The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-07-14
SEVERAL STRIKERS SHOT.
Nine of the PiDkertOn Men are Reported
as Dead

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The Leader of the Strikers Kills a
PinkertOn Captain-Strikerst throw
Burning Oil into the River-Barges
Burning.
PIrrsBURG, Pa, July 6.-The in
tensest excitement is prevailing here
now. The worst fears have been
realized and the strikers have as
saulted Carnegie's mandatory
castle.
"The PInkerton men have been
fired upon," was the news that
flashed like wild fire through the
sleepy city of Pittsburg as it slowly
woke to its daily routine of toll. 1t
was shortly after five O'Clock. 1t
was not long, however, till the city
was wide awake af .er this. Men
went crying hoarsely through the
streets, women shrank fearfully back
within the shelter of their home as
they heard the fearful words, and
caught their children up in their
protecting arms. The news sped
onward and by six o'clock the city
was mass of excited, surging hu-
manity, eager to learn the minutest
particulars of the event. Crowds
are surging out towards Homestead.
There is one man in the pushing,
elbowing crowds that wears deter
mined, logged appearance, and that
is the laboring iron worker. Men
instictively shrink from HIM as he
rushes on to join his striking COM
rades at Homestead.
PINKERTONs DEAD.
1t was at FIVE o'clock this morning
that the Pinkerton detectives at
had been imported by the Carnegies
to Homestead.
THE PINKERToNS FIRED.
The strikers were on the lookout
and had gathered in large crowds at
the scene. No sooner was the inten-
tion of the Pinkertons detected than
they were fired upon and five of
them fell dead on the first volley.
The fire was returned at once and
several of the strikers fell.
A second attempt to land the non
union men brought a renewed fire
from the strikers and it had the
same deadly effect as the first. Six
Pinkerton's fell.
PINKERTONS FIRED FIRST.
L. 10 ~.
hundred Pinkerton men made the
first attempt to land the non-Union
lists at Homestead from their boats
Three thousand strikers met them,
determined to prevent their landing
The Pinkertons fired first, mortally
wounding two strikers. The strikers
returned the fire, wounding many of
the Pinkerton men, who retreated
MORRIS KILLS A CAPTAIN.
Morris, the leader of the strikers
killed the captain of a tug from which
A captain of the Pinkerton men was
detectives are reported killed.
ALIsT OF THE KILLED.
The list of the killed and injured
in the Pinkertons strikers battle,
as near as can be ascertained, is as
follows:
Martin Foy.
John Morris.
Jules Markowsky.
Henry Streigel.
Peter Heise.
David Davis.
Robert Foster.
Wm. Johnson.
J. HI. Klein.
Two unknown Hungarians.
Nine Pinkerton detectives are dead,
Their names have not been learned
as most of them were known by mum
bers.
PATTISoN COMMENDED.
The course of Governor Pattison
in declining to order the National
Guard to Homestead until Sheriff
McCleary had exhausted all the
means in his power to preserve or
der, is generally commended. The
prevailing op1uion here is that had
the militia appeared on the scene
the bloodshed would have been much
greater. The advent of armed and
uniformed men of State troops to
guard the Carnegie works. to act as
the protectors of non-union men
would have excited the strikers to
all possible resistance
These men at Homestead are so
well organized, are under such per-
feet control, and are so great in mum
Der that conflict between them and
the militia might be long and would
certainly be bloody one.
Under these circumstances the gov
ernor's careful survey of the state
of affairs and his conservative action
call for unqualified approval from
HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 9-The
strikers have drawn the lines of de-
fence closer around the Homestead
works, and are eyer on the watch.
All is now quiet.
CARNEGIE CABLES.
PiTTsBURG, July 9.-Andrew Car
negie cables to this place from his
aristocratic baronial castle IN Scot
land that he will not trouble himself
to interfere in the affair between his
and his workmen.
PowDERLY ARRIVES.
T. v. Powderly, of the Knights of
Labor, has arrived here and will use
his best efforts to promote peace and
the welfare of the laborers.
A MASS MEETING.
About two hundred of the locked