Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-26
HE is BADLY BEATEN.
Two Strikers Are Captured While
Attacking a Deckhand.
DEPUTY SHERIFFs MAKE ARRESTS.
Coroner Not Allowed to View Private Ben
ninghoffs Body.
EXCITING FIRE IN THE BOROUGH

dock last night by four men, supposed to
be strikers.
Mr. Smith lives at Braddock and goes up
there every day. The strikers or their
friends were evidently aware of this fact.
Smith went up to Braddock yesterday aft
ernoon and intended to come down on the
o'clock train on the Pemickey road. He
arrived at the station short
him before the train was due. He went
inside, shortly afterwards he noticed four
men on the outside They seemed to be
looking for some one Everybody coming
to the station was closely scrutinized by
the men.
When the train came Smith started to
board it, Just as his foot was on the step
he was grabbed by the four men and pulled
back. Smith cried out to the conductor,
but his cry was unhesrd and the train
moved off,
Smith Fought gainst Odds.
The men attacked him, knocking him
down. Smith fought the men as long as he
could, and then started on a run up the
track. closely followed by his assailsnts
He escaped, and late in the evening got
down to the mill His head was badly cut,
and his face and body was horribly bruised.
He was cared for by the mill physicians.
Two hours later deckhand named Web
ster from the Little Bill alighted from the
ferry. He was caught by William Walters
and Benjamin Thomas, two strikers. Web
ster was asked if he was q mill man.
He replied that he was not, but
he worked on the Little Bill His
captors said this was as grave an offense.
Just at this juncture a non-union man came
along, and one of Webster's assailants made
a grab for him, but the fellow escaped, ran
up to the provost guard and told them
what was going on. Colonel Mechling
sent a squad Of men down. When the
militia got there one of the strikers was
raising a huge club to hit Webster. The
men were arrested and brought up to the
guard-house. where they will be kept until
this morning, when Colonel Gray will bring
them to the Pittsburg Jail. Webster was
taken back to his boat. The men arrested
correspond with a description Smith gave
of two of his Braddock assailants
Prepared to Resist an Attack.
After the men were placed in the guard
house the sentinel around the Provost
Marshals headquarters was strengthened
by a number of additional men. There was
some fear that an attempt might be made to
rescue the men.
The cook for Company 1, of the Sixteenth
Regiment, stationed across the river, came
over into Homestead yesterday afternoon.
When he landed the strikers caught him.
He was badly abused and narrowly escaped
with his life. The provost guard was noti-
fed of the affair while il was in progress,
but before the militia could get there the
strikers had fed.
The deputy sheriffs around the Pittsburg,
Virginia and Charleston are continually re-
ceiving abuse from the strikers Yesterday
as several of them were walking down
Sixth avenue from the depot, Peter Moran,
q striker, followed them. He commenced
@histling the "Rogues' March" The dep
uties kept on and Moran followed,
grinding out the air in q trombone
tone. Finally Deputy Ritchey turned
around and placed the tall striker under ar
rest. He was taken before Colonel Gray,
chief of the deputies. The Colonel gave
him severe reprimand and the man prom
ised to behave. He was then dismissed.
Could Not View the Body.
Squire John G. Oeffner about noon yes
terday called on Colonel Creps, of the Fif-
teenth Regiment He told the Colonel that
be had been sent there by the Coroner of
Allegheny county to view the remains of
Private Benninghoff Colonel Crops told
him he could not do it as the body had been
sent to the young mans home in Greenville
on an early morning train. The Assistant
Coroner said that the military
ok oil had .lA
move the body without the Coroner
having viewed it. The Colonel told him
that death in the military while it was
in active duty, did not come under the juris-
diction of civil authorities. Even if the
Coroner ha6 come before the body was re-
moved Colonel Crops said he would not
have allowed an inquest unless he had been
ordered by higher military power.
The camp of the Fifteenth Regiment was
plunged in deepest gloom yesterday. The
men were all feeling sad over the sudden
taking off of one of their members. Pri-
vate Smith, who fired the revolver, is still
very nervous and is being kept
under guard. Early yesterday morn
ing the Captain of Company X,
Fifteenth Regiment, received letter
Of coincidence from Governor Pattison. 1t
was dated Cresson Springs and read Con
N
nv heartfelt sympathy on the loss of Com
rade Jerry Benninghof While the un-
fortunate event saddens our hearts, yet we
cannot fail to derive some con-
ISOLATION in the thought that
he fell while in the service of the State,
maintaining her Constitution and laws and
protecting her citizens in the enjoyment of
their rights
Ths Guards May Be Withdrawn.
The Associated Press last night sent out
dispatch from Harrisburg saying it was
understood that the troops at Homestead
were to be withdrawn in few days This
is news in Camp Sam Black.
Adolph Doerr, the butcher who was boy
cotted out of business, has had ban placed
on him in another direction. He tried to get
his horses shod in a Homestead shop yes
terday and the proprietor refused to do the
work. The Advisory Board says it had
nothing to do with placing the boycott.
-Four of the old men came back to work
yesterday. The man who came back from
the East with John McLuckie last week
and was spoken of as ''Mr. Butler" yester-
day turned out to be Picketts, Boston
newspaper man. He was brought on here
to write up what be saw in the mill. Su- :.
perintendent Potter was asked about the
man yesterday. He said: 'I discharged
man to-day answering Pickett's
description for lsziness and general inabil-
ity. If be came here and worked in the mill
just to get information he was o fool. He
had to work for our system of rounding
up does away with any chance of loafng.
Every hour in the day we know just what
all our employees are doing.
Could Have Saved Himself Work.
THAT man had he come to me and asked
for permission to write our plant would
have gotten it From the way he got at Ii