Arizona citizen., 1877-08-11
PlItsburs RiOt-ReyOIfin= Scenes
 Brutality of the Mob.

 description of this most terrible riot, written as an exchange says by a gen tleman who happened to be in the city at the time Believing it will prove very interesting to many of our read CTS, we print it. It is the best picture of the mob and is conduct we have seen:
 X stranger sight than that at the Union Depot and vicinity at p. m. on Sunday night, cannot be imagined not stranger from the terrible scenes of carnage and rapine than from the general demeanor of the thousands and thousanjs of spectators crowding around the scenes. The Union Depot shoulders, a mass of ruins; long line of blazing timbers and iron columns at white heat marked the site cf the Adams Express Company's transfer depot and the Panhandle shops; the elevator and its thousands of bushels of grain sull blazed fiercely; riotous crows of drunken men and women rceled here and there, under loads of stolen merchandise of all sorts; kegs of beer and whisky were rolled or car ried in every direction, the heads knocked out and contents swill d down the throats of the mob, care lesslv kicked over, or else set under some car or truck and q torch thrown into them. Here, some drunken brute, tired of his load, would dash a keg of liquor down into the crowd he was passing through; there, halt-craZed woman, with hair tangled and matted, and clothing half gon, would push through the masses of people, carry ing in her arms or trailing af.er her, hundreds of yards of dry goods torn indisarimina,ely from a plundercd freight car.
 Boys, av, and girls too, of twelve and fifteen years of age, would dodge into the cur and out again to the crowd of spectators, offering silk umbrella, a set of silverplated harness, a bundle of whips, box of culIery-anything their hands had happened to clutch in the wild scramble-for twenty-five cents. I noticed boy of probably thirteen years dash into passenger ear on the siding, near the east end of the tunnel, rip open the cushion of seat strike a match and touch of the pad ding. \ gentleman beside me cried out, Hold, there, you young scoun- drcl," and the boy lecred up into his face and yelled out, Go To h-Il, you
 --, this our day" and a policeman mutterei behind us, 1t, better To let 'em alone; they'll go any length now"
 And all this ;ime, through every phase of desperate, reckless crime. the vast concourse of people looked calm ly on, with an apa,hetic indifference mat was simply astounding. Hun dreds of young and middle-agcd men, with ladies on their arms, some of them leading little children, grouped around, standing on any thing that would ena ble them Co look over the heads Of the crowd in front, and laughing heartily at any funny or ludicrOus incident in the terrible scene, as if the whole thing was a gigantic farce or panto- mine, provided for their especial amuse- mcnt.
 A fine looking. middlc-aged man, with iron-gray beard, and martial look generally. mounted goods box, calmly looked over the scene, got down, lighted his cigar, and coolly remarked : We'll, as the parrot said tO the mon key, we're having a hell of a time. '' Dr. Slattery showed me an ounce min ie ball. remarking, " cut that from the shattered thigh-bones of Charles White, and came near having tn cut one from myself. See" holding up the lappel of hlS Prince Albert, through which a musket bali had torn an ugly rent \ dead man was carried through the crowd on Liberty Street, and a blear- eyed woman brutally remarked, Hes got enough of it, anyhow All sensI- bility and human feeling seemed tO be dead. and not until the mob carried their atrocities tO thcIr extreme length, and burned everything from Thirty third street to the east end of the Pdn- handle tunnel, and threatened to 20 on and destroy the railroad bridge, did the alarm of the people take shape in any definite action toward opposing the sway of the mob. With cooler thought came a general revulsion of feeling, and men who yesterday rather sided with the rioters, today bitterly denounce their work. But the feeling comes too late, and not to the diSap- probation or opposition of the people generally can be accredited the final cessation of plunder and arson. The mob only ceased when their atrocities palled upon them, and theIr utter aban- don had tired them.
 A dirty, ragged rUflian, that last week begged or stole hIs way through the country. yesterday would raise the sensational yell. Bread or blood, we cannot s'arvew and at the same in stant apply the torch to a thousand pounds of -four or meat.
 THE great strike and attendant de struction of railway property, will not only appreciate railway bonds but for a long time 10 come, deter capitalists from loaning money 10 build railways This will not make much difference to localities supplied with railways, but 10 Arizona and much of the vast inte rior of the continent. the fact will ope rate very iniuriously. The direct and