The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-07-07
t ERRIBLE MURDER
The PinkertOn Blood Hounds Fire
On LabOring Men.
They Find Their Hands Full and Are
Made Surrender.
ALL THEIR BARGEs WERE BURNED

The Sheriff of Allegheny County Utterly
Helpless and the Mob Had Things
Its Own Way.
I y most desperate battle was. waging all
yesterday morning between the strikers
and Pinkerton detectives at Carnegie'a
steel works, Homestead, Pennsylvania.
The workingmen have the Pinkertons
completely at bay.
! The latest reports this morning showed
twenty five strikers killed and thirty
wounded. The captain Of the Pinkertons
is dead and seventeen of the detectives.
| Twenty-Five are wounded
Sheriff McCleary wired Governor Pat
tison that he is unable to cope with the
Homestead mob. There were five thou
sand strikers on the ground and some
thing had to be done promptly. In re-
sponse to the telegram the governor
promptly responded: "The local authori
ties must exhaust every means at their
command"
There were some three battles.
Handle and Pittsburg, Virginia and
Charleston roads at Fourth avenue,
at Pittsburg, was spectator Of the sur
render of the PinkertOns, He returned
to Pittsburg at o'clock last night
Agent Martin tells this story which is
the latest real news this morning "The
hills on all sides were black with people
massed together. When the CANNON
was placed in front of the barge the Pin
kert0ns knew it was all up with them,
and they tried to make the best terms
possible with the determined strikers.
The latter took them from the beat in
double file and for moment didn't know
what to do with them. Cries of "To the
woods, Lynch, the dogs" etc, were
heard on all sides. Every striker seemed
as if he wanted a particular man among
the Pinkertons. After considerable par
ley some one suggested that the guards
be marched to the big skating rink and
there tried for murder Many of the
captOrs would not listen to this. Some
wanted to take the scared PinkertOns
and shoot them as they stood. Cooler
heals, however, prevailed and the march
to the rink began. The Pinkertons were
scared half to death, as the looks of
ltle strikers were not calculated to in
spire them with any hopes of mercy.
Many Of them quakeI with fear and had
to he supported to keep them from fall
ing to the ground. Several thousand
people crowded around them on all sides
and demanded revenge for the killing OF
the strikers during the day. In the
crowds were hundreds of women who
seemed worse than the men. They
crowded around and tore the clothes
from the backs of the guards. The latter
had their PinkertOn uniform on over
their citizens clothes and these were
culled off and thrown into the river. Al
their fire arms were taken from them
and after considerable fighting, the lead
ers forced a passage through the crowd
The poor guards. with most of theil
clothes torn from them were compelled
to march through the town 10 the rink
On both sides of them stood lines o.
strikers and their friends, hOoting anC
yelling as they passed. As the mer
/ passed through the gauntlet tn " were
: kicked and cuffed on all sides. TheiI
captors tried to protect them, but it wa:
, physical impossibility. They might a:
! we'll have tried to stop volley Of bullets
q Women and girls ran along the two
lines and with sticks and clubs STRUCK
the poor wretches. One woman had
stocking filled with iron and struck on
: of the Pinkerton men over the heaC
with IL | do not believe that any o
= them escaped without having been Gu
= and bruised. The leaders of the striker
could not keep the people away from tn
: prisoners. Scenes that almost begga
description were enacted all the way 4
the rink. 1t was the general suppositiol
that the men would be given a trial an
y convicted by a judge lynch jury. Will
d the men were being formed in line for III
; march 10 the rink, part of the striker
5 boarded the boats. They ransacked every
= thing and secured $50 Winchester rife:
THE men just took from the boats wha