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THE ARIZONA "KICKER."

A Few Paragraphs Intended to & be Amusing. Detroit Free Press: We extract the following from the last issue of the Arizona Kicker:

On Monday evening1 a committee of prominent citizens waited 011 us and tendered us the nomination for lieutenant governor of this state, accompanied by suoh words of praise and esteem as brought tears to our eyes. 'While we had to decline the nominaiiion, owing to the pressure of our private business, the spirit which actuated these gentlemen will make a better man of us. There is everything to encourage a western editor to git up and bump himself like a jack-rabbit carrying sail before a pack of coyotes, and "we wouldn't exchange our present position with Mr. Wanamaker if he would throw in ten Sunday schools to iboot. -V

More than three months ago the 'Kicker very kindly but firmly informed •Tudge Gridley that this wasn't the climate he was seeking after, and once or twice since we have courteously inquired why he didn't get a movement on him. Saturday night a committee waited on the judge. It v- lhad a rope along, and the rope was used to elevate^the tardy traveler off his feet several times. When let down he •had a gargle for sore throat put up at "the nearest drug store and then walked.

It was a hint not to be disregarded, tend he will now honor some otber town with his presence. He was not a subscriber to the Kicker.

Last week we advised that Piute Joe, -who runs the little doggery just beyond the post-office, be given two days time in which to pack his traps and Vacate the place. We thought two idays very liberal time, but Joe differed iwith us, and, encouraged by that old 1 cot, Steve Springer, he laid for us in •front of the Pacific hotel as we went to dinner. The first thing we knew

Joe's bullets were flying all around us. M^and he standing only six feet away. 1 blazed his six shots, wounding two of our citizens, as reported elsewhere and then we took him by the neck and gv ibroke him in two over a hitching post |^We were entirely unarmed, but wo

Sf'knew Joe was cross-eyed, and couldn't shoot for shucks. The doctor says he will be in bed for several weeks, and ^perhaps be a cripple for life. If As for Steve Springer, we are look-y-V. ing for him., and as soon as we can lay fhands on his carcass we will make him wish he had been born a skunk, p'p A subscriber in Massachusetts writes |#|to inauire if this climate is good for asthma. That's according. We havo jgffknown men to come here and get their breath within a week and others to *!58e it inside of. three days. A great •deal depends on' the patient If he §Je©mes here with his mind made up to ,C «play our game, drink our whisky and J*

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1 soon leave him. If he eomes in the |L. opposite spirit some one of our townsmen will very likely feel it is his solemn duty to give the weary sufferer rest

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An Awful Conflict Between Pinkertons and Strikers at Carnegie's Works.

Desperate Encounter in Which Many on Both Sides Were Killed and Wounded.

Effort to eet Hired Men into the W-orks Resisted—Men Shot Down like Dogs—A VUd Rush for tbe

Hirer—Details of a Sanguinary Conflict.

PITTSBURG, PI., July €.—A bloody 'battle between Pinkerton detectives and the locked out employes at the Carnegie works at Homestead occurred at 4 o'clock this morning. Twenty men were shot, and at least ten are dead. Among the killed, it is reported, were five Pinkerton men.

At an early hour this morning three hundred Pinkerton detectives arrived in Pittsburg from the East. They were quietly marched to the Monongahela river, where they were loaded on barges and shipped to Homestead at 2:15 o'clock. The news of their arrival spread rapidly, and when the steam tug "Steamer Tide," towing the barges, arrived at Homestead, there were 5,000 people waiting to meet them. As soon as the Pinkertons attempted to land they were met by a firm resistance from the men. and the battle followed. The Pinkertons opened fire, and at the first volley two workmen fell. This enraged the crowd and they bore down upon the Pinkertons with resistless force. Nobody stopped to inquire whether the new comers were deputy sheriffs, Pinkerton detectives or non-union laborers. After the exchange of shots, the crowd grouped on the bank fell back, and, climbing over the heap of rubbish, rushed toward the big trestle leading to the Pimicky railroad bridge. Probably three hundred of the men stood their ground and returned a desultory fire with their revolvers. As these shots did little or no apparent damage, the plucky band, finding that their weapons were ineffective, slowly fell back before the withering fire of the Winchesters.

