Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-08-04
THE PITTSBURGH ,RIOTS-REvOLT-
ING SCENES-BRUTALITY- OF THE
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| A gentleman who happened in Pittsburgh
| at the time of the riot, gives the following
| description of the scenes he witnessed A
| stranger sight than that at the Union Depot
| ana vicinity at 8 P. NJ. on Sunday night can
not lie imagined-not stranger from the
| terrible scenes OF carnage AID rspine than
from the general demeanor of the thousands
ard thousands of spectators crOwdlng around
| the scenes. The Union Depot s1nouIdered, a
mass Of ruins; long line of blazing timbers
and iron columns at white heat marked the
site of the Adams Express Company's trans
| fer depot and the. Pan handle Shops the
! elevator and its thousands Of bushels OF grain
still biazed fercely; riotous crowds of drunken
men and women reeled here and there, under
loads Of stolen merchandise Of all sorts; kegs
OF beer and whlskey were rolled or carried III
every direction, the heads knocked out and
contents swilled down the Threats of the mob
csrlessly kicked over, or else set under some
car or truck and torch thrown into them.
Here. some drunken brute, tired of his load,
would dash keg of liquor down into the
crowd he was passing through; there, a half
crazed woman, with hair tangled and matted,
and clothing half gone, would push through
the mass of people, carrying in her arms or
trailing after her, hundreds OF yards of dry
goods, torn indiscri1ninately from plundered
freight car.
boys, ay, and girls too, Of twelve and fifteen
years of age would dodge into the car and out
again to the crowd Of spectators, offering
silk umbrella, a set Of silver plated harness,
bundle OF whips, q box cutlery--anythlng
their hands happened to clutch in the wild
scrainble--fOr twenty five cents. l noticed
Toy Of probably thirteen years dash into Z
passenger car, rip open the cushion of seat,
strike match and tOu Oh off the padding. A
gentleman beside me cried out, Hold, there
you young scoundrel, and the boy leered up
into his face and yelled out, ''Go TO hill, |
you --~ , this IL day, and |
policeman muttered behind us, "It's better
to let EN- alone; they'll 60 any length now"
And all this time, through every phase Of /
desperate, reckless crime, the vast concourse /
of people looked calmly on, with an apathetic !,
Indifference that was simply astounding. Hun |
dreds OF young and middle-aged men, with |
ladies on their arms, some of them leading |
their children, grouped around, standing on !
anything that would enable them to 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 Z
gigantic farce or pantomine, provided for
their special amusement
A fine looking, middle aged man with iron
gray DcdIIiy tlsO LLIlt LID LOON St4GA d4iJ,
mounted . goods box, calmly looked over the
scene, got down, lighted his cigar, and coolly
remarked: ''Well, as the parrot said to the
monkey, we're having hell Of g time' Dr.
Slattery showed an ounce mimic ball, re-
marking, Il cut that from the shattered
thigh bones of Charles White, and came near
having TO cut one from myself See" holding
up the lapel of his Prince Albert, through
which q musket ball had torn a rent. A
dead man was carried through the crowd on
Liberty street, and a blear-eyed woman
brutally remarked, Hes got enough of it,
anyhow" All sensihility and human feeling
seemed dead and not until the mob carried
their atrocities to their extreme length, and
burned everything from Thirty-th street
to the East end of the Panhandle tunnel,
and threatened to go on and destroy the rail
road bridge, did the alarm of the people take
shape in any definite action toward opposing
the sway of the mob With cooler thoughts
came a great revulsion of feeling, the men
who yesterday rather sided with the rioters,
to-day bitterly denounce their work But
the feeling comes too late, and not to the {
or opposition Of the people
generally can be accredited the final cessation
If plumber and arson. The mob only ceased
when their atrocities palled upon them, and
their utter abandon had tired them.
A dirty ragged rutian, that last week beg l
ged or stole his way drought he country, vest l
terday would raise the sensational yell,
& Bread or blood, We cannot starve!" and at
.he some instant applying the torch to 3
thousand pounds of -four or meat.
The people generally place credence in the
statement of the strikers that not they, but y
he roughs and tramps of the two city are y
for the fearful havoc. d
Equal TO THE EMERGENcY.-Nowadays the O
spirant for Office takes exceeding pains to 0