Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1892-11-17
HOMESTEAD.
The Borough Again the Scene
of BlOOdshed.
Hot Fight Between Negroes and
Union Men.

The Blacks, When Attacked by n Gang
of the strikers, Draw Rcvoivers and
Fire Into the Confessional People
Badly Wounded and More Trouble Is J
Looked for Mt Any Moment.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, Nov. IA fight
started on Fourth avenue Sunday after
noon. Two colorcd men who work in
the mill met a striker. who said some
thing to them. They replied, and the
striker knocked one down. With ex-
traordinary suddenness about twenty
persons. including children and women.
assembled in few moments. Both
negroes fought hard, but stones began
tqaqted d bahfc:: 49, i----------l-----
Three men knocked down the second
negro. and when he arose he had two
| reyolvers in his hands. He started to
RIM shooting Wildly backward as he did
90 N is said boysreceived flesh
wound in the leg, but his name is I'M
rroyrn nv the time the eIored man
haj reached City Farm bne y, other
solored men came along and wer. s.
.orlted. They all drew guns ana T..
down Fourth avenue, in the directio'i ~,
Mcclure street, near where their longing
house is situated. -. .,,,;ob hit
some one hurled a brick which ~
Washington Paul on the heau' T., ' :
opened fire and so did the ot nSIs nS
- front Of the colored men there was
ta,rif;ed crowd rushing into houses loi
shelter or dodging up alleys. woman .
! Zoo FRIGHTENED to run. stood on tine slree'
3 90 as they nassed one of the non-uiil =,
: a. shot nj her three times. one puIie
n .aoss;nr, through her shawl. WHICH si
n had thrown over her head H., ,he;
= When the colored men reached ,hel
.o,,sa they run in and barred the uoDi
Io a minnie the house was surrouiue'
u ~, an infuriated crowd who soon IoI'
Q AVN the fence and shattered every WI,
49, with stones. When the ueputi.
and borough officers arrived, SOM ~, ~
sons were suggesting that they VuiT -,
II honse and some began TO yell L ~
, houp Ne niger black sheepT ~
Of was taken up, and cries Oh
~, " were heard on all sides.
u" Tie officers went in to arrest tne GO
"a o.a5 mon and found them huddleu
e. one room. terrified and expecting 10
or i,;Iiaa One man, however, was ",
" n,ra;d and said no would be the first
80 As he was taken out womu
hit him with a frying-pan, cutting Il
head o;, % keon II
c,nvd away while they took the ilan
,r- the Lookup, but he was hlt s9'o,
n times. stones were also huIteu a.
- Dcuuty Montgomery was stru '., a,
=, officers then drew thelf reNo l,,o, voc
IN announced that if any moro stohss W.
ted .hro,yn they would have 10 open hre.
ley o., tbrey n rock which crash
yht throuch n window, already half sn
nr tared Ale was arrested, but the auth
,rn ;t;es seemed almost powcrless' ioI
,ho this time over 1000 persons hau ga
ny ny ia several other cOlored men w
S hooten on the way TO the lookup
an Marion Conrad, another non-umoh'
,so1 Owns house above Ann street.
I Tia Fonrth avenue. During the shooua'
4 no 40 large crowd gathered in 'front.' Oh
, Of house. and when he appeared uo - !
threaten him. Conrad Is sworn III :
deputy sheriff. and he stoou III NJ oI
with revolver in elther nahu, 80 a.
ices said he would shoot the hrst man
lloyy ontarod the gate. Several deputies
and arrived, thus keelahS "%5
hoie ~ tn excitement subsidized rs rapdl
1. had begun, ana by nightfdl no
nsnal crowds were noticeaple Oh
were The town Is in fever OF exciten
3 the over the events of Sunday. Az
NJ Monday about 800 men ana wo
made Gathered about the lookup wheie
5 rec eolored non-unionists were under AZ
J an They were given hearing ooiote
ice Oeffuer Monday afternoon. =,
The strikers are in no pleasant !,
,roat- of mind from the fact that some oil
ornher were among the woun Ieu,
INNS Among the wounded were' NC
these don patrick, and a boy whose nam
nre to uot been learned. Mcfadden was
. The in the right arm, Hickey was shot
, best r;ght hand. and the boy received
ntain- wound In the leg. The injured a''
seed been safely secretea and the ciuse
lover yestigation by the deputies ma
ayailed in disclosing their hidihs y
'A' o. The prisoners in the lookup
year; william Scott, l.. Mills, William ,
rs. y. Ionis Thompson, Harris Holmes,
~ and con Gaines. H. Wilson, j. William
ne best colored, James Jones, Pete McAl
"a drill MIC Barco and M. sullivan, SUI
- than All are charged with aggravated 7
ala ~ Quinn Schaefer ana Ihoinas
- a. colored, were arrested MONDAY rn
ooe, 70 charged with felonious assault, !
irilled' 6raa unon the officers who were az,
adcast, inc 10 make arrests. Two 81
rolling named Conbon and Wall were a
ie. II rested for assaulting non-union J
sowing they were going TO their work
McCleary arrived here at noon