Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-07-17
Observation-Disclosures
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STRICT DISCIPLINE.

The National Guardsmen Are showing
Up 10 Splendid AdvantaGe-NO Commu-
nicntion Allowed Between Soldiers and
Strikers.
HOMESTEAD, July 16.-The whole OF
the Sixteenth is on patrol duty to-day,
and the men are massed about the rail-
road gate. Lines of troops cover the
tracks and extend all the way from the
river front to Eighth avenue, distance
of about half a mile. Crowds OF the
striking men are gathered some dis
lance away from the troops, and abso-
lutely no talking between the groups Is
permitted. The only men who pass
back and forth unQuestioned are the
correspondents.
There is large three-story frame
tenement about block from the river
in which quite large number of Hun
garian workingmen live, and the officers
regard it as the place from which an
attack on the soldiers, if any is to be
made, will occur. Next to this building
is a long row of frame houses which also
contain many families of the laborers.
The locality is regarded as, perhaps,
the most dangerous in Homestead, and
it is watched with exceeding vigilance
by the soldiers. If a shot should be
fired from any of the windows the
house will undoubtedly be at once wiped
out.
An effort was made to discover why
this special spot should be regarded with
so much suspicion, but none of the men
or women found liz the large building
could speak either English or French,
save so imperfectly that the only intel
ligible declaration was that they were
peaceabe and proposed to make no night
upon the non-nnion men. The people
living in the houses are evidently very
much alarmed, as they see that the mil
tia are watching them closely, and they
evidently fear that if fight does come
off they will be right in the thick of 1T
Patrols are all carrying loaded rifles
and most of them have their bayonets
fixed, and the officers in command mani
testify expect that something is TO
happen to-day, for the discipline is more
stringent than ever before. When a
striker approaches the guards he is
asked il he has pass, and on a mega
tive reply he is requested to keep away
from the patrol.
The soldiers themselves have strict
orders to hold no communication what
ever with anybody, save in the direct
line of duty, and the magnificent disci-
pline of the Pennsylvania National
Guards has asserted itself over and
above ali sympathy numbers on per-
sonal grounds. The troops are obeying
orders TO the letter, and the stern and
resolute manner in which they are
going about their work has made a
most serious impression upon Home
stead
Each party has an intelligence de-
partment. The strikers have copies of
the different orders as soon as they are
issued, and they know as intimately as
though they were present all that's 60
ing on in the various camps.
Gen. Snowden, on the other hand, is
constantly informed of all the move
ments in the town, and each side is per-
fectly aware that the other is getting
all the information il can. The ques-
ton of the captured Winchesters keeps
cropping up at the most unexpected
times, and this morning it was stated
that number of guns, no one knew
whose they were, were taken across the
river and sent into Braddock, town
about two miles away. The Advisory
Committee repeated the assurance that
it is prepared to do all in its power to
gather and deliver the captured arms
when it knows TO whom to surrender
them