Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1892-07-08
BLOODY BATTLE.
Tie Pinkertons and Strikers HIVE
a + atal and Lasting En-
gagement.
Thlrty~ Eight Pcrs:nS Said 70
HIVE Been K1lle ,l-~; ;...a,Iy
Wounded.

r1TrSHyH,:, July IT, Tile great lock
nut III .lle irnn Industry in this wet Il,
! lty has t"rns H. fist lIndy fruit. b..
tween ~ and ~ pipketton office r.
and !.ckt Il cut iron and steel workers
are c.ti3"1 lying dead nr more OF less
| -erioa-ly wullnted IT. the result uf n,l
eucoutit r tctwren then, +nrIy thi>
morning. The battle i. still III t1u-
grr4~ aid there t. II" telling ~hM.
sireutfu] re:.u't- may come tttnre the
cIu~t Of the tiny. The follow >ng is the
-t"ry Of ,h4 ba It. aud ite aAtecet;en,s:
E+rIy thl~ morning 800 P4nk-rtol,
detectives arrived tn P.tt.l Il 4 from
the en@t marched quietly to Monon-
knh-|a, bpArtltd hut&e4 and started for
the Hutne~tt I'D: works tnwtd by the
straul 'ug Tloe. At 2:1j this morning
the locked out ttmpInyees were notified
of tits move, and when the barxrs ar
rived 1T Homestead five thousand pec~
plr. Including men, women and chill
1ren, were waiting to meet them. A.
soon u% the Piuktrtons attempted 10
land they were warned off by the men
and II battle followed. The Plnker.
tou4 were all bru,ed will. Wincl ester
rifles and the opposing crowd chitfly
with levolvt,s. The PInkertons
opened fire and ut the fist vollty twn
w"rkmen fell dead. This e.,rAgtd the
crowd aid they tmre dnwn on TIC
Pink+rton. with re-, e,ittiee. fotc+. The
PINK, rin1A then Tell back, hut still
continue ! Hrittg AID finally the crowd
on the bunk retrea;ed and climbed
over heap Of rubbish toward the hhg
tre~tle ltudink to the penicky rullroud
bridge. Thr+e hu ldrtd armed work
mer, howev' r, SO ii their gr1und and
uesuttory firing wa+ k-l,t W. Final~
~ they to, wtr~ ceH,; clieh tt fall
back be'ors he witiltrtug fire vi .ht
Win. he~t-4h. The first >lot catl+
fr"nl tlit tArge, anu the first tIAn to
tal! wsa Martin Merry,a Il heater i'll one
OF The mills, who wu+ shot III the -ide
aud fell turr furWaru. y Hungarian
standing beslue him +tuuptA OVER and
was lu tue net of rai-iug the pro-lrate
boly when ht tt'o Was struck by IL hul-
ltt and lell beside his cun,ratie. Others
rushed .u the spot, picked up tue
Dudies aud carried them behind tile
treslIe. One OF The rescuers, Il Welsh.
mln. nnne unknown, was wounded
iii the :eg Merry and the HuuEariu,;
were taken ten physlcian's Office, WHO
examined The wounds and said both
would probably die.
Fighting w4s renewed shortly after
II. Ill. anu the battle conllhu L half
an hour The setund coltlIc4 WAS pre-
cipituted by another etf1rt by the Pin
erton tueu tu land. a Number Of
workman were injured III The second
encounter,but their n.nles cannot now
be obtained. The widest excitement
prevails.
Az $3.50 they began rolling barrels Of
oil 10 the river intending to set fire to
1t IN the water aud burn the l'1nker~
lDns out.
Sheriff McCleary has wired G,ver-
nor Pattison that he IL unable to cope
with the mob. The situation is very
grave. Five thousand workman are
on the ground aud unless something
is done promptly there will be great
loss Of life. It Is now known that six
more workmen were shot ut the second
attempt to land. rhe captalu Of the
lug aud one pinkerton nlau are dead.
There are non~union men abnard the
tug as we'll as Pinkertons.
LA. m.-The strikers fired a car of
oil standing near the works for the
purpose Of burning the hoats in the
river. Men have ,laced Il cannon OH
this hill on the north aide of the river
and are firing into the bouts, balls and
scraps of iron being used. At every
shot II boats side il penetrated, and
pieces thrown into the air. No1uuve
has been made to stop the shooting.
Not soul can be seen on the boAte
and no word eau be gotten to or from
them. The strikers claim that at
least five men have been killed or fa-
tally hurt OH the boats. One man
says be saw six fall. On every hand
the men are gathering ammunition
and every possible sort of firearms ie
being collected, shotguns being loaded
with buckshot.
u:45+-The steamer Little Bill came
down the river about II o'clock to take
off the Ptnkertons, imprisoned on
their barges. There were large mum.
ber Of new tt4en on the boat. The mo-
meut 1t reached shore regular fust>