Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1877-08-09

THREE MILES Or SMOKING Ruins.

\ special spondcut ul the Cliclu.
natl Gazette gives the folln~in. descrip-
tion Of the scene in Pittsburg last Wedurs-
I day. three DAYS after the riot:
/ On the main street the crowds were or
| derly, but Il short walk into some OF the
| obscure sections soon showed that the
/ DANCE rous class still existed. Not that
/ anything was said. But such faces Pock-
| ed marked cheeks, watery red noses, blear
eyes that peered from under villanous
| bIOws, nose mashcd or cut in past tistic
encounters, and yellow gums exposed by
! habltual retraction Of the snarling muscles.
| They were men at war with society. And
| the strangest feature of the case is that
no one seems to know them-that Is. the
majority of them. No sooner did trouble
begin. than men suddenly appear upon the
| streets from somewhere, unknown even TO
the resident rioters; they seemed to come
/ out of the hills, like bandit whose pres.
ence has been unsupported. Forty tramps
! in one body reached here only Yesterday,
| and were arrested in the suburbs.
| Early In the day, the ruins along the
| line of the road attracted great crowd
Of visitors, parties arriving from consid-
| cradle distance In the country. For three
! miles from the eastern end OF the tunnel |,
| extends an array OF burned and broken rails
| and engines. car-wheels, wire, and other
| debris. The first sight to attrac atten-
! ion is the skeleton OF the depot, and the
| still smoking walls OF the grain elevator
/ The heat her" was SO intense that the
| track rails are twisted like snakes. and
| iron ribs here and there were melted of;
and yet the firm walls resisted 10 the last.
and one side still stands, though cracked
| and blackened. Engines were =. .s a..
| upon the embers, and at every convenient
| point the wreckerS were tearing Oh the
| remnants of woodwork aud hurrying AWAY
| with them.
Beyond, the sight was indescribable.
Far as one could see, extended continu-
Gus array OF trucks and car irons. all red
and black, and piles of stuff still quivering
with heat. First, in my progress east
ward, was pile of burning tobacco, in
which the Arabs were poking with such
| implements as they could gather from
the wreck dragging outhalf consumed frag-
| Hents. Then mass of oats and corn
still burning. Then ten carloads of nails,
| blackened and twisted; and everywhere
the masses of telegraph wire in places
melted off. but for the most part only tan
| gled and twisted among the ruins, and
| presenting a serious obstruction to sight
seers. A little further on we reached the
| locality OF the oil cars, and here il seemed
| impossible that heat could have been
created sufficient to work such havoc
Everything was melted or reduced to ash
es. Even the outlines of the car wheels
could hardly be distinguished, and the
wire, falling upon the flames. had disap-
peared as utterly as thread thrown in a
furnace. Just beyond were the flats load
ed with lead. The metal had flowed down
In broad stream over the tracks and for
| q So .tlx. fhA .faL
had hardened to metallic floor Grizzled
old woman and young Arabs. of both sex
es, were chipping away at it and CARRYING
it off in sections as large as they could get
away with. just beyond group of wom-
en- were chattering, one pointing out a
place on the adjacent hillside.
There, poor soul. there's where she
was hit. And the baby, too. | wasn't
ten feet away"
There was a moment of silence. deep
sigh, and then all fell to chatteriny again.
The great point OF interest was the
roundhouse, In which the Philadelphia
troops were imprisoned Saturday night.
and from which they were driven by fire
on Sunday. The interior of the round
honsc presented an appalling scene of
ruin; engines In every conceivable position
resting on mass of stone and iron debris,
ashes. At this time OF the day. everybody
believed the report that fifteen Philade-
phia soldiers had been burnt in the work
shop adjoining, and the crowd stood
about and gazed solemnly into the depres-
sion, as ifthey expected to find the corpses
among the ashes and cinders. A little be-
yond, vast piles of emb-rs still glowed
with white heat, and hundreds on hundreds
of distorted and twisted trucks showed
where the thousands of freight cars had
stood. The ruin has been immense. No
estimate have seen is too large.
On eastward. aud still an unbroken
scene of ruin; red and black iron wheels.
masses OF tangled wire, great heaps of
coke and coal sending forth blasts of hot
air, piles Of grain, leather and manufac.
tured goods still burning, tons OF nails.
red and twisted, which the Arabs are car
rying off in buckets, and thousands of