Evening journal., 1892-08-25
BOMB. PANIC AND RIOT.
q Car Laden with Carnegie
Steel Blown Up at Pittsburg.
PANDEMoNIUM INSIDE THE MILLS.

ANJLlhyNlD wi lN0lDb 1aG MILD,
The Nonunion Men Cot Scared, some
One Turned the Lights out and Free
Fight Ensued. IN which ugly Injuries
Were Inflicted Perpetrators Escape.
PiTTsRURG, Aug pa car loaded with
steel ingots, consigned to the Carnegie firm
at the Thirty-third street works. was blown
up with dynamite or some other high OK
plosiye on side track of the Allegheny
Valley railway at Thrty-fourth street. 1t
was the first attempt at destruction Of
property around the Carnegie City mills
and caused great excitement inside and out
SIDE OF the works. The body of the car
was badly shattered and the contents scat.
tered IN all directions. A reserve force Of
police was summoned and quickly surround
ed the place, but no one was captured.
There was a loud report III the ward.
which was heard blocks away The patrol
man nearest the yard had seen olosd of
white smoke rise from one Of the cars when
the explosion occurred, and he quickly re.
ported to the officer in charge of the guard
IA q few minutes policemen had surround
ed the yard, and word had been telephoned
to the Twelfth ward to send more men to
the scene
Reaching the car from which the guard
had seen the smoke rise, the police found
That the side and end had been blown out
ana the contents scattered about. Between
the cars fuse eight feet long was found
Inc TACT that the car was bound for the
Carnegie mill led to the belief that either
the strikers or their sympathizers were re-
sponsible for the work Of destruction
= Freo-for-Au Fight.
When the explosion occurred the non
union men, many Of whom had retired and
We're sleeping in their hunks, became panic
stricken aud made a rush for the gates.
superintendent Wrigley, who was seated at
the main gate and talking with the watch
man, quickly closed the gate and locked it.
Al the same Instant some one turned off
the electric light current and the entire
mill and yards were in darkness.
The nonunion men engaged in a free-for-
all fight, which lasted nearly half m hour.
during which a great many of the men
We're badly and in some cases seriously in
jured
One Of them had a hand smashed so
badly as to require amputation; others re-
ceived injuries so serious as to require their
removal to a hospital. In the morning
the workmen discovered the man who
turned off the lights, and threw him out Of
the millyard bodily and his clothing after
him.
George McCluboy, workman, who is
said to be responsible for the stampede. was
promptly discharged by the management
subsequently he tried TO join the strikers,
! lut they rafuaa1 ~ raonsr-a I,s,,, tl..s..
ranks.
Among the rumors which quickly spread
I Immediately after the explosion was one
that a bold and daring attempt had been
made by the strikers to blow up the Twenty
4 third street mill
Another had it that cannon had been
placed at a high elevation opposite the mill
4 by the strikers, who had determined to
1 lombard the Carnegie plant and drive ont
all the nonunion men at work and wreck
the great works. Then there was still
another that "a battery OF boilers inside the
mill had 'let go" and caused great destruc-
ton of life and property.
Thrown from Inside the Min.
For fully two hours these reports were
being heralded about the Penn avenue dis.
trict. At no time since the great strike
was first inaugurated in this city has ex.
/ element been so intense in the vicinity Of
the mill as it was last night.
Detective Jerry Gumbert and several
! police officials are Of the opinion that it was
done either by the strikers or by sympa-
thizers, not to do very great damage, but
simply to create excitement and sway pub.
lie sympathy.
The leaders Of the press committee, after
making an investigation, believe that the
dynamite was thrown from the inside Of
the mill, substantiating this view by saying
that the car was damaged on the side near
est the mill They say they viii use every
effort to ferret out the matter
The nonunion men blame the strikers
and the. latter go further and state that it
is a scheme on the part of =omebody directly
interested to ruin their cause by turning
the good will of the public against them.