Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-07
ACROSS THE RIVER
Viewing the Battle From the
North Shore of the
MonOngahela.
THE HILL-T0PS CROWDED
With Thousands of Interested Resi-
dents of the East End.
PEERING THROUGH TELESCOPES.
An Interesting Stroll From Browns Station
to Braddock.
PEERING THROUGH TELESCOPES.
An Interesting Stroll From Browns Station
to Braddock.
CAREFUL SCRUTINY OF STRANGERS

men over there. :"
The whistle of train at Swissvale sta.
tion sounded shrilly. Below shone the
Monongahela and over yonder directly in
front frowned the blackened, silent chin.
news and stacks of the Homestead works.
There to the right lay the town of Home,
stead stretching back from the smoking
chimneys of the glass works to the hills.
The town that ''Carboline" Kennedy saw
in his mind years ago lay there brave in
new brick homes and yellow, freshly cut
streets. Then came the rambling buildings
and the green spots of Chief Elliot's farm
Here began the line of white new fence
which skirts the river bank and can be seen
along the railroad track between the build
ings of the mill plant.
The Mills and the Barges
Then came the long lines of idle work
shops, the great piles of metal in ingots,
ore and merchantable forms, ranged one
against the other for half a mile along the
crescent of the river bend. Cutting the
glistening line of the water, just above us
to the left, were the weblike lines of the
railroad bridge, and there, on tie northern
shore, were the tail stacks of the Carrie
Furnace.
Lying close under the sheer, tall bank,
just above the bridge, were the causus belli,
the two barges loaded with Pinkerton men,
That is hardly exact-they were loaded
with such freight few moments ago, but
now thev have a mixed and motley crowd
on them, for the surrender has taken place
and victors and vanquished are together at
closer quarters than they have been since
the early morning.
Along the bare knobs on the high north
ern side of the river, hundreds of people
armed with opera glasses, telescopes and
field glasses have been standing for hours
Up at the Carrie Furnaces there are
five or six hundred men in q
group. Here and there on the hillside and
down along the bank, near the roadway of
the Baltimore and Ohio, were snapshot
artists taking what they could get-iust as
the people across the stream were doing
'ith the Punishment of the boats they had
.ptured, only they had no cameras
The Shout of Victory.
A great shout comes across the water, and,
cen through powerful field glasses, a stream
# men, women and children climbs up the
)ank from the boats and is soon lost sight
Of behind the mill buildings In the center
IF this stream are men carrying bags and
bundles, men who are evidently under
guard. They are the prisoners. going they
know not where in the wilderness of work.
shops. Derisive cheers and cries come
clearly up from the valley and now and
then there Is the crack of a revolver or the
louder boom of a gun.
Those who went first, those who formed
the main body of the captured, were hustled
and jostled as they walked slowly through
the crowd, and sticks and stones were be-
slowed upon them from the outer edges of
the throng with cheerful liberality. Those
who tailed the procession, the men who
struggled along singly or in pairs, were the
ones who suffered most. They were beaten
with clubs or struck with chunks that lay
handy, and which were hurled in right good
earnest. Occasionally one of the men would
be thrown down, and then some stalwart,
coatless figure would do skirt dance on
the stomach of the common foe. 1t was too
far away to catch the expression on faces
but there was limpness and a staggering
and dragging of arms and legs after these
little scenes that was as pathetic and spoke
as loudly Of pain and suffering as words or
groans.
Hurrying the Men Ashore.
For half an hour this went on. Now and
then some man would be rushed up the
bank and out into the mill yard
These laggards paid well for their
taridness, whatever its cause was, for they
ran In6 EudnIleI Ol IIe angry crown ike IN
the days when the squaws welded rods and
tomahawks and white men ran between the
lines.
At last this came to an end and there was
more cheering, and then 1t seemed as though
anIant hill had been opened and its in
habitants were fleeing in every direction.
These human ants bore burdens Some had
glistening burdens, some bore loads of
a brilliant red and others white
coffee pots, tin pans, bedding, mattresses,
packages of provisions or clothing-the
plunder of the barges. For another half
hour these busy ones carried off their find
ings through the yards, up the tracks,
along the river outside the fence, or loaded
them in skiffs and carried them across the
river. Then came cloud of boys, little girls
and women, who seemed to ransack the
barges of smaller articles, and then as if
disguised or satiated they began throwing
hings into the river. Wash tubs, pots and
right tinware fioated slowly down the
uggish stream and bobbed up and down
owe where the bodies of some of the
nkerton men lay.
9y this time the crowd on the bank had
lblv lessened. Not more than 300 or 400
ID about on the top of the bank or lined
bridge.
Burning the Model Barges.
lddenly there was quick movement on
5srges Children were off first and then
. and women followed them. They hur-
off hundred yards, half above and
# below the barges, and stood looking at
EN- as if something was to happen. Some
ing did happen very shortly. From a
orner of the barge furthest out from the
bank came q puff of smoke, then a
fame shot up into the air and
by the time one could count 100, both of
the barges were brilliantly ablaze. There
was oil and tar in plenty on the barges if
one could judge from the smoke, for in a
great, dense column it rose straight in the
air until 1t seemed to Join the rose tinted
mackerel clouds B1acker and blacker,
bigger and bigger grew the
smoke cloud, and wild were
the cheers from both groups of strikers
They waved caps and hats, guns and clubs |
just then a locomotive, black with men,
run across the bridge, and when it was mid |
way over the water a tall man stood up on |
the tender, waved white rag and danced |
ajig.
Soon the smoke decreased as the fire less |
ened, and the hulks with their cargo of |
glowing embers or burning timbers came |
clearly into sight, while the steamboat land
ing blazed merrily