The first shot of the engagement came from the barge, It was aimed at a big Hungarian who stood at the water's edge. The ball went wide of the human target, but it was the signal to the Pinkerton men to begin, and for a full ten minutes, they continued to fire. The first man to fall was Martin Merry, the foreman of the mills. He was shot in the left side and fell face downward on a pile of ashes. Close by Merry stood a big Hungarian. He stoopedcover Merry's prostrate body, and as he was in the act of raising him ho staggered, and an instant later fell by the side of his comrade. This bloody spectacle aroused the drooping spirits of the crowd, and with a hoarse cheer half a dozen men rushed to the place where Merry and the Hungarian lay. They picked up the bodies and carried them behind the trestle. One of the rescuers, a Welshman, who refused to give his name, was shot in the left leg just as he raised Merry's head from the ground. Merry and the Hungarian were carried oyer the trestle work, fiver the Pimicky tracks, and then taken to the office of Dr. Purman, of Dixon Street. The doctor, after a hasty examination, announced that both men would probably die Five more of the strikers were wounded, ,l,wo of them very seriously, but they were spirited away by their friends and it was impossible to get their names. The shots of the strikeis were also well aimed, a3 four Pinkertons are reported dangerously wounded. The Pinkerton men did not land, and another encounter may occur at any moment. Excitement is at fever h&at at Homestead.

It was exactly four o'clock when the steamer and barges were sighted by the watchers gathered on the river bank a mile below the town. Directly the fleet was sighted, three messengers, each mounted on fresh horses, started for Homestead, shouting as they rode, the advance of the dreaded barges. Some one notified the engineer at the electric light works, and for a second time the harshvoiced whistle sounded the general alarm. The people respoaded with wonderful alacrity. Tliey wer6 old men and young men, elderly women, mothers with their babies in their arms, and a largo numbej: of children. The throng headed toward the river. The day was just dawning, and clouds of thick, grayish vapor hung over the waters. Suddenly from out the shadows were seen the lights of the steamer. On the other side of her wore the barges. The moment the people on tho bank caught a glimpse of tho flotilla, they made a break down tho riyer toward tho works. When the head of tho lino reached the city farm fence, which has been built out several feet in tho water, fifty men, or more, used their shoulders as battering rams, and almost in a twinkling had buttered down the barrier. Once through the fences, tho crowd pourod along the steep embankment skirting the river fence and the Carnegie company, and despite the mud and tho uneaven character of the ground, they mado rapid headway. It was a strangely silent crowd. Few words wero spoken, and these sprang from the lips of the women, who were apparently as anxious to participate in the conflict as their husbands, brothers and sons. From the Homestead to the pump-house it is a good two miles, but.all things considered, these half dressed men aud women made the journey in record breaking time. Once there, they gathered in one solid mass, the women, or at least tho most of them, on the outskirts. The front rank of

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solid wall of humanity stood at the waters very edge, and every moment tho crov.'d grew in number and determination.

Slowly the tide brought her silent consort down the channel. Just below the Pimicky bridgo she partly turned her prow toward the shore, and then, amid the skrieks of steam whistles and the angry groans and hisses from those gathered on the banks, the occupants of tho boats stripped for action. Each ono of them was armed with a Winchester rifle, and each riflo was loaded to kill. Slowly the boat edged toward tho janding, and when the keels of tho barges grated on tho sands tho grim faces of tho invaders were within a few feet of their opponents gathered on the shore.

There was ono lonely instant of awful silence, and then a bright flash and a sharp report announced that the first shot of tho battle had been fired. It also proved that the detectives had determined to take extreme measures, and, if necessary, ficlit their way To the mill. Almost immediately after tho first shot had been fired the firing became general on both sides. At first tho strikers retreated, and for & moment it looked as though they were completely routed, but-the men quickly rallied, ana although they retired from the immediate vicinity of the boats, they held their own, and by sheer weight of numbers compelled the deputies to proceed with caution. Up to this timo no one had attempted to leave the boat, but suddenly fortv or more of the invaders attempted to jump ashore. The strikers respondedwlth a sharp volley, and so thick and fast came'thebullets that the deputies retired to the sqmi•httl ter of the lower dock. It wis In this attempt that the Pinkertons sustained

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was carried to the pilot house of the steamer. One of his men informed the reporter that although the wound was serious, it was not fatal. Directly after this episode both sides rested for A few minutes and then, after another sharp volley, which did little or no damage to either side, hostilities ceased.

