Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-11
THE STRAIN rELLtNG.
Any Sort OF Change Will Be Welcomed
mt Homestead.


mt Homestead.
HOMESTEAD, July TO- The intense
strain of excitement to which the strik-
ers have been subjected the past week is
beginning to tell on the men. Anxiety
has reached such tension that re-
newed hostilities would be positive
relief. Alarm after alarm has swept
over the town, and the men have SO
often responded that there Ia danger
when the true alarm does come it may
fall on unbeeded ears and the enemy
enemy be within the city limlts before
the call to battle is sounded. There is
no doubt of the settled conviction among
the strikers that another battle is inevi-
table. At least dozen kilograms were
received stating that Pinkertons are
mobilzingin in detachments preparatory
to moving on the city, and the leaders
have concluded that the decisive strug-
gle is not far distant. The strength OF
the Pinkerton army, by a mysterious
unanimity, is fixed at 800, and the
strikers feel confident that they can
easily repulse the force.
One thing is certain, another invasion
by Pinkertons will be followed by bat
tie more sapguinary, more terrible and
more decisive than the first.
PRESS ESPIONAGE.
The strikers were perfecting their
organization today, and appear to be
gaining strength in every way, except
with the press, which resents the full
espionage and restrictions imposed upon
it's representatives, but Hugh O'Donnell
is protecting the newspaper men in
every way from harrassing interference,
and 1t is safe to say that as long as he
is the dominant spirit, no more report
ers will be ordered out of town. The
spirit of toleration evinced by O'Don-
nell is not shared by many OF the rank
and file. Half dozen newly arrived
newspaper men today were promptly
approached by o self constituted
committee and marched off to
headquarters, where they were
forced to remain an hour or
two until they satisfied the men as to
their identity. Indeed, there are repre-
sentatives of the press in ths city who
maintain that fear of subsequent vista
tions impels them to an excess OF eau
ton, and their dispatches suffer from
the consciousness that the morrow may
bring a reckoning from an irate commit
tee who know no code of ethics.
This is the situation candidly ex-
pressed, and the Associated Press but
fulfills it's junction when it says 1t is
only when temeritv outweighs discre-
tion that correspondents in this city ex-
ercise the perfect freedom of news ex-
preston which would characterize their
dispatches from any other point and
which even the gravity of the situation
at Homestead should not obscure.
PINKERToNs IN TOWN.
That there are at least adozen Pinker-
tons in town is conceded by the commit
tee, who thus explain the stringency OF
their press regulations and the stories
told of the extreme vigilance with
which every body is watched. One Gus
pect last night was stripped to his
underclothing. His papers were closely
examined, and nothing being found, bis
money and other things were returned
to him, but he was taken to the track
and pointed out the way to Pittsburg..
The fact is, Homestead is as much In
a state of siege as though an army was
camped upon the heights around town
and gunboats lying in the river.
NO OFFICIAL ORGANIZATION.
The advisory committee is no longer
in official existence, according to the