The Republican journal., 1892-07-14

ing been pierced along the sides. Short
| ly before o clock the cannons We're turn
Ell on the boats, and for several hours an
awful bombardment was kept up. The
stout oaken timbers forming the sides of
! of the boats were splintered, but the
| heavy steel plates on the inside prevented
the balls from penetrating the interior.
Many of the strikers. however, were ex-
pert marksmen, and they sent shot after
| shot into the portfolios in the boats, and
inflicted terrible injury on the imprisoned
| men.
When it was found that little impress
/ sion could be m AIDE on the boats by the
| cannon. an effort was made to fire the
barges and thus compel the detectives to
leave the vessels or suffer the terrible fate
! of being burned alive. Hose was procur-
| cd and oil was spouted on the decks and
sides of the barges. While this was be-
| ing done, barrel after barrel of oil was
emptied into the river above the mooring
| place, the object being to allow it to float
/ against the boats and then ignite it. This
| terrible deed was attempted several times.
| but the boats did not burn, and then the
| mob became Infatuated and hurled dyna-
mite bombs at the vessels with great eff
! feet
TIE TINkERTON>' PERIL.
The situation of the detcc tives was
such as to appall the stoutes st heart The
men had been left cooped up in barges
| at the mercy of the Infatuated mob. The
! toWboat had left them, and they We're SO
/ encompasSed by The maddened army of
! strikers that no succor could reach them.
| llrec times they ran III, flag OF truce.
but as many times it was stricken down by
bullets fired 10y the strikers Then it be-
came evident that the ammunition of the
I bcSiegcd detectives was either exhausted or
| they were too much worn out to continue
/ the fight. and ion nearly two hours before
| the end of the struggle was reached not
4 short was fired
| Toward dusk efforts were again made
to burn the boats with their living freight,
| and they would doubtless have succeeded
| had it not been for the interpositiun OF the
| leading officers of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation, who went to the scene of the war
| in the afternoon. Through their efforts
it was agreed to allow the detectives to
surrender, but this was not secured with
out the greatest objection on the part of
the men, many of whom had lost friends
and acquantances during the day Be-
sides there were thousands of turbulent
| characters attracted to the place and, as
| they owed no allegiance to any organiZa-
ton, they could not he controlled They
| wanted to see the carnage 90 on. and it
was not until some of the strikers pointed
their guns at the outsiders that a hearing
was obtained.
THE SURRENDER.
At o clock the Pinkerton men hung
out another white flag, and this time it
| ~ nd of 81,
ers went aboard to prepare terms of ca
pitulation. They guaranteed safe conduct
for the Pinkcrtons, provided they left
| their arms and ammunition behind and
agreed To leave the place under guard.
| The detectives had no alternative, and
promptly accepted the terms, some of
| them saying that it was the first time
they had ever submitted to such hui
initiating surrender.
AN AWFUL PAGEANT.
The captured invaders were in very
bad way, both physically and mentally.
As they huddled together on the net
work OF tracks, they formed a grewsome
| spectacle
Their faces were backened with dirt
and powder and stained with blood. Some
carried their arms in improvscd Sings
\ majority of the men carried cheap
leather travelling bags and bundles OF
clothing.
A double guard OF Homestead men arm
ed with the Winchesters, captured from
the barges encilcled the prisoners Di-
rectly behind the guards was a throng of
men, women and children.
/ p To this time no attempt at violence
had been made. The crowd celebrated
the triumph OF their men Ivy cheering,
but not until the head of the procession
of Vietors and Vanquished started for the
village did the crowd OF oddly assembled
spectators turn its attention to the discon-
| ISOLATE Pink ertons.
AS the procession was forming the peo-
pie fell slowly back, and for a lonely in
slant it looked as though there would be
| little OF no trouble.
But when the advance guard of 100
dust-stained Homestead men shouldered
their battered luggage and mechanically
fell into line, the long threatening storm
burst
Over the railroad tracks the procession
moved with measured steps, 1t made its
way between the towering red walls of
the deserted mills, surrounded on every
side by a bowling, cheering mob of fran
tic humanity.
The Pinkertons marched in single file,
and on either side of each man was an
armed guard.
At first the mob devoted its energy to
jeering and hooting the captives, but long
before the outer ramparts of Fort Prick
were reached the air was thick with
stones hurled by the maddened populace.
In their eagerness to do physical dam
age to the prisoners the rabble lost sight
OF the fact that hundreds of their own
men were exposed, and several of the
guardsmen were struck by the flying mis-
siles, but the general aim of the fast
growing crowd was unpleasantly accur-
ate.
In the beginning the dazed Pinkertons
made no attempt to defend themselves
They did their best to dodge the stones,
but even before they reached the outer
gate their bodies were literally covered
with bruises and wounds.
When this awful pageant arrived at the
gate directly opposite the railway station
at Munhall, it paused in it's journey to al
low freight train to pass.
This interruption lasted but a few min
utes but it must have seemed an hour to
the prisoners.
At last the final car passed and the jour
ney was resumed. Over the c. V. & c.
tracks they stumbled then down the slop-