The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-07-20
PATrIsoN ARRIVES
And Is salutod With Military Honors b
the Troops.

the Troops.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 10.-The wretch.
edness in Homestead was at its height
to-day when Governor Pattison, whose
coming has been anxiously awaited on
all sides in the little borough arrived.
A drenching rain was falling, mud was
everywhere and the strikers had each
individually before them the disheart-
ening prospect OF being served at any
moment with warrant that might
eventually land them in the peniten-
tiary, or on the gaIlows. Up the steep
yellow road from the railway station
near the Carnegie works to tho top OF
the hill where General Snowden COM
manding tho militia has his headquar.
ters, the governor was slowly conveyed
by an escort OF several hundred cavalry
mon. From the heights every few sec
onds bright red flash could be seen
against the leaden sky, then @ hugo
puff Of white smoke and Immediately q
thunderous explosion that ratified and
rc-echoed down the valleys, startling
the people at Homestead into the
streets, bareheaded in the rain.
Governor Pattison took the shortest
cut from the train to the camp, owing
chiefly perhaps to the storm, and thus
did not appear ut the usual stopping
place for railway travellers at Home
stead. In this way the first intimation
tho strikers and their families had OF
his presence was tho firing OF artillery,
supposed BY many to mean that an
other riot had broken out and that an.
other day OF bloodshed had already be-
gun. The arrival Of the governor was
watched from afar through the down.
pour Of water by n few Of tho strikers
leaders peerinR out OF the upper win
dows OF tho headquarters Of the Anal
gamated Association. Working its toll
some way in gigantic serpentine up
the slope OF hill the leaders saw the
long line Of cavalry ascend the slippery
road. the infantrymen running out OF
their tents alert AZ the booming Of tho
cannon, as the women and children OF
the town, then the halt OF tho cavalry.
mon on tho crown Of the hill, and
finally oven above the din OF the cannon
aiding tho cheer after cheer OF the
LEOopa lVI IONGluOL utL1bVu'
Governor Pattison by this time had
reached General Snowden's headquar-
ters in tho school house awny up on tho
hill top, and alighting from tho carriage
in which he had made the ascent, en-
tered the building, whore u hearty hand
shake was exchanged between the gov
ernor, who il ox-oEicio commander-in-
chief OF the state militia, and General
Suowden, who Is in effect the fold mar
shal of Pennsylvania's regular army.
Governor Pattison's primary purpose is
to inspect the state troops. Ono OF his
aids stated that the probability seemed
that the governor would remain at head
quarters perhaps week. Tho proba-
bility OF the governor attempting to
take n hand at arbitration between the
Carnegie Company and the strikers was
broached, but the staff officers who had
accompanied him on tho train, from
Harrisburg did not express any conf
dcnco that peace ovcrtures would be in
pugurated through official channels
very soon. II at all. The same topic was
brought up at amalgamated headquar-
ters Immediately aftor tile governors
arrival, but no strong belief was heard
that anything encouraging would re-
suit, however much 1t be hoped for.
Governor Pattison's party was large
one. numbering in all over q score OF
we'll known officials.