Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-19
MANY CANNON FIRED,
Gov. Pattison Arrived at Homestead
This Morning.
EFFECT OF BURGESS MrLUCKIES ARREST
The Next Fight to Be in the
Courts.
SOLDIERS ORDERED HOME.
EFFECfOF BURGESS McLUCNITS ARREST
SOLDIERS ORDERED HOME.
1T HAS STUNNED THE STRIKERS.
Effect OF the Arrest Of Burgess McLuckie o.
Homestead.

ihADt fa-t July AS-lNo weeks ago
today and there was not in all Homestead one
man who, on account Of crime, Stunned the
gaze Of his fellow beings: today the principal
officer of the town-Burgess McLuckie- in
the common Jail Of Allegheny county,
charged with murder, while variants are
in the hands of constables authorizing the
arrest Of six other residents Of Homestead who
are alleged TO have participated in the taking Of
human life which made the sixth day OF this
month notable. What descent! From a
place Of honor and Leadership to prison cell,
with prospects Of as gloomy future rs ever
man tried 10 peer into.
Expected as the blow was II had q stunning
effect on the strikers. One OF the first things
told me, whispered in my ear just after the
Pinkertons had been shipped to Pittsburg hos
pitfalls, was to the effect that hundreds of arrests
would certainly follow. Ny informant was
one Of the seven men for whom warrants were
yesterday sworn ont by Secretary Lovejoy of
the Carnegie company. Burgess McLuckie
happened to be in Pittsburg during the after
noon, heard Of the issuance Of the warrants
and promptly surrendered himself. The offense
is not bailable until the arrest has been passed
upon by a county Judge.
terday afternoon what was going on in their
midst there would have been every chance for
scrimmage. but the situation was known only
to afew Of the Amalgamsted Association leaders,
SO there was perfect peace. Some time in advance
Of Constables Weber, Morris and Price the news
of the proposed arrests reached strikers head
quarters and although every one around that
interesting center declared last night that no
one desired to evsde service, il was a singular
fact that every one Of the seven men being
sought was absent from his home when the
officers called
Folks who are accustomed TO seeing one or
two policemen make arrests can hardly imagine
how very much difference there is between the
ordinary method and the procedure yesterday.
As soon as the constables arrived at Home
stead they went TO Camp Black and requested
Gen. Snowden to serve the warrants. The
request was denied, but an escort Of two COM
panies of the twelfth infantry was provided.
Rifles wee loaded and in each cartridge box
were twenty rounds Of ammunition. Soldiers
and constables marched away together and for
two hours tramped around, but without finding
one Of the men for whom they sought.
AUTHORITIES FEARED TROUBLE.
dent from the precautions taken. As soon as
the constables departed an order was sent to
the cavalry battalion, which resulted
in that admirable organization being on the
streets Of Homestead within few minutes,
any at the same time there was q good
deal of hustling around the quarters of battery
B. The provost guard was also strengthened.
From division headquarters Gen. Snowden and
several officers watched through field glasses
the movements Of the posse, and had there
been the slightest evidence of disturbance two
regiments could have been thrown into the
town almost instantly.
But there was no trouble. Not one person in
O thousand knew why that infantry detach-
ment Was marching up and down the streets
the sight has become common. The cavalry
battalion was supposed to be exercising its
horses, and no one not in the secret imagined
there was the least significance in the prepara-
tons made by the artillery. Without anything
to show for their exertion the constables re-
turned to Pittsburg on the TIA train. There
they learned that Burgess McLuckie had sur
rendered.
OF the other men-who are the following
named-they knew nothing: Hugh O'Donnell,
",
Burkett, James Flanagan and Hugh Ross.
NOTHING 10 SAY.
Newspaper men had no difficulty in finding
those Of the men who were in town. but any
thing like interviewing was tabooed. i had q
very pleasant chat with Ross just while the
search for him was hottest. A movement was
made to have the five men in town at once
proceed voluntarily to Pittsburg, but it was
finally decided to defer the trip until today.
Hugh O'Donnell has gone east and is not ex-
pected back until tomorrow morning. The
others will probably surrender today. A. soon
as the leading strikers realized that the Carnegie
company was in earnest in the matter Of arrests
there was an immediate outcry for revenge-for
such revenge as the law would give.
prscussrxa RETALIATION.
The advisory committee held q meeting, at
which the subject was discussed at great length
and with savage determination. II conclusion
had been previouslyreached, and think il bad. il
was then and there decided put ii in operation,
SO today you may expect to hear that application
has been made for warrants for the arrest Of
Chairman Frick, Secretary Lovejoy, General
Manager Potter, Superintendent Corey Of the
armor-plate mill. Yardmaster Dovey and
William and Robert Pinkerton.
The alleged crimes for which these warrants
are to be asked are stated as murder and trea-
SON." OF the testimony which may be in the
possession of the Amalgamation know nothing
but it does seem to an unprejudiced observer q
though the effort to place Mr.. Frick
and his business associates behind the
bars can hardly be anything else but
. failure. Such keen men are too careful 10
put their necks in nooses. suppose some SELF
appointed critic whose reason Is blinded BY
prejudice win jump on me for trying TO make
the situation clear, but the boot-heel operation
Is neither testimony nor argument.
The case is plain and, II divested Of labor
organization trimmings, can be understood by
any sensible being. Chairman Frick deemed
the Homestead plant 10 be In danger from .
large number Of infuristed men. Perhaps they
were justly infuriased-to some extent / think
they were-but that has nothing 10 do the hw.
He also desired 10 an the places vacated BY his
old employees and hs proposed TO an them with
non-union mon. Ihs law permitted him
to do hat To protect The mills and the
non-union men whom be desired 10 fAsro-
dncs into ths situasioa N. Yr3ok emerged 800
vaAchmsa, and thsss were providsd BY Tie
fiahsrssa digestive sgsaey. Now thsss Pink-