Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-07-06
Several Encounters Between Pinku'
ton Detectives aud Workmcn
To-day.
MANY DEAD AND WOUNDED or
BorH SIDES.
= Nnnguinary hattie Fousht To-day
Near PlttsburE.


= Nnnguinsry hattie FouEhi To-day
! Near PlttsburE.
PlIrsuuHu, July 1.-THE great lock-
out ~ the IRON indui.Iy In this vicinity
has torne It's hrst bloody fruit. Between
a dozen and twenty pinkefton officers
I and locked cut iron and steel workers
/ are either lying dead or are more or
| less serioubly wounded "a the result OF
[ an encounter between them early TINS
morning. The battle is still In progress
aud there Ia no telling what dreadful
feeultH may come before tue close OF
| the day.
The following IL the story Of the
battle and Its antsoodenls: early
THE morning three hundred Pinkett0n
detectives AtTived AZ Pittsburg frUm
the East and marched quietly TO
Monugahels, boarded the harges END
started for the Homestead Woke,
,Owud by steam tug "Iide.' AZ 2ilb
this morning the lookout employees
were notified of this move, end whom
the bafges arrived Vt Homcsiead, i've
thousand people, Including men,
women and children, were waiting to
meet them. AZ soon ~ the Pinkeriona
alienl ted to land they were warned on
by the men anu battle followed. The
PlnkertoDs were armed with Winches.
ter rides and the opposing crowd
chiefly with revolver. The Plnkur-
tons opened FIRE, and at the iirsi vOlley
two wOrkmcn fell. THIS eumged the
crowd aud they bUfe down on tho
PinkrrtonH with Fusistless force.
The Pinkcftons ioll back but con.
tinucd firing, and lnHlly the crowd
-. 4 ssli rUIaaI
over heap VI rubbish toward the big
ttestlc leading to the Penricky railroad
bridge, Three hundred armed work
men, however, stood the ground, AMI a
desultofy IRE was kept up. Finally
they too were compelled TO fall back
before the whitening firo Of the Win.
chcsier-.
The firsi shot came from the barge.
The fret mau 10 fall was Martin Merry,
heater In one Of the mills. He was
shot Ia the side and fell with his face
forward. A big Hungarian, standing
beside hin, stepped over Rnd was IN
the act Of Raising the PROSTATE body
when he too was struck 10y bullet and
Tell beside his c0mrR,ir. Others rushed
10 che spot, picked up tho bodies aud
carried them behind tho trtsllc. Que
- Wv AfNAAfhf HHfN"AANNehN tsAAHAh
unknown, was wouuicd ~ Tho Icy.
Merry nud the Hungarian were taken
10 a physiclhn'e, LillcO who examined
the wounds ami said that 10th
would pfu badly die. Five more /
strikers worr wounded, two severely,
hut they were spirited away aul thrig
names arc not obtainable. Five /
Piukrrluns are reported wounded, four
dangerously, including their captain.
TuE ATTEMPTED LANDING.
The day was Just breaking when the
lights Of tho steamer with IT. hargc- on
either sid. flashed through the gray
yapOr over the waters before the eyes
Of The people on the bank. The crowd |
ran peil NEIL toward the wofl;s, coming |
TO the high fence which surrounds the !
works. Tue men used their shoulder. |
rs battoring rams aud In u iwinkling |
threw down the barrier. Men, women |
and children rushed pell m,ll toward |
the point on the shore Of the river for |
which the ii1tilla healed aud gathered |
ina mass az the waters edge. Slowly |
the boat edged toward the Ia ii.
lug and whrn the keels Of the
hgfgcs grated on the sand,
the grim fares OF the invaders were
within u few feet jf their opponents on
the shore. There WINS nm instant Of
awful sileusc, then bright fl,sh and
a sharp report announced the com.
meucoment OF the dreadful work. The
firing became general on both sides.
The strikers reiterated Tor moment,
but quickly talliei at n short distance
from the boat, aud held their own by
sheer weight u numbers, and COM
polled the deputies 10 proceed cautious.
ly. Suddenly forty or My detectives
attempted 90 lump ON shore. The
strikers responded with a sharp vOllsy,
driving the invaders hhcl, 10 the semi.
shelter Of the lever deck. Their cap.
tain was carried 10 the pilot house OF
the STEAMER. One Of his men isformed
an Associated Pres representative That
although the wound was serious, II was
no, fatal. A number OF othef- Of the
detectives were more or less seriously
wounded In this encounter.
Then there vas a lull IN tho battle,
The plnkeuOn'i were gathering on the
lower deck Of The steamer and the
wotkmen ON The shore were sendlng a
COMMITTEES to ,oour Homestead Tor
ammunition.
WOUNDED wOKKMES,
The following workmen are wound.
ed: VIM. Fry, probably fatally; Mi. |
chael Murray, dangerously; Andrew
ScuTler seriously; John Kane, badly; |
Harry Hughes, slightly; two unknown
men, badly.
II IL not knowl just who was shot on
the boat but IN, number Ia fully half a
dozen. Que man dropped m II killed,
This men ON the shore, fearing thai the
detectives would get inside tho works,
tore down "a hunir,d feet Of the en-,
closure.
NM sFC0Nl ENGAGEAiENT.
The lighting was renewed shortly
after a. NJ, and the battle continued
fOr half an hour This second conflict
was prucipltaled by another effort by
the Piukertons ,olaud. a number OF
worRmen were Injured In the second
encounter, but their NAMES cannot now
be obtained. The widest excitement
prevails. Thousands Of workmen from
surrounding places are supposed TO bs