Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-04-28

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of fifty men from Youngstown ,and they tell
egraphed to the Sheriff at jefferson to be on
hand Friday with a sufficient force of dep
uties to protect the new men; Sheriff
Young being unable to come on that day,
sent Deputies Baldwin and Jones, who,
upon their arrival here secured the services
of Constable Mitchell, and one or two of
our citizens. When the party arrived at
the Lake Shore s. Mich. Southern depot,
the new men accompanied by the officers
were taken to the Culver House where they
took their dinners, and the train went on
to the Harbor. A representative of the
Telegraph was aboard of this train, and
was an eye witness of all that afterwards
ltranspired.
THE STRIKERS ru 4a
numbered, at this time, about 100 men, and
when the train reached the Harbor depot
they were all standing in the road near the
track, anxiously watching for the new
comets to present themselves, and were
disappointed in not seeing them. In few
minutes pony engine, with one car, left
the depot for the Lake Shore crossing
where the new men were to be taken on and
brought to the Harbor. The strikers redi-
ly saw through theplan, and after the train
hadleft they responded to bugle call from
one of their leaders and crossed over
to the hill back of the Harbor depot,
where they could command view of the
train when it returned. While waiting
here they nearly all provided themselves
with heavy clubs, and when the train was
seen coming they filed the air with their
cries of anger and contempt, and rushing
down the bill they surrounded the train.
The officers were, the first to alight, and
soon succeeded in making a narrow pass
ageway between the crowds of strikers,
through which the new men passed to the
dock near the bridge. The Deputy Sheriffs
stood at one end of the approaches to the
dock and kept the strikers back, while the
men on the dock commenced to load. the
vessel with coal. The strikers now passed
around the dock to the approach near the
bridge where they mounted alarge pile Of
iron ore, and filed their coats and jackets
with heavy pieces from it. The Deputy Sher-
ifs and assistants now came to this place
and endeavored to keep the Infatuated men
back from the dock, but one by one they
worked their way forward until the whole
party were on the dock, when, with loud
yell, they rushed by the officers in the di-
rection of the men at work, who had good
reason to think they were on dangerous
ground; they dropped their shovels and
barrows and fed, the strikers sending af-
ter them shower of clubs, iron ore'and
coal. One man was struck severe blow
on the head with lump Of ore, and an
other on the elbow, which afterwards were
dressed by a. physician. The men were
closely pursued ran up the track to-
wards Ashtabula and were taken on board
a locomotive on the Harbor Division Of L.
S. & N. s. road that was returning to town,
two or three jumped into the river and es-
capped by swimming to the dock on the OPP
posite side, and others concealed themselves
among the cars and ore until the. strikers
returned. This scene was witnessed by
hundreds of persons; the houses and stores
in the locality where a view could be had
were crowded. -
In short time the rioters returned,
aourishing their-clabs, and yelling at the
top of their voices .snBsa EU5A
81 SPECIAL TRAIN
was soon in readiness on the A., Y.&P.
road, and the officers and such of the new
laborers as could be found, were taken up
town. The men were left at the L. s. & NJ.
S. depot and were taken to the Culver
House. The Deputies returned to Jeffer-
son to report to the Sheriff the result, and
at 12 o'clock that night arrangements were
made with Sapt Mcintyre Of the ]. & F.
road TO have a special train at jefferson at
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SATURDAY MORNING.
kilograms had been sent to Geneva and
Conneaut for men, armed with, dOuble-bsr-
relied shot guns to be on hand at Ashtabu-
daas early as possible that morning.
During the night crowd of about 70 Of
the strikers came up to the Culver House,
at the Lake Shore depot, making noise
enough for tribe of Ute Indians. They
fired three pistol shots through window
Of the Hotel and soon after returned to
the Harbor. d
2 At $3.50 o'clock Saturday morning Sher-
iff Young, Ex-Sheriff Stiles, and IA men
armed with guns and pistols arrived at the
Lake Shore depot. The Sheriff immedi-
ately proceeded up town and the work of
deputising men commenced. BY noon "A
men from Ashtabula, from Geneva, 12
from Conneaut and the 10 from jefferson
were ready to start for the Harbor,
EVERY HAN BEING ARMED
with gun loaded with buck shot. A
special train conveyed them to the Harbor,
where the men were put into line. BY this
time the crowd Of spectators was very
large, and the strikers, about 1926 strong,
armed with clubs, iron ore, pistols and
daggers, stood IN the road between the \
bridge and the rail road track. As they
witnessed the troops they Aourishsd their
weapons and yelled with rage.
The Sheriff, with several of his deputies,
now advanced to the strikers and endeay-
ored to effect compromise, but this they
were unable to do.