The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1892-07-16
IN FULL CONTROL.
Gen. Snowlen With Several
Thousand Troops Now
ut Homestead.
Strikers Call Upon the General
and Are Given IL Chilly
Reception.

HOMESTEAD July 13.-"Thc troops are
comin',' y gaspcd picket ut the :trike
headquarters at o'clock this morning
when he had run all the way from the out
post at Munhall to the rooms OF the com.
ini.tce. Five minutes later the glitter OF
Capt. w. w. Avis line was seen a, the east
end OF the Ion, Carnegie lcncc. This COM
pany, II, Of the Eighteenth, came rapidly
into the town and seized the callscway OH
the hi.l which dominates the works.
The men. some tiity-two in number, were
scattered out in long line to the
anlazcmcnt OF the strikers, some of whom
were rather rudcly pushed aside us the
company was taking position. No sooner
had the hill been secured than the troops
BEGAN to come in from Munlal. The
II ghtccnth. Fifteenth Fif Ii and Sixteenth
regiments marched toward the high ground
and stood finally in long lines, battalion
alter battalion, from the very crest of the
siding down nenrly to the street level. The
position was an excellent one from u
strategic point of virM
The people took the coming ofthe troops
III sullen silence ut first, but the drums soon
beat everybody Into good humor, and as
the later regiments wheeled away towards
the high ground they were very heartily
clecrcd. On the other side ot the river in
the meantime, Gen. Snowdcn had pushed
the Fourteenth and Tenth regiments with
the batteries into the hills across from the
works, where the guns commanded the
Whole water front of Homestead. This
movement had been
LAEcuTED so SECRETLY
that the men and cannon had been in posi.
Iloh lusly an hour bcorc their presence was
discovered by the town. AS soon as the
soldiers came in there was complete sur
render OF tie town. The strikers circulated
ON the streets, calling upon the people to
receive the militia cordially. The strike
plckcts were withdrawn rom about the
mill and in a .cw mll"tcs the streets about
it were occupied by occasional guard.
WI hout any ceremony whatever Mr..
o'is Child, %. the Carnegie company, went
throu%lllhe Eighth avenue gate ami opened
lhc fire. Sheriff McClcary was present, but
neither said nor did anything. There was no
declaration o. any kind, but simply 60
ing in. Some Of the men who were on
Eighth uvcnu.
| LOOKED on IN SILENCE
nnl when the gates changed Shut after Mr.
Childs entry they went back to head
quarters to report. When everybody had
come TO realize the next order OF things, a
committee from the advisory com.
mttco consisting o! O'Donncu
Coons Chapman, Clifford and othors
went to Gen. Wiley, of the Second brigade,
aud rendered the surrender of the town.
Wiley stopped Spokesman Cuons and told
him that lie would have to zee Gen. Snow
den, who had arrived and taken UP his
headquarters in the school house. The
committee trampcd across the ravine and
finally ound itself in the presence of the
general commanding. lie received his
visitors politely. but coldiy, and aitc,
Coons had clivcrcd his mes aye, in which
he PROPOSED that the advisory committee
would cooperate with the troops in pre-
serving order the general said:
1--WE do not need either co operation or assist.
ance from anybody. The only way in winch we
cnh accept cooperation is for every man to go
l,eaceably about his business"
The COMMITTEES. greatly crestsullen, re-
turned to headquarters. where all ucrid
| discussion Of the situation followed. Gen,
onowdens reception o! the gentlemen
was a bitter pill. That the
general ncant business. however, was now
tholousiiIy understood. Awaiting campaign
was decided upon as being the only posi-
bic po:'ry which could he pursued. The
patriots o: The strikers outside the town
ana the railway depot will be continued
and cyriy effort will be made to keep Pink
arton watchmcn and non-union Working
men ont OF the town. Mr.. O'Donncll aud
.he other members o: the advisory commit
zee are Of opinion that the works WILL
DC at once filled up with non.union men,
but they decline to discuss how they will
meet and solve the problem.