Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-07
sICKENING CRUELTY.
The Story Of the Night at Homestead Told
by Member OF "The Stars" Stan.
Special Dispatch To The Evening Sta-

The Story Of the Night at Homestead Told
by q Member OF "The Star's' stan.
Special Dispatch to The Evening sta-
HOMESTEAD, Pa, July There is peace at
Homestead. Just such peace as succeeds one
battle and precedes another. Armed sentries
pace the river banks and watch the movements
Of every steamboat and barge which ripples the
muddy surface Of the Monongahela. Equally
vigilant scouts gaze with eyes that look as
though they had never known sleep at each
individual who enters the burgh or approaches
the Carnegie Steel Company's mills, the place
which 5000 determined strikers have practi-
cally sworn shall never be surrendered to its
proprietors until the wage differences have
been adjusted to the satisfaction Of the ma
jority.
The ordinarily quiet town was never more
quiet than it was when reached it early this
morning, but there was nothing reassuring in
the silence-it was ominous beyond descrip-
ton. There was no loudness Of speech, no
openly threatening expression, but in place Of
those too common and generally harmless
symptoms there wero whisperings and corrugated
brows and murderous gestures-the latter not
apparent in the hazy dawn save to the close OBJ
server.
Most Of the strikers spent the night in their
homes, SO the general demeanor Of the multi
tude will not be plain for two or three hours
yet, but if the men who have kept such close
watch for the past ten or twelve hours are fair
specimens Of their slumbering companions and
comrades in arms the possibilities Of renewed
hostlities are many and awful
TRANSPORTATION OF THE TOWN.
More thorough Transformation could not be
imagined than that which the events of a day
have worked in the people of Homestead. The
reputation Of the place for good order and law
full behavior has never been assailed until this
trouble arose, and it Is safe to say that the
trouble might have been adjusted with honor
and without bloodshed had President Frick re-
Trained from attempting to support his claim
through the medium of the Pinkerton police
But the bloodshed seems to have warped the
judgment aud eradicated the better nature Of
these previously estimable people of Home
stead, perhaps q natural but nevertheless a de-
plorable sequence. They have suffered the loss
of friends and kinsfolk, and for hours have
been thirsting, with longing that seems un-
quenchable, for opportunity to slaughter those
who came, as these people say. Hired by
greedy capital to murder protesting labor. I"
What little Of revenge was enjoyed yesterday
seems to have had no satisfying effect upon the
changed natures Of thousands who, two or three
days ago, would have shuddered at the intimation
Of such happenings as will make the 9Th day Of
Fourth ever was.
WOMEN ENCOURAGED TIE BRUTALITY.
Especially prominent in every demonstration
that was made during the day and up to the
time when the terribly damaged Pinkertons de-
parted for Pittsburg were the women Of Home
stead-not all the women, Of course, but . large
and violent proportion Of them. So long a. the
Pinkertons were within their barges the assault
was necessarily carried on by the armed men,
but when, by surrender, the thoroughly fright
ened mercenaries placed themselves in the
hands Of those whom they had come TO quell
and, If necessary, kill it was the women who
urged on and assisted the brutality which was
practiced upon the then defenseless Detectives.
The story Of the fight you have had from
other sources, but no narrative has ever reached
or ever VIII reach you that can hope to do
justice to the part played yesterday BY repre-
sentatives Of the so-called ''gentler sex" Had
the women maintained silence whom the de-
fested men came Ashore It + possible that mona
OF the prisoners would have received other In
juries than those inflicted while the battle was
on, but thers vas no such good fortune in store
for the terrified men, A they marched ashors
they had 10 pas through marrow way between
divided mob Of men, women and even chill
drsn, who thought no death too terrible for the
captured onss. Ths lssdsn Of TIE crowd had
promised protection II ~ Pinkertons gave mp
thsir Arms and surrsndsfed without further
dinIculty, but thsrs NJ NO power bshind IL
peomiss.
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