Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-08
A FORMIDABLE ARRAY
Of Strikers at the Carrie Furnaces
Greets All Who Come.
ONE DEPUTY SHERIFF'S HEAD HIT,
And Keating Station in About the Same
Shape Homestead Was.
CHATS WITH THE MANAGERS AND MEN

The little platform that constitutes the
station at Heating, on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. all yesterday
bore striking resemblance to the parade
ground of an old-time militia muster.
Drawn up along its entire length, as though
for dress parade, was long line of men and
boys of all sizes and ages, armed with sticks
and clubs, in lieu of other weapons. This
army was the picket line of the Carrie Fur
mace strikers, and no one was permitted to
pass it from the railroad side of the premi-
ses, except upon sufferance. Every person
debarking from train was stopped and
duly catechised, and, il permitted to pass at
all. was put under strict surveillance. In
justice to these pickets, however, it should
be noted that no violence was offered by
them to any one.
On the hill, though. there was another
force composed OF the more violent element
among the strikers. These men were, some
of them, wrought up, and it would have re-
quired very little provocation to incite
them to violence. In fact, shortly after
ward, special deputy sheriff named
Sweeney, who had been sent up from the
SherifFs Office here to join the posse already
on the ground, was set upon by them and
stoned, receiving severe cut in the back of
his head.
HIS PLUCK INTACT.
He succeeded, however, in getting within
the inclosure and returned in a few mo-
ments with several Of his fellow officers,
with the intention of arresting the man who
had struck him, when the entire party was
set upon by the strikers and put to flight.
Several shots were fired by the Deputy
Sherifs during the melee, but, 50 far az is
known, no one was hit.
The furnace premises proper have q
deserted appearance The Messrs. Fownes,
owners of the plant, Superintendent Mark
Thompson, man named Haller, one
named Baker, and two or three others who
continued at work when the strike began on
Sunday, are still there, together with force
of Sheriff's deputies, numbering about TO-
there for the purpose of guarding the prop
erty. At present. however, their services
appear TO be superfuous, as there has been
no disposition manifested at any time 30 far
by the strikers to injure the plant; they ap-
peared to be determined simply to prevent
other men from going to work. The result
is that one of the two furnaces, the new one,
has already been banked, and the other one
Will be banked to-day.
When the men quit work on Sunday
they drew the charge, but left the iron lying
by the furnace, and the Messrs, Fownes
and the half dozen men who stood by them
have been engaged in carrying and stacking
it themselves. As consequence, they are
tired, dirty and hungry, being literally be-
leagued, and even their food supply having
been shut off yesterday by the strikers.
BOTH sIDEs OF THE FIGHT.
John McGeary, one of the most intelli-
gent of the strikers, in conversation last
evening, set forth the claims of the men for
deprecated all violence, however, but de-
clared that he and his fellow-laborers could
and would win their fight on its merits.
The Frankstown scale, offered by the man.
agement, was, he admitted, a material con-
cession to the "topmen," but would actu-
ally curtail the wages Of the "bottommen"
and "backsidemen."
The management, when questioned re-
garding the situation and outlook, was dis
posed to be reticent. Superintendent
Thompson had nothing to say, and the
ion as to when they would succeed in re-
suming work, although they expressed a
belief that the furnaces would soon be in
blast again, with complete complement of
men.
The strikers were paid off in full yester-
day, and their connection with the estab-
ended
The engineer of the works, Ed Jones. who |
continued at work until yesterday, in care
of the machinery, also quit and came out |
when it was sought to have him perform |
others duties.
Several minor scrimmages occurred during |
f1a1 do in he l..
who were suspected of being in the neigh |
borhood for the purpose of going to work, |
being assaulted, though in no instance was
serious bodily iniury done |