Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-11

ence. In that crowd of buns that went
out of Clark street there were men who
had not earned an honest dollar In years.
A great many of them looked upon the trip
as a summer outing and So 80 day for do
ing nothing. Some of the recruits were
from Tommy Majors lodging house, the
Atlas on Fourth avenue, and more of
them were from the basement lodging
houses between Van Buren and Polk
streets, on Clark.
Regular Men Refused to Go.
ga man who is at present in the employ
OF the Pinkertons told me to-day that some
of the regular specials who refused to 60 to
Homestead were suspended for three or
four days Trouble was expected at Car
negie's mills, and for that reason he and
several others declined to 60 The regular
specials knew that preparations were being
made for a bloody riot, for the Winchesters
were shipped to Pittsburg ten days before
the men went Misleading advertisements
were put in the papers for watchmen, and
some of the recruits were gained in that
manner Every applicant was asked the
question: Are you member of any labor
organization, or are you in sympathy with
union labor men, If the applicant
failed to answer satisfactorily he
was told to come again, but that was only
a polite way of telling him that he would
not do for a Pinkerton watchman. The
Pinkertons did not want any men at Home
stead whose svmpathies were with organi-
zed labor. Kline, the Pinkerton man who was
killed, knew what would be expected of
him at Homestead, for he had been in sew
eral strikes before this one. There were
about 25 others in the Chicago gang who
understood that firearms were to be used in
case the strikers offered resistance. heard
from reliable source TODAY that Pinkerton
was going to recruit 400 more men as soon
as possible and send them to Homestead.
He gets IS a day for every man on duty
there and that leaves him good profit.
Arrival of Klfne's Body.
When the Pennsylvania fast train that
left Pittsburg arrived in Chicago the pas
sengers saw the familiar black-coyered un-
dertaker's wagon standing near the runway
at the Union depot. The wagon had been
standing there for ten minutes surrounded
by a small crowd of railway men and DO
licemen. Passengers waiting for their
trains were pressed against the iron gates.
Word had passed that the Chicago men
among the Pinkerton guards who had fought
at Homestead were returning on this train,
bringing their dead with them. When the
train halted the group that had gathered
under the shed dashed along the tracks and
scanned the passengers for the belabored,
blood-stained victims of the gauntlet-run-
ming in Pennsylvania. They were disap-
pointed, for only the ordinary railway
travellers hustled from the coaches and
out through the big gates
When the crowd rushed up the tracks a
man with Grape on his hat who was driving
the black van chirruped to his horse and |
backed down toward the train. The side |
door of the baggage car was flung open and |
4 pine box was showed out, laid on truck |
and wheeled to the dead wagon. The man |
with the Grape on his hat helped the baggage |
man to lift in the box. Then he slammed |
he door of the van, chirruped to his horse |
.gaiu and went spinning up Canal street be- |
sore the crowd realized that one of the |
Homestead victims was in the pine box
The dead man was J. w. Kline, the first |
Pinkerton man killed in the fight His |
ace was familiar to many in Chicago-a |
,lean-cnt face, with a firm mouth shaded by |
brownish-red mustache, and q square |
hin that marked the fighter. The body |
vas in good condition, but in the right |
emple was hole that a man might have
,laced his thumb in. The slug of lead that
lit Kline must have been from the cart
idge of good-sized rife, and the wound
ooked as If the ball had been fired from
boge. The body was decently clad in new
lack clothes and rested in fine metallic
asket, which was lined with much lace
nd satin. 1t was guarded from Pittsburg
v two Pinkerton men named Judson and
m1th Later the body was taken to Wa
ash, Ind, Kline's former home, for inter-
lent