Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-07-27

police have received dangerous WOUNDS of
sught but hard blows. They h.vo be.
haved calamity, as have the members OF
the Second Regiment.
CuicAoo, July 26-Midnight. The sit
uation at this hour Is briefly this Tho
police have retired TO q well-earned rest
The Second Regiment IL cncamped on the
yiaduct, where they intend 10 stay 81!
night. Tho mob appear to DO dispersed
and few are In sight. but II Is not unlikely
that they will appear before morning and
renew the fight. Members OF the regt'
ment expect this and arc prepared Tor H.
| The Chicago. Burlington and Quincy
freight depot IL guarded BY two companies
Of United States troops. The armories
are garrisoned and all 10 quiet now. All
reports Of riots In other parts OF the city
are false. No trouble has occurred TO-
night, except at the viaduot. The vol.
lsys last fired were fred by the Second
Regiment and resulted In no deaths, no Tar
a Is known.
TIE CRY QUIET.
CHICAGO, July 27.-At 2 A. n. tho city 10
very quiet and will remain 20 until morn
ing. To-day's excitement here has been
Of . peculiar kind. While the business
streets and points east Of the river we're
quiet and orderly, and showed hardly .
sign Of anything unusual. along Halstesd.
Twelfth and Twenty-second streets scenes
| Of blood and tumult were being enacted.
| Among the incidents Of the day was the
| appearance Of the United States troops,
which created sensation and enthusiasm
| among the citizens and panic among
| tho mob. which. melted away before
| the troops had even fairly arrived.
| The Second Regiment, composed largely
| Of boys and laboring under unfavorable
| public opinion ~ 10 its efficiency. fought
like . band Of tigers to-day. never finch
| ing, obeying orders and marching hither
and thither like . veteran regiment.
| Various estimates arc made tonight con.
| corning tho deaths from the struggle. II
il certain that Ut least half . dozen have
been seen 70 die, but the mob, Indian like,
| hurried the wounded away before their
names could be learned. Doubtless many
names of tho wounded will appear In tho
weekly mortality list next Monday. Some
| claim that a. high AZ fifty have been killed
or MORALLY wounded. Tho police have
| none fatally wounded anu TOW serious
| wounds. The trouble IL very likely TO be
| renewed In the morning. but should IL do
80 II Is altogether probable that much more
summary steps will be taken to suppressi IL.
In ~. Lsuis.
Sr. LOUIS. July 26-l P. M.-Thsstreets
In front Of tho four courts have been
cleared by the police and the militia are
now drilling. The active strikers and
roughs now In the northern and southern
portions Of the city arc stopping work
wherever they find II going on.
Tho citizens enrolled ~ militia assem-
bled this morning at the police station and
were armed with breach-loadins Huskets.
| The morning hours were devoted u drill.
| ing and distributing ammunition. Two
large brass field pieces. loaded with shrap.
mel. are In the jail yard with teams hitched
10 them and an artillery company OF sixty
| men in charge Of them. Bands OF strikers
accompanied by roughs and hard charac.
| tiers, have been marching through the
streets all tue morning.
A crowd Of several thousand assembled
| about the ~workingmen's stand at Lucas
market and were called 10 order and the
| following read and Endorsed
R,.oieca, That we, the authorized Erecu-
tive Committee Of tho worhngmcn's par
| ~ OF the United States, do not hold our
| selves responsible for any act OF violence
| which may be perpetrated during the pres.
| emit excitement. hut that we will do all that
| lies In our power to aid tho authorities In
keeping order and preventing acts oil VIC.
lence, and will do our utmost to detect and
bring 10 punishment all guilty parties.
~. ch.irman Of tho meeting then said