The fighting between the Pinkerton forces and the workmen was renewed shortly after 7 o'clock, and the battle continued for fully half an hour. Tbe second conflict was precipitated when when another effort was made by the Pinkerton men to effect a landing. A number of the workmen were injured in the second encounter. The wildest excitement prevails in the town. Thousands of workmen from all the surrounding places are reported to be marching toward Homestead to reinforce the strikers that have made such a vigorous and unexpected resistance to the attempts to land the noted Pinkerton detectives. In the.second engagement Harry Streagel was killed and some wounded. William Foy was shot and killed at the first engagement. The bodies of both men were taken home. Great excitement prevails. The workmen have built a fortification of steel bars on the river bank, and over one thousand men are within. They opened fire, and it is supposed that several of the Pinkertons have been killed on the boat.

At 8:30 a. m. the firing was resumed in a desultory manner. A workman named Wallace was fatally shot at Ninth street. He was taken to his home. Tho crowd on shore is constantly increasing, and it is more determined than ever to prevent any one from the boat landing. All the trains are carefully watched, and all means of entrance to the works guarded by the men, and a desperate struggle is promised. All along the river and railroads men are stationed to watch and give warning of the approach of any trains or boats.

Before the second attempt was made to laud, the officer in charge announced to the crowd of workmen assembled on tho bank that his men were Pinkertons, and that he would land them if he had to mow down everybody in sight. He then ordered his men to advance, and as they advanced from the barge they were met by a shower of lead from the rifles and pistols of the workmen. The officers fell back for an instant as if repulsed, but they were promptly rallied, and marching eight abreast, endeavored to get ashore. They were driven back again* however. It is not definitely knowu how many men are on the two barges. There are thought to be at least three hundred in tho party. Several of the Pinkertom are injured, but no one is allowed to go aboard, and their injuries can not be definitely told. 10:30 a. in.—The battle continues. The Pinkertons havo mado two attempts to land, but were repulsed both times. The men have intrenched themselves in the mill behind the machinery, and the boat is lying off shore. The men have received ammunition and gnus, and thev are better prepared than last night. They swear that the Pinkertons wili never land while a man remains in Homestead. The town is wild with excitement. Every moment the situation becomes more critical Reuben Forrest was shot through the heart at 9:30. Another Hungarian was taken to the temporary hospital dying. The Pinkertons seem bound to make another move to land their boat. It is almost riddled with bullets. DeWilder has just received two wounds, and David Sutter is reported as killed. Silas Waynes has just been carried down the street, dead. 11 a. m.—The strikers have tired a car of oil, standing near the works on the railroad, for the purpose of firing the boat in the riyer. They pxpect to set the river on fire. The men have placed a cannon on the hill on the north side of the river, and are firing into tho boats. The balls and pieces o? iron are being used, and at every shot the boat's side is penetrated and pieces blown into the river. move has been made to stop thofiring. Not a soul can be seen in the boat, and no word can be gotten fro® or tQ it. The strikers claim at least five men in the boat wero killed or fatally injured. One man alone says he saw six fall. Dr. J. Osborne's house is turned into a hospital and ho has treated ten men. On every hand men are gathering ammunition of all kinds. Every possible form fire arms is being gathered, and shotguns are being loaded with buckshot.

Tho steamer Little Bill came down tho river shortly before 11 o'clock to take of the Pinkertons, who wero imprisoned in the barge. There was a large number of new men on tho boat. The moment it reached the shore a regular fusillade took place. The men say it has assistance for tho Pinkertons imprisoned in tho barge. At all ovents a fusillade began, in which the strikers, the Pinkertons and persons on the Little Bill took part.. It continued ten minutes, and was mixed with hoarse, derMvo cheering from the men in the mill.

