The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-07-13
FOUGHT OFT IN BLOOD.
Tbe Long Dreaded Crisis Comes at Home
strad-I2 Men Killed and 20 Wounded
Pirkcrtcn IIen Shot Down and Cap
tured by the Strikers.

IIrArrtCn .Hen SIlOl tIoN II hiit Nhf-
tured by the Strikers.
HOMESTEAD, July G.-Capital and
labor met in deadly conflict here to-
day. IN the preliminary skirm;sh la
Dor won the first round Of the fight.
1t was desperate battle, which
stretched itself out like a riot for fiji
teen hours. The dead and dying vii!
ever stand as ghastIy monuments to
the disaster. Yet Homestead is to be
congratulated that the calamity was
not more widespread. 1t seems 4
miracle THAI 50 few lives We're lost, in
view Of the fact that the .220 plnkertOn
men during the entire day were penned
up in the two barges that were con-
stantlv under fire from rifles, pistols,
dvnan.ite bombs, and the one cannon
in the place, and that the workncn
We're enraged and made desperate hy
the presence of the Pinkertons, who, to
the labor world, are tirebrands in time
of peace and war.
The workmen were determined and
almost vicious in their warfare, and
twice when their imprisoned foes
threw up their arms and raised i flag
of truce they refused to recognize the
attempt to surrender. Only when they
exhausted themselves did the work.
men accept the defeat of their unknown
enemies, and then the hired guardians
were subjected to inhumau treatment,
not oDtent with marching their vol
untary prisoners through the streets Of
the town, every man, woman, and
child in the place was allowed 4 vigor-
Gus kick or sickening blow at the un-
fo;tunates. until each Of them, young
and old, had to be almost dragged to
the prison, into which the men were
crowded lest night awaiting the action
of the Coroner and Sheriff-the former
to charge them with the murder and
the latter TO lmprison them for the
crime.
Altogether it WAS iii eventful day IN
Homestead, one that has left crimson
page in the story Of wage disputes, and
he end is not yet. The working peo-
pie arc just where they were before the
Carnegie people assumed charge Of
their contest here. The next turn to
be taken by the company will be
watched with interest.
The people here are nervous, anxious,
but they are contelt with their first
victory, and they seem anxious for
another tussle with capital, their an-
cient enemy. If the unfortunate Pink
ertonS who were glad to throw them
selves upon the workmen's mercy are
allowed to 60 unharmed tonight, there
is not likely to be any trouble here for
at least twelve hours, and what to-
morrow VIII bring forth in the way of
disturbances depends largely on the
course pursued by the Carnegie COM
pany.
ARMED "iNKERTON GUARDS AND
STRIKERS CAME FACE TO FACE.
HOMESTEAD, July G.-Dawu was just
breaking this morning when the first
gun of the second bloodiest battle be-
tween labor and capital that has ever
been fought in America was fired.
Since then, with no color Of right on
either side, with no justification for the
use of extreme and brutal measures by
ether sicr, the work of death has gone
gone Oh without ceasing, and it is re-
ported that at least twelve men have
been killed and twenty wounded on
both sides.
Never before the great rajlroa strikes
of II, when the army was called out
and the streets were swept with Calling
guns, was this record equalled, and it
has not been since until to-day, and the
war has only just begun. Tonight
there is an army of G,000 men, more
than one-half of them we'll armed, and
all of them carrying weapons OF some
sort, camped in the village of Home
stead. H. have 4 plenty Of ammuni-
ton and provisions for long seige.
They are setting at defiance all the laws
of the land. The Sheriff and al! the law
officers of the county confess their ina
biiity 10 cope with them, and they ap-
peal to the State authorities to call out
the troups. The appeal SO far bas been
refused.
When the battle will end, how many
homes will be made desolate, how many
more lives will he sacrificed, is q mere
matter Of conjecture. 1t is the almost
universal opinion here that the battle
has only just begun, that the bloody
scenes Of to-day will he re-cnacted and
rc-cnacted. Certain it seems that ifthe
policy O: sending Pinkerton men here
is kept up more murder will be COM
mtted. Organized labor here looks on
tie rinhertCn men as common enemy,
deserving Of no more mercy than I wild
beast that COMES from its lair to Gevour
and to destroy.
To Kill this enemy ) looked on is
the greatest glory that can fall to the
Iot Of mortal man. This army of 5000
men is sccretly-no, not secretly, but
openly pledged 20 exterminate every
Pinkerton man who comes, and in
their present temper, unless they are
brought into subsection at once by the
State authorities, they will do it. The
Pinkerton lnen are Just as determined.
That they are reckless, daredevil set,
with little knowledge Of fear, !. shown
by their conduct to-day.
For eleven hours they were gathered
like shee? in pen awaiting slaughter.