Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-07
A TERRIBLE RIOT.
Carnage at Carne-
gie's Works.
Outraged Labor GOaded to
Desperation.
Awful Vengeance Visited on
Pinkert0n Men.
An Invasion by Hired Assassins Sue
cessfully Repelled.
A Bloody Engagement of Thirteen
Hours Duration.
All Day Long the Tide of Battle
Ebbed and Flowed.
Eleven Workmen and Nine Pinkertons
Killed and Many Wounded ON
Both Sides-Surviving Pink
ertons Under Arrest.
All Day Long the Tide of Battle
Ebbed and Flowed.
BY the Associated Press. ]

PITTsBURG, July GETTYSBURG has
had another experience with labor riots,
and this time, as during the fearful
scenes which we're witnessed during the
riots of 1877, blood has been shed, life
jeopardized and valuable property
placed in danger. This time there was
no material destruction of property, but
the mob was thoroughly organized, we'll
disciplined and had sufficient officers at
the head to conduct operations. The force
embraced all the men employed in the
extensive plants of the Carnegie Iron
and Steel company at Homestead, eight
miles east of Pittsburg, and the battle,
which for bloodthirstiness and boldness
of execution has not been excelled in
actual warfare, ragged from A O'Clock in
the morning until 5 O'Clock this after
noon and only,ceased when the force of
Pinkertons brought to the place to sup
press the strike Internationally surren-
dered, leaving their arms in the barges
in which they had been transported to
their works.
HISTORY OF THE TROUBLE.
The riot today was the elimination of
trouble which has been brewing az.
Homestead for the past month. The
Carnegie company submitted q scale
which was to govern the workmen in
the steel plants, and announced that it
was their ultimatum. The scale made
a sweeping reduction in the wages of
skilled men, and it was officially an
nounced that unless the terms were
complied with before July 1st, the
places of the workmen would be filled
by others.
This was followed by peremptory
refusal on the part of the company to
recognize the Amalgamated association.
The men announced their determination
to resist any effort on the part of Car
negie to run the plants with non union
men.
The trouble was precipitated by work.
men at Homestead hanging HI. @. Frick,
president of the company, in effigy, and
in retaliation the company ordered the
immediate shutdown of the big works.
The employees at once proceeded to or
ganize for the defensive, and the COM
pany erected high board fence around
the entire works, giving them the ap-
pearance of an immense stockade, the
sides being pierced with port holes.
Yesterday the Carnegie company an
nounced their intention to proceed to
get ready to make repairs, and the Off
cials asked the sheriff to appoint depu-
ties to protect the property. The sheriff
sent small squad of men up to the
! works, but the strikers assembled in
force and notified them to get out of
town, saying that no disorder was in
tended and no damage would be done to
| property. They even offered to
give bonds for the faithful per-
formance Of their duties as conservators
of the peace. When this offer was de-
clined, the advisory committee which
had been directing the action of the
workmen and held the turbulent spirits
among the workmen in check was inn
mediately dissolved and all the records
of the committee were promptly de-
stroyed.
THE CoMPANY's COUP DE MAIN.
The developments today showed that
the applications made for assistance OF
the sheriff, were merely for the purpose
of covering what was intended to be q
coup de main on the part of the Car
negie company. in clandestinely intro.
ducing body OF Pinkerton guards into
the mill enclosure. These men had
been rendezvoused some five or six miles
below the city on the Ohio river, at
which place two model barges had been
prepared for them. The barges were
filed up with hunks, cooking arrange
ments and other accommodations, and
as an extra precaution, as if in prepara.
tion for the seige to which they were
subjected, were lined with heavy steel
plates on the inside, while the whole
back deck was protected in a similar
manner.
1t was the intention that the mer
should reach the works at O'Clock this
morning, but the strikers on duty along
the river got word OF the threatened in
vasion of the hated Pinkertons, and pre-
pared to receive them. The barget
were towed up the river by tow boat
but long before the Pinkerton mer
i reached Homestead, thousands of strik
ers had gathered on the banks of the
river, ready to give them
WARM WELCOME.
| When the boats attempted to land
the workmen broke through the fence
surrounding the mill, and entrenchet
themselves behind piles of steel, pre-
pared to resist the landing.
By o'clock in the morning an effor
was made to land the detectives, but the