Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-14
TO OPERATE The MILL
Said That Four Hundred Non
Union Men Will Come to
Homestead To-Day.
STRIKERS DECLARE THEY WILL NOT
ALLOW THEM TO WORK.
GENERAL sNowDEN is wRATHFUL

A Dynamite Scare - Reported That
Enough of 1t IL Stored Away in n House
to Blow Up the Whole Town--The Com.
mander Threatens to Court-NIartIai
Some of the Offending NIilitiamen--Tha
Investigating COmmittee-Idaho Miners
Blowing Up Bridges.
HOMESTEAD, July IA dispatch re-
ceived at General Snowden's headquarters
late last evening stated that 400 non union
men are to be brought into the Carnegie
mill sometime to-day.
Nothing can be learned as to the direc-
ton from which the men will come and
where they have been engaged.
The National Guardsmen woke up in
the morning in the best of humor. They
felt that their trip would be summer
picnic to large extent. Not so the Off
GERS. General Snowden and staff had
scarcely messed when a man presented
himself who said he was one of the locked
out Homesteaders. He told q story of
startling interest. It was that in a GER
tain red building on a side street of the
town was stored dynamite enough to not
only blow up the mills, but the entire
place.
Just what action the militia may take
in the matter, If any, it is impossible to
learn. Thus far they are simply a sheriff's
posse, and are careful not to make any
display that may subject them to the crit
icism of being unduly suspicious of the
people. Nevertheless til highly probable
that the building will be most closely
watched, and in the event of any display
of hostility will be seized.
A council of the officers revealed the
fact that many of the guardsmen had
been plainly asked by the Homesteaders
if they, who were mainly workingmen
themselves, would shoot down other
workingmen, and that a good many of
the troops had said they would not. In
quite few instances, too, when the boys
had been mixing friendship and beers to-
gether, they had been asked by citizens
for cartridges as souvenirs Of their visit,
and had given them up. In consequence
of these interesting little informal cere-
monies there are more cartridges and am
munition In Homestead than were paid
for, and they are in the hands of the very
people to disarm whom and render power
less the militia came here.
The revelation of these things stirred
Gen. Snowden into unwonted wrath. He
read the riot act in divers tongues, illu-
minating it with illusions to the pic
turesque situation in which some cap
on repetition of the offenses. He declared
that if he could locate the men who had
been verdant enough to give up ammunf
ton as souvenirs he would court martial
them.
The townspeople declared that they had
no Interior motives in coaxing away the
cartridges, that they meant to use them as
ornaments for their mantels and memen-
toes of the guardsmen. But nevertheless
the air is filled with an expansive smile at
the expense of the youthful soldiers. A
consequence Of this is that to-day there
are fewer troops let outside the camp, and
those who are have no cartridges with
them that may be lured away.
The townspeople are not talking much
| about the presence of the soldiers. They
| show no resentment in their manner and
| personal conflicts are not likely to occur.
The friction between the military and
| the citizens caused by the refusal of Gen.
| Snowden to cooperate with the towns
people in maintaining order, and in de-
clining a reception by them, will probably
| amount to nothing, although the leaders
are very sore over their treatment.
Sheriff McCleary has limited that he will
arrest several of the leaders in the battle
against the Pinkertons. In such action as
| this lies the greatest danger of bloodshed.
The bulk of the workmen realize this,
but there is no telling how radical will be
the change of feeling if half a dozen lead
ers are placed in durance.
Matters have quieted down to-day and
the spirit of peace seems to be in the air.
| No fear of trouble is entertained unless
Mr.. II. G. Prick places non-union men in
| his works.
| 1t is the general belief here that Mr.
| Prick will man the mill with new work
men as soon as possible. He has practi-
cally admitted that such was his inten-
/ ton.
The news that the men employed in
the Carnegie's upper and lower Union
| mills at Pittsburg had met and notified
the management that unless negotiations
4 looking to the settlement of the trouble at
| Homestead were opened by Thursday the
men in all departments would walk out
at the conclusion of that days work,
caused much rejoicing among the locked
| out Carnegie men here.
Major General Snowden has located his
headquarters in the Carnegie school
| house, a two-story frame building ON the
brow of the hill. A line of pickets was
established around the building and when
a reporter attempted to visit the COM
handing officer late last night, he was
startled by hearing "Halt, who goes
there Stand back there"
| A musket with fixed bayonet thrust
| under the reporters nose induced him to
| fall back.
One of the guards then escorted him to
Guard No. l, where an officer was found
who examined his pass and admitted him
| within the lines.
The passes are issued to newspaper men
having credentials from the @papers and
| Press Associations which they represent
| and admit them within all lines from a.
m. to 10 p. m.
The expense of the sojourn of the troops
at Homestead will be paid out of an ap-
| preparation for suppressing riots and there
will be no summer camp this year.
| Already there is q scheme on foot to use
the money which is appropriated for the
summer encampment to give the militia
men trip to the Worlds Fair next year.
| No less q person than q staff officer ex-
pressed himself as favoring the project.
Contrary to the request of the town au-
| thorities one battalion of the militia has
begun picket duty In Homestead. This is
the FIRST step towards martial law, and it
II limited that seizure Of arms and dyna-
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