Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1892 — HOMESTEAD'S VICTIMS. [ARTICLE]

HOMESTEAD'S VICTIMS.

A Carnegie Official Says Thirty-Two Homestead Men Died, .and 3,000 Were Made Sick. The Homestead poisoning cases were sonsidorod, Wednesday, by the grand jury st Pittsburg. Edward O. Christy, of th e Oorneglo Steel Company said: “£o far is we have been able to learn the number of persons who died from the effects of the poison they received number thirty-two. but many other workmen, some ot whom will appear at the trial, are dying on their feet. Since we have begun this investigation we have been startled by the number of letters we have received, from every part of the country, written by non-nnion workmen who became sick of the prevailing complaint at Homostead and went to lheir homes. Many are yet sick and all are confident they were poisoned. There were altogether four thousand men employed by the Carnegie Steel Company luring the strike, and of these over two thousand became sick. Some died and many were weeks on the edge of the grave. True bills have been found against Dempley, and the cooks, Gallagher, Davidson and Beatty.