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=-Philsde}phia. July %.
An day, yesterday crowds of excited
people congregats1 around the Penn
sylvania depot add Unusual police
precautions were takeniin order to pre- ;
serve order. .Gsl--Saott-and other Of
'6cials of the road remaiued. az the lof
fee. ALI day. receiving ldespatch es
from Pittsburgh, which they refu sedi
however toamskepublic! b,-r9I son il
Yesterday morning fifty loc omotive
engineers were requested to attend a,
meeting in The office Of W. F. Lock
hart Observation-Disclosures
division In order to ascertain their
feelings upon the strike question A
paper was submittedto them by Which
they agreed to stand by the company,
but the men refused to sign anything
They said that they did not intend 10
strike but still they did not want to be
shot at or to be pulled from off their
engines. org D. ,e=l,f iH.I ui iI.u.A
AS the afternoon advanced the
crowd about the depot Increased In
size, and the fact that the nest of sa-
looms ON south side of Market sire ct
were in fuil blast did not help to make
it a'good humored crowd, or GRO wd
that required any great degree of ex
citement to transform it into q mob.
The rufnor gained ground and was
soon the general theme discussIonlthat
the employees Of the railroad at this
end OF the line proposed striking in
the. evening. To provide against
possible and perhaps a probable EN-
ergency the railroad tracks were clear
ed of everyone but railroad employees
far beyond the 6ofibg Garden bridge.
l. At Six o'clock last evening the great
labor strike had extended along the
Pennsylvania line from Pittsbufg to
PhiladelplIia,an coupled With this move
mehti is tie Joining Of the New York
Division people with their main line
brethren. o. The thing was done. very
quietly, but the men are no less resolved
| to meet force with force than the rioters
at other points. lAl special train from
Long Brsneh yesterday brought up May
or Stokley's family, but the crew that
managed the train tstruck' soon after
arriving at West Philadelphia, and at 9
O'Clock all the men on the New York 'di-
vision the Pennsylvania Railroad, with
a few exceptions refused to wcrk. Fhe
few exceptions are the handful of men
necessary to give safe conduct TO the
through trains. ~ sA" ''at
From six o'clock until dark, the strik-
ers were apparently inactive, but their
purposes were soon made apparent. The
engineer of No. 435 was about pulling
out with train of oil tanks for Harris
burg, when he was surrounded by about
300 strikers, and informed that he could
not proceed. The engine was then un-
coupled and quietly returned to the
round house. '''
| Ate. 10 O'Clock the Southern express
left the depot with tram of passen-
! ger cars, headed by shifting engine
No. 784. The train was but a short
distance out of the depot when gang
of men surrounded the engine and two
or three sprang into the locomotive Cab
and ordered the engineer to return.
At the same time the order was given
by some one TO uncouple, The engineer
stated that be merely intended taking
the cars to Thirty-third street. where
i the regular engine would take charge
of the train. -....
|. The strikers then Informed him thai
no shifting engineers should perform
the work, but rs they had no desire to
stop the transmission uf the mails they
would allow him to take the train to
Thirty-Ihird street. After giving the
needed promise, the train went on its
way, latter having been detained twelve
minutes. The engine returned, and
its fires were raked out, as were also
those of all the shifting engines ON
the sidiDgs. I-=f tty-rfy
Meanwhile the crowd upon the high
bluff above the tracks was becoming
larger. and more boisterous. There
were but few w,policemen at this point
and they were powerless to control
the mob. Large torpedoes were placed
upon the rails. exploding when tht
cars passed over themand adding TO the
excitement. The few incoming and
outgoing passenger trains were hootec
: at vigorously. "D 'i'o' a.
The police several times attempted to
drive back the mob, but the whistles tina
followed as though help was being called
: for acted as warnings of such import tina
the police fell back. i.I''..-
Later ON Captain Curry, with abou
/. forty-five Reserve officers from the Cen
! trail Station, proceeded down the railroa'
track. When beneath the cliff Capital
r Curry called out in loud voice, "Gen
tlemen you will have to leave that bank
:. This place must be kept clear" 1h
strikers and disorderly characters, mum
bering about five hundred, Responded
with derisive shouts and yells, and
), commanding voice gave the order: "Stan
/ firm, men,"
v SAT them with your clubs!" shoute
o Captain Curry, The policemen dre'
70 their maces and ran up the hill and int
d the midst oftlIe crowd. The stones sti
,r flew lively, but the officers handled thei
It clubs vigorously and so efeetually thu
d the strikers broke and ran over the hill
and disappeared in the streets of We