Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-07
CAPITULATED.
The Pinkertons Badly
Done Up.
The Strikers Drag them
from the Barges
And Then Subject Them to Great
CPu6iiy,
AS they March Through the
Streets, Unarmed,
Having Gladly Surrendered to
Save Their Necks.
An Armistice Agreed to And the Pinker-
tons, Demoralized and Scared, are
Allowed to Depart.
AS they March Through the
Streets. Unarmed,
Having Gladly Surrendered to
Save Their Necks.
An Armistice Agreed to And the Pinker'
tons, Demoralized and Scared, are
Allowed to Depart.

Our readers were accurately in
formed by special telegraphic service
of the situation at Homestead 40 to
press time yesterday. After that
hour the situation was one Of intense
gravity. The PinkertOn men Were
in terrible position, being expose
to the peril o. fire, bullets, cannon
shot and dynamite, In all ten
lives were lost, and scores We're
more or less seriously wounded.
The following from The Associated
Press graphically relates the subse-
quent occurrences, and describes the
manner in which the bloody affair
was finally terminated
At5 O'Clock the PiukertOn men hung
out another white flag and tots time
it WAS respected and a committee of
strikers went aboard to prepare terms
of capitulation. They qua anteed
safe conduct to the PinkertOns, pro-
vided they left their guns and am
munition behind and agreed to leave
the place under guard. The detec
tives had no alternative and prompt
ly accepted the terms, some of the
mon saying that it was the first time
they had ever submitted to such
humiiating surrender.
When an inspection of the boats
was made, it was found that at least
seven of the Pinkerton9 had been
killed and twenty or thirty wounded,
many of them so badly that they
will die. AS they were brought
from the boat they presented a ter.
rible appearance. Many were be-
smeared with blood, while all of
them showed slgps Of exhaustion
from the long confinement in the
close quarters between decks.
The most shocking and dastardly
deeds, however, were committed
while the prisoners We're being es
corted through the streets by the c5-
cert of guards appointed by the strik-
ers. An angry mob lined the streets
on both sides. AS the men passed
by, each in charge Of two deputies,
the mill men and their friends kick
ed them and threw some of them
down. The unfortunate detectives
begged for mercy. Some of them
had pistol shot wounds in their heads
and three were seen that had their
eyes out Several were shot in the
shoulders, arms and legs and could
scarcely limp along. Blood was run
ming in streams down their shirts and
they fairly yelled with pain. Fully
thirty injured men were taken to the
town hall. One Of them had his eye
punched out hy an umbrella in the
hands OF woman. Sand WAS thrown
in their eyes and they were hit with
clubs and other missiles. Many were
knocked down with clubs, tramped
upon, and some were too weak to
walk when they were started down
hill The mill men used the stocks
of their rifles aud struck the detec-
tives over the head and shoulders, in
fiicting serious, in some cases perhaps
fatal injuries.
AS the procession reached the
Amalgamated Association building
the detectives had to remove their
hats and salute the flag, When they
removed their hats men and women
hit them with umbrellas and sticks
and ill-used them in every way inn
aginable. There seemed to be de-
termination to kill the prisoners, and
it was with the greatest difficulty
that the demOn.like crowd could be
restrained. The men were finally
LODGED in the opera house, where
they were to be kept for the night.