The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-07-27
Trouble nj Other Points.
PHILADELPHIA,

At Philadelphia on Sunday evening the
hands ON the Pennsylvania Railroad struck
work and prevented the passage of trains.
Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, who was
on his way to California turned back at Salt
Lake, and ordered out the entire military
force of the State.
There was great excitement at Harrisburg
on Sunday. A train of soldiers on their
way to Pittsburg was stopped at Altoona, the
railroad men having struck there also.
The strike has also extended to the Erie
railroad, and travel has been impeded. There
were mutterings of discomfort at st. Louis
Chicago, Omaha, Cincinnati and elsewhere
The news from Baltimore, Martnsburg and
Pittsburg kindled blaze in the coal
district of Pennsylvania, and trouble was
| apprehended among the lawless classes there
On Monday the strikers fired an oil train
at West Philadelphia and four cars were
| burned. The excitement was subsequently
alayed, and the arrival Of General Hancock
with 400 regulars kept the strikers down.
On Monday afternoon the workmen in the
Lake Shore and Erie shops at Buffalo were
ordered to quit work by mob, which they
did forthwith. In the afternoon 1000 rioters
assaulted 200 New York militia in a round
house and oblige them to leave. The mob
then fortified themselves in the round house.
and successfully resisted an assault of the
military to rctake the place.
A mob engaged in tearing up the track at
Reading, Pa, were fired into by the military
killing IA and wounding 40.
The situation ut Cumberland Md, was
very unsatisfactory on Tuesday The town
was filled with miners, and number of ex-
ira police were sworn in. Gen. Getty, of
the Sd Artillery, was in command of the
! United States forces. No breaches of the
peace occurred, but the strikers were deter
mined to allow no trains to be moved.
On Tuesday quiet was restored at Harris.
burg The strikers organized and protected
the railroad property. The strikers refused
to allow any trains to go out except those
carrying the mails. Gov. Hartranft was ex
pected Tuesday night.
Gen. Hamilton with 600 regulars arrived
at Reading on Tuesday and will stay until
order is restored.
The railroad hands at East Syracuse, N
Y, struck on Tuesday, causing the embargo
of 600 freight cars, 20 engines and 40 trains
of freight. The strikers are orderly and have
detailed n force of their own men to guard
the railroad property. A stranger who ap-
peared and advised them to burn the railroad
buildings was pursued with pistols and mar
rowly escaped with his life, by fleeing to the
woods.
The employees Of the Virginia railroads
have signed paper promising not to strike
A seli.appointed committee waited upon
the superintendent of the N G. Railroad on
Tuesday, and demanded restoration of
their ten per cent, and gave notice of strike
unless their demands were complied WITH
The train men, however, denounced the
IN md rDoo1vo not IN etr;I.o
No trains have been running to Frederick
Nd, and that city has been practically cut
off from the business world.
The strikers have possession of and ore
running trains on the Pittsburg, Port Wayne
and Chicago road, with Robert A. Ammon,
discharged engineer, as Superintendent
The conductors turn over all fares to him.
and it is the understanding that he will paw
the men full wages and turn over the balance
to the company.
A special dispatch to the Baltimore San
from Philadelphia says:
at is not true that Is Philadelphia militia
men were burned to death at Pittsburg. nor
that the engineer who took the troops in ON
Saturday was murdered in cold blood in the
streets of Pittsburg on Saturday. Sheriff
Fife, of Pittsburg, was not killed, nor were
twenty men killed by the overturnng of n
car on the Huntingdon and Broad-Top road,
Ten thousand tons of coal were not dumped
into the river at Port Richmond to-day, and
the militia did not fire at Reading last night
without warning"
The hands on the New York Central rail.
road struck on Tuesday, and compelled all
freight trains to stop. Passenger trains were
sent under guard The entire military power
of the State of New York is under arms
and with the special police it is expected will
be able to preserve order.