The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-11-17
euLLeTs FLY.
Homestead Thrown Into Pente by .
Fight Between Nen-Union Mon and Oar
neRis STRIKERS.

noon. Inside of twenty minutes over
fifty shots were fired, and Fourth ave-
nue. was in wild state of panic and dis
order.
Two eolored men who work in the
mill were walking toward the mill,
when they met striker, who said some-
thing to them. They replied, and the
striker knocked one down. ..
With the same characteristic sudden
ness which has always characterized
Homestead, so far as the gathering of
crowds is concerned, about twen5 5y pei
sons, including children and women, as
sembled in few moments. Both the
colored men fought hard, but stones
began to fly, and the mon were beating
them when one colored man drew a re-
volver 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
colored man, and when he arose he had
two revolvers in his hands. He started
to run, shooting wildly backward as he
did So 1t is said boy received
wound in the leg, but his name is un-
known.
BY the time the colored men had
reached City Farm lane six other col
ored men came along and were assault
ed. They all drew guns and ran down
Fourth avenue in the direction of Nc
Clure 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 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, too frightened to run. stood
on the street as they passed. One of
the non-unionists shot at her three
times. One bullet passed through her
shawl, which she had thrown over her
head Two bullets went through win
dows of residences, and one buried
itself in the window"sill of Sec
ond-story frame, occupied by the Coul-
ter family, who We're looking out at the
time.
While the colored men were running,
men lodging into alleys would hurl
stones at them When the colored men
reached their house they ran in and
barred the door. In minute the house
was surrounded by an infuriated crowd
who soon tore down the fence, and
shattered every window with stones.
When the deputies and borough, Of
ficers arrived some persons were sug-
gesting that they leave the house, and
some began to yell "Let's lynch the
nigger black sheep" This was taken
up, and cries of Hang them!" were
heard on all sides The officers went
in to arrest the colored men, and they
found them huddled in one room, ter
rified and expecting to be killed.
Stones were also hurled and Deputy
Montgomery was struck. The officers
then drew their revolvers and an
nouncd that If any more stones were
thrown they would have to open fire.
A slave threw rock which crashed
through window already half shat
tered.
He was arrested, but the authorities
seemed almost powerless, for by this
time over two Thousand persons gath
cred. Several other colored men were
beaten on the way to the lookup.
About this time another alarming re-
port was circulated through the crowd.
It was in effect that the colored nom
unionists living on Shanty Hill hearing
of the assault upon their brethren in
town were about to come down and
rescue them. This was really the case.
Over fifty of the colored men were
ready to make an onslaught at mo-
ment's notice, and the coal and iron
police had much difficulty in restraining
them.
Marion Conrad, another non-unionist,
owns 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 in as
deputy sheriff, and he stood in his door
with a revolver in either hand, and said
he would shoot the first man who en-
tered the gate. Several deputies then
arrived, thus keeping the crowd back
for an hour, when it dispersed.
After all the colored men had been
removed from the clearinghouse the
excitement subsidized as rapidly as it
begun, and by nightfall ne unusual
crowds were noticeable on the street
sesatsr shermas to Resign.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-The Cincin-
natl Times Star correspondent learns