The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-06
RIOT
On baltimore and Ohio Railroad Train
over the Deoeit Practiced on workmen.

On n baltimore and Ohio Railroad Train
over the Deoeit Practiced on worlsrnen.
PiTTsBUReH Pa, July ga riot oc-
eurred Thursday morning on b. g. o.
train. on which party of fifty-six nom
union men were being transported from
Cincinnati to Pittsburgh, to work in the
Carnegie steel works at Homestead. In
the melee one man was stabbed in the
forehead with bayonet, in the hands
of an armed guard. Another had
thumb chewed off, apd nearly II score
of others were badly bruised in an at
tempt TO regain their liberty.
When the train reached Pittsburgh
only twcnty-one men were aboard in
addition to the armed guard, the other
thirty-fve having escaped from the car
between Whitehall station, on the
Wheeling division, and the depot in this
city. When they left Cincinnati, the
men did not know that they were being
taken to Homestead, and when they
found it out they rebelled. That is
how the riot had its inception. Joseph
Manning is the name of young man
who will make affidavit to these facts.
Manning is n resident of Cincinnati,
y
printers apprentice, and until last
Tuesday was employed on Cincinnati
paper. He said:
"On last Thursday answered on advertise
ment, Offering employment at easy labor and
good wages.
"I called at the office of +. w. Nye, 1iO Long.
worth street, and was offered work ut Pitts.
burgh. Nye said that II was easy, and that
would be paid seventeen cents an hour and get
my first months board free. No mention was
made of Homestead
yesterday, with fifty-hve Others 1 started
to Pittsburgh. There were seven puddlers 0nd
a number Of steel workers from Covirigton and
Newport, KY, in the party, and they, too, sup
posed that they were to get work in Pittsburgh.
After leaving Cincinnati all the doors were
locked and windows fastened down. and we
were not allowed to open them. Mr., Nye was
in charge, personally. Early this morning-we
had all been sleeping-when we awoke we were
surprised to find both doors to our car guarded
by watchman with gun on his shoulder We
then became suspicious, and some of the pud-
dlers sized up the situation, and approaching
one of the guards asked: "Where are we going
TO work.
"At Homestead" was the reply
THE puddlers gathered around the guard,
and demanded that the doors be unlocked and
that they be allowed to leave the car.
1.-The guard refusad to let them pass and then
u
terrible scene. Every man in the car jumped
| from his seat some making for the doors, 9th
ers tried to break through the windows, and
some got into fight
"The guard struck one of the puddlers with
the bayonet of his gun, and cut long cash
across his forehead. In their frantic efforts to
get out of the car, the men got into fight be-
tween themselves, and for about half an hour
there was perfect reign of terror, and many
heads and noses We're broken At Whitehall
the guard vas thrown from his position and tho
door was burst open. Then the men began to
drop off.
1.-THE guards made no attempt to shoot, but
use d their guns as clubs. Severalof the men
were severely injured, one losing thumb lido
not think that man on the car knew that we
| were destined to Homestead, for when that
place was mentioned this morning they became
| Us frantic as animals"
The riot will likely get into court.
Attorney Brennan, of the Amalgamated
association, said Thursday afternoon
that within few days charges of con-
spiracy would be entered against the
parties responsible for bringing the
men to this city under misrepresenta-
| tions. just whether the officials of tho
| Carnegie Co., or the Cincinnati employ
ment agent, who hired the men, is re-
ferred to, Mr. Brennan declined to state.
However, he asserts that all persons
who had hand in bringing the men
here will be brought to justice.
The Chicago express, due here at S:5d
a. M, had car containing twenty-one
non-union men for Carnegie's attached
to it at Cincinnati. Word was tele
graphed to the strikers, and at Bellaire,
O., crowd of striker sympathizers at
tempted to board the car for the pur-
pose of persuading the men not to go tc
Homestead. They could not get on the
train, and Agent Nye, of Cincinnati
who was in charge, says they contenteC
themselves with calling the men
''scabs" and 'blacll sheep" and telling
them they would be murdered wher
they reached Homestead.
When Hazlewood was reached abou
twenty-five brawny friends of thu
strikers swarmed on the car and wa
soon mingling with the non-union men
One man used insulting epithets tx
Nye, who pulled his revolver and com
PEELED him to get off the car. In th'
meantime, three of the men got out o
window, and have not been seen since
Mr., Nye denies that there was a rio
among the men and claims they knew
perfectly well where they were going.