The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-11-18
HOMESTEAD RIOT.
Sudden Outbreak in the Storm
Center.
Strikers Assault Negro Non UnIonists,
Who Draw Revolvers and Fire Wild
Iy-A Non-Union Boarding
House Wrecked.

HOMESTEAD, Pa, Nov. 14-Not since
the famous 9th of July were flying bull
lets so plentiful as yesterday afternoon.
Inside of twenty minutes over 500 shots
were fred and Fourth avenue was in a
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 all flesh wounds
Three negroes were also badly beaten.
The fight started on Fourth avenue
about 4:30 o'clock. Two colored men
who worked in the mill were walking
toward the mill when they met strilz-
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, so far as the gather
! ing of crowds is concerned, about
| twenty persons. including children and
women, assembled in a few moments
Both negroes fought hard, but stones
! began to fly and the men were besting
| them, when one colored man drew 4 re-
volver and opened fire d..
| BY this time there were fully 500 per-
sons on the streets, and the bullets
whistling over their heads started
panic. Three men knocked down the
second negro, and when he arose he
had two revolvers in his hands He
started to run, shooting wildly back as
| he did so.
1t is said 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 col
ored men came along and were as
saulted. They all drew guns and ran
| down Fourth avenue in the direction of
Mcclure street, near where their lodg-
| ing house is situated. Some one hurled
! brick which hit Washington Paul on
the head. He opened fire and so di
the others. In minute the air was
| full of bullets and in front of the COLI
| ored men, there was terrified crowd
rushing 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 u shawl
I which she had thrown over her head.
| Two bullets went through windows OF
residences. and one buried itself in the
window sill OF frame occupied by the
! Soulter family, who were looking out
at the time. While the negroes were
running, men dodging into alleys would
| hurl stones AZ 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 one 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 4 woman
hit him with frying pan, cutting his
head. The deputies tried in vain to
keep the crowd away while they took
! the man to 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 if any more stones were
/ thrown they would have to open fire
| A Slav threw Il rock which crashed
! through a window already half shat
! tered He was arrested, but the au-
| thorities seemed almost powerless, for
by this time over ., 600 persons gathered.
Several other colored men were beaten
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 4 mo-
ment's notice, and the coal and iroT
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. lie had clinched with one
of the colorcd men and struck him. As
he did so, the negro showed his revolver
in his assailants face and fired; the
! bullet struck Jones on the forehead
above the eyes and glanced off, cutting
a bloody furrow over the left eye.
Jones and McFadden were arrested
| Mrs. Jones attempted to shield her hus-
band and attacked the officers, but was
! withheld OF the eleven colored men
| locked up, seven have cuts on their
heads, where they were struck by mis-
silcs and clubs, J. Lewis and Il. Ford
being so badly beaten that u physician
vas summoned to dress their wounds
| Clippings.
A New York court holds that pro
posal made in fun" is binding.
Mrs Reed, one of the lady managers
of the worlds fair for Maryland, has
established system of classes in Amer
lean history in the schools of her state,
and offers as prize for the best scholar
free trip to the fair.
Rev. John Murray, the founder of
\ ITniverSa Iism WAS once b~rated nv an