Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-02
THE VICTIMS BURIED.
SteelwOrkers at Homestead Do Honor
to Their Dead Brethren
BFTURNING OUTAT THE FUNERALS
With Saddened Hearts They Laid the
Four WOrkmen to Rest.
SOME ELOQUENT SERMONS PREACHED

The four employees of Carnegie, Phipps &
Co. who were killed by the explosion of
molten steel in the Homestead mill Friday
afternoon were buried yesterday with honors
of the Amalgamated Association OF Iron
and Steel Workers. The day was very
hot one, and in the streets OF Homestead
the dust was deep. Several hundred people
attended each of the funerals.
Andrew Kebler's home was on Heisel
street, where ne was the owner OF three
houses He left wife and one child, which
is sick with the measles. He was so terri
blv disfgured that his face was not exposed
to the view of friends at the house. His
face was not only blistered all over, but the
nose had been burned off. His right arm
was black stump and below the chest his
body was an almost formless cinder.
Not far away, on Eighth avenue, was the
home of William Fagan, where his mother
and wife mourned his death. He left two
little children, one only week old. He
was not disfgured, and during the morning
hours many friends visited the house and
looked at the face. His widow was too i'll
the day.
The funeral was attended by eight or
ganizations, Acme, Munhall, Washington,
John Kane, Thomas MarlOwe and Armour
lodges of the Amalgamated Association; ST.
Michael's Polish Society and temperance
society of the Catholic Church of st. Mary
Mapdalen. Kebler, Pagan and Bauer were
members of Acme Lodge. The lodges met
in their halls at o'clock, and shortly after
formed on Ann street. The procession
was headed by the Excelsior and Steel
Works Bands. 1t moved to the house of
Andrew Kebler, where his coffin was taken
up by II pail bearers, who relieved one
another by skies. The coffin of William
FagaH was then received into the line, and
the solemn procession moved along Eighth
avenue to Ann and on Ann to Tenth ave-
nue., where ST. Mary Magdalen Church
stands.
HOW THEY MARCHED.
Daniel W. Cush acted as chief marshal
and Thomas Clifford as chief of staff. I'm
mediately behind the Excelsior Band o. H.
O'Donnell, President of Acme Lodge and
Charles NJ. Schwab, Superintendent of the
steel works, walked side by side. Acme
Lodge, which appeared in full force,
acted as the escort of honor, preced-
ing the cofiuS Behind the cofins
the mourners walked in the thick dust, fol-
lowed by the other organizations.
The bodies, at $50, were carried into the
church and placed in front fthe altar. The
building was crowded bY workingmen and
their families. Rev. Father Bullion read
the funeral service, with responses by the
choir. He then delivered a brief discourse,
He dwelt upon the uncertainty OF human
life and the duty of man to be ready at all
times. He expressed his sorrow for the
relatives and friends of the dead, and urged
al who were their friends to pray for the re-
sposeof their souls. The service did not in all
= OCCUPY more than half an hour. During
the prayers one man was overcome by the
heat and was carried out by two comrades.
He soon recovered.
The bodies were then carried to the Pitts
burg, McKeesport and Youghiogheny de-
pot The Steel Works Band led the pro-
cession to the depot. A special train of
nine coaches conveyed the remains and
about 800 persons to Braddock, where the
Interment was made in the Catholic Gene
terry. The new Catholic cemetery at Home
stead is not yet ready for burials. The
Excelsior Band and the Cadet Drum Corps
accompanied the party to Braddock. There
were no services there.
AT 10 o'clock the funeral service was
begun over the body of John Lewis. He
was a married man, but his wife and three
children are in Wales. He had been only
~ months in Homestead and boarded
with Mrs. Ann Davies, on Fourteenth ave-
nue.. Mr.. Lewis was the only one of the
four dead men who was Protestant. The
services were conducted by Rev. BENJAMIN
Rogers, of the Baptist Church.
he WAS NOT A UNION MAN.
Lewis face was severely blistered. His
body was viewed by numerous friends be-
fore the coffin was closed. The Steel
Works Band and about 100 members of the
various lodges of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation escorted the body to the Franklin
Cemetery, a mile southeast of the town.
The steel workers displayed the same re-
spect for John Lewis as for the three other
dead men, although he did not belong to
the association. He had not been in Amer
lea long enough to become a member.
At 1'40 o'clock the train returned from
Braddock. Shortly thereafter the body of
Nicholas Bauer was removed from his home
and conveyed to the Laferty Hill Cemetery,
about SIX miles southwest OF the town, on
the Brownsville turnpike. Bauer was a
man of % years, the son of Stephen Bauer,
who keeps saloon on the borough line, at
the east end. His father, mother three sis
tiers and brother mourned his death. His
mother and his Youngest sister were Sc
verely prostrated by their affictIon, and
their sobs were pitiful as the casket was
borne out of the house and placed in the
hearse. A long line of carriages and bug
gies followed the remains to the cemetery.
The procession was escorted to the borough
limits by the Steel Works Band and about
100 members Of the Amalgamated Assoeia-
tion. In the chapel at the cemetery the
Catholic funeral service was performed.
The proceedings of the day were through
out conducted promptly and with much
decorum. A spirit of genuine respect and
sympathy was manifested. The exceeding
heat made it trying ordeal for the mem
bers of the bands and lodges.
1t was reported last evening that S. II.
Shultz, the railroad weighmaster at the
steel mill, VINO had his arm crushed by the |
cars few minutes after the explosion was
at the point of death. His shoulder was
badly lacerated and his chest was crushed. |
He has wife and five children.