The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-07-25
THE LOCAL SITUATION.
The Mob Prevents the Running of
All Trains,

| All Trains.
Yesterday was another day OF fever
ish excitement in this city. Nothins
was done in the morning by the lob, bu
in the afternoon rowdyism broke loose
Tue 2:30 train on the e., Ii. & D. was
stopped, as mentioned in our late edi-
tions, and after that no car went out on
that road or on the Dayton Short-line.
| he mob closed up boiler shops, The
blacksmith, finishing and wood-worki iug
departments OF b0Lh railroads. The
leaders in this were two strikers from
the o. & NJ. Rad. The mob also held
the switches OF the l., G. & l.. and NJ. &
Z. roads at Harriet street, and rendered
it impossible tor trains to go.out with
out fight. The result Of all these move
ments was the detention of hundreds of
commuters, who, in order to get home,
had TO hire some kind conveyance or
other and jog it along on the pixies.
The passenger trains on the Little Mi
ami, Louisville ohort-line, Kentucky
Central and Cincinnati Southern Rail
roads went and came yesterday as
usual
There is no strike, nor is there any in
tentlon to start one, on the Chesapeake
" ONO Road.
Tue 10 o'clock train on the Indianapo.
lis, Cincinnati & Lafayette was stopped
by the officials at Storrs, and the bag
gage and passengers brou .ht to the city
III wagons and carriages.
THE YARDS AT NIGHT.
The scenes in the railroad yards were
the same as those OF the night before.
The crowd was thlckest at the west end
Of the c., II. & ID. Depot, extending
down to the bridge. An attempt was
made to rul out q rain on the Marietta
u Cincinnati Road, but it Was given up,
the passenger cars detached, and the
locomotive run to the engIne-house. A
machinist named Mooney created a lot
Of fun Tor the mob by his fanatic and in
sane speeches. About halt-past IL the
crowd that hung around the G., H. & d.
Depot began to disperse, and at mid
night every thing was silent there as the
tomb. The crowd around the o g NJ.
had gone away at 10 O'clock, anu no
demonstration was INDUCED in.
The y. u NJ. employees at Vincennes
ana Seymour yesterday took the follow
ing action:
"ResOlVed, That we ask the manage.
ment OF the y. q NJ. Railway to place our
ate VI wages as they were previous 10 the
ten per cent. reduction, ana that all strik-
ers be reInstated 10 their former posi-
tIons."
Signed by twenty-six conductors, en-
glneers, tiremen aud brakemen.
ATTEMPT TO RESCUE 'BUCK" MULLANEY.
The mob, after hanging around the
railroad yards for some time last eyen-
ing, concluded TO rescue the notorious
''Buck" MuHaney, whose arrest and in
carceratlOn for III citing mob was pul-
lished in yesterdays issue. With yeIls
Of sail in, ""hurrah for Ninth street.n
"Leps 60 and take him out" The surg
Ing mass swept up Wood street, turned
into Xth and then went up Central
avenue. At the corner OF Ninth they
paused. The alarm was gwen in the
city buildings and aid telegraphed for.
A detachment of fifty six me responded
from Hammond street, filed Into the
park and passed into the city building :.
The mob began to hoot and yell, auu
demand the liberation OF Mullaney.
POLICE COMMISSIONER JACOB
approached the crowd in front of the
StatiOn-house, where the Central Sta.
tion force, numbering several hundred.
were standing. MIR. Jacob gave the mob
two minutes to disperse. The police
drove the crowd back, but in a short
Time another stand was made near Rich
mond street and some resistance shown,
An occasional bOwlder was SHE'D to.
wards the police. Upon this Commits
'ioner Jacob gave the word to club the
mob 1t it did not 'dIsperse. Hardly had
the order Deen given than the GROVE