The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-11-18
HOMESTEAD,
The Borough Again the Scene
of BlOOdshed.
Hot Fight Between Negroes and
Union Men.


Fire Into the Crowd Several People
Badly WNunded and More Trouble L,
Looked for at Amy Moment.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, Nov. IA fight
started on Fourth avenue Sunday after
noon. Two colored men who work in
the mill met striker, who said some
thing to them. They replied, and the
striker knocked one down. With ex-
| traordinary suddenness about twenty
persons, including children and women,
| assembled in few moments. Both
negroes fought hard, but stones began
to fly, and the men We're besting them,
| when one colored man drew a revolver
and opened fire. By this time there
were fully 500 persons on the street, and
the bullets whistling over their heads
started panic.
Three men knocked down the second
negro, and when he arose he had two
revolvers in his hands. He started to
run, shooting wildly backward as he did
80. 1t is said a boy received a flesh
wound in the leg, but his name is un-
known. By the time the colored man
had reached City Farm lane six other
cOlOred men came along and were as
down Fourth avenue, in the direction of
Mcclure street, near where their lodging
house is situated.
Some one hurled brick which hit
Washington Paul on the head. He
opened fire and so did the others. In a
minute the air was full of bullets, and
in front of the colOred men there was a
terrified crowd rushing into houses for
shelter, or lodging up alleys. A woman,
fr,y F,.sr rl,Ac 4
and as they passed one of the non-union-
lists shot at her three times. one bullet
passing through her shawl, which she
had thrown over her head.
When the cOlOred men reached their
house they run in and barred the door.
In minute the house was surrounded
by an infuriated crowd who soon tore
down the fence and shattered every win
dow with stones. When the deputies
and borough officers arrived, some per-
sons were suggesting that they burn the
house, and some began to yell, Lets
lynch the niger black sheepr' This
was taken up, aud cries of Hang
them !" were heard on all sides.
The officers went in to arrest the col
ored men and found them huddled in
one room, terrified and expecting to be
killed. One man, however, was not
afraid, and said he would be the first to
leave. AS he was taken out a woman
hit him with a frying pan, cutting his
head.
The deputies tried in vain to keep the
crowd away while they took the man to
the lookup, but he was hit several
times. Stones We're also hurled and
Deputy Montgomery was struck. The
officers then drew their revolvers and
that if any more stones were
thrown they would have to open fire. \
Slav threw rock which crashed |
through n window, already half shat |
tered. He was arrested, but the author
tiles seemed almost pOweTiess, for by !
cred. Several other cOlored men were |
beaten on the way to the lookup.
Marion Conrad, another On-uniOnist, |
owns n house above Ann street. on |
Fourth avenue. During the shooting a |
large crowd gathered in front of his |
house, and when he appeared began to |
threaten him. Conrad is sworn III as a
deputy sheriff. and he stood in his door
with a revolver in either hand, and he
said he would shoot the first man who
entered the gate. Several deputies then
arrived, thus keeping back the crowd
for an hour, when it dispersed.
The excitement subsidized as rapidly as
it had begun. and by nightfitiI no un
usual crowds were noticeable on the
street.
The town is in a fever of excitement
over the events of Sunday. At noon
Monday aboTt 800 men and women
gathered about the lookup where the
cOloreG nCn-uuiOnists We're under arrest.
They were given hearing before JUS
-ice Oeffner Monday afternoon.
The strikers are in no pleasant frame
0f mind from the fact that some of their
number We're among the wOun'.ed.
Among the wounded We're: McTad-
len, Patrick. and boy whose name has
not been learned. McFadden was shot
n the right arm. Hickey was shot in The
light hand, and the bow received a flesh
wound in the leg. The injured have all
1een safely sccreted and the closes in
TestiGation by the deputies has not
walled III disclosing their hiding places.
The prisoners in the lookup arc:
William Scott, i. Mills. William Care,
louis Thompson, Harris Holmes. Mi
on Gaines. II. Wilson. j. v iiiiiras. ail
:Olored; James Jones. Pete .ic..iIi5ter.
Nike Barco and NJ. Sullivan. stri.e..a.
All are charged with aggravated riot
Quinn Schaefer and Th0mas Young,
olOred, were arrested Monday morning
harged with felOnious assauit. having
lred upon the officers who were attempt
ng to make arrests. Two strikers
named Conbon and Wall We're also ar
ested for assaulting non-uniOn men as
hey were going to their work. Sheriff !
llcCleary arrived here at noon.