Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-13
POISONED Rood
Alleged to Have Been Given
NOn-UniOn WOrkmen
Employed in the Carnegie Mills
at Homestead.

The Sensational Story OF an Alleged Con-
spiracy Which duplicates tho Advisory
Board, Members of the Amalgamated
Association and Officials of Other Labor
Organizations.
PITTsBURG, Dec. ia Sunday paper
published startling story Sunday of
q conspiracy to poison by wholesale the
non-union men at Carnegie's steel
plant in Homestead. The develop
ments made, it says, implicate
members of the advisory committee,
members of the Amalgamated associa-'
ton and officers of other labor organiza-
tions sympathizing with the locked out
men at Homestead.
Several Have Died.
AS result of this conspiracy, it is al
legged that several persons have lost
their lives, while scores of others are
still suffering at their homes and in hos
pitfalls from the effects of the poisonous
drugs administered to them with Grim
inal intext.
Nine or more persons, more or less
identified with the strike, are under ar
rest ostensibly on less serious charges,
but really for the purpose of averting
suspicion until all those who are claimed
to be in the hellish conspiracy have been
secured.
The only name given of those charged
with administering poison is Robert
Beatty, who was arrested at Louisville
Saturday night. Several Others how
charges, and the new charge will prob
al no nc oil I11,J dor.
surveillance and can be taken at any
moment.
Shortly after the arrival of the militia
at Homestead non-union men in the
mill began to get sick 1t was attributed
to the bad water Water was brought
from elsewhere, but the sickness con-
tinued. The plot, according to the
Pittsburg paper, was revealed by man
who was one of the conspirators. He
said one of the chief cooks at the Home
stead works told him and another man
of plan to poison the food of the men
employed in the mill, so as to make
them sick and render them unable to
work.
He detailed the plan that he had been
pursuing, and asserted that nearly, if
not all, the sickness among the men, of
which reports had been current, was
caused by the poisons which he had
placed in the food, He said he was to
get 50, 900 if he succeeded in closing the
mill. He urged them to accept the
places, told them it would be an utter
impossibility for them to be detected,
and finally left with the understanding
that he would meet them in the city the
next day, give them some advance
money and take them to Homestead
with him.
The two men called upon Chairman
Prick, of the Carnegie company and
laid the matter before him. Upon ad-
vice of the company's attorneys, the two
men We're instructed to meet the cook
and proceed to Homestead with him.
That evening they Went to Homestead,
and they were duly installed in their po-
sitions by the cook. The day after their
arrival a number of men wee reported
sick, and the cook told them how he had
placed the poison-a colOred powder
in the food, and told them to watch for
an opportunity to use it in the food.
Fearing that the men could not be
trusted, two Pinkertons We're engaged
to keepa close surveillance on the in
formants as well as the cooks. The lat
ter became suspicious, and at once dis
continued the use of the powder