Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-07
GREAT EXCITEMENT
IN TES CITY OVER THE NEWS FROM
HOMESTEAD.
An Extra Edition Of the Register Published to
Satisfy the Demand ar Nsws-Orowds About
the Newspaper and Telegraph Ofhcss
All Day and Evening

great deal OF excitement in this city and
the surrounding manufacturing towns,
yesterday, and from noon until late in
the evening all the centres Of informa-
tion were thronged by crowds OF
citizens, eager to know the latest
intelligence from the scene OF
the trouble. The REGISTER early be-
gan to bulletin the news, and from the
6rst posting OF a placard until ten
O'Clock D. m. Market street, in front Of this
Office was constantly crowded with citi-
zens, while telephone requests from all
parts of town, and from many points
outside Of the city KEEP. one man busy.
At two o'clock so serious did the Situa-
ton appear, and so clamOrOus was the
public for reliable news that IL
was determined TO issue an
extra edition of the REGISTER, giving
the latest dispatches, and at three
o'clock the issue was upon the streets,
containing about six thousand words OF
Associated Press kilograms, covering
the developments fully and graphically
up TO that hour. A large edition Of the
paper was quickly exhausted, and even
then the demand for news was very Tar
from being appeaSed, and many en-
ouiries for a second edition were re-
ceived
AN classes OF citizens discussed the
bloody scenes in the MOuOngahela val
lev 70 the exclusion OF nearly everything
else, and there were many rather yio-
lent expressions OF opinion directed
against the management Of the Carnegie
interests, for preciptating such de-
plorable calamity. All regretted the
shedding of blood, and not few sd-
mitted that both sides had evidently
lost their heads and dung mOder-
alton and discretion TO the winds,
but the burthen Of the talk was
denunciatOry Of the mill management
for bringing detectives into contact with
the workmen, a thing which it was held
would inevitably have very much the
same result as the introduction OF
lighted sky-rOckec into a powder maya
zine. And this denunciat,Ol OF the de-
teCtives was by no means confined 10
workingmen. One gentleman worth a
, quarter Of a million dollars referred In
B scathing terms 20 the PinkertOn
men as a lot of hired mercenaries, ready
TO interfere between capital ard labor
al any time for so much per day, and
who could be depended upon 10 shoot
down wage-workers so long as they
were paid for ii, This sentiment was
re-echoed on all sides. There was
something OF q change in sentiment,
however, when 10 became apparent that
-. ha1 ri in
the model barges, and that there was
every prospect that they would all be
shot, -SurHcd TO death or drowned like
rats in a trap, and towards seven o'clock
even those who denounced the Pinker-
tons with the most bitterness expressed
a hope that they would be disarmed and
allowed TO escape with their lives.
Carnegie will never start up that
works unless he rebuilds u" said one
gentleman as he perused an extra edi-
ton OF the REGISTER.
Hump. You don't know the logged
determination OF the man." said a by
stander. IF he takes a notion 70 run
the mill he'll run it, if it costs mill
; lion"
'You can abuse Carnegie all YOU want
TO-" said another, "but don't believe
! he's so much % blame. It's Frick and
such men as be who have the active
MANAGEMENT. They tell him sO-and-So
has 70 be done 70 make the dividend so
mach, or make a certain profit, and he
allows them TO run things
Rats" said a mill man, who had been
listening to what was being said. but
who had taken no part in the discus
sion.
81 guess this will turn out pretty bad
for us Republicans" said member of
that party 10 a friend, as they looked
over the bulletin.
shouldn't be surprised II it would, "
was the reply.
"Well, don't you think it ought too"
said a rough-lOOking man with a tin
bucket. as be moved out of the crowd.
The first speakers looked at each
other, but said nothing more. They
were evidently thinking, however.
A reporter saw railroad man, last
evening, who had just come in from
Pittsburgh. he said:
1.-The excitement all over the city was
great, but on the South Side, among
the mill men, II was fearful, early this
morning. The air was full of the most
terrible reports, and many men were
almost beside themselves. Grave fears
were entertained that the outbreak az
Homestead was but the beginning OF
another series Of riots similar 70 those
OF 1877, and many a revolver was
bought i'm Pittsburg during the day.
Early in the morning WOrkingmen could
be seen going up the river IN
the direction of Homestead by dozens,
and not few of them openly carried
guns, while nearly every man had
pistol. Things looked pretty Squally
when I left. and it's shy opinion that we
haven't heard the end Of IL yet.
AT eleven o'clock last night telephone
enquiries for news were still coming
into this Office, while every pssSer-by
stopped q moment TO see II there was
anything new among the bulletins.
Mr. Albert Kolb came down from
Homestead last evening, and registered
at the Behler. he was seen by a
REGISTER reporter, and said:
Il left Homestead this evening about
five o'clock, when the excitement
around Carnegie mill was at its height,
and while the Pinkerton men were still
coOped up in the barges in the river.
The scene throughout the town beg
gard description, and cannot be describ-
ed in words. The whole population of
the place. reinforced by thousands
from Pittseurg, Allegheny City and the |
various towns in the vicinity Of Pitts |
burg, were swarming through the |
streets in the vicinity Of the mill like a |
lot Of angry bees, and above the hum OF /
voices could be heard the incesSant /
rattla of rifes with an occasional dis