The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-07
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| slightly injured. These are all residents
OF Homestead, and are nearly all work.
men employed in the Carnegie mills.
FoRTIFYING THEIR HOMES.
The mill hands leaders think it exceed
| ingly improbable that the firm could get
more men just now for guard duty. IL
Is certain that many homes in Homestead
are arsenals. for the men captured 500
rifles In the barges, and they know how
to use them, too, now and will if other
men are brought here. They do not
themselves look upon this as a decisive
| contest and they expect other battles.
| AS the smoke clears away the mill men
realize that this move to put the works in
the care of Pinkerton detectives was con-
templated and prepared for weeks ago,
before there was the first breath of
| trouble, and this thought maddens the
| workers.
When. shortly after midnight, the vol
uu,eer deputy sheriffs of the Amalga-
mated Association assisted the Pinker-
| tons imprisoned in the Rink Opera
House to depart frem there it was the
signal for relapse iato quiet, but it
was an armed bivouac, and the workmen
have not ceased one whit their alertness
| and determination.
| The fight ceased for the time because
there was nobody left to fight. The
Pinkertons were permitted TO return to
Pittsburg. and about thirty of them were
taken directly to the hospitals. there to
have their wounds dressed.
THE sHERIFF's coNTEMPTIBLE COURSE.
| At half-past eight this morning the
rumor reached Homestead that Governor
Pattison had arrived at PittsDurg under
cover of the night, coming on a special
train at four o'clock this morning. The
rumor spread like wild fire, and in ten
minutes the streets of the town were
thronged with angry men and women
| ready to fight.
The Pittsburg morning papers, though
all but one are Republican. criticize
| Sheriff McCleary more or less severely
and on the street it is declared that he is
doing his best to "put Governor Pattison
| In holen
1t is declared that the Sheriff might
have saved all this bioodshed and the
trouble that is surely yet TO come had he
taken the matter in hand at the proper
time. The Despatch says
| "The Governor is correct in the opinion
that military arms should not be resorted
to until civil authorities failed"
Then it adds, referring to the advance
aud retreat without protest of twelve
| Deputy Sheriffs:-"But 1t is difficult to
see how there could be more complete
| demonstration of the lnadequacy of the
civil power than was presented all day
yesterday"
| THE SHERIFF WAIVERS.
| $50 A. M.-It is difficult to get nearer
than 100 feet of Sheriff McCleary's office.
There is a crowd of at least 500 people
| there. and it has been given out that there
| are $50 volunteers there ready to be sworn
in as deputy sheriffs, in response to the
proclamation issued by the Sheriff late
last night.
| 1t is said that the Sheriff wavers. and is
doubtful how to act. At any rate the
men are not being sworn in as yet and
the Sheriff is c)oseted with advisors.
The report that Governor Pattison had
come to town seems to be without found
alton. at least no one can be found who
knows anything about 1t. The streets of
Pittsbutg are filed with people who pc
ruse the many newspapers and scrutinize
the bulletins.
There is apprehension of some unex-
| pected outbreak at Homestead. like that
which startled and Mortified the city yes
terday morning.
1880 A. M.-Deputy Sheriff Marshall.
| who has in charge the work of swearing &
in the special posse of $50 men, says lugu-
| briously that there has not been single
| volunteer, and only twenty-five men have
obeyed the peremptory summons ad-
| dressed to them by Sheriff McCleary.
| The summons reads like this:-
| s.Mr. You are hereby summoned to
| appear at Sheriff's Office on tomorrow morning
| Thursday morning, at nine O'Clock, with arms
| and subsistence, to aid the Sheriff in suppress
sing riot now in progress at Homestead.
| "(Signed) WILLIAM McCLEARy, Sheriff
"Pittsburg, Pa, July 6, 1892"
| Such summonses were sent out yester-
day to 500 citizens.
| Mr.. Marshall says that his advices from
Homestead are that all is quiet and peace
| full about the iron works. and he says
| that the posse will not move upon Home
stead to-day.
"It is wicked to irritate the men, said
| Marshall. sit was wrong for that Pinker-
| ton posse to go to Homestead. 1t brought
| on all the trouble. The men were peace
able before their arrival, and we do not pro-
pose to molest them SO long as there is no
| violence there"
| THE DETECTIVES STORIES
| The Pinkerton detectives from Home
stead arrived In this city at 2:40 this
morn ing. Twenty y-seven of their number
were wounded and were sent to the West
| Pennsylvania Hospital. They one and
all refused to make any statement or to
| be interviewed.
| They will not be taken from the city,
but will be removed to the county jail to
await trial for murder.
John MCGOWAN, one of the injured
men, said that the majority of the men
were injured early in the fight. He
| said:-
"We were told that we were to act as
watchmen; that there would be little
| trouble in getting into the works. but af =
| ter we were once in everything would be
all right. II they call that a little trouble
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