Huntsville gazette., 1892-07-09
At HOMESTEAD.
Pinkert0n's Men Forced to Sur
render to the Strikers.
Horribly Treated as They Go
Through the Crowd.
Scenes That Would Appall the
Stoutest Heart-Men, Women
and Children Wild with
Rage at the Captives.

Rage at the Captives.
PITTsBURG, July 8.-Every cessation
of hostllities at Homestead was only for
short time. to be renewed with more
determined effort on the part OF the
workmen to exterminate the Pinkerton
men. The terrible havoc made by fire
from the shore and the peril that sur
rounded the detectives by reason of
the burning oil on the water were more
than the imprisoned men on the barge
could stand
The situation of the detectives was
such as to appall the stoutest heart
The men had been left cooped up in the
barges at the mercy of the infuriated
mob. The tow.boats had left them, and
they were so encompassed by the mad
dened army of strikers that no succor
could reach them. Three times they
ran ND flag of truce, but as many
times it was stricken down by bullets
fired by the strikers.
At 6 o'clock in the evening the Pink
eston men hung out for the
| fourth time white flag, and this time
it was respected and a committee of the
strikers went aboard to propose terms of
capitulation. They guaranteed safe
conduct for the Pinkertons 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
the men saying that it was the first
| time that they had ever submitted to
such humiliating surrender. When
an inspection of the boats was made it
| was found that seven of the Pinkerton
| men had been killed and twenty or thir-
| ty wounded, many of them so badly
that they will die.
AS they were brought from the boat
they presented a terrible appearance.
Many were besmeared with blood, while
all of them showed signs of exhaustion
from the long confinement in close quar-
ters between the deck.
Shocking Deeds of Violence.
The most shocking and dastardlv
deeds, however, were committed while
| the prisoners were being escorted
through the streets by the escort of
guards appointed by the strikers. An
| angry mob lined the streets on both
sides AS the men passed by, each in
| charge of two deputies, the mill men
and their friends kicked them and
threw some of them down. The unfor
tunate detectives begged for mercy.
Some of them had pistol shot wounds
| in their heads and three were seen that
had their eyes shot out. Several were
shot in the shoulders, arms and legs and
could scarcely limp along, Blood was
running in streams down their shirts
and they fairly yelled with pain. Fully
thirty injured men were taken to the
town hall. One of them had his eye
punched. out by an umbrella i'll the
| hands of woman. Sand was thrown
in their eyes and they were struck with
| clubs and other missiles. Many were
| knocked down with clubs and trampled
upon, and some were too weak to walk
| when they were started for the town
| hall
| The mill men used the stocks of their
rifles and struck the detectives over the
head and shoulders, inficting serious,
| and in some cases, perhaps, fatal 1nJu-
ries.
| AS the procession reached the Anal
| gamated association building, the de-
| tectives had to remove their hats and
| salute the flag. When they removed
| their hats, men and women hit them
with umbrAllas and sticks and abused
| them in every way imaginable. There
seemed to be determination to kill the
prisoners, and it was with the greatest
| difficulty that the demon-like crowd
could be restrained.
| The men were finally lodged in the
| opera house, where they were to be kept
| for the night. Thousands, however,
gathered around the building, and the
| wounded men were kept in a constant
| state of terror and it was long before
their wounds conld be dressed.
| After the prisoners had been re-
moved from the barges the riot
ers carried oil into the holds, poured it
over the bedding and furniture and then
set it on fire.
| When the flames broke through the
| decks the cheers which rent the air were
deafening, and the noise could be heard
miles away. The hills on the other side
! of the river were literally crowded with
people who could witness from this high
point all that was transpiring on the
battlefield and be ont of range of the
deadly bullets.
The day was one that will be remem-
bered with terror by the people of the
borough as well as the citizens of the
| entire county, who, for a second time.
will be called upon to pay an enormous
| amount of money entailed in the shape
OF riot losses.
| The Killed and Wounded.
A list Of the killed and injured is now
complete. Four were killed outright by
| the Pinkertons, and two others died in
the evening Eleven are badly injured,
| six of Nomom may die, and twenty -tFe
others slightly injured. Three of the
| Pinkertons were killed.
A Duel in Birmingham.