, 1892-07-06
BLOODY WAR.
Battle in PittSburg With Pink
eTtOl Men.
SCORES OF MEN ARE KILLED
AND WOUNDED.
The Fighting LOCked-Out Men
Have a Cannon.
A FIERCE ASSAULT WITH ALL
SORTS OF FIRE ARMS.
The Battle Still Raging--A Flag of
Truce is DishOnOred.-- the
Buildings and the River
Set on Fire.

Buildings and the River
Set on Fire.
PITTsBURG, July GA bloody battle
between the Pinkerton detectives and
locked out employees at the Homestead
Works is going on here.
The great lockout in the iron industry
in this vicinity has borne its first fruit.
Between a dozen and twenty Pinkerton
officers and locked out iron and steel
workers are either dying, dead or more or
less seriously wounded as the result of an
encounter between them early this morn
ing. The battle is still in progress and
there is no telling what dreadful results
may come before the close of the day. Fol-
lowing is the story of the battle and its
antecedents; Early this morning 800
Pinkerton detectives arrived in Pittsburg
from the east and marched quietly to
Monongahela, boarded barges and started
for the Homestead Works, towed by the
steam tug Tide, at 2:15 this morning. The
locked-out employees were notified of this
move and when the barges arrived at
Homestead 5000 people including men,
women and children, were waiting to meet
them. AS soon az the Pinkerton's attempt
ed to land they were warned off by the men
AND A BATTLE FOLLOWED.
The PinkertoDs were armed with Win
chester rifles and the opposing crowd
chiefly with revolyers. The Pinkertons
opened fire and at the first volley two
workmen fell. This enraged the crowd,
They bore down on the Pinkertons with
resistless force. The Pinkertons fell back
but continued firing and finally the crowd
on the bank retreated and climbed over
heap of rubbish toward the big trestle
leading to the Penicky railroad bridge,
Z 'Nree hundred armed workmen, however,
stood their ground and desultory firing
was kept up. Finally they two we're
compelled to fall back from the whitening
fire of the Winchesters. The first shot came
from the barge. The first man to fall was
Martin Merry, heater in one Of the mills.
He was shot inside and fell face forward
A big Hungarian standing beside him
stopped over and was in the act of raising
his PROSTATE body when he too, was struck
by bullet and fell beside his comrade.
Others rushed to the spot, picked up the
bodies and carried them behind the trestle.
One of the rescuers, a Welshman, name
unknown, was wounded in the leg. Merry
and the Hungarian were taken to physi-
clans office who examined their wounds
and said both
WOULD PROBABLY DIE.
Five more strikers were wounded, two
! seriously, but they were spirited away and
their names are not obtainable. Five Pink
4 ertons are reported wounded, four danger
ously, including their captain.
1 Day was just breaking when the lights Of
a steamer with its barges on either side
1 flashed through the gray Yapor over the
| waters before the eyes of the people on the
bank. The crowd ran pell-mell toward the
works. Coming to high fence which sur
rounds the works, the men used their
shoulders as batterlng rams and in twink
1 ling threw down the barrier. Men, women
and children rushed toward the point on
/ the shore of the river for which the hOtilla
was headed, and gathered in a mass at the
waters edge. Slowly the boat edged toward
/ the landing and when the keels of the
barges grated on the sand the grim faces
of the invaders were within a few feet of
their opponents on the shore. There was
an instant of
AWFUL SILENCE,
then bright fash and a sharp report an
nounced the commencement of the dread
full work. The firing became general on
both sides. The strikers retreated for a
moment, but quickly rallied a short dis
/ tance from the boat, which held its own by
sheer weight of numbers, and compelled
the deputies to proceed cautiously. Sud
denly forty or fifty deputies attempted to
| Jump ashore. The strikers responded with
a sharp volley, driving the invaders back
to the semi-shelter of the lower deck.
Their captain was carried to the pilot house
of the steamer. One of his men informed
the associated press reporter that, although
the wound was serious, it was not fatal. A
/ number of other detectives were more or
less seriously wounded in this encounter.
Then there was a lull in the battle, and the
! Pinkertons were seen gathering on the
lower deck of the steamer and the work
men on shore sending committee to scour
the Homestead for ammunition.
THE WOUNDED.
The following workmen are wounded
William Fry, probably fatally; Michael
Murray, dangerously; Andrew Scurler,
seriously; John Kane, badly; Harry
badly. 1t is not known just who was shot
on the boat, but the number was fully a
half dozen. One man dropped as if killed.
The men on shore, fearing the detectives
would get inside the works, tore down a
hundred feet Of the enclosure.
FIGHTING WAS RENEWED
shortly after a. m. and the battle con.
tinued half hour. The second conflict
was preeipitated by another effort by the
Pinkerton men to land. A number Of work
men were injured in the second encounter
but their names cannot now be obtained
The widest excitement prevailed, Thou.
sands of workmen from all surrounding
places were supposed to be marching to re-
inforce the strikers. William Fry, shot in
the first encounter is dead. Henry Strei
gel was killed. Several others were
wounded in the second engagement
The workmen have built fertilization o.
steel bars on the river bank and over
thousand men are behind it. 1t is sup
posed that several Pinkertons we're killed
On the boat. At $3.50 firing was slowly