The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-07-26
THE GREAT STRIKE
Continues to Increase in
Magnitude,
Until 1t Has Become National
in Character.
Mechanics and Laborers Wheel
ing into Line.
Larger Cities.
The Chicago Commune.

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the strike yesterday assembled again
to-day, and early in the forenoon the
whole city became a scene Of excite
ment. The crowd at 22d street were
ordered to disperse by the police but
refused, and were attacked by them.
In the fight that ensued several were
| seriously injured. Only two Of the
police were hurt and they not seriously.
The gang are about of the same mate
rial as that of yesterday, and dispersed
when the police fired at them.
Other branches of the so-called work.
ingmen have scattered all over the
town. The Union stock rolling mills
and malleable iron works, on the South
side, have been closed and their 500
hands are idle.
A gang are running the street cars
into the stables on the South side.
The railroads are in statu quo, with
the passenger and mail trains running.
The North side mob is the most dis
orderly and are busy breaking windows
wherever resisted.
The strikers drove the police back
from the North side rolling mills, and
they were compelled to return to their
station. Gen. Torrance, commanding
the militia, has been notified.
Many arrests have been made, chiefly
of v~agabonds and thieves, who consti-
tute the crowd.
Some sailors struck last night, but
this movement has me- with but little
success. About $50 veterans are now
enrolled. Vast numbers are said to be
assembling in the lumber districts. All
saloons on the West side are closed.
Early this morning some roughs board
ed the outgoing train on the Illinois
Central and compelled the engineer to
return.
The strikers ditched an incoming
train, from Omaha, last night.
Chicago, July 25.-11:15 p. m.-The
night SO far has been one of excitement
and trouble. The meeting which was
to have been held by the Communists
on Market street, was broken up in its
incipiency by Il good force of police.
After a battle with stones and sticks
on one side, and with blank cartridges
and billies on the other, the mob ran
away, but not without notifying the
police that they would have revenge.
After they separated from the police a
band of them broke open a gun shop
on the West side, taking some fifty
fifty guns and Il quantity of ammuni-
ton.
At about Z O'Clock a bloody row be-
gan at the corner of 10th and Halstead
streets, where the police, in attempting
to dispense the crowd, were overpow-
cred and compelled to take refuge in
the round house of the Chicago, Bur-
lington Il Quincy railroad. They were
soon reinforced, and made a stand on
the Halstead street viaduct, where the
crowd became aggressive, and a regu-
lar battle ensued, which has just been
concluded. The police used their clubs
and revolvers with considerable effect.
They killed u young man named Pat
Cooney, a striking brakeman, and Ed.
McGeary was fatally shot. Besides
these, some 20 others were more or less
injured. The police received nothing
but bruises from stones, fists, etc.
The rioters were finally driven off.
Various exciting rumors are abroad,
but these are the only facts that car be
cleaned of actual encounters.
The rioters have compelled the West
side street cars to lay off.
News has just been received of a
fight between the mob and police at the
corner of Canal and jackson streets,
in which the former came off worst,
several of them being laid up by blows
from clubs, and others being lodged in
the station house.
The coal men at Waterford's have
been compelled to quit work, and the
shot tower has been closed.