Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-07-27

determined to prevent it. The roughs be-
gan to gather at Callowhilr street bridge
at O'Clock, and by 10 o'clock six hundred
persons. principally young men and boys,
like the disturbers in Baltimore, had as
sembled there. Gen. Handcock's tardi-
ness lent confidence to the mob. Their
threats and boldness caused Col. Scott to
rescind his order, so that no attempt was
made to move any freight. Three hundred
police were stationed on the bridge, and
800 officers charged and drove the mob
back as far as the heights above the rail-
Way on Haverford road.
< freight train, abandoned on Saturday
night. was stopped by some of the same
rioters as it was being moved into the de-
pot. Another police charge resulted in
defeat of the mob. Passenger trains came
and went as usual, and werenot disturbed.
at half past 10 O'Clock this morning
Special Officer Grey of the Reading road
saw man who wore a SLOUGH hat and
shabby dress apply paper torch to one of
train of six oil cars above the South
street bridge, on the alnlshouse property
The officer did not catch the incendiary.
The oil car burned rapidly. The other cars
iron tank cars as well as wooden ones,
| were soon in flames, and half an hour af-
| terward one of the tanks burst, and fam
| ing oil was scattered over many yards. The
sleepers were destroyed for one hundred
yards, and tie rails upon them curled up
| like snakes. Trees two hundred yards from
| the fire were burned to their roots. Two
firemen were severely burned any many
citizens suffered slight burns. At noon
the fire was extin pushed, though the train
was entirely destroyed.
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| Washington, and half an hour afterWard
Gen. Hancock arrived from Baltimore.
He and President Scott rode around the
prospective seat Of war soon after the Gen
| erals arrival.
A Car load OF ammunition arrived to-
night from Washington for the marines
and regulars. The Bridesburg Arsenal is
closed and guarded and ordnance COM
mands the various entrances.
A great State secret in Philadelphia is
the fact that 100 bankers and merchants
met at the Mayors Office this afternoon,
] John WEIGH presiding. Some Of the Drex-
els were there, and Col. Alexander NC
I Clure spoke. The Mayor was assured that
he would be sustained in appointing an ex-
ira force of one thousand police and in ap
pointing guards to watch the interiors and
exteriors of the great mercantile houses
and banks of the city. The merchants ap-
pointed a committee OF five to confer with
| the Mayor as to the manner of carrying
| out tie proposed measure 1000 men are
to be selected from the Grand Army of the
| Republic to act as a force, Semi-constabu-
larry and semi-military in character. The
newspapers have all agreed not to publish
these facts, and no reporters were admit
| ted.
| FIGHTING AT READING.
| On Monday evening the Fourth regiment
of Pennsylvania state troops arrived on the
cars at Reading. A large crowd was pres
ent at the depot, and as the troops marched
out through cut threw stones down or
them from above wounding several. The
Easton Greys of the regiment fired, killing
| thirteen of the mob and wounding five po
track. Two women were killed. The next
morning, the 10Th regiment Pennsylvania
troops came to Reading. A telegram says
At half-past eight the two regiments
marching by the flank with Gen. Reedel
at their head, started out by the depot anC
toward the cut where the conflict OF last
night took place. The Sixteenth Regi
ment had the right, and as it was recog
nized the crowd cheered it, when the East
on GrayeS and other companies of The
Fourth Regiment came along the air was
rent with yells of 'sGive 'em hell" go fol-
EN-" Instead of repeating thelast nights
error in going down the cut they marched
in the streets above and along side of it, {
move lent which Disappeared the riotous
crowd, nevertheless a brisk fire of stone.
were kept up by the mob upon the Fourth
Regiment. The Easton Greys suffered
most, having Sergeant Hartmann, Cor
poral Perdoe, Privates Mack and Vail Sc
verely wounded, Young sertZ of Easton
was sunstYuck aud came near dying. Non,
of the Sixteenth Regiment we're hurt. 1
was expected the soldiers would cover th,
restoration Of the track by a working par
Jy, but after they had reached the groun(
the workers did not appear. After wait
ing half All hour they marched through
Penn and Fifth streets back to the depot
1t is said that men could not be found tt
do the dangerous work proposed. In TIL,
mob following the soldiers was deafenins
storm Of curses, threats and insults
hurled at The Easton Greys. Many mel
carried great stones and bricks wishing tt
throw them,. yet fearing to get Close
enough. They regretted loudly that tn,
soldiers had not come down the tract
again in the cut, SO they might have beer
stoned from the ramparts twenty fee
above. In the cut one could see the grount
covered with stones, fragments of iron an(
and bricks, hurled down last night. 1t il
a wonder that half the soldiers were NO
killed in that encounter. AS we marched
along volly of stones from the window
on the route fell upon the soldiers. From
time to time sudden fears OF retaliation
seized the mob, and wheeling, they dashed
into open doors. Finding the soldiers die
not fire, their asSailantS grew holder, ant
there is good reason to believe that il thu
return march had not been made when
was another combat must have been neces
STATED.
talked freely with the rioters, and hear(
many of them openly threaten to burn tht
railroad property tonight, aud kill thu
Easton Greys. Their luminosity agains
that company is greatest, because the sin
gle admirable volley OF the Greys did NOR
deadly execution last night than all thu
regular firing Of the other companies.
1t is discovered this morning that thir
teen persons were killed and forty-thre,
wounded in last nights fight. The corps'
OF Il boy was found this morning with the
abdomen shot wide open. A woman was
shot at her sewing machine, but not seri
ously hurt. A German came about the de
pot this morning bowling for vengeance
because he said his wife had been killed b.
the soldiers.
The Riot News in Staunton.
The news of the riot created agreat dea