The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-07-07

gested that a truce be arranged until the
arrival of the sheriff. He said white flag
would be carried to the bank, and he was
going to explain his plan further when q
howl arose from q thousand throats.
''Show the white fiasY Never!" was the
cry. They shot at one flag this morning,
and If there is any white flag to be shown
it must fly from the boats"
What will we do thenfv asked O'Don-
nell.
Eve will hold them in the boats until
the sheriff comes. and will have warrants
sworn out for every man for murder. Ihe
said one man, aud shouts of approval rent
the air. Seeing that this was the desire of
the men, ODonnell stepped down and went
to work TO keep them to that and prevent
further conflict if possible.
While the meeting was In progress in the
mill another was being held by the be-
leaguered ones In the boat The result was
shown by o white handkerchief being eau
tiously showed out of an opening. and cheers
greeted IT. They surrender,s Victory" ,'
rang out. Then Hugh O'Donnell, &C:
the old advisory committee, ran
down the steep bank to receive the mes
Pinkertons announced that they would
surrender'oD condition that they be pro-
tected from the violence of the mob. After
a short parley this was agreed TO, though q
multitude OF enraged people were nowllng
for the blood Of the Een who killed their
comrades.
As soon as the committee had arranged
the preliminaries hundred or more from
the shore climbed upon the boat A United
Press reporter went into the frail craft.
and there found six dead and many
wounded Pinkerton men: Asked where
they came from. one big fellow, who
looked like tough. said Boston
and Chicago had furnished the most
of them, but there were some from other
places. Not moro than couple Pittsourg
men were in the gang, he said. His ex-
perience in the boat was the worst he ever
had, though he had been In some warm
places. Some OF the men: he said.
even cried for fear and but few
whole skins. The steel workers did not let
them talk long. but ordered them to hurry
out. The first one to leave had his Winches-
ter rifle with hlm. ''Disarm them," cried
the mob, and the rifles were tLen taken
away from all and became the property of
looting of the boat. The uniforms the
guards had intended to wear were either
thrown into the river OF Civ
en- to the Hungarians. Everything
was ssnssssa away s1f By shs
When the boats had been looted the march
of the captured crew began. Down the
gang plank, one by one. they came, and
that they might % distinguished from tn6
men on the bank so that none would get
away. they were forced TO walk with un-
covered heads.
Hugh O'Donnell took q representative of
the United Press into the yards of the
steel works and escorted him around and
among the workmen during the battle.
The men who were doing the gshooting
kept themselves concealed. and every few
minutes peered carefully out and fired at
whatever they thought worth shooting. 1t
is believed that they killed or
badly wounded four or five from
to IL o'clock, which was the
time the third fusillade of the day
was thickest. About five hundred men
congregated in knots about the works or
upon the railroad overlooking the river
and exposed themselves to fire from the
Plnkertons in the barges with the utmost
recklessness. OCCASIONALLY bullet from
the barges would strike one of the rifemen
and he would have to be helped out
of the works Stretchers were brought
into play two or three times during the
morning, and the dead wagon of an under
taker was driven almost to the river bank
after the only. man who had up to that
hour been shot dead since the first attack
on the Pinkertons.
The tug boat, Little Bill. came in for an
equal share of the strikers lire with the
PInkerton barges, and twice as men upon
her were seen to drop the crowds on the
railroad sent up mighty cheer. The boat
flew the American flag and the strikers
anger seemed to be augmented at sight OF
IT.