Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-14
NEWS By TELEGRAPH.
From ALI Quarters.
RI0TING In HOMESTEAD,
Another 0utburst of Discon-
tented Labor.
BUSINESS enterprise CHECKED
By CIeveIand's Election to
the Presidency.
DISHONESTY OF 4 STATISTIcIlN.
A Gathering Of Socialist
WOrkingmen.
DISHONESTY OF A sTA1Is1IeIlN.


| MORE TROUBLE AT HOMESTEAD.
A Rain of Bullets-Several Persons
Observation-Disclosures Badly Beaten
Retaliate by Shooting-Non-Unio
lists Fire at n Woman Three Times
An Infurfated MOb-The Jail and
| Non-Unfon Boarding Houses Under
Guard.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, Nov. Mot since
the famous sixth of July have bullets been
SO plentiful as this afternoon. Inside of
twenty minutes over fifty shots were fred
and Fourth avenue was in panic. Rumors
are plentiful of persons being wounded,
but the only ones seriously hurt apparently
are three strikers, named McFadden, Jones
and Prichard. They have all flesh wounds.
The negroes were badly beaten. The
| fight started on Fourth avenue about 4:30.
| Two colored men who worked in the mill
were walking toward the mill when they
| met striker who said omething to them.
They replied, and the striker knocked one
| down. About twenty persons, including
| children and women, soon assembled.
Both negroes fought hard, but stones be-
gan to fly and the men were beatin them,
when one colored man drew revolver
and opened fire. By this time there
were 500 people on the street, and
the bullets whistling over their heads
started panic. Three men knocked down
the second negro, and when he arose he
had two revolvers in his hands. He started
to run, shooting wildly backward as he
did SO. 1t is said boy received a flesh
wound in the leg, but his names is un-
known. When the colored men nad
reached City Farm lane six other colored |
men came up. They all drew pistols and ran |
down Fourth avenue in the direction of |
Mcclure street near where their lodging |
house is. Some one hurled brick which |
hit Washington Paul on the head. He |
minute the air was full of bullets. A |
woman, too frightened to run, stood on the |
street and as the men passed one of the |
non unionists shot at her three times, one |
bullet passing through her shawl which |
she had thrown over her head Two |
bullets went through windows of resi-
dences and one buried itself in the win
dow sill of house occupied by the
Coulter family, who were looking out
at the time. While the negroes were RIM
ming men lodging into alleys would hurl
stones at them When the colored men
reached their house they ran in and barred
the door. In a minute the house was sur
rounded by an infatuated crowd, who soon
tore down the fence and shattered every
window with stones. When the deputies
and borough officers arrived some persons
were suggesting that they burn the house,
lynch shs bigger 0sf Black shs s Ths
'em," were heard on all sides. The
officers went in to arrest the colored men
and found them huddled in one room, ter
ri6ed and expecting to be killed, one man,
however, said he would be the first to
leave. AS he was taken out woman hit
him with frying pan, cutting his head.
The deputies tried to keep the crowd away
while they took the man to the lock up, |
but he was hit several times. Stones were
also hurled and Deputy Montgomery was
struck. The officers then drew their re-
volvers and announced If any more stones
were thrown they would open fire. A
Slav threw stone which crashed through
window. He was arrested, but the au-
thorities seemed almost powerless, as by
this time over 9, 900 persons had gathered |
Several other colored men were beaten
About this time the report was circulated |
that the colored non-unionists living on
Shanty Hill were about to come down and |
rescue their assaulted brethren. This was |
really the case. Over fifty we're ready to
make an onslaught, and the coal and iron
police had much difficulty in restraining
them. During the shooting large crowd
appeared before the house of Martin Con-
rad, non unionist, who is also deputy, |
and began to threaten him. Conrad dis |
played revolver and kept the mob off, |
and soon other deputies came to the |
rescue.
After all the colcred men had been re-
moved from the boarding house the excite
ment subsidized rapidly.
Peter McFadden, who first engaged the |
colored men in fight, was shot through |
the arm and cut on the head. James |
Jones, who came to his assistance, struck |
one of the colored men. The negro there |
upon showed his revolver. The bullet |
struck Jones on the forehead and glanced |
off, cutting furrow over the left eye. |
Jones and McFadden were arrested to-
night. Mrs. Jones tried to rescue her
husband and attacked the officers, but |
| was restrained. Of the eleven colored
men locked up seven have cuts on their
| heads, where they were struck with clubs.
| To night guards are on duty at the lookup
and at non union boarding houses.