The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-08-02
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serious work should the company
attempt to move the care 70 night.
PT1sRURe, July 29.- The outer
depot and yards Of the Pennsylvania
railroad have been abandoned bv all
the troops. The Philadelphia men
went, down Pennsylvania avenue and
the Pittsburg battery boys spiked
their guns and came down 70 the
Union depot. The mob have things
all their own way. The Roundhouse
and shops, together with the engines
and a number of cars, were entirely
destroyed by fire. It is reported
about 90 were killed and number
wounded. ... ........ f.. .. .
PoRT JERv1s, N. Y, July o.
Things look serious here. #.
PrTsBURe, July 29.-1he crisis of
the railway strike III this city, as in
dicated in these dispatches Saturday
night, was reached yesterday evenr
ing about five o'clock, whom tho
Philadelphia troops who had been
sent here 70 suppress the strikers
fired upon the crowd. The terribly
fatal effects of the shots fred by the
troops exasperated citizens o. we'll as
strikers, and in less than an hour the
band of workingmen from the roll
ling mills, coal mines and various
manufacturing establishments started
TO the scene of conflict, determined
to have revenge on the troops and
railroad officials. It was stated chat
Gen. Pearson, commander OF the
sixth division of the State Guards,
had directed the troops to fire before
any resistance had been made, and
the fact that many of those killed
and wounded, had gathered on the
hill side merely as spectators, served
to increase the bitterness of the
crowd. BY 8 o'clock in the evening
mobs were moving about the city in
varions directions, sacking stores to
secure arms, breaking into the ar.
mories Of the military companies and
preparing themselves to execute the
threats freely expressed, of massa-
oreing the entiro Philadelphia COM
mand. '..'
Thcy proceeded to execute these
threats by capturing tho guns of
Hutohinson's battery, and planting
them to command the Roundhouse,
and firing several solid shots; the firo
was returned, and tho mob detorm-
ined to burn them out, and proceeded
with fiendish jalaerity, .destroying the
grain that had bee" accam6 m6latipg FOR
TWO days and produce, and morchanna :
dize Of oil kinds, and oil oars, and coal
cars, and all railroad oompahy's prop
erty. The mob run the burning oars
against the Roundhouse to burn the
soldiers out The building was soon
ignited, and the soldiers had to pre-.
pare to get out only to be pursued by
the infuriated mob. They wore fol-
lowed to tho arsenal, then to the AL
ieghany river, which they crossed at
Sharp's bridge. Thousands who had
not pursued tho troops, gathered
around the burning buildings, embrao
ing machine shops, with hundreds ol
cars, store houses, freight depots
Roundhouses with 125 first class en-.
ginos, which had been housed in con.
sequence Of the strike. The property
burned and stolen, was bosidos tn,
f buildings. and machinery, oil tho val
uable freights which had been accu
muloting for two days.
The stealing was mostly by mer
who were not railroad laborers, anc
by women and boys.
The number of railroads convergina
hero with their depots, will give some
idea of tho damage dopo. The props
erty consumed amounted to millions
PIrTsBURe. July 22--7P r. M-The
railroad buildings destroyed we're as
follows: Two roundhopses, one mas
chine shop, suPerintendept's office,
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