Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-07-14

down. The unfortunate detectives beg
ged for mercy. Some of them had pis
tol shot wounds in their heads, and
three were seen with their eyes shot out
blood was running in streams down
their shirts and they fairly yelled with
PAIN Fully thirty injured men were
taken to the town hall. One of them
mad his eyepunched out by an umbrella
IN the hands of a woman. Sand was
thrown in their eyes and they were
struck with clubs and other missiles.
Many were knocked down with clubs,
trampled upon and some were too weak
to walk when they were started for the
town hall. The mill men used the
stocks of their rifles and struck the de-
tectiyes over the head and shoulders, in
fiicting serious, and in some cases per-
haps fatal, injuries.
AS the procession reached the Anal
gamated association building, the de-
tectives had to remove their hats and
salute the flag. When they removed
their hats, men and women hit them
with umbrellas and sticks and abused
them in every way imaginable.
There seemed to be determination
to kill the prisoners, and it was with the
greatest difficulty that the demon-like
crowd could be restrained. The men
were finally lodged in the opera house,
where they were to be kept for the
night, Thousands, however, gathered
around the building and the wounded
men were kept in constant state of
terror and it was long before their
wounds could be dressed.
After the prisoners had been removed
from the barges, the rioters had their
revenge. They carried oil into the holds
poured it over the bedding and furni-
ture,and then set ton fire, first securing
the barges so that they could not float
down the river and cause damage at
points below. When the flames broke
through the docks, the cheers which rent
the air were deafening and the noise
could be heard miles away. The hills
on either side of the river were literally
crowded with people who could witness
from this high point all that was tran
spring ON the battle field and to be out
OF range of the deadly bullets. The
day was one that will be remembered
with horror by the people of the bor-
ough, as well as the citizens of the en-
tire country, who for a second time,
will be called upon to pay an enormous
amount of money entailed in the shape
of riot losses.
Homestead was strangely silent
Thursday morning. Itwas the quiet of
sober after thought. The leaders are
wondering what will be the next step.
The men are bathing their wounds, or
making preparations to bury their
dead. Except for the large crowd of
sightseers the town was more than
normally still. The leaders of the men
propose at once to have all the damage
done by the rioters repaired, in order
to prevent any suits for damages from
the company. The old guards were
secured by the men, and placed on
duty to again look after the company s
interest.
The call of the sheriff for posse was
received here with good natured de-
rision. The men are confident that the
sympathy of the citizens is evidently
so much with them that no good men
would volunteer. They declare that
had the guards not come there would
have been no violence. As evidence
of their sincerity committee of three
went through the works at an early
hour this morning and coiled up ropes
and hose, took down all barricades and
removed so far as possible all evidences
of the conflict. The mill yard was alb
solutely deserted when reporter visit
ed it. A few tlattened bullets, a smoul-
dering post on the river bank and
barrow full of bolts and broken pig
iron to have been used in loading the
cannon were the only vestiges of the
combat.
The barges of the Pinkerton men,
after having been looted and set on
fire, were showed from the river banks
and the charred hulks foated down the
river The men are confident of their
power, and while they are determined
to preserve the peace locally they will
brook no outside interference. They
look upon the dead as covenant OBJ
liging them to hold the Homestead mill
for Homestead workmen.
Five carloads of Pinkertons, who
came to Pittsburg Wednesday night,
were sent back to New York by spe-
cial train on the Pennsylvania railroad
the next morning.
HARRISBURG, Pa, July 1O.-An en-
tire division of the national guard of
Pennsylvania, about eight thousand
men, has been ordered to Homestead to
support Sheriff McCleary in supressing
riots at that place.
This action of the governor was taken
on receipt of the following dispatch:
PrrTsBURG, Pa, July 10.-To Robert
E. Pattison, governor, Harrisburg: The
situation at Homestead has not i'm
proved. While all is quiet there, the
strikers are in control, and openly ex-
press to me, and to the public, deter