Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-07-26
GEArroN, July 2O.-Ttv strikers hsrS are a
hundred strong, and entirely beyond the CON

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hundred strong, and entirely beyond the CON
troll Of tho civil authorities.
BALrIhoRs. July 2O.--As the 9th Regiment,
II Col. clarence Peters, was marching from its
Iarmory along Baltimore street 10 the Camden
Seation to proceed 70 Cumberland, the rogis
mens Was stoned aud fired into by tho crowd
on the streets. Tho regiment fired into the
crowd and number were killed and wounded.
The confusion and excitement are 80 great
that 1t is impossible 10 get at tho facts Just
now. -Four dead bodies have been taken 10
the Middle District Station and q number OF
wounded. elk or seven to various drug stores.
a. this hour the excitement attending the
still ferce The crowd in Baltimore street, /,
for several squares from South, each way, is
on tho increase. rendering The sidewaike
almost impossible. In front Of tho middle
police station on North street, nearly opposite
! the City Hall, where most Of the dead and
Wounded hays; been taken, the aey. il. blocked
WIN an excited mass eager to learn tho names
arc now living eight dead bodies 'anti tWo
wounded. The following are the names of
the dead De far as ascertafned: Thomas b.
Byrne, registrar Of the 9th ward; shot In the
head and killed instantly, aged 40 years.
sesided on Gay street. VIM. NJ: Morar, news.
boy, aaged Ii, shot in tho head and killed in.
stantly at the corner Of Baltimore and Holiday
streets. Lewis Janowitx, o young shoemaker.
lived at Albomarle street. Cornelius Mur-
ply, shot through the spinal column, agod %
years. A street Arab, and four yet unrecoe.
nized. Wounded, james Roke, aged 25,
iaborer in q! bottliDg establishments, shot
through tho back, the ball coming oat in tho
groin, dangerously, George Kemp. buokster.
aged ~, shot through the thigh at the corner
Of Baltimore and Frederick streets. while on
bis way homo, seriously. The widest run,ors
are ahoat In regard to the number killed.
One is that several women were killed and
borne of. y#s 4, lHwip.E ,-''- -
PITTsBuRo, July 2O.-A largo meeting Of
strikers resolved to demand increase of wages
prior to June l, and that double trains, ex.
cept coal trains, be abolished. Sheriff Fife
telographed Governor Hartranft his inability
to suppress rioters on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road tracks. The Adjutant General has placed
regiment of Pennsylvania militia on duty
to assist Shorif Fife, Of Alleghany COUNTY.
WARRINGTON, July 20.-Governor Carroll.
OF Maryland, has Issued proclamation and
ordered out troops on account Of the detention
Of cars at Cumberland. There is no disposie
ton to Interfere with the troops in West Vir.
ginia, but the blockade at Keyser is not vet
broken. The blockade OF Hornelsville, New
York, continues. A despatch from Eimira,
New York, says: ut is the opinion of the
railroad men hero that the strike will be
general. 1t is rumored that the Northern
Central mon contemplate strike. All trains
from Buffalo on the Erie Road, except on the
Falls branch, have been abandoned. The
situation in Ohio is unchanged. Things look
turbulent in Baltimore. There are large
crowds around tho dopots."
PiTTsBURa, July 20.--It Is believed here
that if the Ponneylvania Railroad men hold
out, the Panhandle and Fort Wayne men will
join the strike. The strikers say that in case
the men of these roads join them, the men of
tho Michigan, Southern aud Lake Shore Rail.
foads will do likewise. and thus strong
effort will be made to stop oil freight traf7io
between the East and West aud South and
There are 900 loaded cars on the track
between Union Depot aud East Liberty. Az
the trains arrive the crews join the strike. By
midnight probably 1900 loaded cars will be
blocked here.
COLUMBUS, Onro July 2O.-Governor
Young has called out tho militia and issued
proclamation commanding the strikers 70
disperse.
HARRISBURG, July 20.-Governor TIartranft
has issued proclamation against tho strikers.
WAsnINoroN, July 2l.-Tho detailed ac-
counts of yesterday 3 riot in Baltimore arc full
Of interost. The killed will aggregate twenty
five. Many soldiers are wounded with stones,
1t appears that the soldiers were slow in
gathering Mt their armories, and Governor
Carroll was finally persuaded to allow mill
tary call by the FIRE department.. The people
understood this, and tho sympathisers with
the strikers gathered in immense numbers to
leaving it, and finally reaching tho point Of
departure. The major Of the Sixth and seve,
raj soldiers wore badly beaten while approach.
ing tho armorye The first company moving
out was driven baok, but made it's way OUT
The second company moved in the samo way,
meeting some resistance and the same success
The other companies found easier access, but
moved to the depot by more quiet route.
When the Fifth Regiment reached the vicinity
of tho depot, stones came in showers; even
women, the account says, hurled stones, and
it adds that at the junction of Camden and
Eutaw streets n solid mass Of rough looking
men blocked the passage of the soldiery.
They came to halt tor q moment, and,
although tho bricks were falling fast, Capt.
Zollinger counselled his men not to FIRE. Then
he ordered them to prepare to double quick
Drawing his sword, Capt. Zollinger shouted
to the mob to give way that the command
might pass. A large man with his brawny
arms end neck bare, who stood in the front in
9 defiant attitude, was knocked aside with the
blunt end of the oaptain's sword. Then amid
the hoots and yells of tho crowd the Fifth
Regiment charged into the depot. Several
shots were fred at them, but they gained the
depot without any casualties. save those
already mentioned. The crowd in front of
tho depot ewe!led in numbers aud kept up
continuous cries, calling leading railroad
officials by t,ame, saying, "Iang them"
"Shoot thom!" "Buta them out" 60. The
soldiers. as soon as they entered the depot,
proceeded to get into the cars in waiting for
them: The company that suffered the most
was Company 9. near the rear of the limo.
About twenty-five soldiers were more or less
injured. The excitement was terrible, and
people In the vicinity closed un their houaaa