The number killed is now ten with eleven wounded. Excitement is so intense that it is impossiblo to get names. Tho strikers now claim that besides the captain and lieutenant four other men were shot and fell from the barge. One Pinkerton becoming desperate, jumped off the rear and tried to swim he was drowned the pilot of the Little Bill was killed. The boat was driven off and proceeded down the river. The men telegraphed to have it hold at the dock.

A flag of truce was displayed bv the Pinkerton men and was shot down. It was hoisted the second time, with the same result. The third time the flag was riddled with bullets, aud hardly enough of it left to hoist again. The mill workers havo heard that tho militia has been ordered here, and they now seem to be determined to rid tho place of every Pinkerton man before the troops get here. Men on both sides of tho river, opposite the barges containing the Pinkertons, aro lying in wait for the detectives to show themselves.

Tho men fire at every moving object on the barges. An occasional shot comes from tho barges. It is thought some of the Pinkerton men havo been wounded during the skirmishing. The story that the G. A. It. and Sons of Veterans of Homestead had turned, over their arms to the strikers, and that two cars of ammunition and arms had gono from this city, is denied by the Amalgamated officials here.

At 1:41 this afternoon eighteen men were taken from tho yard of the mill. Three of them were dead, two of them were Pinkerton men. The wounded men were taken home and some sent to the Pittsburg hospitals. Tho dead wero taken out and* put Into undertakers' wagons. Flames are now spreading along the river front and the mill is threatened. Several explosions having been heard, tbe people aro taking to the hills to got away from the fire. At 2 o'clock one of tho Pinkerton men raised his head above the edge of tho barge. A shot was fired, and he fell back dead.

WHAT PRECII'ITA TEP TITK TROUBI-FT. PITTSBURG, July 6.—Tho Carnegie people Tuesday threw dotfn tho gauntlet by appealing to the sheriff of Allegheny county for protection. II. C. Frick, after whom the Homestead plant has been christened "Fort Frick," went to Sheriff McCleary's office at 10 o'clock and asked tho sheriff to take charge of affairs at the Homestead plant. Frick gave it as his opinion that the timo had come when It was necessary for the county to protect the interests of the Carnegie Steel Company. He asked for ono hundred deputies to go to the scene of the conflict at once. There had been no demonstrations tin the

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art of tho locked-out men, and just why Friclc should request protection at this particular time. ShOrifi McCleary could not make outr At any irate, however, he promised to render the steel cora-

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any all the help Within his power,jind'to ho fitamedlately Wont to Homestead, accompanied.by several deputies.

The presence Of the sheriff and the deputies at Homestead created a setaaatlpn. Excitement was at fever beat. The -workers claimed that the steel eofiwty

the appear for protection was solely for that purpose. Sheriff McCleary before leaving Homestead was asked by the advisory committee of the locked-out men not to put depu~ ties on duty at the woJks. They promised to guard tne company's property faithfully. The sheriff replied that he could not recognize the request. Ten deputies were then placed within the fenced-up works, tuid the sheriff returned to Pittsburg. Within a few minutes after the sheriff's departure the deputies were convinced that they were in a dangerous camp, and all threw np their work and returned to Pittsburg. The Carnegie officials say they have turned the plant over to the county, and look for protection,

NOTES OF THE AFFBAY.

The Pinkerton men claim the strikers were the first to fire. Carnegie is in Scotland, on the 5th he was presented with the freedom of the city of Aberdeen, because he had given £1,000 for the fine library there.

The Governor was telegraped to send troops. Representative Caminetti of California Wednesday introduced in the House resolution authorizing the appointment by the Speaker of a committee of live members to investigate and report on the causes of the strike at the Homestead (Pa.) mills and the conditions producing the same.

THE SURRENDER.

