Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-18
THE DEATH LIST GROWS.

Two More Participants in the Battle at
Homestead Pass Away-One a Steel
worker and War Veteran, the Other a
Pinkerton Detective.
Two more deaths res ulting from the riot
at Homestead occurred yesterday. One was
n Pinkerton detective, the other a steel
worker. The Pinkerton man was Edward
Speer, a resident of Chicago. He had been
shot in the right leg during the battle on the
barges on Wednesday the 9Th inst, and was
taken to the West Penn Hospital in the
early morning of the next day. His wound
was near the thigh and his death is at
tributed to exhaustion. Nothing could be
learned of his history.
George W. Rutter one of the employees at
the Homestead Steel Works, who was shot
at the same time, died at the Homeopathic
Hospital yesterday afternoon. He was 46
years of age and leaves wife and family at
Verona borough, where he had resided for
many years and was well and popularity
known. his death makes IL that have been
officially reported from the battle at Home
stead.
A Very Peculiar Wound.
Rutter was brought to the hospital at noon
on the day of the riot. He had been shot in
the right hip with rifle ball, believed to
have been fired from the Pinkerton boats.
The ball passed thorough the hip joint
from the side and rear. lodged under
the skin in the lower part of the
abdomen. 1t had been extracted by q phys
ician at Homestead before the injured man
was sent here. According to the hospital
physicians, Rutter had been given a consid-
cradle quantity of liquor, probably for the
purpose of sustaining him after the injury
was received. His mind was affected by the
liquor, and when its effects passed away he
became delirious. From then until death
1p-iaX-al him his mind uanaered a olrnOst
tinually, and in his rawlings ne was back on
the river bank at the Homestead mills en-
countering, with his fellow strikers, the
At no time could connected story of how
he was shot be gained from him. At one
time he would say he was taking no part in
the fight, simply standing on the bank
watching the others. At another time he
would declare that he was the only man
W6C- saEeA L. stes., up OF the gang plank
when The PinKerton boats landed. and then
it WAS he received the bullet.
1t is believed that he was injured in the
first charge when the Pinkertons arrived at
Homestead but further than this his story
is not known. Owing to the contradictory
nature OF his statements the Coroner would
take no ante-mortem statement from him.
A Veteran of the Rebellion.
Rutter was veteran of the late war, had
an excellent record, and the scars on his
body attest to the service he saw at the
front. He enlisted in the Eleventh Pennsyl-
wanna deserves, the same regiment IN which
Sheriff McCleary served, but subse-
ouently transferred to Thompson's Battery,
which saw some of the hardest fighting in
the last three years of the war.
When first brought to the hospital the
gravity of his condition was appreciated and
he was placed in a private room and given
he best attention the building affords sew
raj of the best surgeons in the city holding
consultations on his case. His death is
eeply regretted by the hospital staff.
The body was removed to the morguc yes
al day and placed in a neat casket where it
as viewed by his heart broken wife and
N last night. This morning it will be re-
toved 20 the family home in Verona bv the
o. 4. II. Post OF which lie was a member, and
le interment will take place tomorrow
fternoon. The date of the Coroner's in
,uest has been set for Wednesday morning
and the same jury which sat in the other
homestead cases will sit in this.
The only Homestead cases remaining at
rhe Homeopathic Hospital are Captain II Hein,
David Wells and James Lester. all Pinkerion
nen, who are slowly recovering.