Evening journal., 1892-07-14
ANXIETY IN HOMESTEAD
Nonunion Workmen to Be
Brought Into the Mills.
THE CRISIS IsEvIDENTLY AT HAND

Large Quantities of Dynamite Alleged
to BE in Possession OF the strikers.
National Gnardsmen Coaxed Into Civ
ing Up Some of Their Cartridges.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 14-News has been
received here that means much to Home
stead The town is still orderly, but no
such excitement has prevailed since the
workmen first learned that Governor Pat.
tison had ordered troops to the town.
Everybody believes that the Carnegie
company has taken the step feared. and that
they have good grounds for the opinion is
shown by the fact that dispatch received
at General snowden's headquarters states
that 400 nonunion men viii be brought into
the Carnegie mill today. Nothing can be
learned as to the direction from which the
men win come and where they have been
engaged.
The officers at headquarters said in reply
to all inquiries that they had no information
TO impart on the subject. But word was
passed to the officers in command of the
different regiments to be in readiness for
orders, and it was noticed that preparations
were being made for a detail Of guards to
quell any disturbance in Homestead OF
vicinity
The question of the hour is, VIII there be
trouble when the nonunion men arrivel
Some say that the strikers viii nurse their
rage until the militia departs, and then IL
will flame forth with a violence that viii
bOde III TO every man here who is outside
of the Amalgamated association pale
There are others who are not certain that
the presence of the soldiery viii be suffi-
cient to prevent some kind of an outbreak
Major General Snowden has located his
headquarters in the Carnegie school house.
a two story frame building on the brow of
the hill and a line Of pickets surrounds the
building.
The encampment on the hill has been
named Camp Black, after Colonel Sam
Black. Two l2-pounder brass cannons and
two Gatling guns We're mounted in front Of
the troops headquarters.
A Startling Dynamite Story.
A sensation occurred among the officers
when a man presented himself at head
quarters who said he was one Of the locked
out Homesteaders. He told story Of
startling interest. It was that in a certain
red building on side street Of the town
was stored dynamite enough to not only
blow up the mills but the entire place.
just what Sction the militia may take in
the matter, if any, it is impossible to learn.
Thus far they are simply a sherin's posse.
and are careful not TO makeany display that
may subject them to the criticism Of being
unduly suspicious Of the people Neverthe-
less it is highly probable that the building
will be most closely watched and in the
event Of any display Of hostility will be
seized
A council Of the officers revealed the fact
rs well that many Of the guardsmen had
been plainly asked by the Homesteaders if
they, who We're mainly worlingmen them
selves, would shoot down other working
men, and that good many Of the troops
had said they would not In quite a few
instances, too, where the boys had been
mixing friendship and beers together, they
had been asked by citizens for cartridges as
souvenirs Of their visit and had given them
up. In consequence Of these interesting
little informal ceremonies there are more
cartridges and ammunition in Homestead
than were paid for, and they are in the
hands Of the very people to disarm whom
and to render poyeress the militia came
here.
The revelation of these things stirred
General Snowden into unwonted wrath.
He read the riot act in divers tongues, illu-
minating it with allusions 30 the picturesque
situation in which some captains and pri-
Yates would find themselves on a repetition
of the oflenses. He declared that il he could
locate the men who had been verdant enough
to give up ammunition as souvenirs that he
would court martial them.
The Leaders May BE Arrested.
The townspeople declared that they had
no ulterior motives in coaxing away the
cartridges; that they meant to use them
simply as ornaments for their mantels and
mementoes OF the guardsman. But, never.
theless, the air is filed with an expansive
smile at the expense of the youthful sol.
diers. A consequence of this is that there
are fewer Of the troops outside the camp,
and those who are have no cartridges with
them that may be lured away.
1t is rumored that Sheriff McCleary con.
templates the arrest of several of the lead.
ers, and in case he makes the attempt the
Homestead worlmen may be aroused to re.
sistance. A number of workmen who did
not conceal the part they took in Wednes
days battle are said TO have left Home.
stead because they fear arrest and prosecu.
tiOn.
THE DUQUESNE MEN READY.