The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-19
PATTISON ON The SPOT
Pennsylvania's Governor in Confer
ence With Gen. Snowden.
O'D0NNELl WAS IN BALTIMORE.
He II Supposed 10 be in Consuita-
tion with Labor Men In PhiladeI-
phia To-Day - Another Regiment
Ordered to Hs m ,stead-Ihe Arrest of
Frick and Potter Threatened.

HOMESTEAD, July 19.-The workingmen
were thrown into a state bordering on
CONSERVATION by the direful tidings of
the warrants for the arrest of their lead
ers. Coming, as the news did, directly
after the victory of the Amalgamated
Association to-day in the refusal of the
men in the mechanical department of the
Carnegie works to accept the invitation
of the firm to return to their old duties,
it turned jubilation TO dependency.
A few took the news quietly, the greater
number INDUCED in Ditter words, but
took care that outsiders were not near
when they spoke them. Women gave way
to tears and there were many signs Of
grief. 1t is certain that the leaders of the
strike had an inkling of what the Car
negie Company intended, nevertheless
the news that the warrants had been
issued came like a thunderbolt They
had expected that a conspiracy wouid be
the most serious charge preferred IL any,
and murder" had an ominous sound
that foreboded trouble.
After the doors OF the mills were
thrown open to-day patches of strikers
with sullen faces wou d frequently march
past the entrance TO the works and look
in. They did not know whether the com
pauy really had non-union men to take
their places, and the uncertainty worried
them, but they gould see nothing
The soldiers promptly dispersed all
crowds and groups that showed any dis
position to gather near the works. Every
hour n rumor arrived that non-union men
black sheep, they call them-were CON-
ing up the river or had landed in the mills
Each such rumor sent tremor of ex-
element through the town. In ponder
ing over this IL must be remembered that
most of the strikers still have their Win
chesters or rifles with which they fought
the Pinkertons, and that all the dyna-
mite which was brought to Homestead
has not yet been found by the soldiers.
The members Of the Town Council met
last night. Their purpose was to consider
the arrest of John McLuckie, the Burgess
of the town. In the absence Of the Bur-
CESS, Chief Byrne of the Fire Department
became acting Burgess.
The Advisory Committee met also and
unanimously resolved to prosecute Frick,
Lovejoy, Potter and others for murder
and conspiracy, and hint that the indict-
ment will contain the names OF some we'll
known men as accessories to the crimes
charged.
No person believes the strike leaders
will long remain behind the bars. 1t Is
expected that attorneys will go into court
at once with application for their release
on bail or writs of habeas corpus. and
that the court will grant the application.
III the court should refuse to grant the
release of the strike leaders on bail 1t
would be terrible blow to the great body
OF strikers and would be certain to cause
a serious disturbance.
The company Is thought to have
strikers of the death of Wayne, one of
their own men, who was killed by the
bursting or a cannon.
The men whom the warrants were issued
are Hugh O,Donnell, chairman Of the al
visory committees and the most influential
McLuckie, Burgess of Homestead,
an iron worker aud one of the
best speakers in the Amalgamated Asso-
ciatiou; Sylvester Critchelow, a resident
of Wnitecar, near Munnall station, who
is an Association man, married, a mem
Der of the Baptist Church, and man of
good repute. Hugh Ross. neighbor of
Critcnelow's, formerly sailor, but for
some few years employed as rigger at
the works, is married and Is consiuered a
sober, industrious man; Samuel Burkett,
aged ~, truck driver by occupation, who
is not an Association MAJ; Anthony Fla
herty aud James Flanagan OF Homestead.
These warrants are not all. Rumors fly
thick and fast that the Carnegie Steel
Company, Limited, per III. G. Frick, chair
man, has IN preparation bloody ASST
zes" IN the Monongahela Valley which
will lack nothing, as far as malevoent
intention is concerned, OF the historic In
ierest which followed the sitting of jeff
ries when the people OF Taunton set tne
example for the people OF Homestead and
made up their minds that King James H.
and his men were "Pinkertons."
Wholesale arrests, IL is said, are to
follow. The number has been put as
high as three hundred. and the purpose
that of intimidatipg the men into return
ing to work. But those who know Mr..
Frick better believe that these wholesale
arrests, il they come, are for no such child
ish purpose as this. but to throw such a
blazing light of States evidence upon the
doings of the Amalgamated leaders in
Homestead that the organization will
crumpIe away before IL like n wall OF lath
aud plaster at the touch OF conhagra-
tion.
They believe that he means TO show
that when the Advisory Committee so
promptly dissolved ito avoid RESPONSE.
bility;r upon the Sheriff's first assertion
OF the law they did not avoid RESPONSE
bility" at all for the scenes Of blood and
ferocity which followed their dissolution.