The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09
Violence Among the Strikers Troops
Attacked and Blood Spilled.

JULY 30.-The Baltimore and Ohio is rum
ming freight trains under guard. The Penn
sylvania Road is also sending out freight
trains, and there is feeling of security at
all points, except at Columbus, Ohio, where
the strikers have taken possession of
the Chicago, Columbus and Indianapolis
yards. The police has been ordered out and
twenty-three companies of militia. Business
is very much depressed by the railroad
troubles, ard merchants are beginning
to complain of the deleterious effects on
trade.
July 31.-At Columbus, Ohio, the Gov
ernor, after having discharged the mill
tary, was compelled to-day to recall them
The news has evidently had the effect of
throwing the riotous strikers into dismay.
But few of them have been seen about the
freight yards to-day, and the railway man.
ayers have had everything their own way.
No freight trains, however, were sent out on
the Indianapolis and Eastern divisions of the
P, c. & st. L. lines, but imperishable
| freight is being received for shipment East
and West. The P, c. & st. l.. Company is
preparing for full resumption of freight
traffic tomorrow.
Affairs at Plymouth, on the Lackawanna &
Bloomsburg road, have assumed an ugly
shape. mail and passenger train was
stopped there last night and badly broken
The windows and doors were smashed in
with stones and other missiles by the infur
lated mob. This afternoon everything is
quiet, but the men are determined, anG
will not allow any passenger train to pass
over the road. The company, to avoiC
trouble, have abandoned trains to-day
Bloodshed and destruction of property il
expected tomorrow should the compan,
attempt to run any train by this point
The government advices to-day show tha
| the strike has substantially ended. Th
United States troops now stationed in vari
oft onH Haln f1,a = i
, will be kept at their posts until perfect orde
[ is restored and business conducted with
| out interruption. The troops generally o.
all hands have received Communications fo
their efficiency and good behavior.
r WLKEsBARRE, Aug. 2.-Four companie
, OF zen. Brlnton's command have been sen
= to Plymouth, where the railroad has bee
barricaded and the track torn up. The stril
D ers and idlers there are turbulent, an
collect in crowds of two thousand and ur
ward around the depot. In Wilkesbarr
the day has been quiet, scarcely any striker
being seen around the Valley Depot, as n
: attempts were made to run any train. TIL
: Superintendent of the Wyoming division tt
, day not fed the Mayor that all peaceable a
u tempts to run trains had failed, and calle
upon him to take the necessary steps to pr,
J, tect the company. The Mayor has conferre
: with the military, and tomorrow an attemr
{ to start all trains on that road will be mad
/, Gen. Mccartney gave notice that he woul
: to-day distribute one thousand loaves
bread among the destitute families but b.
> ing notified that if attempted the brea
u would be destroyed and himself hanged, h
i had to abandon it.
# BETHLEHEM, Pa, Aug. mo trains O
# the Leigh Valley road have been allowed
,s pass the Penn Haven Junction since yeste
day. A committee of strikers called upo
Receiver Lathrop to-day, and asked to /
!, re-employed at the old wages, and the cor
u mittee was sent to inform the strikers of tt
steps taken, and to ask them to join ther