The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-14
BULLETS WHISTLED.
No Razors Flying in the Air, But an
Abundance Of Lead.
HOMESTEAD ROUGHS TAUGHT A
GOOD LESSON BY NEGROES.

Colored Men We're Knocked Down and
Beaten, and Replied With Pistol Shots
They Came Pretty Near Killing Some
Innocent People and Caused a Panic
Rescued by Officers When the Crowd
Was Proposing to Burn Them Alive.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, November 13.-Not
since the famous 9th of July have flying
bullets been SO plentiful here as they
were this afternoon. Inside of 20 min
utes, over so shots were fired, and Fourth
avenue was in wild state of panic and
disorder. Rumors were plentiful of per-
sons being wounded. The only ones Sc
riously hurt apparently are three strikers
named McFadden, Jones and Prichard.
They all have flesh wounds. Two ne
groes were badly beaten. The fight
started on Fourth avenue at about 4.3O
o'clock. Two colored 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 of them down.
About 200 persons, including children
and women, assembled. Both negroes
fought hard, and stones began to fly.
The men were besting them when
one of the negroes drew revolver and
opened fire. By this time 500 people
were in the streets.
The Whistling of the Bullets
overhead caused panic. Three men
knocked down the second negro, and
,,bon bo .rosa be had two revolvers in
80. ~ - TT r. - ~ shoat;ao
MS hahus. lie star1eo 10 iun' snooSins
wildly backward as he did SO. 1t is said
boy received flesh wound in the leg,
bnt his name is unknown.
When the colored men reached the
Citv Farm lane six other colored men
came along. and wsre assaulted. They
all drew pistols and ran down Fourth av-
enue in the direction of Mcclure street.
near where their lodging house is situat-
ed. Someone hurled a brick which hit
Washington Panl on the head. He
opened ire and so did the others, In
minute the air was full of bullets. In
front of the colored men there was
terrified crowd rushing into houses for
shelter or lodging up allevs. One wom-
an. too frightened to run. stood
on the Street, and as they
passed one of the non-unionists
Shot at Her. rbree Times.
one phiiet passing through iler sna"i'
-, ~, 80 4l,,o.1, -
Of residences and one buried itself in
t,,e window sill Of a, bonse occuDied bv
tho cnnl+er family who were looking ont
at the time. While the negroes were
Hunning, men dodging into alleys would
hu.i nm, seo41s tha q. oinrad In non ro.ohod +bo;r
Wnen .ne ooioleu nlen s ag"oheu ah Sao Sieia
nouse !ney ian ~ ~ h,,s .'ae psa leu .mo u1Oa
NV an inf1rjated crowd who soon tore
9y an ~ .oao 5 J,Uwu W. noom Io,u
,.,;t,, s+anas TyhaI, +ha Jan,,+;as arr;uod
WIN oeonos. non 0l.o uopuues 20 ~ 41,
some persons were suggesting slla1 'ley
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onl wolo ~ ,..'as+ ~ 4h 'e'i 1e, 10 S
fo,,,,d thor, h,,dd,ad in o,,a Toono +er,iN
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ilGu @ anu ~ az ~ So U Ao1 - i o inan
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ne was sahe oa. monlan hi III Ill nm wiSn 1Sa
lly,Hs pan,d ~ eaI., I +ha ls od mou a,naH nmo
uGpu.ioo Ilioo " AoIo' .io olo"o away
whiie 1Iey oooA Ine man W ene
lookup pue ne was NJ several ulhes.
otones mele also nuileu 1hu DepoVy ~
o-AeiJ "''' S'A "' 'A0
officers Drew Their Revolvers
and announced that II any more STONES
were thrown they would open fire. A.
Glow threw a stone which crashed
thronph a window, He was arrested
but the authorities seemed almost power.
less as, by this time, over 2000 persons
had gathered. Several otner coioreo
men were oe@'on VI '''o " "s ~ ''i' -o0
bont this time REPORTS circulated that
the colored non-unionists living on
Shanty hill were about to come down
and rescue their assaulted brethren.
This was really the case. Over so colored
men were ready to make an onslaught at
a moments notice and the coal and iron
police had much difficulty in restraining