The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26
Violence Among the Strikers-Troops
Attacked and Blood Spilled.

BALTIMORE, July 2O.-A telegram from
Cumberland states that all freight trains are
stopped there and the crews taken from
them by the strikers. The violence and law
lessness of the strikers having been brought
to the knowledge of Governor Carroll, he
this afternoon, issued the following order
calling out the military:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE, BALTIMORE, July 20, 1877.
Brig. Gen. Jos. r. Herbert, Commander Of the FRS
Brigade, NJ NJ g.:
SIR-You will proceed at once, with the 5th Regi.
ment of your command, to the city of Cumberland
to aid in the suppression of the riot and lawlessness
along the line OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in
this State, and there await further orders.
lSigned,l JOHN LEE CARROLL,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief
Governor Carroll also issued proclama.
ton, calling upon the citizens of the State to
abstain from lawlessness.
Shortly after the issue of the order to Gen.
Herbert the regiment was under marching
orders, and will leave at about seven o'clock
tonight, armed and equipped for duty.
BALTIMORE, July 20.-As the Sixth Regi-
ment, Col. Clarence Peters, was marching
from its armory along Baltimore Street to
the Camden Station to proceed to Cumber-
land, the regiment was stoned and fired into
by a crowd on the streets. The regiment
fired into the crowd, and number were
killed and wounded. The confusion and
excitement is so great at present that it is
impossible to get at the facts. Four dead
bodies have been taken to the Middle
District Station, and a number of wounded,
six or seven, to the various drug stores.
10 p. m.-This hour the excitement at
tending the terrible shooting by the Sixth
Regiment is still fierce, and the crowd on
Baltimore Street for several squares, from
oaI I,
rendering the sidewalks almost impossible.
In front of the Middle Police Station on
North Street, nearly opposite the hall where
most of the dead and wounded have been
taken, the way is blocked with an excited
mass eager to learn the names of the unfor-
tunate men. In this station there are now
lying eight dead bodies andt wo wounded.
The following are the names of the dead, as
far as aseertained: Thomas B. Byrne, regis
tered in the Fifth Ward, shot in the head
and killed instantly, aged forty years; VIM.
Horan, a newsboy, aged fourteen years, shot
in the head and killed instantly; Lewis
Zerarowitch; Cornelius Murphy, shot
through the spinal column, aged twenty
three, and four yet unrecognized.
Wounded-James Roke, aged twenty-five,
laborer in bottling establishment, danger :
ously; Geo. Kemp, huckster, aged twenty
way home, seriously.
The widest rumors are afioat in regard to
the number killed. One is that several
women were killed and borne off.
10: 80 p. m.-The depot at Camden Station
is on fire. and it is said that the railroad office
has been cleaned out. The telegraph office in
the depot building has been destroyed, the
wires cut, and instruments removed.
II p. m.-The fire at the depot at Camden
Station has been extinguished with but little
damage. The telegraph office cleaned out
was the dispatcher's office on the station plat
form, and not the Office in the main building.
All the Baltimore & Ohio wires have been
cut.
VIOLENCE AT CUMBERLAND, MD.
CUMBERLAND, Nd, July 2O.-The strikers
fired on the train which brought up the first
detachment of troops, and one of the train
men was slightly wounded in the hip.
CUMBERLAND, Nd, July 21.-A few
minutes ago there was what promised to be a
serious affair. The police arrested man
named Rench, for whom warrant had been
issued. He is one of the ringleaders of the
difficulty here, and when arrested started
quietly for the station house. Alarge crowd
followed, and as they approached the station
the crowd calledupon the police to halt, and
made rush to rescue the prisoner. The
police drew their revolvers, when some one
in the crowd fired. The police returned the
shot, and some half dozen shots were fired.
There was no one hurt. Rench and three
others were taken to the station house, but
were released by the Mayor to appear for a
hearing to-day. There is now again large
throng in the streets, and the intelligence
from Baltimore appears to have added to the
excitement.
THE SITUATION AT PITTsBURG.
PITTsBURG, July 19.-The strike inaug-
urated on the Pennsylvania Railroad still
continues, and the excitement occasioned
thereby has been increased in intensity by
the determined efforts made by the railroad
authorities to remove the blockade which
was established yesterday. Throughout
the morning rumors of the employees Of
other roads centering here Joining in the
movement were freely circulated and found
ready credence, but up to this time-1 p. IN.
NO such demonstration has taken place.
The strikers are hourly increasing in
strength. As the trains come in they are
met, and the crews, after taking the train to
the yards, join the strikers. There are, to-
day, at the lowest estimate nine hundred
loaded cars lying on the track between the
Union Depot and East Liberty, while the
number en- route swells the total to fifteen
hundred loaded cars. This number con-
stantly increases, and the maze of tracks
will soon be all occupied by inert masses OF
rolling stock, heavily laden with goods for
all parts of the West and East.
PITTsBURG, July 20.-At 12 o'clock last
night Sheriff Fife, in compliance with a re-
quest from the railroad officials, visited the
strikers at tTwenty-eighth Street, and ordered
them to disperse This they refused to do
The Sheriff remained there until after eight
o'clock this morning, but his authority was
defied. He was informed that the trains
should not go out if they could prevent
them, and that they did not care for any posse
he could muster, nor for any troops tha
could be brought out. Finding the strikers
were not disposed to yield obedience to thu
civil authority, the railroad officers decided
to call upon the military. A telegram wa
dispatched to the State authorities, and tn,
Eighteenth Regiment was ordered unde
arms.
Gov. Hartranft issued a proclamation ad
monishing all good citizens or person
within the jurisdiction of the commonwealth
against aiding or abetting unlawful proceed
ings, and commanding all persons engaged i
riotous proceedings to disperse, or the mill
tary will be used to enforce obedience to tn
| law.
TROOPS ASSEMBLING AT PHILADELPHIA
BALTIMORE, July 20.-At eight o'cloc
this evening Major General R. N. Brentor
commanding the First Division n. G. P, RI
ceived the following dispatch:
"You will move with your entire division
cavalry and artillery, dismounted, via tn
Pennsylvania Railroad to Pittsburg, repor
ing on your arrival to Major General Pea
son. Advise him and me of your departur
from Philadelphia and your progress alon
the road. Ammunition will be furnishe
you at Harrisburg and will be in charge
George c. Kelley and General Diver. Th
Pennsylvania Railroad will furnish tran
portation.
[Signed,] GAMES w. LATTA,
"Adjutant General"
Immediately upon the receipt of the aboN
notices were sent to the various command
and to night the men are mastering at all IL
armories. The division includes the frs
second, third, and sixth regiments, the Ke
stone Battery, city troops, Black Hussar
Washington GEays, Weccaccoe Legion, Sta
Fencibles, and Gray Invincibles.
July 21.-2 a. m.-Our latest dispatch
report the movement extending every hou
The engineers on the Erie road are reportI
to have held meeting at Pittsburg, al
decided to east in their lot with the striker
On the Baltimore and Ohio, and 9th
lines, the engineers are held in check
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