Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-19
THE FIRST BRIGADE ORDERED HOME.
Booming of Cannon Announced His Arriva
to the Scared lie sidents,

Booming of Cannon Announced His Arrival
to the Scared lie sidents.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 19.-The wretched-
ness in Homestead was at its heigh. today
when Gov. Pattison, whose coming has been
anxiously awaited on all sides in the little
borough, arrived here.
drsnching rain was falling, mud was every
where and the strikers had each individually
before them the disheartening prospect OF
being served at any moment with q warrant
that might eventually land them in
the penitentiary or on the gallows.
Up the steep yellow road from the railway
station near the Carnegie works to the top OF
the hill where Gen. Snowden, commanding the
militia, has his headquarters the governor was
slowly conveyed by m escort of several hun
dred cavalrymen. From the heights every few
seconds a bright red flash could be seen against
the leaden sky, then huge puff of white smoke
and Immediately thunderous explosion that
ratified and re-echoed down the valleys, start
ling the people at Homestead into the streets
bareheaded In the rain.
Gov. Pattison took the shortest cut from the
train to the camp. owing chiefly, perhaps, ia
the storm, and thus did not appear at the main
depot in the business center OF Homestead. In
this way the first intimation the strikers and
their families had Of his presence was the firing
OF artillery. supposed by many to mean that
another riot had broken out and that anothe,
day Of bloodshed had already begun.
The arrival Of the governor was watched from
afar through the downpour Of water by few
of the strikers leaders, who peered ont of the
upper windows of the headquarters of the
Amalgamated Association, watching the cavalry
working its toilsome way in Q gigantic serpen-
tine lneu the slope Of hills. Theleaders saw the
long line Of horsemen ascend the slippery road
the infantrymen rushing out Of their tents aiert
ut the booming of the cannon as the women and
children in the town, then the halt Of the caval-
rymen on the crown Of the hill and, finally, owe,
and above the din of the cannonading, the
cheer after cheer Of the troops who greeted
Gov. Pattison.
Hugh Ross, one of the leading strikers 10,
whom q warrants out for murder, was in the lit
tie group Of men at Amalgamated headquarters
grimly awaiting arrest.
on his visit Of inspection. is follows: Waite,
W. Greenland, adiutant general; Lieut.. Col
Alexander Krumbphar, assistant adjutant gen.
eral, Philadelphia; Col Chambers Nc.
Kibben, inspector general. Pittsburg; Col
z. T. McClelland, qnartermaster general, Har.
risburg; Col. Richard 8. Edwards, commissary
general, Montgomery county; Col. Louis W.
Read. surgeon general, Norristown, Col Her
man Osthaus, general inspector Of rifle prac.
tice, Scranton.
The aids-de-camp are: Lieut.. COL. A. J.
Drexel. IT,, Philadelphia; Lieut. Col. Robert W,
Wilbur, Philadelphia; Lieut.. Col. James Duty
Marietta; Lieut.. Col. A. Harvey Tyson, Read.
ing; Lieut. Col. James S. West, Susquehanns
county; Lieut. Col. James r. Hunsicker, Nor.
rtstown; Lieut.. Col. A. D. Zesly, Berwick, Co.
lumbia county; Lieut.. Col. Bradley, Phiiadel.
phia; 1ieut. Col. John M. Seigfried, Warren.
The members Of the non-commissioned staff
| are: Sergeant major, J. D. NORMAN. Harrisburg
quartcrmster sergeant Samuel A. Bell, Clarion
color sergeant, Alexander W. Bergstresser
Harrisburg; chief musician, John Russ, Har.
| risburg.
The governors expected to remain in camp 70,
four days,as both the second and third brigade,
are to be inspected. Comfortable tents have
been erected for the governor and his staf
near the division headquarters.
MILL MEN NOT wHAKES1xo.
The ranks Of the mill men show no signs O,
weakening today. When the gates Of the mil
were thrown open this morning there we're nc
applicants for work. The usual force q,
wstchmen and clerical force and two or thre1
foremen were the only persons aside from
the troops on guard who entered. Reports
that non-union men had been smueslst
In and that some Of the depart
ments Of the mill would be started at once ver.
discredited by the strikers. They declare thsl
extensive repairs are necessary before any worl
can be done and the determined stand taker
BY the mechanics yesterday has made IL yer,
dimcult for the works TO be put in condition
even II non-union steel workers were st hsnt
to take the places Of the members Of The Anal
| gamated AssociAtion-