of the men
as if they worked.
Twelve of the returned men were at Emil
Dorner's place. but none could speak English
and Dorner would not talk.