Towards dusk, efforts were made to burn the boats again with their living freight, and they would, doubtless, have succeeded had it not been for the interposition of the leading officers of the Amalgamated Association, who went to the scene of war in the afternoon. Through their efforts it was agreed to allow the detectives to surrender, but this was not secured without the greatest objection on the part of the men, many of whom had lost friends and acquaintances during the day. Besides, as in all such outbreaks, there were thousands of turbulent characters attractecPto the place, and,as they owed no allegiance to any organization, could not bo controlled. They wanted to see the carnage go on, and i^was not until some of the strikers pointed their guns at the outsiders that a hearing was obtained.

At 5 o'clock the Pinkerton men hung out another white flag, and this time it was respected, and a committee of strikers went aboard to prepare terms of capitulation. They guaranteed safe conduct for the Pinkertons, provided they left their arms and ammunition behind and agreed to leave the place under guard. The detoctives had no alternative, and promptly accepted the terms, some of the men saying that it was the first timo they had ever submitted to such a humiliating surrender.

When an inspection of the boat was made it was found that at least seven of the Pinkerton men had been killed and twenty or thirty wounded, many of them so badly that they will die. As they were brought from the boat they presented a terrible appearance. Many wero besmeared with blood, while all of them showed signs of exhaustion from the long confinement in the close quarters between decks. The most shocking and dastardly deeds, however, were committed while the prsoners were being escorted through tho streets by the escort of guards appointed by the strikers. An angry mob lined the streets on both sides. As tho men passed by, each in charge of two deputies, the mill men and their friouds kicked them, throwing some down. The unfortunate detectives begged for marcy. Some of them had wounds in their hoa'ds, and three were seen that had their eyes shot out. Several were shot in the shoulders, arms and legs, and could scarcely limp along. Blood was running in streams down their shirts, and they fairly yelled with pain.

Fully thirty injured men were taken to the Town Hall. One of them had his eyes punched out by an umbrella in the hands of a woman, Sand was thrown in their eyes and they were hit with clubs and their missiles. Many were knocked down with clubs and trambled upon, aud some wero too weak to walk when they started for the Town Hall. The mill men used the stocks of their rifles and struck the detectives over the head and shoulders, inflicting serious and, in some cases, perhaps fatal injuries.

As the procession reached the Amalgamated Association building the detectives had to take off their hats and salute the flag. When they removed their hats men and women hit them with umbrellas and sticks and abused them in every imaginable way. There seemed to be a determination to to kill the prisoners, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the infuriated crowd could bo restrained. The men were finally lodged in tho Opera House, where they wero to be kept for the night. Thousands, however, gathered around the building, and the detectives were kept in a constant state of terror, and it was long before their wounds could be dressed.

After the prisoners had boen removed from the barges the rioters had their revenge. They carried oil into the holds, poured it over the bedding and furniture, and then set it on fire, first securing the barges so that they could not float down the river and causo damage at points bolow. When the flames broke through the decks the cheers which rent the air were deafening, and tho noiso could be heard miles away. The hills on either side of the river were literally crowded with people, who could witness from these high points all that was transpiring on the battle field and be out of range of tho deadly bullets.

The day was ono that will be long remembered by the people of tho borough and the citizens of tho entire county, who for the second time will be compelled to pay an enormous amount of money entailed in the shape of losses.

DEAT AND WOUNDED.

A complete list of the killed and wounded was not obtainable at midnight. As far as could be ascertained, eleven work men and nine detectives were killed, and eighteen workmen and twenty-one detectives injured in the battle. In addition to these at least one hundred detectives were seriously injured by the strikers while on their way to the jail this evening. The list of killed as near as can be ascertained at midnight is as follows:

JoseplfSupper, Martin Foy, John Morris, Jules Markowsky, Henry Streigel, Peter Heise, David Davis, Robert Foster, William Johnston, J. II. Klein, two unknown Hungarians, nine Pinkerton detectives, names unknown, as most of them were down by numbers.

