The daily gazette., 1877-07-21
THE FIFTH'S MARCH TO CAM
DEN. 49,
THRILLING sCENEs-THE RIOTERS
ASSAULT ON THE MILITARY
SOLDIERS INJURED.
From the Baltimore Gazette.

ASSAULT ON THE MILITARY
SOLDIERS INJURED.
From the Baltimore Gazette.
A. $50 yesterday afternoon Capt. w.
P. Zollinger, commanding officer of the
Fifth regiment, received instructions
from Brigadier-General Herbert to get
his command in readiness to move at a
moments notice. The destination of the
troops is not known, but it was supposed
to have reference to the trouble at Cum
berland, Md. As maly of the men as
possible were notified through their SER
geants, and congregated hurriedly at the
armory, where by $50 p. m. 260 men
bad assembled. Each of the file was
armed with Springfield breech-loading
rifles and twenty rounds of ammunition,
while the officers were armed with reyol-
vers.
The Fifth regiment filed out of the ar
mory into Garden street at 7 o'clock, and
thence via Madison to Eutaw street and
Camden station. As they left the armory
they were received with rounds of ap-
plause by the assembled crowds of peo-
pie who surrounded the army building
In a dense mass, numbering several
thousand.
When near Camden Station, however.
they were met by an excited crowd of
several hundred men who hooted and
Jeered the sol 1iers as they passed along.
ono notice was taken of this, however.)
AS the regiment filed into the station the
rear companies were attacked by the mob
who were armed with clubs and revolvers
Bricks, stones and other missiles were
hurled, and several men were severely
injured. Asquad of policemen assembled
at this point under Captain Delanty,
went to the relief of the militia, and
several were knocked down and severely
beaten. The Fifth, after entering the
depot, passed through to the platform and
halted at company rest" The special
train OF tea cars, intended for their trans
portation, were backed up to the right of
the platform, and regulating engine $50
was at ached to it, in charge of engineer
Isaac Connolly and Edward Fitzgerald,
as fireman.
Upon the entrance of the Fifth regi-
ment, about 7.30, an excited crowd of
strikers, numbering about two hundred,
began an attack upon engine $3.50 with
stones and pistols,and for some moments
the fuslllade was continued, until the
woodwork of the engine was a complete
wreck. he engineer and fireman es-
capped with d few bruises.A small force of
police from front charged on the mob, but
were repulsed. At this moment engine
4o7, Engineer Byerly, backed up to Barre
street to connect with No. Chicago ex-
press, which was to leave at SIS, when
a second attack was made upon her, and
soon she was also wreck. Subsequent
ly she was run out by the rioters, who
jumped upon her, and pulling back the
throttle let the engine go at full speed.
She ran down the yard, and was wrecked
in a collision with freight trains at a
point below Lee street. General Her
bert ordered Captain Zollinger to disperse
the mob. Captain Zollinger, with COM
pany G, then charged the rioters with fix
ed bayonets, who had forced their way
midway the platform, north of Barre St.
The soldiery charged bayonets, land drove
them off the platform, when the rioters
made stand in the yard, near Howard
street, and assailed the troops with mis-
siles of every description.
BY this fuslllade several soldiers were
severely injured. Another charge was
made. but the soldiers We're driven back,
and the mob, numbering several thou
sand took possession of the entire yIcini-
ty, and tore up the tracks in the yard.
The mob took possession of the chief tel
egraphic dispatchers office, destroyed
the instruments, and fred the building.
The fire department came out, and only
the active exertions at the police pre-
vented the mob from driving the engines
from the grounds.
The rioters held the depot until $40
o'clock, when they were charged by a
squad of Co. q, Fifth regiment, under
Major Harry Gilmore, and twenty five
police, and driven from the locality.