The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1892-07-14
In BATTLE ARRAY!
TROOPS PATROL THE STREET
AT HOMESTEAD.
POSSESSION is SPEEDILY TAKEN OF
BOTH TOWN AND MILLS.

| HOMESTEAD, Pa ,Jnly l2-"The troops are
coming" gasped picket at strike head
quarters at sharp o'clock this morning
when he had run all the way from the out
post at Muuhail to the rooms of the commit
tee Five minutes later the glitter of Gap
tain w. W. Awls's line coming forward as
skrmishers was seen at the east end of the
long Carnegie fence. This company, of the
Eighteenth, came rapidly into the town and
seized the causeway on the hill which DOM
mates the works. The men, some fiity-two
in number, were scattered out in long line
| to the amazement of the strikers, some OF
whom were rather rudely pushed aside as
the company was taking position. No
sooner bad the road to the hill been secured
than The troops began pouring In from Num-
hall. The Eightee nth, Fifteenth, Filth and
Sixteenth regiments marcht d towards the
high ground, and stood finally In long ines,
battalion after battalion, from the very
crest OF the ridge down nearly to the street
evfl.
The position was an excellent one from a
strategetic point OF view. The hill rises south
of the Carnegie and stretches back halfn mile
into "A wide plateau where the tents are to
be spread. A couple OF batteries On the crest
could do as they-pleased with the territory
for two miles around. The people took the
coming OF the troops i'll sulleD silence at
first, but the drums soon beat everybody IN
to good humor,, and as the latter regiments
wheeled away towards the high ground thev
were very heartily cheered. On the other
sidefof the river, in the. meantime, General
Snowdon had pushed the Fourteenth and
Tenth regiments with the batteries in the
rear This movement had been executed so
secretly that the men and cannon had bee l.
in positi fully an hour before their pres
ence was discovered by the town. AS soon
as the soldiers came in there was complete
surrender OF the town. The strikers circula-
tated on the streets calling TO the people to
receive the militia cordially, and with some
difficulty the command was obeyed, The
strike pickets were Withdrawn from about
the mill and in n few minutes the streets
about 1t were occupied by II provost guard.
When everybody had come to realize the
new order of things a committee from the
advisory committee, consisting of O'Donnell,
Coon, Schuckman, Clifford and Others went
to General Wiley OF the Second brigade and
rendered him the surrender of the town.
Wiley stopped the spokesman, Mr.. Coon.
and told him that he would have to see Gen.
.Snowdop. who had arrived and taken up his
headquarters in the school house. The com
mittee tramped across the ravine and finally
{, mmapdirg. He received hi. visitors po-
litely but coldly, and after Coon had deliv-
cred his message, in which he proposed that
the advisory committee would cooperate
with the troors IN preserving order, the gen.
eral said:
1--WE do not need either CO operation or as
sistance from any body. The only way in
which we can accept co operation is for ev-
cry man TO go peaceably about his business"
Mr.. O'Donnell took up the conversation
and began: .'On the part OF tue Amalgama-
ted associa ion wish TO say. that after suffer-
ing an attack from Illegal Authority we are
glad to have the legal authority OF the state
here"
Il do not recognize your association, slr,"
General Snowden' replied, ~ recognize no
one but the citizens of this city. We have
come here to restorela and order, and they
are already restored"
After some further conversation of a sim
liar and unsatisfactory nature the commit
Ice, greatly crestfallen, returned to head
quarters, where an acrid discussion OF the
situation followed. General Snowdeu's re-
ception of the:gentlelnen was bitter pill.