The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-07-27
THE RAlLRoAD STRIKES
Desperate Conduct Of Iaae
RaOIDs IN baltimore saRd
E1tIaAburE.
The MILITARY Fire EnGO the
Crowds of People.

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The RIIII1ary Fire lnlo ahe
Crowds of People.
RHen, Xvo1mea aad ChiIdren
Killed and Wounded.
Great Obstruction 40 RAIL
road Freight HBa-
afness.
The strike which we noted last
week as having began on the 14th
on the Baltimore s. Ohio railroad,
against q reduction of ten per cent.
in the wages of brakemen, firemen,
trackmen, ETC., developed on Friday
and Saturday into the most formida-
bic affair of the kind which has oc-
Cured in the United States. The
strikers first gathered In force at
Martinsburg, West Va, and stop
ped all freight trains either way so
that vast number of freight and
cattle cars soon accumulated at that
point. Gov. Catthews ordered ont
the few militia companies which are
now organized and equipped in
taht state, and on the 18th the Berk-
ley light infantry guards, Col. Faulk-
ner in command, numbering Is
men, arrived at Martinsburg and
the military train being coupled to
q freight train the latter started to
move of when several hundred
strikers commenced uncoupling the
cars and throwing stones and firing
revolvers at the military. One SOL
der was wounded, whereupon the
Colonel gave orders to fire, and the
militia fired into the crowd killing
one man and wounding several 9TH
ers. The rioters, however, succeed
ed in UncOupling the cars and fore
ed the engineer and fireman to leave
the locomotive and the train did
not go out, and every succeeding
train was stopped as it arrived, al
though passenger trains were al
lowed 10 go through. The Martins
burg mob soon increased to LOCO
men, and took possession of the
town, the authorities and the mill
tia being unable to do anything.
This stopped the running of freight
trains from Baltimore west, and
suspended freight traffic generally
on the road.
On the 18th Coy. Matthews tele-
graphed President Hayes for aid,
and the President ordered several
companies of U. S. artillery and
infantry to be sent to the scene of
disturbance. The strike rapidly
extended all along the line of the
Baltimore s. Ohio, and q mob at
Pittsburg stopped the passage of
freight trains there. Gov. Hartranft,
of Pennsylvania, ordered out the
several regiments of State militia,
and Philadelphia regiment was the
first to respond and was sent to
Pittsburg.
The Pennsylvania railroad compa-
ny ordered that its freight trains be
doubled in size, thus doubling the
work of the men and discharging
half of them, and the strike at once
extended to that road.
By Friday 1000 through freight
cars had been stopped at Pitts burg,
immense mobs were gathered there
and at Baltimore, and the firemen
and brakmen of the New York &
Erle railroad struck alon g the line
of that road, which also had to sus-
pend business. Then the strike ex.
tended along the Pittsburg, Fort
Waine g Chicago railroad, from
PittsbHrg to Alliance, and Gov.
Young of Ohio issued his procla-
nation and ordered out State mill
tia.
Gen. French, commanding the
United States troops sent to Mar
tinsburg, issued a proclamation that
all further attempts to resist the
passage of trains would be at the
peril of the rioters, and the troops
kept back all persons not author
lied to approach, from the depot,
yards and tracks, and freight trains
begun to move from that point, the
mob evidently fearing to attack the
government troops. At Newark,
Ohio, a freight train blockade was
also inaugurated, and govorner
Young ordered four companies of
militia there. At Cumberland, Ma
ryland, trains were stopped, and the
9th Maryland regiment was order
ed ont to proceed to the place. AS
the regiment was marching from
its srmory in Baltimore to the de-
pot an immense crowd gathered
and began to throw stones and fire
pistols at the soldiers, who return
ed the fire, killing and wounding 8
number of people. The mob gave
way 0AO PIOOOCOOA ~ OuCu tuS
Camden depot and cut the tele-
graph wires, but was driven away
and the depot saved. The excite
ment ct Baltimore was intense, but
no further attacks were made on
the military.
The New York s Erie railroad
stopped running Friday, and the
77th New York regiment, at Buffalo,
was ordered under arms for imme-
diate service should any illegal re-
sistance occur in that State.
SATURDAY, JULY 81.
1900 militia were concentrated at
Pittsburg, to overswe the strikers,