The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-07-27

but that it was done Dy lie tnie'eS "'u
outlaws who were in quest OF ponhoer' vi
wb;ch tbev secured an unlimited amount
in ,be shape of barrels Of molasses, flour,
bacon. tobacco, dry goods, and almost
everytbing else of that character. Az hali
past 8 The round house was consumer ana
the flames continued progressing down the
track towards the Union depot, the hremen
following and throwing streams OF water
on the buildings on the north side OF LID
erty street Hour after hour the flames
slowly progressed through the long line OF
cars. and about 4 O'Clock, p. NJ, the large
and elegant depot building was reached,
and in an hour after il was in rrins. BE-
fore the building took fire the mob entered
and carried off whatever they could lay
hands on. The large grain elevator near
the depot was also burned, as well as the
depot buildings belonging TO the Fan han
die railroad, which caught from Tue Union
depot. This ended the destruction of pro-
perty by the fire on Sunday. The wreck
and devastation Of the Pennsylvania Rail
road laws between Lawrenceville and the
grain elevator building, and what was until
then a magnificent railway with net work
of tracks, elegant depot, buildings, ETC., is
now a complete waste. The upper ana
lower machine shops, the two round hous-
es, sand house, car shops, General super
intendent's Office, telegraph offices, uans-
portaton department offices, platform
sheds, Union depot and grain elevator, are
all gone. The number of locomotives des-
troyed in the round houses is placed at
1875. and the number of cars burned about
l.JOO The total loss of the Company Is
estimated at from three to sic millions OF
dollars, which the city of Pittsburgh aud
county of A Allegheny will no doubt be call
ed upon to make good.
The total number of killed and wounded
in the rail road riots in Pittsburgh, Read
ing and Baltimore, foots up as follows ::
At Pittsburgh g.l-killed, 40; wounded, II.
At Reading-killed, g.; wounded, &. At
Baltimore-killed, 8 wounded, :.
THE RIOT IN BALTIMORE.
On Friday evening as the Sixth Regi-
ment, Col. Clarence Peters, was marching
from its armory along Baltimore street to
Camden Station, 10 proceed to Cumber-
land, the regiment was stoned and fired
into by the crowd ON the street. The
regiment returned the fire with deadly eff
feet, killing q number of men, and wound
ing others. The streets were thrown into
terrible excitement by this affair." and at 10
y. IN. a crowd had gathered. packing Bal
timore street for several squares each way
from South street and rendering the side
walks almost impossible. In front of the
middle police station on North street, near
ly opposite the City Hall, where most of
the dead and wounded bad been taken,
the way was blocked with an excited mass
of citizens eager 20 learn the names of the
unfortunate men. In that station there
were eight dead bodies aud two wounded
men lying at the time, 10 p. m.
The following are the names OF the dead
as far as ascertained: Thomas b. Byrne,
Register of the Fifth ward, shot in the head
and killed instantly aged 40 years resided
on Gay street. William Moran, news
boy, aged IA, shot in the head and killed
instantly at The corner of Baltimore and
Holiday streets Louis Sanewitz, a young
shoemaker who lived at No. Albemarle
street. Cornelius Murphy, sho. through
the spinal column, aged %, an arab.
The wounded are the following James
Roke, aged %, laborer i'll bottling es-
tablishment, shot through he groin, dan
gerously. George Kemp, huckster, aged
%; shot through the thigh while on his
way home, seriously. The widest rumors
are afioat in regard TO the number killed.
One is, that several women were killed and
borne off. At 1870 p. IN. the depot a.
Camden Station was Oh fire, and it is said
that the railroad office had been cleaned
out. The telegraph office i'll the depot
building has been destroyed, the wires cut
and instruments removed.
AT 10 O'Clock the despa'cl,er's house, al
! the lower end of the depot at Camden Sta
ton, was fired and totally burned. The
depot was badly burned as far mp as Barre
street. The lamp aud oil house, corner oi
Barre aud Howard streets, was destroyed.
Abou. II o'clock some cars at Riverside
round house were burned. At midnight
the Fifth Regiment and :be three com,
panes of the Sixth were still at Camden
Station, and Colonel Peters with 100 mel
Of the Sixth at their armory, all under
arms.
/ AT 1:30 a. M, on Saturday, Baltimore
street was comparatively quiet and alsr
the streets i'll the vicinity of the Sixth's
armory few persons being seen. Lieuten
ant Wallace, of Company 3, of the Sixth
was badly wounded d; also private Young,
/ who was taken to a hospital.
I /: 80 T.. M.-The passenger trains from
Camden Station have stopped running
again. Only three, one for the vest and
two for Washington, having gone out to-
day. The engineers refuse to run, assign
p ing as a reason that they do not consider
it safe to Iun over the road.
! OVER THE COUNTRY.
The rail road strike extended through
most of the middle aud western States, but
does not appear to have seriously inter fered
with the New England and Southern roads
1t may be stated in general terms, that
from the important railroad centres of st.
4 IIouiS, Ihdi'tndpoIiSs SliCliiiRtl,
Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, aud Cleve land,
no freight trains have been running since
Monday morning. Passenger trains have
not been interfered with, nor are they like
~ to be. At no point in the west has any
serious outbreak occurred, nor has any
propery of the railroad companies been
destroyed. In this State, outside Of Pitts.
burgh, the city of Reading has been the
most turbnleuS. On Sunday night large
number of cars were burnt by the mob,
ard the costly Lebanon Valley Railroad
bridge across the Schuylkill was set on fire
and destroyed. On Monday night seven
companies of State troops arrived in that
city, and crowd of over 3, 900 people hav-
ing assembled near the depot, a collision
from some cause not clearly stated took
place between the soldiers aud the citizens.
in which six of the latter were killed and
about twenty wounded, some of whom are
/ children.
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