The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-07-27

we're en0E dead ID the dttoEnpts 1Be
road abandoned its
trains, and the Union de-
pot and an adjoining hotel were va
Gated and the entire eastern portion
of the city given up to the mob,
who proceeded to set freight cars
on fire, and Saturday night a-half
mile OF freight cars standing on the
Pennsylvania railroad were a sheet |
of fame. The Governor ordered
the 7th division of State Militia,
from Meadville, Erie, and the north
western section of the State, to
Pitttburg, and q force of rioters
with their three captured cannon
were stationed at the Allegany de-
pot to welcome the military upon
their arrival. The afternoon in
Pittsburg footed up twenty persons
killd, including Sheriff Fife, and
twenty-nine wounded, including
Major General Pearson, of the State
militia, and the city was in 9 fer
ment of excitement and apprehen-
sion.
AT Baltimore Gov. Carroll iele-
graphed that the militia could not
suppress the 1000 rioters at
Cumberland, and President Hayes
ordered Gen. French to send part
of his force from Martiasburg and
Gen. Barry to send all available
troops and mariners from Fortres
Monroe and the feet. The result
Of Fridays fight in Baltimore was
nine killed and twenty wounded.
At Newark, Ohio, the militia fra.
ternized with the strikers, and GOV.
Young ordered out more militia
from other parts of the State to
take their place. Later-the 18th
regiment of militia is ordered to
Newark.
at Cumberland the mobs were
Joined by coal miners from Grafton
and Keyser, and broke open freight
cars of provisions, and had a grand
feast, women and children bringing
baskets and carrying off q stock of
eatables.
Gov. Bedle of New jersey order
ed ont two regiments of militia for
active duty.
500 soldiers, making 1900 in all,
had been sent from Philadelphia to
Pittsburg up to Saturday night, and
500 U. S. troops from Fortress Mon
roe had arrived at Baltimore. Two
war ships were placed so that their
guns commanded the approaches to
the custom house and government
warehouses.
The Ohio and Mississippi brake
men began strike Saturday at
Vincennes, Indiana.
zoo mariners and four companies
of infantry were ordered from New
York to Washington and Baltimore,
and the troops at Fort Columbus,
New York, were also ordered to
Baltimore.
The President issued a proclama-
ton eEjoining all persons within
the Unitsd States to cease illegal
and riotous conduct, and ordered
Gen. Hancock, commander of the
eastern division, to proceed at once
to Baltimore and assume command
there. A telegram from Cumber-
land late Saturday night stated that
the United States troops had arriv-
ed there and that trains had begun
to move without resistance at that
point.
SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY.
The exertIons of the authorities
to intimidate the strikers with mill
tary seemed only to aggravate the
evil, and the strike in Pittsburg as
sumed terrible proportions on Sat-
urday night and throughout Sun
day. By one p. m. vast crowd sur
rounded the round house where the
Philidelphia military had taken re-
fuge, and besieged it. After firing
several solid shots through the
building from their cannon, the
mob charged at the house, but were
met by vigorous fire of musketry
and by the terrible Calling gun
which the soldiers had, and fell
back. The next attempt was to set
the house on fire, and force the SOL
diers to come out, and as some three
miles of freight cars loaded with all
sorts of merchandise, coal. coke, oil,
&C., were standing on the railroad
tracks, those nearest the house were
set on fire and pushed toward it,
while thousands of people proceed
ed TO break open other cars and
plumber them of their contents.
Men, women and children carried
off armfulls of provisions of all
kinds, clothing, dry goods, sewing
machines, and every conceivable ar
ticIe, for hours, and hundreds of
families thus "laid up" q full stock
of miscellaneous goods. The Fire
Department turned out, but the
rioters prevented any attempt to
put ont the burning cars or other
railroad property, though they as
sisted to extinguish the flames when
any other but railroad property be-
came 1gnited.
Authorities were utterly power.
less, the military, except the PhiIa-
delphis soldiers, besieged in the
round house, could not be found,
and the mob did whatever II pleased.
About five o.. M, Sunday, the mob
ct the round house rushed away to
another part Of the city, and the
'eOldiers sailed out unobserved and
marched as rapidly as possible for
the United States arsenal on Butler
street, but the officer in charge, hav-
ing only ten men, refused to admit