The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-25
THE STRIKERS IN NEW JERSEY
The Delaware, Iackawanna and Western
Men Falling into Line.
STRIKES ON OTHER ROADS.
The Situation on the Pennsylvania
and Erie Lines.
MOVEMENTS IN THE CITY

READING, July 24.-The military and rail-
road authorities here believe that the backbone
Of the strike at this point has been broken.
There were three alarms last night. and each
time the Fourth Regiment formed under arms.
The rioters contented themselves with tearing
up part OF the track below Penn street. cutting
down long line OF railroad telegraph poles. and
robbing freight cars. Six men. identified as riot
ers. got into the depot They were put under
arrest. Three OF them are storekeepers in
Reading. All were heavily armed and very au-
dacous.
Ats A. NJ. q locomotive ellded into the depot
She brought from Auburn G.O00 rounds of ball
cartridges. At Ave companies Of the Sixteenth
Regiment arrived at tho break in the track and
were marched up to the depot They were un-
der Col Scholl. The rumor is abroad that they
have declared they will not nre on the rioters.
and the crowd cherred them. 1t is reported
that some Of these men said. " We will not shoot
workingmen. whatever the Easton Greys may
DO They are our brothers. and the only one
we'd like TO pour our bullets intois that damned
Frank B Gowen." The officers deny this Ian
offer 10 vouch for il. At & o'clock number Of
police who had been wounded last might start
ed on a slow local train TO get to Allentown and
Easton. Some are very seriously hurt. but none
mortglly.
AT half-past eight the two remnants marching
by the flank with Gen. Rceder at their head.
started out OF the depot and toward the cut
where the conflict Of last night took place. The
Sixteenth Regiment had the right. and as II was
recognized the crowd cheerci IL. when the East
on Greys and other companies of the Fourth
Regiment came along the air was rent with yells
OF Give 'em hell" Go for 'em." Instead ~
repeating the last nights error in going down
the cut they marched in the streets above and
along side IT, a movement which Disconnected
the riotous crowd. nevertheless a brisk fire Of
stones were fept W by the mob upon the Fourth
Regiment. The Faston Greys suffered most
having Sergeant liarmmHnn. Corporal Perlo.
privat"s Mack and Vail severely wounded
Young SerE q Easton was suurtrurk and cam"
near dying. None Of the Sixteenth Regiment
was hurt II was expected I'll" soldiers would
cover the restoration Of tho truck by u working
party. hut after they had reached the ground
the workers did not appear. Annr waiting hnlt
an hour they marched through Penn and Fifth
could not 6c found 'G1' To- DO the daneerous @ % Work
proposed, In the mob following the soldiers
was deafenine storm Of curses. threats,
bricks wishing 10 throw them. yet
loudly that the soldiers hnd not come down the
track w lin in the cut 50 they might have been
sloned from the rampars twenty feet above
in the cut one could s,r tho ground covered
with stones. fragments Of iron. and bricks
hurled down last night II Is "a wonder that
half the so!di rs were not killed IN that encoun-
ter. As We marched along n yolley of stones
from tho windows on the route iel! upon the
rettlHtlpn seized the mob and wheeling, they
dashed into open doors. Finding the soldiers
dld NOT fire, their assailan's grow holder and
there i- good rrasOn 10 h"heNe that II the return
margh ind not BEEN made "n"n It Was another
combat must have been ner~-s stated.
many ~ them openly threaten to burn the rail
road property Tonight and kil the Easton
Greys' Their animosity ngn nst thnt company
H. greatest. because the single admirable yOil~y
OF the hr"ys dld more deadly exc utiOn last
nlGht ,nhn "ll tho regular lring of the other
II is discovered this morning that thirteen
persons Merr kined and forty three wounded
found this morning VITA mo abdomen Shot
WIDE open A woman was shot AT her sew ng
came about the depot tn, morning hoyiing for
yengean'e. because he tald his wife had bccn
tbs Nrw York and PHILADELPHIA oxuress
malns dld not 40 out THIS morning, but tho
Pousyille express got in at II o.Io H. and rr-
ported all quiet up that way. No freight trains
are moving here The town is fun OF excite
mrnt The rloters cOngrogate in masses on tho
street ,orners, but the eAcssive heal Of the day
bcnlns % prevent overt acts
The five companies Of the Sixteenth Rogi-
mrni now here are almost all IrIshmen. They
hre sllrnnE away from the depot into the town
hihsy ana hy twos ana ihrHrs and giving their
hmunu iipn tl tho rioters. 10y whom they are
eyerywherr hailed rs hrthreu. and " tl vi ON
tn"y are drinking. They hnv' hrcn repeatedly
hrard io sw'pr that not only will they not fire.
uplu the MOB ia any event hut that II the East-
nh rI,ys dp So lhe{ VIII lirc upon them, and
trip me rioters 10 clean illrm ont ana burn the
railroad property. The Rotor. arr greatly m
e"draecd. and seem 90 De getting up steam for
tD-rls'lt. The Fourth Regiment tdcling iis.li
~ hpin"nriry danger o' betrayal, md Of belug
tut Miween two fires. wants to 20 home.
o'n Hancock with force 0i United Sutes reg
IlHa ~ nAp-cted 10 arrive AZ 4 o'clock. Gen.
tfnhk kreder tclegraphs all the time, and
elnnds himself In mystery.
ne most disgrAceiul lack of discipline pre-
vsils among the military. There are sontrlcs
49," t ~" Il entrances 70 the depot. yet the platforms
LIo crowded with Ieraons who on.nly nvow