Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-10
KILLED AT MUNHALL.
James Brown, of the Sixteenth Regi-
ment, Meets a Sudden Death.
SHERIFF M'CLEARY AROUSED.
Coal and Iron Police Deputized and Other
Orders Issued.
AN OLD LAW AGAINST RIOT REVIVED

Sl1teentn regiment, was stIuck Dy the
Dravosburg accommodation on the Pitts
burg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad at
Munhall station near Homestead last night
at 10 o'clock and was almost instantly
killed. His company was on duty at that
place yesterday, and when the accident oc-
CURED he was standing on the railroad
track talking to friend He was on guard
duty at the time. 1t is supposed he mis-
took the track the train was on, and in
stepping from one track to the other was
struck by the train. He lived five min
utes after being picked up. His home was
at Cooperstown. He was about 35 years
old and unmarried.
Sheriff McCleary went to Homestead
early yesterday morning and spent the
entire day in stirring up his deputies and
urging them to be more attentive to their
duties. The reports of the riots on Thurs
day evening SO plainly showed that the
officers were not doing their duty that the
Sheriff began an immediate examination of
the reported trouble.
Ono Deputy Discharged.
He first interviewed General Wiley and
Acting Provost Marshal Crawford. After
ward he got the testimony of several eye-wit-
nesses to the disturbances and the heaping
of epithets and indignities by the boys upon
non-union men when they came out of the
mill to get their supper in the town. What
he learned led him to take decisive action.
One Deputy Sheriff was Immediately sus-
pended, and the other officers were given a
severe reprimand for the loose way in
which they had been performing their duty
for some time past. As the force of depu-
ties had been reduced from 45 to Is,
the Sheriff at once proceeded to
deputize all the Coal and Iron police
on duty at the mill. This was followed by
issuing orders to Acting Provost Marshal
Crawford, giving him power to order out
his troops to suppress riot or disperse any
'assemblage of locked-out men, when in his
Judgment it was deemed necessary, with
out waiting to receive orders from the civil
authorities
Major Crawford said yesterday that had
these orders been issued sooner the acts of
Thursday evening would not have hap
pened, as he was an eyewitness to every
the disturbance could have been easily
stopped.
Last evening as the time approached for
the non-union men to leave the mill to take
their supper in the various restaurants, the
locked-out men began assembling in large
numbers along Eighth avenue.
Deputies Down to Work.
The deputies began at once to disperse
them, and kept close watch that none Of
fered to either call the non-union men
names or annoy them in any way. Orders
had been issued to arrest every man, woman
or child that offered any offense to the men
passing along the street. As two men had
been arrested earlier in the day for that
reason, and as the officers went along with
the men, no demonstration occurred.
During the day four arrests were made.
Jesse Miller, aged 16, was taken in by
men "blacksheep'' and 'scabs.' John
Bonduro, Slav, was arrested by Deputy
Wilkie for the same offense. 1t is the in
tention to have the men tried under an old
law, overlooked until within day or two,
by which it is intended to have everyone
arrested for such offenses, sent to the work.
house, as it is claimed fine will not apply
to all such cases.
Joseph McMath aud George Latin were
arrested in the evening on a charge of con-
spiracy on information made by Secretary
Lovejoy. They were taken to the guard
house and will be brought to this city this
morning.
Captain F. E Windsor, who was reported
to have been reprimanded and imprisoned
by his superior officers for making the ar
rests of the excursionists on board the City
of Pittsburg last Saturday evening, denies
that he has been treated badly, and claims
that he was simply obeying orders when the
men were taken off the boat by troops under
his command.
AMove to Increase Wages.
Superintendent Potter said that after
Monday next the several departments of the
mill will be worked on the tonnage system,
and the men will be able to earn more than
they do at present. AT the present rate of
turning out steel plate it is estimated that
q roller can earn from 81 to So day. The
present output of the mills is about IS per
cent Of that before the strike
The Amalgamated Association will hold
q mass meeting in the rink to-day at 2
o'clock. This, meeting is expected to be
we'll attended, as the locked-out men feel
that the time has come for some solution of
the present difficulty, and some decisive
action is expected TO be taken at that time.
A number of prominent speakers are ex-
pected to be present.
Provost Marshal Mechling returned to
camp yesterday after two weeks turlough
at his home in Erie
Brevet Lieutenant Fl. A. Cotton, of the
Sixteenth Regiment, left yesterday for
Meadville, where he will continue his
studies for the coming year.