The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-07-23
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Attempt tO.Eiro OllITraIus.
Further Arrival OF Troops.
Gen. Hancock in Command.

BALTIMORE, July 22.-T... uornipR
an incendiary, fired q trsi, II 50 or 40
cars loaded with crude petroleum al Via.
duct Station, beyond the city limits.
The fire spread rapidly and the cars Of a
train adjoining were also on FIRE. Loco.
motives were sent out and that portion
OF the train rot N IRE was drawn of
amid the jsers les OF large crowd
Of strikers. None OF the cars were con-
sumed. Notwithstanding the apparent
quiet, the most excited feeling prevail.
Four hundred regular troops, including
those from Fort Columbus, N. Y, and
Fortress Monroe, arrived this morning
and are under immediate command Of
General Hancock. As the troops from
Fort Columbus marckli 49, the Piesi-
Dent street depot o. the Philadelphia,
Wilmington q Baltimore railroad, up
Pratt street TO the Camden depot,
4 few stones were thrown from
the crowd on the sidewalk and one
OF the soldiers struck. This assault
was apparently unheeded, as the men
marched on without halting, and the as.
sallant was promptly arrested by police.
Ot the two hundred rioters arrested last
night number have been taken to The
Southern police station and all OF those
identified MS rioters were promptly lodged
in jail. Gov. Carroll with a portion Of
his staff still remains at headquarters at
the City Hall.
The Governor received a telegram from
one OF his aids at Cumberland stating
that most feverish state Of excite.
ment prevails The g. 'k:,s, includ-
ing many canalboat, g.. are boldly
defiant and threaten serious work
in case the company attempts to
move any trains tonight. A part Of
Gen, HancockS command will be sent
Immediately to Cumberland. The police
last night acted in the most gallant man.
nor. They met, faced and overcarpa the
rioters at every point, and but Il cir
nerve and pluck the city this mort z
might have been at the mercy OF the NOR,
At 4 o'clock this afternoon all vas
quiet here and along the line Of the road.
FULLY PREPARED FOR ANY RsIERGEsCx.
BALTIMORE, July 22.-AIl Is quiet.
The general opinion 10 that with the Reye.
nue. cutter, Ewing, al Locus. Point, with
her guns trained on The approaches to
the Government bonded warehouses and
elevators, the regular troops with bat.
teries stationed at various points, the
9th and 9Th regiments N. N. G., 500
regular, and 500 picked special police
force, is sufficient TO suppress and speed.
ily quell ANY violence 81 the strikers or
plundering mobs. There ere already
from 600 to 800 regular troops in the city.
No RAILROAD MEN AMONG RIOTERS.
BALTIMORE, July Cit is stated TO.
night BY authority that among 15O men
OF those arrested, laPt evening, and lodg.
ed in Jail, thore is not one railroad man,
About o'clock this morning, while
the fire at Mt. Clare station vas burning,
snothe. alarm was sounded, and the ex.
tensive planning and sash factory of Maug.
han Il Son, corner East Falls avenue and
Stiles street, near the Phila1elphia depot,
was discovered in flames and totally de:
stroyej.
No TROUBLE APPREHESDED.
Midnight-At this hour the city is
quieter than since the beginning Of the
strike here, and the authorities appre.
hend no trouble to.nigL'.