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Inquest Continues into Homestead Dead as Jury Seeks Verdict
Coroner McDowell presides over the inquest into the ten Homestead deaths. Witnesses including physicians, steel workers, and residents testified about July 6, with some saying they did not hear or respond to the whistle. The jury hopes to render a verdict after further testimony today.
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McDowell
Homestead
Cox
Pinkerton
A. M. Barton
Thomas Weldon
Weldon
A. P. Fogelman
Stregel
Ritter
Peter Ferris
John Osborn
John Purman
W. A. McCaslin
Silas Wain
Howard Station
James Bacon
G. W. Crouch
Wilmerding
Muzhball Station
Ma Barnes
McKeesport
E Roy McCombs
Little Bill
Dennis Murphy
Pinkertons
Benjamin F. Ross
City Ferm Lane
Eighth Avenue
Pemnickey
San
John Edwards
Plate Mill
Isaac Bryan
Milliard
Braddock
Elmer FE. Biel