The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-07-24
Trains Stopped on the
Pennsylvania Central
Baltimore & Ohio, Lake
Shore and Other Rail-
roads.
THE SITUATION AT BUFFALO.
Military Routed ~ Engineers VIII
not rwn with Green Hands.

BUFFALO, N. Y, July %.
This afternoon two thousand rioters
captured from two hundred soldiers the
Lake Shore round house and drove the
military off. Subsequently company
the Sixty-fifth regiment made futile
attempt to recapture the place. and
were Kissed and heoted at by the mob,
badly maltreated and driven off. A
mob to-day compelled the workmen at
the car shops of the Lake Shore and
Erie Companies to quit work. A train
on the Buffalo and jamestown Road
had its passenger car detached by
strikers, who, however, replaced 1t on
lsarning that this road had not reduced
rates. The engineers of the Erie ane
Lake Shore Roads have agreed not to
run with green fremen. 1t is expected
that the New York Central engineers
will do the same tonight. No passen-
ger trains on the New York Central,
Lake Shore and Erie are allowed to go
out. There has been no interference
with mail trains. A puDlic meeting Of
citizens has been called for by the
Mayor this evening.
Quite at Pittsburg-TrampsP Plumber
a Train.
P1TTsBuaG, July 20.
The city is quiet tonight. The
streets are filled with citizens, but there
are no disorderly characters. The
citizen forces believe in their ability to
protect property and perservs peace.
At s o'clock word was sent to Mayor
Mccarthy from Superintendent Hynd-
man, of the Pittsburg Division of the
Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad, to the
effect that fifty or sixty tramps had
taken possession of the mail train west
of Cumberland and robbed the passen.
gers. The Mayor summoned force of
policemen, who marched to the depot
at the corner of Grand and Water
streets and, on the arrival of the train,
captured forty of the roughs, all of
whom were armed. They made no
resistance and are now in the Central
Police Station. Since the obstruction
of tracks between here and East
Liberty the Pennsylvania Railroad has
been running passenger trains to the
city over the West Pennsylvania
Division, which intersects the main
line at the Blairsvlle intersection.
DepreeRts Violence.
HARRISBURG. July %.
The mob tonight forced an entrance
into Determines gun store, on Second
street. and seized q quantity of fire
arms. Mayor Patterson addressed
the crowd and induced them to return
part of the plumber. The crowd, which
crossed the river in search of the
Philadelphia military, returned to the
city about p. NJ. with % men of the
First and Second Regiments. The
captives were we'll fed and treated by
the strikers. Captain Snowdon and 80
men of the city troops of Philadelphia
were found mile outside the city and
conducted to the State Arsenal. The
Pennsylvania Railroad strikers, in
meeting. deprecated violence. They
ask for the dismissal of Frank Thomp-
son. General Manager, and appointed
a committee to inform Superintendent
McCrea that they were willing to COM
promise on honorable terms, and
would use every effort to protect the
company's property.
Telegraph Office Taken by strilsers.
Atl1:30 tonight an armed mob took
possession of the Western Union Tele-
graph Office in this city and drove out
the operators. Subsequently the
Sheriff, at the head Of thousand
citizens, reinstated the operators and
promised them protection, and commu-
| nication. vas rs-essaLliehed.