Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-05
DISORDER QUELLED AT DUQUEsNE.

DISORDER QUELLED AT DUQUEsNE.
Details Of the Trouble That Called Out the
Troops.
1t became evident day before yesterday that
an outbreak was imminent at the steel works Of
the Carnegie Company at Duquesne, Pa. The
following particulars Of the troubles there are
In addition to the account in yesterdays tele-
graphic dispatches to The SrAa:
large number Of the strikers had become
convinced that the fight was lost and went to
the mill Office, where they inscribed their name,
in the application book There were . number
Of departments out of order BY reason of the
sudden shut down, and Superintendent Morn-
son ordered VIM Mileslagel, forman Of the me-
chanical department, to report with thirty men
in the morning for work. Notice was given in
the night, and this spread until about sixty
men. who had led the strike. hearing OF 1t. de-
termined to stop the work. Twenty Home
stead men started for Duquesne also about day
light to assist the ringleaders In preventing any
persons entering the works. They were in
charge of two brothers named Harrus, SO 1t IL
claimed. who are not naturAlized citizens, hay
ing only left England six months ago.
EVERY MAN ORDERED HOME.
About 6 o'clock twelve deputy sherifs in
charge Of Capt. Gray were stationed at the mill
gate, and the crowd began to gather. By 7
O'Clock it numbered 800. About this time men,
bers Of the mechanical depar tment, in obedience
to the order of Foreman Mileslagel, arrived with
lunch pals They were halted by the crowd.
which was armed with clubs and boulders.
Every man was ordered home with such threat
ening demonstrations that the majority fled in
terror. Foreman Mieslagel appeared at Q
o clock and was about to enter the works, when
q number of the men ordered him to leave.
81 won't go. Your conduct is disgraceful,"
he exclaimed
Either you will leave at once we shall kill
you" somebody in the crowd yelled. At the
same time 100 strikers arrayed themselves in
front of the man.
Seeing resistance useless Mileslagel turned
and started home by road skirting a ravine.
Three men. oce of whom Is supposed to be
Homesteader, followed cursing him, and he
hurled back a defiance. Immediately one man
struck at him with a club which Mileslagel
lodged, and "a he did n rock was hurled by
the second. The third man, however. ran up
and struck the foreman in the back Of the neck.
knocking him over the embankment. He rolled
u distance of twenty feet and received painful
bruises He was allowed to arise and proceed
unmolested. The deputies saw the assault, but
were 30 hemmed in by strikers that they could
render no assistance A few moments later
Hugh Boyce, the boss carpenter, arrived He
managed to slip through the crowd unobserved
until within ten feet of the mill gate. Then he
was discovered and savage-rush was made for
him. The deputies made a sortie and several
used their maces. Boyce reached the gate UNI
harmed.
The crowd then retired to the hillside, and
while there a carpenter arrived Oh the electric
road from Mckeesport The motor man and
conductor tried to notify the strikers that
non-union man on the car. They failed to
comprehend. though, until the carpenter dis
mounted in front Of the gate. Then, uttering
a savage yell, they charged. The terrified car
penter dropped his tools and fed to the gate.
strikers Immediately commenced storming the
works.
ASKING FOR TROOPS.
Then telegram was hastily dispatched by
Capt. Gray to Brig. Gen. Wiley, commanding
the battalion of the second brigade, stationed
at Homestead. He sent the sixteenth regiment
to the scene of disorder on q special train. 1t
arrived just in time to prevent the mill gate be-
ing stormed.
The regiment cleared the mill road without
having to use a single bayonet. 1t marched up
company front and instinctively the 800 strikers
fell back before il. Details we're then stationed
at the gates railroad stations and throughout
the town. The strikers congregated along the
hillside and further violence was ended. None
of the repair men would 60 to work in the
afternoon, as they were too frightened. Col.
Hullngs, commanding the sixteenth regiment,
telegraphed Gen. Wiley in the evening that he
was confident two companies would be sufficient
to assist the deputies in preserving order. The
companies will likely remain at Duquesne sew
eral days. Treasurer Ii. NJ. Curry Of the Car
negie Steel Company. limited, who was at
Duquesne, stated that fifty-one Of the old en-
ployes had asked to return to work and would
be taken back on Monday. There are about
fifty men who were active in inducing the men
to Join the Amalgamated Association and in
sympathy with the strike movement who would
not be taken back.
In Homestead it ia generally conceded that
far as Duquesne is concerned the strike Is
lost.
There was little change in the Homestead
strike last evening. Manager Potter said that
on Monday the Bessemer converting machine
would be started, and then all the departments
would be partially in operation. During the
past two days the advisory committee hns been
plastering the works with notices to the non
union men that the stories Of violence are I'M
true. and that if they desire to get away they
will not be molested.