The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-26
The Chief Destruction Done by
ROughs Who were not
Railroad Men.
The Mob Returns the Fire Of the
Troops, Several Of whom are
Killed in the Streets.
Machine Shops, DepOts, ROund-hOuses,
ON ces and Locomotives Ofthe Com.
pany Given to the Flames.

pNDJ UlFbn 10 AIO lhulcSs
PITTsBURG, PA, July 22.-The crisis
of the railway strike in this city, as in
Dictated in these dispatches on Saturday
night, was reached yesterday afternoon
about five o'clock, when the Phil
adelphia troops vino had been sent
here to suppress the strikers fired upon
the crowd. The terribly fatal eff
fccts of the shots fired by the troops
cxasperstod the citizens as well as the
strikers, and in less than an hour thou
sands of wOTkingmen from the rolling
mills, coal mines, and various manufact-
ing establishments, hurried to the scene
of the conflict, determined to have re-
venge on the troops and railway officials.
1t was stated that General Pearson, COM
mander of the sixth division 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 in
crease the bitterness of the crowd. By
eight o'clock in the evening mObs were
moving about the city in various diree-
tions,
sACKING STORES TO SECURE ARMS,
breaking into the armories of the militia
~ companies and preparing themselves
20 execute the threats freely expressed of
massacTeing the entireiPhiladelphia COM
Pany. By this time the military had
withdrawn from the railroad crossing
at Twenty eight street, where the first
COlhict took place, and were ordered
TO one of the round-houses, where
they could find better protection
About ten o'clock in the evening a mob
numbering several thousand had coDgre-
gated about the round house. They had
previously captured the guns belonging
to Hutchinson's battery, a local Organi-
cation, and placed them so as to command
the rOund-house. Several solid shots
were fired at the building and breach
was made in the walls, but when the in
furiated mob attempted 10 rush into
the building the military were ordered
to fire. The volley of musketry which
followed and the rumor that the Gatling
guns had been brought into requisition
caused a panic, and the mob fled precipi.
taUely for several squares, the military
meanwhile keeping up a fusilade. The
rioters, however we're soon treasured
and rs thousands were h0cking to Their
assistance they returned to the attack
Finding it difficult to dislodge the
military from the building, they resolved
to burn them out. An order to this eff
feet was issued, and was carried into exc
cation with a fiendish alacrity by the
rioters. AS. a consequence of the block
ade, which had existed for two days, thu
tidings on the outer depot yards, as vel
as those extending eastward some three
or four miles,were crowded with freigh
cars filled with grain, produce ant
merchandise of all kinds, besides which
10 0c Id i
were piled up in the mass. While por
ton of the mob surrounded the buildin;
in which the military had taken refuge
large bodies proceeded to
SET FIRE To THE OIL CARS,
and in a moment the huge volumes O
black smoke rolled upward, followed b,
hvid flames reaching out in every direu
ton, told that the work of destruction
had commenced. The flames seemed t,
literally craze the rioters, some of whom
rushed wildly about with flaming torche
in their hands, applying them to tn,
cars indiscTiminately An alarm wa
sounded and the FIRE department
promptly responded, but the rioters. VIII,
had complete control of the city, refuse,
to permit them to make any effort +
extiDguish the flames. They said the,
were determined to destroy the railroad
company's property, but would do no in
jury to that belonging to private citizens
They kept their word, too, for when
lumber-pile belonging TO a citizen too
FIRE, the rioters turned in and helpe
to extinguish the flames and remove tn
lumber to a safe place. Train after trail
was fred by the Infatuated crowd, bu
the cars were so far distant from tn
round house that the heat did not ser;
a., Al -.
position was one of peril. Finally
large number of strikers captured a ca
filled with cake which they run fror
the Allegheny Valley railroad trac
TO siding connecting wit
the Pennsylvania railroad The
then procured large quantities {
petroleum oil, and pouring it over tn
cake, ignited the materials. In a yer
few moments the car was a mass of firt
and it was then pushed along the trac
and forced against the round-house. TIL
building was soon ignited, and the so
dieTs were now compelled to prepare t
fight their way out through Che frenzie
mass of humanity clamorin
for their blood. The buildin
did not burn as rapidly as wa
desired, and the mob, bent on reveng,
rushed out to the road and sent the burr
llE lidLho bOMdiu TIC uOpIlCU DullUluH
From midnight until five O'Clock tn
morning the main efforts of the crow
were directed to firing the buildings an
ears, but about half an hour later tn
mo5which had been besieging the militar
left for some unex planned reason. This a
forded the troops, who were in actual dar
ger OF being roasted alive, an opportuDit
to emerge from the building, and the
succeeded in reaching Liberty street i
a very few moments Thew quick
formed in line and marched up to Thirty
third street, and thence to Pennsylvani
avenue and Butler street. Their obieC
tive point was the United States arsenal