The wounded, so far as known, aro: David Lester, detective, shot in the head and ankle sprained, not seriously Fred. H. Hind, chief detective, shot in the leg Russell Wells, detective, shot in the leg J. G. Hoffman, detective, shot in tho knee George W. Rutter, Homestead steel worker, shot in the hip and dangerously wounded Lawrence Laughlin,steel worker, thigh broken an unknown Pole, shot In the kneo,unconscious from loss of blood John McCnrrey, watchman on the Little Bill, shot in the groin, dangerous: John Cain,shot through the leg: Captain Henry Andrew Schuyler, shot through the knee cap: Andrew Zutler, Joseph Zsi, Joseph Wallace, Michael Murray,- John Kane, Harrv Hughes, an unknown man, Miles Laughlin. All the above are seriously Injured.

PINKEHTONS AT PITTSBURG. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 7.—Shortly after 12 o'clock this morning it was rumored about Homestead that the prisoners were to be takon to Pittsburg on a special train brought up by Sheriff McCleary. About 12:30 President Weihe, of tho Amalgamated Association, appeared and ordered the hall cleared of all outsiders. He then Informed the waiting crowds that tke outrages of this afternoon were cowardly, and thtit when the prisoners were marched to the station they mast be protected, Bis remarks were, received with cheers.

the rear, several being caroled in chairs, and no demonstration was made on the way to the station. The trip down to Pittsburg was made quietly, but at every station a large crowu was gathered and jeered and hooted. En route ono of the men, Peter Gorman, of New York, had a fit, requiring four men to hold him in his seat

The train reached this city at 2:30 this morning. Twenty-seven of their number were wouuded,and were sent to the West Pennsylvania Hospital. They one aud all refused to make any statement or to b& Interviewed, They are now at the station, waiting, it is thought, for a Western train, their destination probably being Chicago.

At 3 o'clock this morning it was learned that the detectives were to be held here and tried for murder.

TICKET AGENT MARTIN DESCRIBES THE SURRENDER. John Martin, ticket agent of the Panhandle and *he Pittsburg, Virginia & Charleston roads, at Fourth avenue, this city, was a spectator of the surrender of the Pinkertons. He returned to Pittsburg at 8 o'clock to-night. Agent Martin said: "The hills on all sides were black with people massed together. When a cannon was placed in front of the barge the Pinkertons knew it was all up with them, and they tried to make the best terms possible with the strikers. The latter took them out in a double tile, and for a moment didn't know what to do with them. Cries of'To the woods,' 'To the woods,' 'Lynch the dogs,' etc., were heard on all sides. It was proposed by the leaders to gather the Pinkertons together on the bank, to 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 heads, however, prevailed, and the march to the rink began.

death, as the looks of the strikers were not calcultaed to inspire them with any hopes of mercy. Many of them quaked with fear and nad to be supported to keep them from falling to the ground. Several thousand people crowded around on all oides and demanded rovenge for the killing of the strikers during the day. In the crowd were hundreds of women, who seemed worse than the men. They crowded around and tore the clothing from the b&clcs of the guards. The latter had their uniforms on over their other clothos, an( these were torn off and thrown into the river. A.11 fire arms were taken from them, and after considerable fighting the leaders forced a passage through the crowd, The guards, with most of their clothing torn from them, were compelled to march right through the town to the rink. On botli sides of thorn stood lines of strikers and their friends hooting and yelling as they passed. As the men passed the gauntlet they were kicked and cuffed on all sides. Their captors tried to protect them, but it was a physical impossibility. They might as well have tried to stop a fusiladeof ballets. Women and girls ran out of the two lines and with sticks and clubs beat the poor wretches. One woman, who had a stocking filled with iron, struck one of the Pinkerton men over the head with it. I do not think any of them got through without being cut or bruised. The leaders of the strikers could not keep the people away from the prisoners. Scenes that almost beggar description were enacted all the way to the rink. It- was the general supposition that tho men would be given a speedy trial and convicted by a udgo Lynch jury. "While the meu were being formed in line for the march to the rink part of tho strikers boarded the boats, They ransacked everything and secured 300 Winchester rifles. The men took from the boats just wtoat they thought was'of value and then set fire to them and burned them. In ono of the vessels was found everything in the way of odibles. There was enough provisions to last a regiment a week. The Winchesters were divided up among the meu, and many of the rosiderts are the possessors of first class r'fles ltd.?, not take the barges long to burn, and as they burned they wero fired into by the strikers. Scores of shots were red into the vessels as the flames wero licking everything. There was little pity expressed for the captured guards."

