Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-25
YESTERDAYS DISPATCHES.
The RAILROAD WAR.
ALI About The Situation.
THIRTY-SEVEN MEN KILLED
AT READING.
The Strike Still Spreading.

ALBANY, July %.
The Governor has issued orders to
have all the National Guard prepared
for active service.
NEWARK, N. j., July %.
The Mayor has issued a proclama-
| ton calling upon the citizens to MAIN
tain peace. At a meeting of the work.
ingmen tonight peace and order were
considered. Troops are in possession
OF the Pennsylvania bridge over the
Hackensack river.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, July %.
At East Syracuse tonight the freight
conductors, brakemen and firenen,
unanimously resolved that unless the
| Central Railroad authorities restored
the wages paid prior to July l there
| would be a strike. kilograms We're
sent to President Vanderbilt, at Sara.
toga, to this effect.
HARRISBURG, July %.
The mob tonight forced an entrance
| into Altemire's gun store on Second
street, and seized a quantity of fire.
arms. Mayor Patterson addressed the
| crowd and induced them to return part
| of the plumber. The crowd which
crossed the river in search of the Phil
adelphia militia. returned to the city
about 7 p. NJ. with 23 men of the First
and Second regiments. The captives
were we'll fed.
PITTsBURe, July %.
The city is quiet tonight, the streets
are filled with citizens, but no disor-
derby characters. The citizens forces
demonstrate their ability to protect
property and preserve peace. AT s
O'Clock word was received by Mayor
McCarty from superintendent Hynd-
man, of the Pittsburg division of the
| Baltimore and Ohio railway, 10 the Of
| feet that SO or 10 tramps had taken
possession of the mail train west of
Cumberland and robbed the passen-
gers. The Mayor summoned = force
| of policemen, marched to the depot
on the corner of Grant and Water
| streets, and on the arrival OF the train,
| captured forty of the roughs, all of
| whom were armed. No resistance was
made to the arrest, and the party is
now in the Central police station.
CINCINNATI, July 23.
The strikers are gaining in ber>
here, chiefly from parties who claim to
be working men, but who arc really
idlers of the worst class. During the
afternoon the yard engines of the
Dayton Short Line were prevented
from shifting cars by the strikers, and
this evening it is stated the authorities
of that road have yielded to the de-
mands of the men. Many attempts
have been made to stop outgoing cars
| with poor success. At IL o'clock to.
| night the Ohio and Mississippi rail-
| road bridge across Mile Creek was
fired, but the prompt action OF the fire.
| men checked the disaster.
ST. LOUIS, July %.
This afternoon has passed off very
| quietly in st. Louis, the strikers being
orderly. Mayor Bowman issued a
proclamation this morning requesting
| the saloons to close, but 1t was disre-
gardsd. Subsequently strikers visited
saloons and compelled compliance.
Three attempts were made by the
Cairo Narrow Gauge and two by the
Chicago and Alton roads to sen out
freight trains, but they were unsuc-
cessful. No stock has been allowed to
leave. Mayor Bowman, in behalf of
the strikers, had interviews with su
perintendents and other officers of sew
ersl roads, in the strike to-day, looking
to q compromise. He returned report
ing the roads would have no compro-
| mise whatever with the strikers;
whereupon the strikers again met, and
after the meeting the Chairman said
| they were more united and determined
than ever to fight to the bitter end.
They appointed a committee whom
Mayor Bowman commissioned as u
| special police to watch railroad prop
erty. The Mayor thus puts all strikers
| on their honor. He opposes calling on
troops and favors a conciliatory meth
cd.
PITTsBURG, July %.
This evening, about 5 O'Clock, the
Philadelphia express east met the
| mail west train at Guyasuta Station,
two miles above Sharpsburg. The
trains collided and the engines closed
in on each other like a telescope. Both
TX pre- IS messengers, the mail agent
and three passengers were instantly
killed and q number dangerously
wounded.
READING, July %.
Several thousand persons assembled
along the Reading Railroad this after
noon, and stopped the freight, coal and
passenger trains, only permitting the
mail trains to proceed. At 8 o'clock
this evening seven companies OF the
Fourth regiment Of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania arrived and
proceeded along the railroad 10 fenn-
sylvania street. While in . deep cut
extending two squares from Walnut to
Pennsylvania street, the soldiers were
assailed with stones, and Immediately
began firing, 1t is alleged, without
orders, doing bad work among the i'm
mense %concOurse of people in the
vicinity, among whom were many re-
spectacle citizens, as we'll IS ladies' and
children. The troops fired down
Seventh, and up and down Pennsyl-
vania street. Five persons are known
to have been killed, and from Is to %
wounded, several MORALLY. Among
the wounded are seven policemen,
some seriously. Chief Cullen had a
narrow escape, having been shot in the
breast. but a thick memorandum book
turned the ball. The police were sta
toned along the railroad tracks to pre-
serve order, and received the full fire
of the military. A number of soldiers
were knocked down by large stones
thrown at them. Great excitement
prevails. Tonight the mob broke
into the armory of the Reading Rifles
and captured all their equipments.
OMAHA, July %.