The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-07-08
The Surrender OF the Pinkertons Ends
the Trouble at the Steel
Works. 4 !.
Nine Killed and Over Sixty More or
Less Seriously Injured During
the Melee.
The Horrors Of Their situation De-
scribed BY Some Of the Pinker-
tons Several Suicided.

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Homestead was one of the quietest
places in the United States. The locked
ont men. many of whom had not closed
their eyes in sleep for forty-eight hours,
retired early and few of them have yet
put in an appearance. Fearing that
another effort would be made to
land workmen and deputies ct
the works the workmen detailed
strong armed guard to guard every
approach to the immense plant. None
Of the leaders having put in an appear
ance, just what action they have decided
on cannot, at this hour, be ascertained.
The complete routing of the Pinkertons
in the evening put the men in high
spirits, and the more radical boldly
declare that should another attempt be
made by the company to obtain posses
sion Of its property, the enemy viii re-
ceive even worse treatment than given
the detectives brought here on barges.
O'Donnell and other conservative leaders
denounce the action of the mob after
the surrender OF the deputies, as having
been brutal and cowardly. To the
credit of the great majority Of the men
who are locked out it can be said that
they had no hand in the assault upon
the defenseless men. They did all in
their power n protect the men who had
thrown themselves upon their mercy,
but they were powerless to control the
angry mob of foreigners, especially the
female portionsof it. Had 1t not been
for the wild demonstration indulged in
by the women, who called upon their
husbands and sons to avenge the
killing Of the workmen who were
shot down by the Pinkertpns, 1t Is
probably the latter would not have been
60 roughly handled. When the second
squad of deputies, many Of them weak
from the loss Of blood, neared the
entrance to the rink, the angry crowd,
urged ON by women OF foreign birth,
closed In. One man, evidently Pole,
grasped one Of the prisoners by the
throat and struck him terrible blow in
the face with his fist, while stout built
woman began belaboring the unfortu-
nate wretch with club. One of the
guards succeeded in raising his gun to
his shoulder and with look indicating
that he meant business shouted: "Stand
back and let these men pass by, or by
----- I'll shoot the next man or woman that
raises hand against them. We have
promised to protect them and we will do
it even if we have TO use our guns.
This declaration was greeted by howl
Of derision and cries of XIII the muir
derers.n Instantly half dozen guns
were brought to bear upon the mob, and
had not the ringleaders fallen back the
men who had pledged themselves to
protect the vanqnished enemies from
violence would have done so at the cost
Of human life.
The Burgess Talks.
The situation was becoming very
serious, when Burgess cGluckie ap-
peared in the doorway Of the rink. After
commanding the crowd to fall back, he
said:
Fellow Citizens: I call on you and
each one Of you, to act in an orderly
manner. We win not permit any further
unlawful demonstrations All the men
will be locked up and not one OF them
will be allowed to escape. Each one oi
those buns and beats who came here tc
shoot down honest workingmen will be
charged with murder. We will see il
the poor people have not equal rights
with monopolists who employ and send
to their place gang Of murderers and
cut throats.
AS well may be imagined, this address
was greeted with cheers. But it had
the desired effect, and the crowd became
orderly.