STATEMENT FROM THE COMPANY. The Carnegie Steel Company (limited) give out the following statement to tho Associated Press this afternoon: "Our Homestead steel-works were, on July 1, taken possession of by a mtrb, which was immediately thereafter organized by the local representatives of tho Amalgamated Association of Iron siad Steel-workers, and all our mechanics mill-men and even foreman and pqperin tondent of departments weroforcioly do nied admittance thereto We were al?o notified bv a self-selected advisory committee that no fires would be permitted at the works lest the men become excited to further awful acts. This continued until yesterday, when we called upon thesheritf of Allegheny county for protection and assistance in regaining possession of our property. Tho sheriff went to Home stead, and on his return sent deputies to the works and posted a proclamation ordering the men to disperse. His deputies were routed and his proclamation torn down. The sheriff lheu,tlupugh his duel deputy, attempted to tako three hundred of our watchmen, who were sent to the works by boat last night. These men wero met more than a mile below the works by an armed mob of Amalgamated men aloug tho river bank, which fired rifles and revolvers at the barges. Tho shooting was continuous for twenty-five miuutes before" a shot was returned from the boats, which was not until the boats wero tied up at our landing. On the arrival of the boats the mob tore down a large portion of the fence about the works and filled the bluff above the landing, keeping up a continuous fire and wounding three of our watchmen. Then, and not until then, was the fire returned, rosulting, we are advised, in some loss of life. Tho mob was so large as to prevent tho landing of tho guards, who are at this timo on tho boats awaiting orders from tho authorities. We are not taking anv active part in the matter at present, as wo can not interfero with the sheriff in tho discharge of his duty, aud are now awaiting his further action."

CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE.

The cause of the trouble which has culminated in riot and bloodshed at the Homestead mills is one of wages, involving three point3:

First—The wages of a number of men in the steel works are arranged upon a sliding scale, based upon a minimum prico of steel billets. The arrangements have been mado for three years. In that made in 1S8.) tho minimum price was $25.50. Steel billets are now selling for $22.50 to $23. The mill owners insist that$23 shall bo the minimum, and tho workmen insist on the old rato.

Second—A change of tho date of the ox pi ration of a scalo from June 30 to Decern-

k°Thlrd—A reduction in tonnage rates at, those furnaces and mills where important improvements have been mado and new machinery has been added, which has increased the output about 20 per cent., and, consequently, the wages of the workmen. Where no such improvements have boon made no reduction in tonnage rate is asked.

Three or four conferences wore held,but no arrangement could be mado for the Homestead mill, though in other mills tha old scale was agreed to. Tho Homestead mills shut down the last day of June. Since that time the workmen havo prevented the owners from going to the mills admitting only a few ordnanco officer? representing the nary, who are stationed there to inspect the plates for the war ships. It Is stated that only a small part 'ot the employes are affeated by thochangt •f scales, ana less by the tonnage proposi-

ENDS IN BLOODSHED.

Fight in the Coeur d'Alene District in Idaho.

The Pinkertons were scared half to rifle range a yolley from the Frisco mill

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Striking Miners and Non-Union Men Clash) In a Blood} Affray—The 'Frisco 3Iill Hloivn I by the Men—

Many l.ives l^ost.

WAI T.ACE, Ida., July 11.—The strained situation in the Coeur d'Alene labor troubles culminated Monday morning between 5 and 6 o'clock. The events of tho day pravious consisted of challenges from non-union men at the 'Frisco and Gem mines to the union miners at the town and Gem, and all seemed to iudicatn a speedy rupture. Both Gem and "Frisco mines were guarded by men behind barricades, armed with Winchesters, and as the canyon is narrow where the mines are located, the men behind the barricades could sweep the. tr?o railroad tracks and the country with bullets. The Geui mine barricade is within 300 feet of the center of the town of Gem. Monday morning at 5 o'clock a miner from Gem started for Burke. When opposite the Frisco mine he was fired upon. He ran back several hundred yards to Gem where the shot had been heard, and soon the miners in the town gathered with arms. They marched in a body toward the Frisco mill, located directly in front of the mine. When scarcoly within

