The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-07-13
RIOT AND BLOODsHED AT HOME.
STEAD.
More Than a Score Killed, and Treble
as Many Wounded.

Nothing since the great riots o
1877 has created such CONSERVATION
throughout the country as the conflict
which took place last Wednesday be
tween Pinkerton detectives and the
locked out Carnegie mill workers. The
force embraced all the men employed
in the extensive plants of the Carnegie
Iron and Steel company at Homestead,
some eight miles east of Pittsburg,
on the Monongahela river, and a bat.
tie which for blood thirstiness and
boldness Of execution has not been
exceled in actual warfare wageG from
4 o'clock in the morning until .
o'clock in the afternoon, and only
ceased when the force of Pinkertons
brought to the place to suppress the
strike unconditionally surrendered,
leaving their arms in the barges in
which they had been transported to
the works.
The riot was the elimination of the
troubles which have been brewing at
Homestead for the past month. The
Carnegie company submitted a scale
to govern their workmen in the steel
plants and announced that it was their
ultimatum. 1t was officially announced
that unless the terms were complied
with before July 1, the places of the
workmen would be filled by others.
The workmen stated that they would
never submit to this proposed reduc
ton and announced their determine.
tion to resist any effort on the part Of
the Carnegie company to start up
the plants with non.union men. As
both sides were determined, both pro.
ceeded to prepare for the contest which
eliminated in such deeds Of violence
and bloodshed that we're witnessed in
the big hive of industry on the Mon.
ongahela.
The detectives had been rendez.
voused some FIVE or six miles below
Pittsburg on the Ohio river where two
barges had been prepared for them.
The barges were of the best build and
were used in shipping iron rails down
the river from the Carnegie mills al
Braddock. The barges were towed
up the river by tow boat, but long
before the Pinkertou men reached
Homestead, thousands of strikers had
gathered on the banks of the river
ready to give them a warm welcome
When the boats attempted to land the
workmen broke through the fence sur.
rounding the mill, entrenching them.
selves behind piles of steel billets
prepared to resist the landing of the
detectives. At 4 o'clock in the morn.
ing an effort was made to land the
detectives, but the strikers me. them
and fierce battle was precipitated
both sides exchanging a heavy volley
of shots.
The war was kept up at intervals
nearly the whole day, until the flag Of
truce hung out by the Pinkerton's was
finally recognized, and a committee OF
the strikers guaranteed them protec
tion, and began to leave the barges.
When an inspection of the boats was
made, it was found that at least seven
of the Pinkerton men had been killed
and twenty or thirty wounded, many
of them SO badly that they will die
An angry mob lined the streets on
both sides. As the men passed by,
each in charge of two deputies, the
mill men and their friends kicked
them and threw some of them down.
The unfortunate detectives begged for
mercy. Some of them had pistol
shots in their heads and three were
seen that had their eyes shot out
Several were shot in the shoulders
arms and legs and could scarcely limr
along. Blood was running down lheir
shirts and they fairly yelled with pain
Fully thirty injured men were taken
to the town hall. One of the men had
his eye punched out by an umbrella
in the hands of a woman. Sand was
thrown in their eyes and they were hii
with clubs and other missiles. Many
we're knocked down with clubs, tramp.
ed upon and some were too weak to
walk when they started for the town
hall. The mill men used the stocks
of the rifles and struck the detectives
over the head and shoulders, iuflicting
serious and in some cases fatal injuries
THE NATIONAL GUARD CALLED OUT.
At the earnest solicitation of Sheriff
McCleary, Of Allegheny county, Gov.
ernor PattisOn on Sunday called the
entire National Guard of the State
out to quell the disturbance, and see