The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-07-26


and breach made in the walls, but
when the Infatuated mob attempted to
rush into the building the military
were ordered to fire. The yoliey OF
musketry which followed, and the
rumor that the Calling guns Of the
command were being brought into
requisition, caused q panic, and the
mob fed precipitately for several
squares, the military meanwhile, keep
ing up the fusilaie, and capturing the
cannon. The rioters, however, were
soon treasured, and, as thousands
were flocking to their assistance, they
returned to the attack.
Finding it difficult to dislodge the
military from the building, they re-
solved to burn them out. An order
to this effect was issued, and 1t was
carried into effect with fiendish alac-
rity by the rioters. As consequence
of the blockade which had existed for
two days, the sidings in the outer de-
pot wards, as well as those extending
eastward some three or four miles,
were crowed with freight cars filled
with grain. products and merchan-
disc of all kinds, besides which a
number of ladened oil cake and coal
cars were piled up in the mass. While
portion of the mob surrounded the
building i'm which the military had
taken refuge, large bodies proceeded
to set fire to the oil ears, and in a mo-
ment the huge volumes of black smoke
which rolled upwards, followed by
lurid flames reaching out in every
direction, told that the work of de-
struction had commenced. The sighf
of the flames seemed to literally craze
the rioters, some of whom rushed
wildly about with flaming torches IN
their hands. applying them TO the
cars Unfortunately An alarm was
sounded, and the Department prompt
ly responded, but the rioters, who had
complete control of the city. refused
To permit them to make any effort TO
extingllish the flames. They said
they were determined to destroy the
Railroad company's property, but
would do no injury To that belonging
to private citizens. They kept their
word too and, when a lumber
pile belonging TO citizen took
fire the rioters themselves turned in
aud helped extinguish the flames and
remove the lumber to "A safe place.
Train after train was fired by the
infatuated crowd, but the ears were
so far distant from the round-house
that the heat did not seriously effect
the military, although their position
was one Of peril.
Finally, a large party of strikers
captured car filled with coke, which
they ran from the Allegheny Valley
Railway track to siding connecting
with the Pennsylvania Railroad.
They then procured large quantities Of
petroleum oil, and, pouring it over the
coke, ignited the materials. In very
few moments the car was mass of
fire, and it was then pushed along the
tracks and forced against the round
house. The building was soon ignit-
ed and the soldiers were now COM
PEELED to prepare to fight their way
out through the frenzied mass of hui
manity clamoring for their blood. The
building did not burn as rapidly as
was desired, and the mob, bent on re-
venge, rushed out on the road and
sent burning trains toward the doomed
buildings. From midnight until )
o'clock Sunday morning the main eff
forts of the crowd were directed to FIR
ing the buildings and cars, but about
| half an hour later the mob which had
been besieging the military left for
some unexplained reason. This af-
forded the troops, who were in actual
danger Of being roasted alive, an OPP
portunity to emerge from the build
ing, and they succeeded in reaching
Butler street, when the leaders of the
mob discovered their retreat, and full
ly 900 men, fully armed, followed in
pursuit.
When they reachedth the, e. S. arsenal
the Commandant refused to admit
them. He said he had but ten men, and
would be powerless to hold the place
if the mob should attack it. He con-
scented to take care of the wounded,
and they were accordingly carried in
to the hospitals. The main body of
the troops continued their march out
Butler street, a fusilade being kept
up by the mob. As they moved for
ward the shots fired killed one of the
soldiers before they reached the arse
nal, and nearly opposite the cemetery
gate, fully mile above the arsenal,
two others We're killed and We're left
lying on the sidewalk. They contin-
ued their flight and crossed over to
the north side of the Allegheny river
on Sharpsburg bridge, the mob follow
ing them as rapidly as possible. After
reaching the north side, the troops
scattered, and in this way the moi
was divided into very small bodies.
In the meantime, the city was in q
state of anarchy. Thousands who had
not joined in the pursuit of the fleeing
troops gathered about the burning
buildings and trains, and assisted in
spreading the flames wherever they
had not been applied. BY I O'Clock
the fire had extended from Millval,
station to Twentieth street, and envel
oped hundreds of cars, the extensiy.
machine shops, two round houses, tn,
depots and office of the Union Trans
fer Company, blacksmith shops, store
houses, and numerous building,
making up the terminal facilities O
the mammoth corporation. In til,
round houses were one hundred an,
twenty-five first-class locomotives
which had been housed in conse
quence Of the strike. These were to
tally destroyed, but even the immens,
loss which will be sustained in thi,
item alone is but trifie in the aggre
gate damage done.
The scenes Transporting on Liberts
street, Saturday morning, along tn.