greeted the miners and iead whistled all about them. They scattered and a regular battle ensued. Ono miner and one nou-union man were killed and six wounded during the engagement. The miners in the meantime wont around the hills up the canyon above the mine, loaded the car with 750 pounds of giant powder and sent the car down the track toward the Frisco mine. Directly in front of the miil an explosion occurred shattering tho mill to splinters, making it a complete wreck, The nonunion men then showed the white flag and surrendered. They wero marched down to the miners' union hall and guarded, no indignities being offered after tho surrender. While the fight was going on at Frisco tho Gem guards suddenly began firing volley after volley into the town of Gem, riddling the buildings with bullets. John Ward, a citizen, was shot through the arm. and Gns Carlson, a union minor, was shot and killed. Attempts to recover Carlson's body were met with volIes from the Gem breastworks, and when tho body was recovered an hour afterward it was lifeless, another bullet having been sent through tbe breast. No shots were returned from the Gem until the armed miners from Frisco, half a milo above the Gem. returned. At 8 o'clock a truce occurred and the sheriff, district attorney and deputy U. S. mar" shals appeared upon the scene. A train was stopped by armed guards at the Gem mine. The sheriff took the mail on his shoulders and passed on to Gem. Tho-. guards leveled their rifles at him, but lowered them when they learned his iden tity. At Gern several hundred men were huddled in tbe street with rifles and revolvers. Peace negotiations wero immediately set on foot, and at 12 o'clock the mine force surrendered to the union men.

The number of killed so far as can a present be learned is four and about ten wounded, though there may be bodies under the 'Frisco mill.

The causo of the strike was the demand of the strikers of tho district for ?3.50 per day for every man working underground. The mine owners held that unskilled laborers should be paid only S3. When the miners refused to accept tho scalo thomines were closed. The owners declared excessivo freight rates wero tho cause of the reduction. The lockout was begun April 1 by the mine owners' association and 3,000 miners were thrown oul ot work. Since then tho mine owners havo heen making a struggle to run their mines with noil union men and guards. Tho tension has been great for months and tho opinion has prevailed that, only a spark was needed to start the flames of riot. Tho example at Homestead and the decision ol the II. S. Court at Hoise making a perpetual injunction against the miners' union, brought matters to a head.

THE GITUATTOM AT HOMESTEAD.

Since the riot at Homestead tho strikershave been in full possession of the town and tho works. Tho town has been patrolled night and day by tho strikers, and no one has been permitted to enter it without it was clearly shown that they were not interested as oflfcials or proposed workmen, The Pinkertons confess their total defeat, and organized labor findsmuch consolation in the overthrow of thoir most hated enemies. Tho Sheriff has beeu unable to secure deputies to enforce the law and has repeatedly called on the Governor for assistance. Sunday this call was heeded, and the entire State militia, consisting of 8,000 soldiers, was ordered to Homestead to "maintain poace protect all persons in their rights under the constitution and laws of tho Sta'e.'" The news was received at Homestead li" .t with doubt and then with dismay. No opposition will be mado to the entrance of the soldiers and the leaders even say they will bo welcomed. It is when the ar.ay departs that blood will likely Cow apam. Tho workmen say they will not permit tho to it a threaten to wipe them out if they como. They fear that tho comoany will seek louse the

militia

as guards, and with States

protection attempt to fill tho strikers places with Pinkertons under the guise of laborers. Correspondents of newspapers^ even are regarded with more or less &'"3 plcion

St. Johns, N. F., was devastated by fire Saturday. Two-thirds of the business portion of St. Johns and ouc-half of th» entire town and three-quarters of the value of the town have been obliterated. Some ton thousand persons are sheltered In the Parliament House and under sheds, and the restin Uannerman Pirk and other places. Sunday the town was enveloped In a dense smoke from tbe surrounding^ wooded country, which seems to be all ou fire. The KUbrideCatholic Church, three tulle* out toward Bay Hills, was burned StnulftjL The^pss property

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