Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-07-26

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roads, and the trains returned to the depot
A Philadelphia dispatch says that in con
sequence of the strike on Pennsylvania and
other main lines and gravity of the emergen
cy which has been upon all companies, a cal
has been issued for general meeting of rail
road men connected with trunk lines, and
connections, to be held in New York nex1
week, for purposes of combining against the
engineers brotherhood and trade mems union
Each road to determine after certain date
to employ no one belonging to trade organ
ization To this call favorable responses have
been received from Illinois, Missouri, New
York, Nebraska, Maryland, Virginia, Penn
sylvania and California. Detectives have
been employed and are now engaged in dis
covering ring leaders of the present strikes
and it is the intention of the Pennsylvania
road to prosecute them under the new law
which makes it felony to impede the trans
portation of freight over railways.
The following is the latest account of the
conflict in Baltimore between the soldiers and
sympathisers with the strikers:
The killed will aggregate twenty-five. Many
soldiers were wounded with stones 1t ap
pears that the soldiers were slow in gathering
at their armories, and Governor Carroll was
finally persuaded to allow the military to as
semble by a call by the fire department. The
people understood this, and sympathisers with
the strikers gathered in immense numbers tc
obstruct the troops in reaching the armory OF
leaving it, and finally reaching point of de-
parture. The Major of the sixth company Of
soldiers was badly beaten while approaching
the armory. The first company moving Out
was driven back when about midway out
The second company moved out in the same
way, meeting with some resistance and same
success, while other companies found easier
access but moved to the depot by a more quiet
route. When the fifth regiment reached the
vicinity of the depot, stones came in showers
Even women, the account says, hurled stones
and adds, "at the junction of Camden and
Eutaw streets solid mass of rough looking
men blocked the passage of the soldiery
They came to halt for moment, and al
thou gh the bricks were falling fast, Captain
Zollinger counseled his men not to fire. Then
he ordered them to prepare to double-quick
to the depot with fixed bayonets. Drawing his
sword, Capt. Zollinger shouted to the mob tc
give way that the command might pass. A
brawny man, with his arms and neck bare
who stood in the front in defiant attitude
was knocked with the blunt of the Captain
sword, then amid the boots and yells of the
crowd the fifth regiment charged into the de
pot. Several shots were fired at them but
they gained the depot with no casualties save
those already mentioned. The crowd in front
of the depot swelled in numbers, kept up con.
tinuous cries, calling the leading railroad Of
icials by name, saying: "Hang them, shoot
them, burn them out" &c. 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
G, near the rear of the line; about % soldiers
we're more or less injured. The excitement
was terrible and people in the vicinity closed
their houses.
At Cumberland, Maryland, on Saturday
evening, the strikers, supported by boatmen
continued defiant, threatening serious work
should the railroad authorities attempt to
move the trains massed at that point. Thir-
ty-6ve or forty oil cars, and some other prop
erty, were burned by the rioters at Viaduct
Station, short distance from Washington.
While great indecision has characterized
the action of Governor Young, of Ohio, great
apathy has been shown by the militia, most
of whom are in sympathy with the strikers
At Altoona, Pennsylvania, one company
stacked their arms and refused to do any
thing.
In Baltimore, at 1910 o'clock on Sunday
an excited feeling prevailed. Four hundred
regular troops arrived there on that morning
and were placed under the immediate com
mand of Gen. Hancock. As the troops from
Fort Columbus marched from the President
street depot up Pratt street to Camden depot
few stones were thrown from the crowd on
the sidewalk and one of the soldiers was struck
This assault was apparently unheeded, as the
men marched on without halting. The assail
ant was promptly arrested by the police.
The most turbulent scenes of the rioting
were enacted at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on
Saturday night, when the Pennsylvania troops
who had been sent there to suppress the stri'
kers fred upon the crowd. The following is
graphic account of the bloody conflict be-
tween the mob and the troops:
The terribly fatal effects Of the shots fired by
the troops exasperated citizens as we'll as strikers
hn,,~ h,, Iofy
from the rolling mills, coal mines and various
manufacturing establishments, established scene
Of conflict, determined to have revenge on the
| troops and railroad officials. 1t was stated that
of the State Guards, had directed the troops to
fire before any resistance had been made, and the
| fact that many of those killed and wounded had
gathered on the hill side merely as spectators,
served to increase the bitterness of the crowd.
BY eight o'clock in the evening mobs were NOV
ing about the city in various directions, sacking
| stores to secure arms breaking into the armories
of the military companies and preparing them
selves to execute the threats freely expressed, OF
massacrelng the entire Philadelphia command.
BY this time the military had Withdrawn from
the railroad crossing at Twenty-eighth street,
where the first conflict took place, and were or
dered to one of the roundhouses, where they could
find better protection. About 10 o'clock in the
evening" mob numbering several thousand had
congregated about the RoundhOuse. They had
previously captured the guns belonging TO hutch
insons Battery, a local organization, and planted
them so as to command the RoundhouSe Sew
eral solid shots were fired at the building and
a breach made in the walls, but when the infuri-
ated mob attempted to rush in the military were
ordered to fire. The volley of musketry which
followed, and the rumor that the Gatling guns of
the command were being brought into requisition
caused panic, and the mob fled precipitately for
several so uares, the military meanwhile, keeping
up the firing. The rioters returned, however,
but were again driven back.
Finding it difficult to dislodge the military
from the building, the crowd resolved to burn
them out An order to this effect was issued,
and it was carried into execution with q fiendsh
alacrity hY the rioterS In consequence of the