The Red Cloud chief., 1892-11-18
HOMESTEAD RIOT.
Sudden Outbreak in tho Storm
Center.
strikers Assault Negro on.Unionists,
Who Draw Revolvcrs and Fire Wild
ly-A Non-Union boarding
House Wrecked.

lets SO plentiful as yesterday afternoon.
Inside OF twenty minutes over 800 shots
were fired and Fourth avenue was in q
wild state OF panic and disorder.
Rumors are plentiful about persons
being wounded. but the only ones seri.
ously hurt apparently are three strik-
ers, named McFadden, Jones and
Prichard. They have oil flesh wounds
Three negroes were also badly beaten.
The Fight started on Fourth avenue
about $3.50 o'clock. Two colored men
who worked in the mill we're walking
toward the mill when they met u strili.
er. who said something to them.
They replied and the striker knocked
one down. With the same extraordi-
nary suddenness which always charac.
terizes Homestead, 50 far as the gather
ing of crowds is concerned, about
twenty persons. including children and
women, assembled Ia a few moinents4
Both negroes fought hard, but stones
began to fly and the men were bcsting
them, when one colored man drew a re-
volver and opened fire.
by this time there were fully 500 per.
sons on the streets, and the bullets
whistling over their heads started n
panic. Three men knocked down the
second negro, and when he arose he
had two rcvolvers in his hands. He
started to run, shooting wildly back as
he did so.
1t is said a boy received a flesh wound
in the leg, but his name is unknown.
by the time the colored men had
reached City Farm lane, six other coll
ored men came along and were as
saultcd. They all drew guns and ran
down Fourth avenue in the direction of
Mcclure street, nca where their lodg-
ing house is situated. Some one hurled
n brick which hit Washington Paul on
the head. lie opened fire and so did
the others. In q minute the air was
full of bullets and in front of the coll
ored men, there was u terrified crowd
cushing into houses for shelter or dodg-
ing up alleys.
A woman, too frightened TO run, stood
on the step as they passed. One of the
non-unionists shot at her three times,
one bullet passed through a shawl
which she had thrown over her head.
Two bullets went through windows of
residences, and one buried itself in the
window sill of a frame occupied by the
Soulter family, who were looking out
at the time. While the negroes 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 a minute the
house was surrounded by an Infatuated
crowd, who soon tore down the fence
and shattered every window with
stones. When the deputies and bor-
ough officers arrived some persons were
suggesting that they leave the house,
and some n began to yell: Lets
lynch the niger 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, 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 n woman
hit him with n frying pan, cutting his
head. The deputies tried in vain to
keep the crowd away while they took
the man TO a lookup, but he was hit
several times.
Stones were also hurled and Deputy
Montgomery was also struck. The of
ficers then drew their revolvers and an
nounced that il any more stones were
thrown they would have TO open fire.
A Slav threw q rock which crashed
through q window already half shat
tered. He was arrested, but the au-
thorities seemed almost powerless, for
by this time over z, 1000 persons gathered.
on the way to the lookup.
About this time another alarming re-
port was circulated through the crowd.
1t 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 a mo-
ment's notice, and the coal and iron
police had much difficulty in restrain.
ing them.
Peter McFadden. who first engaged
the colored men in a fight, was shot
through the left arm and cut on the
head. James Jones, his friend, who
came to his assistance in the attack,
had an escape from death which was
miraculous. He had clinched with one
of the colored men and struck him. As
he did SO, the negro showed his revolver
in his assailant's face and fred; the
bullet struck Jones on the forehead
above the eyes and glanced off, cutting
a bloody furrow over the left eye.
Jones and McT'adden were arrested.
Mrs. Jones attempted to shield her hus-
band and attacked the officers, but vas
withheld. OF the eleven colOred men
locked up, seven have cuts on their
heads, where they were struck by mis-
siles and clubs, J. Lewis and Il. Ford
being SO badly beaten that u physician
was summoned to dress their wounds.
Lost ON Lake Michigan.
CHICAGO, Nov. 13.-The wreck which
has been seen in Lake Michigan, OF
Frankfort, Is doubtless that Of the
steamer Cuba The Cuba left Petosky
for Kenosha with wood and bark, No
vember 2, and nothing since has been