Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-07-26
Continued Spread Of ths Rail-
road Strike.
THE REIGN OF FIRE, DESC
LATIOy AND BLOOD.
Scenes of Ruin i'm Pitts
burgh.
LOS s. $600,d0o.


last night Sheriff Fife, in compliance
with the request OF railroad officials,
visited the strikers at Twenty-eighth
street and ordered them to disperse.
This they refused to do. The Sheriff
remained till o'clock, but his author
ity was defied, the strikers informing
him that trains should not go out il
they could prevent il, and that they
did not care for any posse he could
muster, nor for any troops that could
be brought out. Thereupon formal
Communications were sent to the STATE
authorities, representing that tumult,
riot and mob existed on The Pennsyl-
vania railroad, at East Liberty and ip
the Twelfth ward of Pittsburgh, and
that the movement of freight trains
was prevented by intimidation and vi
olence, and asking for aid. The result
was that the Eighteenth regiment OF
National Guards, Col. p. N. Guthrie,
was ordered to report for duty at the
Union Depot at z q. M, sharp.
Gov. Hartranft has issued procla-
nation admonishing all good citizens
or persons within the jurisdiction of
the Commonwealth against aiding or
abetting unlawful proceedings, and
com manding all persons engaged in
riotous proceedings to disperse, or the
military will be used to enforce Obedl-
ence to the law. L -
STRIK Frs INCREASING IN STRENGTH.
The strike inaugurated on the Penn
sylvania railroad still continues, and
the excitement occasioned thereby has
been increased in intensity by the
\ \ hxrf hn l.
road authorities to remove the block
ade which was established yesterday.
The strikers are hourly increasing in
strength. AS the trains come in they
are met and the crews, after taking
their trains to the yards, join the stri-
kers. There are to-day at the lowest
estimate nine hundred loaded cars ly-
! ing on the track between the Union
Depot and East Liberty, while the
number en- route swells the total te
1900 loaded cars.
RECEIVING THE GOVERNORS PRoCLA.
NATION WITH JEERS.
This morning 6S cars OF stock from
the West, which had collected on the
Pennsylvania railroad tracks near the
outer depot, We're permitted by the
strikers to proceed to the East Liberty
stock yards and discharge their loads
Thirty-eight cars more of cattle arrived
over the Fort Wayne road at II
O'Clock this morning, and were un'
| loaded also. An immense crowd as
sem bled at the outer depot at Twenty
eighth street, but up TO II O'CLOCK
nothing of moment had occurred.
The arrival of the military served t(
increase the crowd. On the engine
were Gen. Pearson, Shelf Fife ant
Superintendent Pitcairn. The Sheriff
Immediately mounted the tender anC
read the Governors proclamation
amid the boots and cries of the specta
tors. He counseled peace and quiet
and assured them the law would bt
enforced, cost what it may. The crowG
jeered at him, and when he descended
Gen. Pearson got on the tender, and
addressing the crowd, said there ap
peared to be disposition to treat the
matter lightly. He warned them thai
the affair was very serious one. NJ
man had more sympathy for them
than he had, but he was under orders
from the Governor, and those who
knew him knew he would obey. He
assured them it was useless to attempt
to further stop the working OF the road
that trains must go through. While
speaking he was interrupted with cries
of WHO are you" Give US Bread &c
PITTSBURGH, July 22.-The crisis cl
1.-THE railway strike in this city as indi'
Gated in these dispatches Saturday af
ternoop, was reached yesterday after
lnoon about five O'Clock when the Phil
adelphia troops which had been sem
/ here to suppress the strikers fired upon
the crowd. Tine terribly fatal effects o
1.-The shots fred by the troops exasper
lated the citizens as well as the strikers
and in less than an hour thousands o.
liworkingmen from rolling mills, Goa
imineS and various manufacturing es
Establishments hurried to the scene o
.lfhe conflict determined to have re-
1 venge on the troops and railway off
IciaIs. 1t was stated that General Pear
Json. commander OF the Sixth division
Eof the State Guards, had directed the
i troops to fire before any resistance haC
4 BEEN made; and this, coupled with the
i fact that many of those killed anC
4wounded had gathered on the hillside
mere as spectators, served to increase
tthe bitterness of the crowd.
Il By eight O'Clock in the evening mob:
4 were moving about the city in variOu.
directions, sacking stores to secure
arms, breaking into the armories O
the military companies, and preparing
themselves to execute their threats
Il freely expressed, of massacreiDg the
entire Philadelphia command. By thi:
time the military had withdrawn from
the railroad crossing at Twenty-eighth
street, where the first conflict occurred
and were ordered to one of the round
houses, where they could find better
protection.
AN IMMENSE MOB.
About ten o'clock in the evening q
mob, numbering several thousand, had
congregated about the round house,
where they had previously captured
the guns belonging to Hutchinson's
battery, a local organization, and plant.
ed them so as to command the round
house. Several solid shots were fired
at the building, and breach made in
the walls, but when the infuriated mob
attempted to rush into the building the
military were ordered to fire the v0lley
of musketry which followed, and the
runor that the Gatling. guns of the
command were being brought into
requisition, caused panic, and the
mob fled precipitatelys for several
squares, the military in the meanwhile
keeping up the fusilade. The rioters,
however, were soon treasured, and as
thousands were focking to their assist
ance, they returned to the attack.
Finding it difficult to dislodge the SOL
diers from the building, they resolved
10 burn them out. An order to this
effect was issued, and it was carried
into effect str ~ &
WITH A FIENDIsH ALACRTTY -
by the rioters. In consequence of the
blockade which had existed for two
days, the sidings in the outer depot
yards as well as those extending east
some three or four miles were crowded
with freight cars filed with Drain