The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-11
WAITING FOR AN ATTACK.
The Situation at Homestead Prior to
the Governors Order.


the Governors Order.
HOMESTEAD. PA. July 1O.-The atmos-
phere of Homestead is pervadsd by mild
symptoms Of Mysteries these days. The in
tense strain of excitem ment and the expected
attack to which the strikers have been sub
jeoted for the past week is beginning to tell
on the men until anxiety has reached such
tension that a renewal Of hostilitiss would
be positive relief. Alarm after alarm has
swept over the town and the men have so
often responded to these rumors that the
scramble of telegraph boy through the
street is almost sufficient for q call to arms
At various times last night and during the
early hours Of the morning reports were
circulated that Pinkertons were at the city's
outskirts and the scramble that succeeded
these announcements would have been
ludicrous but for the gravity Of the situa-
ton. Men rushed to their homes and pre-
pared themselves for the impending battle
only to be apprised .an hour later that the
report was false and q Pinkerton invasion
was again relegated to the future So often
has the cry of wolf gone ont that there is
danger that when the true alarm does come,
it may fall on unheeding ears, and the
enemy be within the city limits before a call
to battle is sounded. There Is no doubt OF
the settled conviction in the minds Of the
strikers that another battle is inevitable.
They have received at least dozen tele-
grams from various points stating that the
Pinkertons are mohilizing detschments at as
many points preparatory to a grand move
upon the city of Homestead aud the leaders
of the strikers have accepted most of this
information as authentic and con-
cludes that the decisive struggle
is not far distant. The estimates CT the
strength of this Pinkerton army Is by mys-
terious unanimity Of opinion fixed at 800
men, and the strikers feel confident that
with the arms at their command and their
strength of from 5000 TO 5 900 able-bodied
men they can easily repulse this force.
WILL BE FIGHT TO THE DEATH.
or one thing there can be no doubt; an
other invasion of the Pinkertons will be
followed by another battle more sanguinary,
more terrible, but more decisive than the
first When the smoke clears away the
strikers will be subdued and Carnegie once
more king Of the iron region, or the power
of the Pinkertons will be
forever broken and the great
industrial army Of Homestead a militant
organization, which no force but the mill
tary OF the state or nation can subdue. The
to-day, and appear to be gaining strength
in every way except with the press Prom
inentuewspapers of the country ap-
pear to be resentful of the es-
pionage and the restrictions put upon
their representatives, and the leaders of the
mill workers are realizing that an effort to
exercise a censorship over press dispatches
has had most serious effect. Everything
that can be done by Hugh O'Donnell to
protect the newspaper men from harassing
interference hos been done and it is safe to
say that SO long as be is the dominant spirit
no more reporters will be ordered out or
town. But MIR. O'Donnell is in advance of
his fellows and the spirit of liberation which
he evinces is not shared by many Of the
rank and file. A great majority OF the
strikers are still disposed to regard newspe~
per men as interlopers and several new ar
rivals to-day were promptly approached by
the strikers committee and marched TO the
strikers' headquarters, where they were
forced to remain an hour or two until they
had satisfied the men as to their
identity. OF course all this is irritating to
the newspaper men and when the strikers
made their habitual assertion that peace
reigns az Homestead and perfect freedom ig
maintained, on every SHE the victims OF
their martial law methods wonder how, IL
that be true they should have been forcibly
marched away by the strikers committee
and deprived Of their liberty for an hour or
two in violation Of the laws OF Pennsylvania
and in defiance of the constitutional liberty
OF the press Indeed, there are representa-
tives OF the press in this city who maintain
that fear of subsequent visitattons impels
them to an excess OF caution ana
that their news dispatches suffer from
the consciousness that the morrow may
bring a reckoning from an irate
committee who know no code OF ethics,and