Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-08-03
A RIOT
On baltimore aud Ohio Hsnroad Train
Over the Deceit Prscticed on work,n.n.

On . baltimore and Ohio Railroad Train
Over the Deceit Prscticed on workm~n.
PIrrsBURen. Pa. July ga riot oc-
Cured Thursday morning on a l. < O..
train, ON which n party OF fifty-six nom
union men were being transported from
Cincinnati to Pittsburgh. To work in the
Carnegie steel works nj Homestead. in
the melee one man was stabbed in the
forehead with n bayonet, I'm the hands
of an armed guard Another had a
thumb chewed OF. aud nearly n score
of Others we're badly bruised in an at.
tempt TO regain their liberty.
When the train reached PITTSBURGH
only twenty-one men were aboard in
addition tn the armed guard. the other
thirty-five 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 bcino,
taken To Homestead, and when they,
found II out they rebelled. That i
how the riot had its inception. Joscph
Manning Is the name OF young man
who will make affidavit TO these facts
Manning Is n resident of Cincinnati.
and is about % years of age lie is a
printers apprentice. and until last
Tuesday was employed on Cincinnati
paper. He said:
"on last Thursday answered an advertise
mcnt' offering employment at easy labor and
good wages.
II called at tho once OF r. w Nyc. TO Long.
worth street. and was offered work at PITTS.
purgh Nyc said thar IL was easy aud that I
would b. paid seventeen cents an hour and get
my hrsi months board free. No mention was
made OF Homestead.
Yesterday. with afiy.avc Others. 7 started
TO Pittsburgh. There were seven puddicrs und
a number % steel workers from Covington and
Newport, Ky. In the party and they. too. sup
posed that they were 10 get work In Pittsburgh.
After leaving Cincinnati all tho doors ,ycr,
locked and windows fastened down. and We,
were not allowed 10 open them. Mr. Nvr was
IN charge. personally Early this morning W.,
had all been slccpins-whcn we awokc we were
surprised 10 Ind both doors To- our car guarded
by wntchman with gun on his shoulder We
then became suspicious. and some OF the mud.
olcrs sized up the situation and approaching
one OF the guards asked; where nrc We roins,
10 work."
AT Homestead" was the reply
The puddlcrs gathered around the GUARD.
and demanded that the doors be unlocked. and
that they DE allowed 10 leave tho car
The guard rofusad 20 let them pass and then
me puddlers Jumped on him. Then there was a
terrible scene Every man IN the car iutnued
from his seat. some making for the doors. ON.
ors tried 20 break through the windows md
some got into fight
THE guard struck one OF the puddjers with
the bnyonct of his gun and cut "A LONG cash
across his forehead. In sheir frantic efforts To
set out OF the ear, the mon got into a fight be-
tween themselves, and for about half an hour
there was perfect reign OF terror and many
heads and noses were broken AT whitehall
the guard was thrown from his position and the
door was burst open. Then tho men began 10
drop on
The guards made no attempt to shoot but
use their guns a. clubs Several OF the men
we're severely injured, one losing thumb lido
not think that man on the car know That We
were destined 70 Homestead for when that
place was mentioned this morning they became
a. frantic rs animals"
The riot will likely get into court.
Attorney Brennan, OF the Amalgamnted
association, said Thursday afternoon
that within few days charges of con-
spiracy would bc entered against the
parties responsible for bringing the
men TO this city under misrcprcsenta-
tions. lust whether the officials OF tho
Carnegie Co, or the Cincinnati employ.
ment agent who hired the men. is re-
ferred TO, Mr. Brennan declined 20 state.
However, he asserts that all persons
who had hand in bringing the men
here viii be brought to justice.
The Chicago express, due here M s:55
n M, had "A ear containing twentv-one
non-union men Tor Carnegie's attached
to IL at Cincinnati Word was teIe-
graphed 10 the strikers, and at Hella,re.
o., crowd OF striker sympathizcrs at
tempted % board the car for the pur-
pose of persuading the men not TO 90 20
Homestead. They could not get ON the
train, and Agent Nyc, OF Cincinnati.
who was in charge, says they contented
themselves with calling the men
''scabs' and BLACK sheep" and telling
them they would be murdered when
they reached Homestead.
When Lakewood was reached about
twenty-five brawny friends of the
strikers swarmcd on the car and was
soon mingling with the non-union men.
One man used insulting epithets 10
Nye, who pulled his revolver and com
PEELED him 10 get off the car. In the
meantime, three OF the men got ont Of
window. and have not been seen since.
Mr., Nye denies that there was riot
among the men and claims they knew
perfectly well where they were going.